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But “panic panic” – leaders’ fear that they will be
unable
to stop their people from panicking – is both common and harmful.
Despite a limited agenda, the participants were
unable
to produce a joint statement.
With Obama unwilling – or unable, due to rising political partisanship at home – to take the lead in addressing crises like those in Egypt, Libya, and Syria, challengers to American primacy took heart in 2014, and US allies took fright.
Someone like George H. W. Bush,
unable
to articulate a vision but able to steer successfully through crises, turns out to be a better leader than someone like his son, possessed of a powerful vision but with little contextual intelligence or management skill.
If Germans are
unable
to stomach the idea of sharing a political community with Greeks, they might as well accept that economic union is as good as dead.
But, if America leaves too soon, the elected Iraqi government may be
unable
to cope with the insurgency, sending Iraq the way of Lebanon in the 1980’s or Afghanistan in the 1990’s.
And yet, each time, gun owners scream that freedom will be eliminated if they are
unable
to buy assault weapons and 100-round clips.
This new, more focused and limited American role thus raises the following question for America’s European partners: Can they afford the luxury of being
unable
to defend themselves without US help?
Some offer a straightforward explanation: China, along with other major emerging economies, has become ensnared in the dreaded “middle-income trap,”
unable
to break through to advanced-economy status.
In many countries, drug-treatment protocols effectively ensure that women with children will be
unable
to receive services.
While governments might offer attractive liquidity facilities, banks will be
unable
to on-lend the funds.
At the same time, the information society and globalization have made ours a more insecure world, where we experience risks that politics-as-usual has been
unable
to address.
The ineffectiveness of existing institutions and structures in the face of today’s threats is now jeopardizing the EU’s legitimacy, because Europe’s citizens are calling for solutions that the EU obviously is
unable
and partly unwilling to provide.
Such traumatic events plunged these countries into the so-called “middle-income trap”:
unable
to grow nor to continue broadening their middle classes.
They regarded Western democracies as weak – unwilling or
unable
to respond to their evil extremism.
The low representation of women in legislatures is not only a symbol of flaws in the functioning of Latin American democracies; it also means that women legislators are
unable
to bring their intrinsically different approaches to policy into play.
As a result, the UK government seems
unable
to act as an even-handed mediator.
In short, the ECB would be
unable
to respond to an economic downturn by lowering interest rates and buying long-term bonds.
And without the ability to reduce interest rates, the ECB also would be
unable
to stimulate net exports by reducing the value of the euro.
Many investors are
unable
to examine the extent to which a bond fund’s high yield is due to risk-taking, and would thus benefit from a rating of the fund’s holdings.
Normally, when patients are
unable
to make decisions about their treatment, the family’s wishes should be given great weight.
But the country's bitter and divisive presidential campaign will leave bad blood, and whoever becomes president will be
unable
to count on Cardoso's large and cohesive majorities in Congress.
The 29 members of parliament who support a reduced number of constituencies were
unable
to agree with the government on a new number.
Thus, Germany’s political class, confused about what it wants and generally
unable
to explain to citizens what it does, has responded with short-term solutions: yes, more Europe, but no European state; yes, more money to pour down fiscal black holes, but no departure from the old Bundesbank orthodoxies.
If we are
unable
to build a new idea of and for Europe, all that Europe has achieved in the last 50 years will be put at risk.
The economy is in shambles, and
unable
to meet the International Monetary Fund demands for its continued support.
If the IMF terminates its current program, Pakistan will be
unable
to service its foreign debt.
The UK,
unable
to attract short-term capital inflows, was forced to borrow from the International Monetary Fund.
Small wonder, then, that Germany, politically
unable
to vote on more bailout resources, has outsourced that job to the ECB, the only institution that can bypass democratically elected parliaments.
France, too, has competitiveness problems, and is
unable
to meet its commitments under the European Union’s Fiscal Compact.
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