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Nor is it inherently unreasonable – despite opposition at home and abroad – for his government to seek to reinterpret Article 9 of Japan’s “peace constitution” to permit wider engagement in collective self-defense operations and military cooperation with allies and partners.
Sometimes global financial markets’ eagerness to lend results in unreasonable booms, followed by abrupt reversals.
Foreign creditor governments can be unreasonable as well.
Are China and India being unreasonable?
With the organizations responsible for data security operating in low-resource, high-pressure circumstances, it is not an unreasonable question.
However, in his book Crimes of War , Michael Byers, a Duke University law professor, argues that the use of force in self-defense “must not be unreasonable or excessive,” and with regard to anticipatory action, the necessity must be “instant, overwhelming, leaving no choice of means, and no moment of deliberation.”
With the exception of what appears to be a covert effort to force EU countries to raise corporate taxes to French and German levels, there is ostensibly nothing unreasonable in the Competitiveness Pact.
This is not an unreasonable aspiration for any fresh college graduate in today’s winner-take-all economies.
Is it unreasonable to point out that the inevitable creation of trade barriers that will ensue from Waxman-Markey could eventually cost the world ten times more than the damage climate change could ever have wrought?
But Macron was not being unreasonable when he suggested that the prospect of such rapid population increase is relevant to questions about the efficacy of a concerted effort to overcome poverty in Africa.
The fatwas (legal opinions concerning Islamic law) that they issue appear unreasonable and cannot be accepted by those with scientific knowledge.
While it catalyzes a more generalized demand – the elderly plumber who works longer hours in the boom spends more on his stamp collection – it is not unreasonable to believe that much of debt-fueled demand is more focused.
The measured loss of competitiveness in southern Europe thus should not be ascribed to a lack of structural reforms or unreasonable trade unions, but rather booms in domestic demand, fueled mainly by the easy availability of cheap credit for consumption (Greece) and construction (Spain, Ireland).
The new Greek government's argument that this is an unreasonable target fails to withstand scrutiny.
Avoid overly optimistic projections that lead to unworkable plans and unreasonable expectations, which the government will not be able to fulfill, as happened in Guatemala, for example, when its civil war ended.
Indeed, with the cost of connectivity falling sharply – China’s mobile users are expected to surpass PC users by 2013 – and, with urbanization and per capita incomes also rising sharply, it is not unreasonable to expect China’s Internet penetration rate to cross the 50% threshold by 2015.
That is both unrealistic and unreasonable.
To cite policy-driven famine as an argument for more of the same policy seems unreasonable, to say the least.
Hong Kong’s citizens are not irresponsible or unreasonable.
Considering that the deal overseen by Santos emerged from a highly complex four-year-long process, that expectation is totally unreasonable.
In the transition from war to peace with an undefeated insurgent group, it is unreasonable to expect to be able to treat justice as a strictly legal matter; the political context must be taken into account.
To win support for their unreasonable demands, the No campaign focused unremittingly on the antipathy that Colombians (quite legitimately) feel toward the FARC.
The US policy seems unreasonable.
While the idea of placing the highest priority on the interests of one’s own country is not in itself unreasonable, Trump’s particular discourse echoes the calls issued by isolationist, anti-Semitic groups prior to World War II for the US to appease Hitler.
As long as such choices do not impose unreasonable or unbearable burdens on others, these democratic choices merit full respect.
If the Irish vote No a second time, and this leads to the postponement of EU enlargement, they would place an unreasonable and unbearable burden on Europe.
While it is unreasonable – and indeed undesirable – to expect that women will agree on all issues or be equally gender-sensitive in their politics, it is fair to assume that a female leader’s ideas will be informed by her unique experiences.
Is it such an unreasonable question?
There are many reasons why such optimism is not unreasonable.
It is not unreasonable to hope that Iohannis will advance Romania’s political development.
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