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The US holds better strategic cards and need not succumb to Thucydidean fear.
In fact, if the current trajectory is not slowed or reversed, by 2050 some ten million people could succumb to drug-resistant diseases every year, costing the global economy $100 trillion.
Rome did not succumb to the rise of another empire, but to the onslaught of waves of barbarians.
A weak, economically stagnant, and politically insecure France poses an acute danger to the entire European project, because a France that remains in that state will inevitably succumb to the type of anti-European nationalism that Le Pen represents.
But public officials are less likely to succumb to illegal inducements if they are paid well, and in proportion to their responsibilities and opportunities for malfeasance.
Europeans should not succumb to this temptation, for the move from dependency to equal partnership is not measured by rhetoric.
By putting itself above the law, America allowed itself to succumb to barbaric behavior.
Even then, Rome did not succumb to another state, but suffered a death of a thousand cuts inflicted by various barbarian tribes.
Giving more independence to the Central Bank would be well received in the markets, as otherwise they will fear Lula will succumb to the temptation to inflate the country's way out of difficulties.
Merkel’s now legendary obstinacy eventually might have to succumb to the imperatives of politics.
The hope of EU membership gives mainstream Romanian politicians and the Romanian public strong incentives not to succumb to nationalist sentiments.
And without universal access to public investments in human capital, societies will succumb to extreme inequalities of income and wealth.
Jordan and Lebanon could be the next states to succumb to Sunni extremist violence.
In the United States, the fears of nine months ago that America’s economy might succumb to deflation have been dispelled.
It can reinvigorate the spirit of earlier enlargement rounds, or it can succumb to enlargement fatigue.
But we should resist the urge to succumb to fatalism, and instead remain supportive of North Korea’s overtures.
To allow right-wing populism to continue to advance is to succumb to fear, rather than behaving according to a clear-headed analysis of our interests and, above all, our values.
Judging by the transitions that we have studied, a successful democratic outcome stands the best chance if the interim government does not succumb to the temptation to extend its mandate or write a new constitution itself.
Mature democracies do tend to act more responsibly, but immature democracies can easily succumb to populism and nationalism.
In China’s case, the narrative revolves around “the century of shame,” when China was too weak to defend itself against encroachments on its sovereignty, and the idea that it should never have to succumb again.
But central banks, leaning on their hard-won independence, must not succumb.
But if government programs designed to promote saving by low-income people don’t tie up their money for many years until retirement, they will often succumb to temptation and spend the money frivolously.
But when the temptations are not immediately present, we can erect barriers to them that make us less likely to succumb when they return.
Krugman argues that Japan was only the first of the major economies to succumb to chronic deflation, back in the 1990s, and has now been followed by the European Union, China, and most recently Switzerland, with its soaring franc and falling prices.
The Egyptian generals’ decision in the revolution’s early phase to succumb to American pressure and sacrifice Mubarak proves that they do not operate in an international vacuum.
Some national politicians succumb to popular pressure, adopting the rhetoric – and even the program – of their populist adversaries.
But Rome remained dominant for more than three centuries after the apogee of its power, and, even then, it did not succumb to the rise of another state, but suffered a death by a thousand cuts inflicted by various barbarian tribes.
Much as a house battered by winter storms will succumb to a spring tempest, so an individual’s capacity to withstand adversity in old age is diminished by recurrent illness.
The real engineers, excluding those whose judgment is clouded by personal financial interests, should counter this influence, while refusing to succumb to the temptation of quick fixes.
They will not let this election stand but neither will they succumb to Mugabe's provocative traps and resort to violence.
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