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For example, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were financed with “supplemental” budget requests each year, as if they were some unpredictable surprise.
The danger here is not only of uncontrolled changes with unpredictable consequences, but also of creating a greater gap in the human condition between those societies in which these capabilities will be applied massively and those societies that lack the means for their application.
This revolution in the internalities of our existence, which is unpredictable in its scope and uncertain in its direction, is taking place in a setting of deepening division in the material existence of humanity.
By contrast, a country riddled with regulatory shortcomings will find its arteries of commerce clogged and foreign investors spooked by unpredictable quality and unfair competition from unscrupulous producers.
It has been shown that, the outcome of some computer programs is at once entirely deterministic, innovative, and unpredictable.
The computer metaphor thus implies that living organisms are material systems that, facing an unforeseeable future, arrive at improbable solutions so that some of their progeny can survive in unpredictable conditions.
While the future of China is unpredictable, the durability of its post-totalitarian regime can be estimated with some confidence.
But these powerful autocracies’ resentful nationalism still makes them harder to deal with than their more brutal, but less unpredictable, Communist predecessors.
The government of Prime Minister David Cameron – who has focused on British identity, rather than the UK’s common destiny with Europe – will undoubtedly hold a referendum on the UK’s continued membership in the European Union, with unpredictable consequences.
On his recent trip to Washington, DC, French President Emmanuel Macron attempted to use this history to reinforce the bilateral relationship today, potentially giving France more influence over US President Donald Trump’s unpredictable administration.
Trump is simply too unpredictable for a close relationship with him to be anything other than a political liability.
The most immediate regional threat is North Korea, whose unpredictable dictatorship has invested its meager economic resources in nuclear and missile technology.
Moreover, what seem like obvious, commonsense policy solutions all too often have unintended consequences, because a policy’s targets are not passive objects, as in physics, but active agents who react in unpredictable ways.
The other is that they will resort to neither, and that no alternative growth engines will have been started, leading to an extended slowdown with unpredictable political consequences at home and serious economic consequences abroad.
The former engage in predatory and unpredictable regulation, which produces a bad business environment.
Polls are finely balanced and referendums unpredictable.
As a result, southern Europe and parts of Eastern Europe have become a kind of political laboratory, with experiments producing strikingly varied – and increasingly unpredictable – outcomes in different countries.
Today, NATO’s core must also be solidarity with a capital S!The Trump Administration’s Economic PotentialTOKYO – President Donald Trump’s unpredictable approach to policymaking has fueled widespread concern about where the United States is headed.
Indeed, in an unpredictable world, where old threats are compounded by new challenges, policymakers cannot disregard hard power.
A useful reserve currency must be limited in supply, but have sufficient elasticity to satisfy the large, unpredictable needs that may arise in a turbulent financial world.
Such conjunctures create what the author Nassim Nicholas Taleb calls “Black Swans” – unpredictable events with a vast impact.
An unpredictable regulatory environment, inadequate infrastructure, and a sluggish, monsoon-dependent agricultural sector are adding to the economy’s problems.
But the Convention's outcome is unpredictable.
Given the risks posed by an unpredictable US president, South Koreans’ unease is easy to understand.
Confronted with the spread of missile technology, and unpredictable regimes and leaders, we owe it to our populations to complement our deterrence capabilities with an effective missile-defense capability.
Moreover, some notable candidates, such as Senator Hillary Clinton, supported the invasion of Iraq, while the Democrats are more protectionist than the Republicans and are financially unpredictable.
Much of the danger lies not just in the frequent, severe, and unpredictable weather events themselves, but also in the deadly ways that these events interact with other, man-made risks.
But New Deal economic policies, by expanding the role of the state in an often chaotic and unpredictable fashion, probably also played a role in at least temporarily impeding productivity growth.
It is because of the unpredictable nature of today's world that neither side can afford a farcical "Cold War, The Sequel."
The effectiveness of available options is limited, and all of them are pregnant with unpredictable political and military consequences.
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