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But German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s understandable desire to discipline the spendthrifts entails sawing away at the last remaining branch on which Germany’s bankers and taxpayers are perched.
And while America’s grievances regarding IPR issues are understandable, they could be addressed through the WTO.
Moreover, with extreme political partisanship causing a government shutdown and threatening a debt-ceiling debacle, it would be understandable for the Fed to try to limit the impact of a dysfunctional Congress on consumer demand and business confidence.
Given their growing role in the global economy, it is understandable that larger Latin American countries, along with the other BRICS, are seeking a more influential world role.
It is understandable that older Americans who have few savings want to protect their Social Security and Medicare benefits.
Nor does the Fed seem to be updating its view of the economy in an understandable way.
It is understandable that good Europeans like the Dutch and the Finns find it unacceptable that heavyweights like France and Germany now claim to be more equal than smaller countries.
The emphasis is understandable, but there is a real danger in framing the problem as one of inequality.
If the underlying price trend is added to this, it is easily understandable why inflation rates are currently coming down everywhere.
While the latter is an understandable expense historically, the time has come for the EU and G8 to make different political choices that help keep 3.5 million mothers and children alive and well.
This month’s decision to hold back vaccination in Karachi after health workers there were threatened, though understandable, is nonetheless a cause for serious concern in this respect.
It is understandable that a senator who regards a sitting president as a serious threat to the Republic would sound the alarm.
Still, for understandable reasons, few investors are keen to lend Ukraine more money.
On one level, this is understandable, given the plethora of challenges that governments face and the lack of long-term solutions to many problems that demand one.
On the consumer side, this is quite understandable.
This is understandable: private investment firms spend an enormous amount on marketing and salaries.
Wyatt’s reluctance to join in the exploitation of great apes is understandable, given that the film itself tells the story of apes rising up in response to oppression from dominant humans.
Even setting aside Germany’s understandable attempt to limit how much it would have to pay, it is difficult to see how politicians could have gotten ahead of the problem.
By neglecting to seek qualified sources to offset their understandable lack of expertise, journalists produce imprecise – even untrue – reports, and thus fail to guide public debate in a constructive direction.
When it comes to technology, R&D, trade talks, and the like, the benefit for companies’ bottom line is direct and clear, and here Gates’ surprise is understandable, because corporate leaders typically lobby to participate and change the way governments think and act.
From Mississippi to Maine, and from New York to New Orleans, America’s written language is the same and the spoken language is understandable to all.
Both Israel and the US are nostalgic for a twentieth-century world of nation-states, which is understandable, since that is the world to which the kind of conventional power they possess is best suited.
This may be understandable, but it is not constructive.
Declaring war on terrorism was understandable, perhaps even appropriate, as a figure of speech.
It is understandable that Europeans and Americans do not want to offend a regional power.
Likewise, the choice between privately consumed and publicly consumed “goods” is often blurred, as politicians tend to reinforce citizens’ understandable tendency to demand public goods while rejecting the taxes needed to pay for them.
That decision was both understandable and rational.
It is understandable that European leaders talk so much about globalization, given that the European economy is rather open for its size, with exports amounting to about 20% of GDP, compared to just 12% in the US.
It is understandable why, in the midst of an election campaign, a candidate would say that, for, even in the best of times, increasing foreign aid wins few votes in America.
So, clear, balanced, and understandable information is the key.
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