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Whether this effect will be
sufficient
to revitalize southern Europe remains to be seen.
It also presupposes a European budget that is
sufficient
to meet expectations and equal to the challenges that await.
NATO has
sufficient
power to impose such a settlement.
Limited on all sides by embargoes and conflict, the country's few private businesses do not have
sufficient
markets to survive.
But as the Commonwealth moves to tackle new challenges in human development, its leadership is failing to place
sufficient
emphasis on the most important factor of all: education.
I was recently asked by journalists whether inter-agency cooperation is
sufficient
and whether European mechanisms for sharing operational intelligence should be created.
But, in the absence of a credible enforcer (and lacking
sufficient
mutual assurances), participants felt that they had more to gain from continuing their non-cooperative behavior.
These arguments all have force, but the US, the UK, and France resisted debating them in the Security Council, and other Council members were never given
sufficient
information to enable them to be evaluated.
Essentially, this aimed to prevent irresponsible budgetary policies after the euro's launch, while leaving
sufficient
room for cyclical oscillations of the deficit within the 3% limit.
In recent years the European Council has not devoted
sufficient
attention to these tasks, which require full and continuing commitment by member states to transpose and implement Community directives.
But, sooner or later, the weaker economies will probably opt out of such reforms, reclaiming their monetary sovereignty as a necessary – though far from
sufficient
– means of averting economic and social breakdown.
The current setup leaves too much room for discretion, as neither necessary nor
sufficient
conditions for aid are clearly spelled out.
But the emphasis on the Chinese consumer is likely to be the new Plan’s defining feature – sufficient, in my opinion, to boost private consumption as a share of Chinese GDP from its current rock-bottom reading of around 36% to somewhere in the 42-45% range by 2015.
Italians (and later Turks) who worked in Northern Europe and then returned home with
sufficient
assets to start small businesses made a double contribution; they helped their host countries and then helped their home countries.
Our laws prohibiting incitement to violence and insulting people for reasons of their religion are
sufficient.
On the contrary, a
sufficient
number of voters came to understand that in that very anger – in its spokespeople and in the words used to express it – lurked a threat to the republic, to democracy, and to the nation’s fundamental values.
When national or local policies are
sufficient
to address a problem, then they should be pursued.
But these funds, while vital, are not nearly sufficient, and only a tiny fraction will go toward education provision.
When there is
sufficient
excess supply in the economy, promoting supply-side productivity is practically useless without efforts to boost demand.
But, while high-level recognition of women’s sexual and reproductive rights is a positive step, it is far from
sufficient.
Given fiscal drag and private deleveraging, lack of
sufficient
monetary easing in recent years would have led to double and triple dip recession (as occurred, for example, in the eurozone).
But reaction is no longer sufficient; today’s most urgent task is prevention of crises, armed conflict, and war which may require that the primary response be other than by military means.
Indeed,
sufficient
official financing will be needed to allow cross-border and even domestic investors to exit.
In the absence of
sufficient
funds, one can simply let the universities deteriorate.
They may not be
sufficient
to save universities from bankruptcy.
Such regulation should discourage severe surges of short-term capital flows to developing countries because, when these are reversed, crisis usually follows;provision of
sufficient
official liquidity in when countries face distress.
To the extent that the value of these assets would not have been
sufficient
to cover all of the derivative creditors’ claims, they would have had to bear some losses.
During the last couple of years, the Franco-German relations have dramatically deteriorated; as a consequence, it has become visible that the revitalisation of this special relationship is the necessary (though not sufficient) condition for the EU to become a relevant player in world politics.
Without US backing, it is unlikely that the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and its successor, the World Trade Organization, could have gained
sufficient
authority to deepen and safeguard the post-war trading system.
This position confers considerable advantages on the US, but it also requires the US to run persistent trade deficits, in order to supply the rest of the world with
sufficient
dollar liquidity.
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