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Thus, they still face a trade-off between pushing unemployment too low, and setting off an episode of inflation, and not pushing hard enough, resulting in an unnecessary waste of economic resources.
And, as the Myriad case shows, they can even result in unnecessary loss of life.
The Cold War was a tragedy; a repeat can only be a farce because it is unnecessary.
Why not give countries and regions full freedom in choosing their objectives, rather than imposing some unnecessary or irrational criterion to fix the maximum number?
The goal should be to make self-insurance unnecessary by guaranteeing access to international credit lines in case of abrupt outflows of private capital.
This is not only unnecessary, but also wasteful, because it risks creating a generation that will be ill equipped to drive future growth.
But so far, Pakistanis have tended to view the violence as an unnecessary and avoidable result of Pakistan’s involvement in the US-led “war on terror.”
In August 1998, with the ruble's devaluation, we tested the alternative, Keynsian hypotheses: production soared, and relatively quickly, showing that policies emphasizing excessive austerity had caused unnecessary idleness of human and physical resources, and unnecessary suffering.
But delay is very costly – and largely unnecessary.
Perhaps policymakers presumed that saving for a rainy day is unnecessary if this time is different and perpetual sunshine is the new normal.
Using slick PowerPoint presentations with titles like “Default in Today’s Advanced Economies: Unnecessary, Undesirable, and Unlikely,” the Fund tried to convince investors that eurozone debt was solid as a rock.
After several years of political infighting and unnecessary delay, macroeconomic stabilization was achieved, and Russia’s economic growth was restored, especially as world oil and gas prices began to rise.
Gradually, effective military cooperation between the US and Europe will shift from being unnecessary and unwelcome, to being impossible.
For those who believe that a society should offer its members equal opportunity, and that anyone who works hard can climb higher on the socioeconomic ladder, redistribution is unnecessary and unfair.
But many of them are linked to Trump, whose attacks on the Paris climate accord, the Iran nuclear deal, NAFTA, NATO, the World Trade Organization, and the UN Human Rights Council have made it clear that he regards the international system as an unnecessary constraint on his administration.
Such beliefs engineer a dull and gray life, devoid of anything unique, because individuality is deemed irrational, non-systemic, unnecessary.
He picked an unprecedented and unnecessary fight with the prime minister of the United Kingdom, supposedly America’s closest ally, by retweeting a British neo-fascist group’s anti-Muslim posts.
At home for example, the badly needed reform of the army has been accompanied by unnecessary malignity, as if a former interior minister imbued with a “police culture” was utterly incapable of understanding the “army culture” and its sense of honor.
But the research seems to be aimed at building a scientific case for a resumption of commercial whaling; so, if whaling is unethical, then the research itself is both unnecessary and unethical.
But Western nations are in a weak position to make this response, because they inflict so much unnecessary suffering on animals.
But there is also a significant risk that a large and unnecessary dose of fiscal austerity will weaken demand, undermine confidence, and tip the economy back into recession.
Mobile phone use is already spreading rapidly in developing countries, making old-style fixed infrastructure unnecessary; data services can use the same system.
But all the talk of wondrous returns could spur what psychologists call “wishful thinking bias,” leading people to believe that their personal accounts will be so valuable in the future that outside saving is unnecessary.
The ethical basis of the panel’s argument is not so much the avoidance of unnecessary suffering in terminally ill patients, but rather the core value of individual autonomy or self-determination.
Regulation that is not globally coordinated, they warned, would create unnecessary uncertainty, prolong financial distress, and threaten economic recovery.
In an ideal world, where compromise is unnecessary, US fiscal policy would maintain the commitments embedded in the social-welfare system, even as demographic and other forces drive up costs (especially for health care).
Clinton went on to reject as unnecessary Medvedev’s call to re-make current European security arrangements.
He took unnecessary risks by escalating his war in Yemen, and now has a significant amount of civilian blood on his hands.
One and a half tons of unnecessary steel are simply hitching a ride.
One of the more frustrating elements of the anti-secession law is the fact that it is an entirely unnecessary provocation.
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