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Second, the euro area benefits from an independent European Central Bank whose swift actions to ease liquidity constraints and coordinate monetary policy have recently helped to avert a financial meltdown.
We can rule out a swift, large-scale flight from the dollar, owing to its unique, long-standing status as an international store of value.
The shocking assassinations of Shahbaz Bhatti, Pakistan’s minister for minority affairs, and the governor of Punjab province, Salmaan Taseer, ensured that anyone who speaks out on this topic can expect swift retribution.
Worse still, their mood reversal was swift owing to the lack of a long and reliable track record for emerging-market debt.
Either way, convergence will remain swift.
Sharia, with its emphasis on swift justice, is often preferable to civil law in a country such as Nigeria, where courts are poorly administered and cases move slowly, when they move at all.
In Turkey, the world’s top jailer of journalists two years in a row, the erosion of free speech has been particularly swift.
In the wake of the Brexit vote, swift action by the Bank of England helped to calm financial markets and keep credit flowing.
Hu, a hydrologist by training, owes his swift rise in the Communist Party hierarchy to the brutal martial-law crackdown he carried out in Tibet in 1989.
The road that we have decided to follow will allow for swift action.
Thanks to India’s swift military action, Gayoom would hold onto power for another two decades.
But, as the conservative author David Frum notes, over the last two decades, the US has experienced a swift decline in crime, auto fatalities, alcohol and tobacco consumption, and emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide, which cause acid rain – all while leading an Internet revolution.
Brazil’s swift recovery from the 2008 financial crisis endeared it to international financial markets; but weak growth since then has left yesterday’s promise unfulfilled.
Meaningful debt renegotiations are seldom swift: creditors want repayment, and debtors want a write-down.
But no one should be surprised if the current sharp fall in equity prices is followed by a swift return to bullishness, at least in the short term.
Only swift and sustained recovery can stem the rise in the human cost of economic stagnation.
Highly centralized decision-making allows for swift, concerted action, such as official clampdowns on foreign-exchange outflows.
The reaction has been swift, harsh, and almost universally excoriating.
It could agree to swift bank recapitalization, a banking license for the European Stability Mechanism, and a more expansionary ECB policy.
The regime’s sharp crackdown ahead of the anniversary did not stop thousands from marching in the streets, despite the threat of swift retribution.
At the European level, there has been a swift and impressive mobilization of resources.
After all, the transformation from hero to zero can be swift.
Some 2,500 years ago, Sappho of Lesbos wrote:Their heart grew coldthey let their wings downTo prevent that from happening to humanists across Europe, we need a new movement to campaign for refugees’ release from odious conditions and a swift asylum process.
To prevent a humanitarian catastrophe, swift action needs to be taken: restoration of the market mechanism; exchange-rate unification (as President Mauricio Macri just implemented in Argentina); an alternative system of social transfers to substitute for rationing; fiscal retrenchment; orderly foreign-debt restructuring; and massive financial support from the international community.
The United States, Egypt’s main ally, while stopping short of siding with the protesters, is holding the regime to Mubarak’s promise of a “better democracy,” and demanding swift action to meet the people’s legitimate demands.
I was reminded of these words in the aftermath of the United Kingdom’s “Brexit referendum,” when many in the European Union (though not in Britain) called for a swift divorce.
If he tries to pursue radical populist policies, the response will be swift and punishing: stocks will plummet, the dollar will fall, investors will flee to US Treasury bonds, gold prices will spike, and so forth.
Like most traded goods, oil exports are paid for in dollars – largely through the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) in Belgium – and the US has the power to shut down such transactions.
And the substantial capital inflows since 2010 have caused sharp asset-price increases and swift credit expansion in countries ranging from Chile to Malaysia.
Amazon was swift to respond.
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