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But the other members will hesitate to lend more than token amounts, especially if there are repayment doubts.
So far, King Abdullah has shown no sign of opting for a policy of inclusion – not even a token gesture, such as a Shia minister.
By the same token, the MHP is not likely to be a natural partner for any large-scale democratic reforms aimed at strengthening fundamental freedoms.
By the same token, it would become legitimate for countries to practice what they might call “quantitative external easing” (QEE), with central banks intervening to hold down their exchange rates, while building huge reserves.
By the same token, I cannot think of a single economy whose long-term growth prospects were damaged by excessive fiscal stinginess.
By the same token, Blair will need to press the Palestinians to deliver a virtual cessation of attacks on Israel from Palestinian territories, including by Hamas, lest all peace efforts be blown apart by renewed fighting.
By the same token, the brain shows enhanced activity during acute stress, with improvement in certain types of memory, but undergoes structural changes that increase anxiety and decrease mental flexibility and memory capacity as a result of chronic stress.
By the same token, the prediction that governments will impose massive carbon taxes has little basis in reality.
But it was a hollow token.
They can try to stop product market reforms altogether and, by the same token, try to stop trade liberalization and globalization.
East Asia’s Nationalist Fantasy IslandsTOKYO – They don’t look like much, those few uninhabited rocks in the East China Sea between Okinawa and Taiwan, and a couple of tiny islets in the Sea of Japan, inhabited by a few token fishermen and some South Korean Coast Guard officials.
And it was fitting that this token of a possible future should be found in an ophthalmology department, an enterprise devoted to restoring vision.
Even if all of Europe’s Muslims were Islamists – which is a far cry from reality – they could not threaten the Continent’s sovereignty and, by the same token, its laws and Enlightenment values.
By the same token, the more moderate Civic Platform might return to power in Poland.
(India and China have, by the same token, been the fastest-growing economies.)
In other words, Europe’s citizens will certainly not endorse plans to broaden the scope of EU policies and authority; but, by the same token, they are well aware of the need for an EU that delivers on the obligations that it does have.
By the same token, no government official will build a road if there are no hotels or lodges, for the road would lead nowhere.
By the same token, the new Asian players must take into account the progress achieved in this regard in the latter half of the twentieth century.
Lee’s government, while still allowing elections as a token of democratic rule, preferred to crush opposition through intimidation and financial punishment: brave men and women who stood up to him were bankrupted in ruinously expensive lawsuits;Lee could generally rely on a compliant judiciary.
Joseph Kabila has made only token efforts to rein in corruption, perhaps because his hold on the presidency depends to a large degree on the financial largesse and patronage at his disposal to maintain allies and buy off rivals.
The flawed nature of the current European Security Strategy – drafted in 2003, with a token revision in 2008 – reflects the circumstances surrounding its conception.
By the same token, our mental image of the multigenerational extended family needs to include those in the West.
As a sign of their support for the administration’s goals, the pharmaceutical industry and the hospital industry have together promised to reduce costs by a total of about $20 billion a year – a token amount, given government health spending of roughly $1 trillion and total health outlays of more than $2 trillion.
By the same token, the post-Soviet generation has a very different idea of a decent standard of living than their parents had, and hence their aspirations are much higher.
They should wear it as a badge of honor – a token of their hard work to protect civil society from the worst excesses of populism.
By the same token, perfectly behaved people can break all kinds of social taboos in their art.
By the same token, the interests of any one of them must not be allowed to become the total interest of the US.
By the same token, aside from the very wealthy, who benefit from personal connections and other devices, the hundreds of millions of ordinary Chinese savers who have achieved middle-class status do not have easy access to global markets.
By the same token, while there has been much concern about America’s political gridlock, something worse for America, and for the world, could have happened: the Republicans could have prevailed in their program of austerity-cum-redistribution to the wealthy.
By the same token, soaring energy prices shifted purchasing power from the United States and Europe to oil exporters, who, recognizing the volatility of energy prices, rightly saved much of this income.
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