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It remains to be seen whether the unpredictable Trump will meet Israel’s expectations.
The longer world leaders reduce Syria’s problems solely to sectarian conflict, the more unpredictable and dangerous the situation there could become.
The Arab Spring, America’s declining influence in the Muslim world, and citizens’ determination to be heard have combined to create an environment in which the unprecedented and the unpredictable are the only certainties.
Trump’s foreign-policy strategy is based on remaining unpredictable.
Moreover, energy and food price shocks can be both large and largely unpredictable, while the speed of price changes tends to increase with big shocks.
In these times, difficult and unpredictable but full of hope, the world needs Turkey and the EU to work together.
While the technology could prove a boon in the fight against many deadly diseases, it also implies serious – and potentially entirely unpredictable – risks.
But there are few international rules on what an NGO actually is, and the lack of control can lead to unpredictable consequences.
The effects of localized violence were also made clear in the survey: 17% of Kurds, 41% of Shi’ites, and 77% of Sunnis felt that life in Iraq is unpredictable and dangerous, a clear demonstration of the effects of the ongoing resistance that is centered in the Sunni Triangle.
According to the US lawyers with whom I have spoken, who advise on cross-border mergers and acquisitions, because US screening processes for deals involving Chinese investors can face long and unpredictable delays, Chinese firms often have to pay an extra 15% to make their bids viable.
Given the very limited scope and unpredictable nature of the conditions that it would cover, the premium for such a policy would be very low.
She answered: it depends on whether Mao dies first or Zhao dies first – her point being that in a top-heavy system, growth paths can become unpredictable, and thus subject to volatility.
Instead, instability builds up until the system is shocked and resets, with the exact timing unpredictable.
If the world is too complex and unpredictable for either markets or governments to achieve social objectives, then new systems of checks and balances must be designed so that political decision-making can constrain economic incentives and vice versa.
Staking out a solitary or semi-detached position in today’s increasingly unpredictable world is likely to lead only to marginalization and decline.
Unpredictable human psychology also plays a role.
When their time comes, the world will be dealing with a much more unpredictable power than the one we know now.
Of course, no one can reliably foresee the unpredictable, but we can learn from past mistakes.
Europe’s Hard-Core ProblemPRINCETON – President Emmanuel Macron’s election in France and the likely continuation of Angela Merkel’s chancellorship in Germany are dramatically at odds with developments in the rest of Europe, which has become increasingly unstable and unpredictable.
But the toxic brew of populism now gaining strength may yet open a Pandora’s box, unleashing unpredictable consequences.
This is all the more important, given the unprecedented and unpredictable threats that we currently face.
Finally, currency chaos is the safest bet of all, with sharp and unpredictable swings in floating exchange rates around the world.
The first is that the pound sterling, and the British economy generally, may yet be badly buffeted by the unpredictable repercussions of the financial crisis in Asia; whereas the single currency area may prove a fortress of calm and stability.
And, like any quest for certainty in our unpredictable world, it was doomed to failure.
Moreover, metallic money was prone to unpredictable shifts in value with the discovery of new supplies.
The location of life-supporting pasturelands is determined by the unstable and largely unpredictable rains, rather than by political boundaries.
Recessions of the first type are, almost by definition, largely unpredictable.
Thanks to the vagaries of the parliamentary system and the country’s sprawling size, elections seem to take place somewhere every six months, and investors and political analysts are rarely perturbed by even the most unpredictable outcomes.
But this will be unpredictable and predictably often too late.
The law’s most onerous provisions are those regulating the terms of employment contracts, for they condemn employers who decide to close a plant to a marathon of legal proceedings of uncertain duration and unpredictable outcome.
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