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We would like to boost spending immediately by getting businesses to invest not only in projects that trade safe cash now for safe profits in the future, but also in those that are risky or uncertain.
As a result, Europeans, facing uncertain environmental consequences while receiving none of the revenues, tend to oppose fracking nearby.
Meanwhile, the European Union is fighting for its survival, and cannot devote its energies to an uncertain battle.
Moreover, China’s internal evolution remains uncertain.
In this case, the real motivation behind Sechin’s decision to go after Ulyukaev is uncertain.
Much the same will be true of Chancellor Helmut Kohl, who was just ousted in no uncertain terms by German voters.
Hezbollah in a CornerBEIRUT – The future of Hezbollah, Lebanon’s powerful Shia political and paramilitary organization, has never looked more uncertain.
But any such speculative boom is inherently unstable, as the stories evolve in time and with new shocks, whose effect on markets is most uncertain.
Where our still-ailing world economy goes from here is as uncertain as the speculative markets that played such an important role in both the financial crisis and the recovery.
The long-term future of South Africa’s foreign policy is uncertain: its emergence as a power of substance with a claim to a seat in a reformed UN Security Council will ultimately depend on the government’s capacity to attract foreign investment sufficient to help deliver economic and social goods to the country’s black majority.
Although the precise nature of the disease’s transmission remains uncertain, a key event in these disorders is the conversion of the prion protein’s normal cells to an abnormal form that appears to be the major (if not the sole) component of the infection.
But if the movements’ gains are uncertain, the connectivity that they created is likely to endure.
Virtually no country in the region will escape it, though when and where the next eruption will occur remains uncertain.
Second, while some believe that Brexit would cause Frankfurt to rise in importance as a financial center, that outcome is highly uncertain.
Moreover, aid is inherently uncertain, leaving Africans at the mercy of outside forces beyond their control.
The politics of this transition, however, will be harshly uncertain.
Unlike prices for coal, which is abundant and dispersed geographically, gas prices are subject to significant volatility, and the long-term trend in the face of fossil fuel depletion is uncertain.
But this is unlikely: Russia’s disruption of gas supplies in January 2009 made clear to the EU in no uncertain terms what price might have to be paid.
The future of Iraq, not to mention democracy there, remains uncertain at best.
The Republican side is far more crowded and uncertain, and it seems far likelier that foreign policy will play a large role in choosing the party’s nominee.
If we do not develop the ways and means to spot and navigate around possible new risks, the outlook for this exciting new technology will be uncertain.
Although its future directions are uncertain, this 26-member forum trumps Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), and ASEAN Plus Three, which includes China, Japan, and South Korea.
Add to that new challenges – from climate change, overfishing, and degradation of marine ecosystems to the emergence of maritime non-state actors, such as pirates, terrorists, and criminal syndicates – and the regional security environment is becoming increasingly fraught and uncertain.
Meanwhile, the significance of the reconciliation agreement signed last May by Hamas and Fatah, the secular nationalist movement that controls the Palestinian Authority, remains uncertain.
Some 36% of Chinese doctors think the effectiveness of acupuncture remains uncertain, perhaps because the scientific basis for it remains so new.
Indeed, the efficacy of acupuncture without stroke rehabilitation remains uncertain, mainly because of the poor quality of such studies—a problem that has affected most of trials undertaken so far.
Europe’s Red-Tape EconomyWARSAW – Over the past 60 years, the project of European integration has confronted many challenges: post-war economic hardships, the heavy yoke of communism, and the uncertain footing of the post-Cold War world.
But, if a few relatively anodyne words can spark such a powerful reaction, then investors evidently remain uncertain, if not confused, about the Fed’s intentions.
The US may be in the midst of a highly uncertain political transition.
That is, an uncertain outcome is worth less than the average of the outcomes.
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