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These parties and movements share a sense that native-born citizens have been let down by liberal political elites, who seem
unable
or unwilling to stem the tide of immigration, crime, and Islamist militancy, as well as the erosion of national sovereignty by EU bureaucracy and global capitalism.
This is so because those who interpret the Koran are learned only in religion, in its laws and practices, and thus are usually
unable
to understand today’s scientific miracles.
Many US conservatives see Lula as a hardcore socialist
unable
to compromise, and refuse to recognize that he has changed significantly.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton rightly warned the opposition recently that, thus far, they have been
unable
to unite the minorities behind them precisely because it is unclear to these groups that they will fare better without Assad than with him.
Indeed, throughout Europe – in France, Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain, and the United Kingdom – governments have been turned out of office in the face of a crisis that they have seemed
unable
to address.
But it will be
unable
to review the longer-term viability of banks’ business models.
Actually, Germany, like most European countries, is politically and logistically
unable
to send meaningful military forces to Iraq.
Today, the former allies are
unable
to work together, even when facing a common enemy like the Islamic State.
Debt burdens remain crushing, and Europe’s economy remains
unable
to grow.
Unfortunately, the macroeconomic changes that countries must make involve actions to which even heads of state are
unable
to commit.
With small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) – by far the economy’s most important growth engine –
unable
to acquire sufficient funding from the formal financial sector, they have been forced to turn to informal channels.
Liquidity-thirsty developers,
unable
to acquire financing through the formal banking sector, have been taking out massive loans at extremely high interest rates.
But as Iraq spirals into chaos, diplomats and leaders everywhere are again asking themselves if it is ever appropriate for alliances of nations or the international community as a whole to intervene when a sovereign country appears
unable
or unwilling to defend its citizens from genocide, war crimes, or ethnic cleansing.
While both interest-rate liberalization and deleveraging are critical to the long-term health of China’s economy, the skyrocketing cost of borrowing is forcing many low-risk companies, which are
unable
to offer sufficiently high rates of return, out of the market.
Unable
to afford school, they scavenge for paper and other scraps for recycling, earning just enough to eat.
A listed SOE could therefore continue to perform social obligations unrelated to its core business, with shareholders
unable
to interfere.
International stock exchanges remain of interest to large emerging-market companies, including SOEs, which may be
unable
to attract sufficient foreign institutional investors at home.
But active institutional investors may also be
unable
to play a stewardship role.
Of course, this approach is not always successful; for example, Netanyahu was
unable
to block the international nuclear deal with Iran, despite his best efforts.
Once again, Europe’s national leaders showed themselves to be in denial about what underlies the eurozone’s economic, banking, and sovereign-debt crises, and thus hopelessly
unable
to resolve them.
On this view, Riccio was doing what anyone should have been prepared to do for Welby, who was paralyzed and
unable
to implement his refusal of a burdensome medical treatment.
If an incurably ill patient can refuse burdensome treatment, knowing that this refusal will mean his or her death, why should an incurably ill patient who is not being kept alive by any medical treatment, but finds that the illness itself makes life burdensome, be
unable
to seek assistance in escaping that burden?
The composite dialogue was put on hold, with both sides
unable
to cast off the heavy burden of decades of hostility and intense rivalry.
When the canal-building boom ended, eight states and the Territory of Florida (accounting for about 10% of the entire US population at the time) were
unable
to service their debt and defaulted on their, mostly British, loans.
The US dismissed all of this, seemingly
unable
to take to heart anything members of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s government had to say.
The main constraint on realizing the emerging economies’ potential is financial, with the Bretton Woods institutions
unable
to provide the needed capital.
If the bank failed, it would be
unable
to repay the bonds, and the managers owning bonds would be that much poorer.
As there is a zero lower bound to the nominal interest rate, the central bank may well find itself
unable
to drive the interest rate/inflation differential to a low enough level, which may result in a slump and even a downward spiral.
Unable
to sustain the current force with reduced aid, the Afghan government will have to try to make it “leaner and meaner.”
But the UN was
unable
to avert the Cold War, wars in Algeria, Vietnam, and Yugoslavia, or genocide in Cambodia and Rwanda.
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