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Unease about the EU’s future is, of course, understandable, especially given the uncertainty surrounding efforts to revive the Constitutional Treaty.
The silence reflects an understandable desire to avoid fueling a self-fulfilling process.
There’s an understandable temptation to say, “If Parliament can’t decide, let’s throw it back to the people.”
It is an understandable, pragmatic suggestion – but not necessarily a good one.
For this reason, Russian suspicions against the "Partnership" concept are perfectly understandable, and even President Yeltsin’s outburst at the Budapest CSCE Summit deserves some sympathy.
Similarly, while it is understandable that the US does not want to foot the bill for its allies’ security, Trump’s ham-fisted approach to pushing America’s NATO allies to increase their defense spending is not helping.
Facebook faces understandable political pressure to change its practices, but what it really needs is new competitors that prove they can be profitable while putting privacy first.
Given the desire to penalize ethnic discrimination, the push for government to gain this knowledge is understandable.
Achieving it is an understandable priority for the US, but South Korea must worry as much, if not more, about North Korea’s non-nuclear or conventional military forces that threaten Seoul, home to roughly 20% of South Koreans.
Obama’s effort to finalize both agreements before the end of his presidency, though understandable, bred serious concerns about hastiness.
It is, however, an understandable position: both US political parties supported policies that encouraged excessive investment in housing and excessive leverage, while free-market ideology dissuaded regulators from intervening to stop reckless lending.
Whether a condition was diagnosed as disordered depended not just on the symptoms, which might be similar in normal sadness, and not just on the condition’s severity, for normal sadness can be severe and disordered sadness moderate, but on the degree to which the symptoms were an understandable response to circumstances.
This omission is understandable, since one country acting alone cannot do much to stop global warming.
The reason is understandable: growth remains anemic in most countries, and many fear the US Federal Reserve’s impending interest-rate hike.
Given the stakes, it is perhaps understandable why the US and China are holding their climate-change cards close to their chests.
Amid the global conversation about climate change, it is understandable that developed economies would promise significant gains in energy efficiency.
At a time when Russia’s domestic corruption and international rule-breaking dominate global headlines, it is understandable if that finding comes as a surprise.
That is understandable.
But, while policymakers’ desire to be prepared for potential future risks to price stability is understandable, they did not place these concerns in the context of recent inflation developments at the global level – or within historical perspective.
It is an understandable concern: money that the Bank lends to developing countries that ends up in secret bank accounts or finances some contractors’ luxurious lifestyle leaves a country more indebted, not more prosperous.
To some extent, this was understandable – and not without justification.
Ideally, air-quality data should be collected, translated into easily understandable language, and widely disseminated in real-time via social media so that city dwellers can take appropriate action (particularly important for vulnerable individuals).
Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi’s call for a quid pro quo – a loosening of the eurozone’s fiscal rules in exchange for accepting the deal with Turkey – is entirely understandable in this light.
At one level, it is entirely understandable that Germany and other eurozone countries should demand assurances that their resources will not be wasted.
The Germans, responding to the understandable public backlash against taxpayer-financed bailouts for banks and indebted countries, are sensibly calling for mechanisms to permit “wider burden sharing” – meaning losses for creditors.
The current focus on the downpour in Greece is understandable.
Its reluctance is understandable, because voters are evenly divided on the issue, and no one will invest a cent in Mexican oil or gas if the recently approved constitutional amendment on Pemex can be overturned in 2015, as the opposition claims will happen.
Every particular protest has its understandable, even justifiable, cause, and it is obvious that people should defend their interests.
There is also America’s understandable reluctance to become involved in yet another war in an Islamic country, as well as the impossibility of knowing what kind of regime might emerge if and when Assad is overthrown.
Of course, it is understandable that Western banks that recklessly extended euro loans to these countries now want to give them euro printing presses.
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