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Last week, Portugal joined Greece and Ireland in seeking an official bailout to avoid a default that would undermine Europe’s banking system.
The devastation caused by Israel’s periodic asymmetrical confrontations, combined with the continuing occupation of Palestinian lands and the ever-growing expansion of settlements, has fueled a growing campaign to undermine Israel’s legitimacy.
Indeed, such reforms can even undermine traditional rights and customary obligations worked out among communities over many generations.
Normally, economists talk about trade-offs: weaker intellectual-property rights, it is argued, would undermine incentives to innovate.
Macron and Verhofstadt’s aim in raising the specter of Eastern European populists is to undermine their own populists at home.
In addition, they have developed a number of clever procedural ploys to undermine the commission.
The International Criminal Court will be beginning its work soon, and with greater international support than expected, thanks to America's efforts to undermine it.
Regulation without redistribution could undermine the EU's legitimacy among the newcomers.
Along with Iran, Russia, which seeks to undermine American and British influence in the Middle East, supports the Shia awakening, whereas Sunni-dominated Turkey, the region’s strongest military power and a NATO member, has done little to hide its sympathy for the Islamic State.
And, as he also warns, if inflation remains above the BOE’s target for another two years, abrupt and sharp monetary tightening would undermine the recovery – and could damage the credibility of the BOE itself.
After all, North Korea’s sudden collapse or a military conflict on the peninsula would undermine regional security, while burdening neighboring countries with millions of refugees and hundreds of billions of dollars in reconstruction costs.
If only out of a sense of self-preservation, North Korean political and military leaders are likely to support this effort, as long as it does not undermine their power or national security.
Current political and economic uncertainty has exacerbated the situation, driving policymakers to settle on simplistic solutions that, as Snowden made starkly apparent, can undermine the values that the West espouses.
At first sight it seems unreasonable, indeed irresponsible, to undermine the all-too difficult task of collecting taxes by taking away the device of automatic withholding.
There is no better way to undermine taxation then to make government work hard to get its money.
On the contrary, referendums tend to make matters far worse, and can undermine democracy itself.
“Its continued, even if uneven, success in the future would further undermine US national interests.”
Unfortunately, this has not been Trump’s focus so far: he has rarely mentioned innovation, and his team is considering a dangerous approach that could actually undermine it.
But actions speak louder than words, and challenges to the NPT regime have continued to undermine its basic principles, causing considerable backsliding.
Offering debt relief, it is feared, could undermine the credibility of governing parties and provide a boost to extremist movements.
Both terms originated as criticisms that were supposed to undermine and subvert the political tendencies they described.
Failure to share resources and coordinate policy would seriously undermine Europe’s security interests.
They talk of family, morality, nation, but their policies lead to NATO, the European Union, massive foreign investment, international capital, and globalization – all things that appear to undermine the communitarian values of the right.
But spending more on, say, public-sector jobs would bring only temporary benefits; in the long term, such spending would weaken work incentives and undermine corporate investment, which is already on the decline.
Moreover, while South Korea can afford to increase public spending today, raising expenditure without paying careful attention to resource allocation will eventually undermine fiscal sustainability.
Changing the system and easing their grip on power was a risky move that could undermine their authority.
Trump and his minions work daily to undermine global agreements and domestic regulations that have been put in place to accelerate the shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy.
Against a background of automation and labor casualization, these firms’ monopoly profits boost inequality, fuel discontent, undermine aggregate demand for goods and services, and further destabilize capitalism.
Though the continent is responsible for only 4% of greenhouse-gas emissions, it is suffering more than any other continent from climate change, as rising temperatures, shifting seasons, and proliferating droughts deplete biodiversity, destroy ecosystems, and undermine security and stability.
Moreover, Tymoshenko managed Ukraine’s crisis despite the tremendous and often irresponsible resistance of her political opponents, who frequently paralyzed the parliament when the government refused to accept populist proposals that would undermine efforts at financial stabilization.
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