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Brazil’s government has been unwilling or
unable
to cut back its bloated public sector, has been mired in vast corruption scandals, and yet its president Dilma Rousseff continues to evince a fondness for just the sort of state-led capitalism that leads to exactly these problems.
Terrorism has taken more lives in India than in any country in the world after Iraq, and yet, unlike Israel, India has seemed
unable
to do anything about it.
Unable
to assure himself of a tame presidential successor, Kuchma wants what he calls a "parliamentary republic" with a weak president and powerful prime minister.
Despite our growing interconnectedness, the UN Security Council has not yet been
unable
to achieve sufficient consensus to resolve pressing matters such as Syria.
As a result, they are often
unable
to offer or receive the support and affirmation that true friendship requires.
What risks do you see emerging should Russia’s economy continue to decline, with Putin increasingly
unable
to reward his political base?
The country is at a stalemate: the opposition is
unable
to topple President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, and Assad’s forces are
unable
to quash the resistance.
As a high government official has put it: “It hurts to admit that we are
unable
to clean up our own house, but it is better that someone else does it than that nobody does.”
What makes allies indispensable to an effective national-security policy is the ability of like-minded nations to provide the reality checks without which a fallible superpower is, as we have regretfully seen,
unable
to keep its balance on swiftly evolving and treacherous international terrain.
Much negotiating blood has been spilled on the Treaty, and its rejection a second time by Irish voters would leave the Union
unable
to ratify and implement its provisions; this would inevitably lead to policy paralysis and institutional decay.
And, critically, an increasing number of states are
unable
to contain these divisions within peaceful boundaries.
Even Nepal, a communist-dominated country that holds elections, has been
unable
to translate economic liberalization into a credible democratic transition.
If pensions and governments both prove
unable
to provide for the elderly, countries across the continent could experience rising social instability – a broader version of the saga playing out in Greece.
The problem is that the IMF was
unable
to interpret the evidence with which it was confronted.
The fact that North Korea's close neighbors seem
unable
to grasp this seems to confirm that Asian disunity is not just stupid, but chronic and willful.
Nevertheless, French and German elites have found a common cause for concern: Germany may be
unable
to seize the exceptional opportunity created by French President Emmanuel Macron’s victory.
Worse, the government might be
unable
to refinance its debt at all, and then would have to cut spending and raise taxes sharply.
He could not have been the bravest or most decisive man, given that he was
unable
to resist rising militarism.
Unable
to respond decisively to a crisis, the eurozone is losing the confidence that is any currency’s most important asset.
Having received its smallest share of the popular vote since World War II, the SPD is severely weakened, and may be
unable
to pursue anything but the least controversial items on its domestic agenda.
With the US, the issuer of the world’s preeminent reserve currency, unwilling or
unable
to provide the liquidity needed to close the infrastructure investment gap, a new supplementary reserve currency should be instituted – one whose issuer does not have to confront the Triffin dilemma.
Unable
to compare outcomes directly, researchers have employed a variety of strategies to identify the impact of inflation targeting, and have typically found it to be substantial (though the effect becomes small or even zero when countries’ starting points are taken into account).
However, over this period the UK also experienced sustained exchange-rate misalignment, which the BoE’s Monetary Policy Committee was unwilling or
unable
to address within its existing mandate.
Over the last four decades, the UN Security Council has repeatedly proved unwilling or
unable
to bring Morocco to the negotiating table.
The danger is not renewed Japanese militarism, but rather a Japan that is
unable
and unwilling to do its share to meet the regional and global challenges facing Asia.
But there often are serious costs as well: higher prices for consumers, the dampening effect on further innovation of reducing access to knowledge, and, in the case of life-saving drugs, death for all who are
unable
to afford the innovation that could have saved them.
Unable
to vanquish the specter of deflation, ECB President Mario Draghi will need to continue working to build a consensus – even better, unanimity – within the bank’s governing board for purchases of government bonds.
At the same time, banks, faced with a surge in nonperforming loans and compromised balance sheets, may be
unable
or hesitant to engage in new lending.
But seniority is not written in stone: poor economies that are
unable
to repay even the IMF are eligible for debt reduction under the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries program, and 35 have received it since the program was established in 1996.
But today’s social, economic, and political systems – at least in developed countries – are
unable
to withstand a peacetime decline in output of 15-20% within a short period.
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