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All were unwilling to challenge US financial might or to forfeit the tax cuts Trump had delivered to almost 5,000 German companies with a combined balance sheet of $600 billion.
Getting the balance correct is complicated by the fact that the right fears the left will use fiscal stimulus as a path to permanently larger government, a path that the right (and apparently the general public) is unwilling to follow.
Congress has authorized the President to impose import duties on Chinese products if China remains unwilling to increase the value of its currency substantially against the dollar.
Even though 19 of NATO’s 26 members also belong to the EU, leaders and bureaucrats in most of these countries have been unwilling to back the commitment of their troops with the economic resources needed.
But whoever is elected will confront difficult choices if a nuclear-armed Pakistan remains unable or unwilling to act as an American partner and meet its responsibilities in the effort against terrorism.
When the country holds a referendum on its EU membership on June 23, many voters may be unwilling to vote to remain.
European governments were both strongly averse to floating exchange rates, which they assumed would be incompatible with a single market, and unwilling to perpetuate a Bundesbank-dominated monetary regime.
While the system was effectively eliminated in 1971, the US dollar’s central role in the international monetary system has remained intact – a reality that many countries are increasingly unwilling to accept.
While the country’s leaders have continued to pay lip service to free trade, they have so far proved unwilling to take into account the grievances of both the US and Europe.
If Musharraf had previously been unwilling to choose sides, the attempts to kill him finally showed him which side he had to be on.
Yet Obama remains unwilling to apologize for Hiroshima – a decision with which most Americans probably agree.
Or you will be told stories about how Saudi trained imams are twisting the girls’ arms, turning them into unwilling stalking-horses for “Islam.”
Given the already high unemployment levels that exist across much of the Continent, and the already heavy pressures on government finances, European voters may be unwilling to accept more adjustments and the hardships they appear to bring, no matter the proposed long-term benefits.
Europe, Japan, and (to a much lesser extent) the US, were simply unwilling to face down their small but influential farm lobbies.
Many individual governments, obsessed with compliance, are unable or unwilling to consider the negative public health effects of harsh anti-drug policies.
Moreover, Obama has been confronted with significant constraints, including the global economic crisis, domestic political polarization, a hostile Congress, and the rise of emerging powers that need the US but are unwilling to accept its dominance.
At the same time, successive EU enlargements over the decades have brought in other powerful contenders, chiefly Spain and the UK, as well as smaller countries who are unwilling to bow before French-German leadership.
Of course, most French people would ultimately benefit from doing away with this inefficient web of big and small privileges, but most voters, depressed by poor economic prospects and unnerved by high unemployment, are simply unwilling to take the risk.
And if political and religious leaders are unable or unwilling to seek accommodation, it will be up to like-minded individuals, groups, and civil-society institutions to rebuild mutual respect and find ways to cooperate.
Those unwilling to pay the price of handing over national sovereignty in some areas tacitly accept that the eruption of a new crisis is only a matter of time.
Governments have proved either unwilling or unable to act aggressively in terms of education and skills retraining or in redistributing income.
If Rouhani proves unwilling or unable to engineer a change of course, what else might be done?
Despite improved ties in the 1990s, successive Indian governments were unable – or unwilling – to risk their political capital by legitimizing the territorial transfer and settling the dispute.
Governments suddenly found themselves with much lower revenues than they expected; when markets proved unwilling to lend them the difference, they ended up printing money, causing exchange rates to weaken and inflation to rise.
The Berlusconi era is approaching its twilight, yet his sun is unwilling to set.
This is because the destruction of confidence undermines the “animal spirits” of capitalism: borrowers are unwilling to borrow and lenders are unwilling to lend.
As a result, municipal governments may be unwilling to grant permits to expand supply.
Investors and banks are suddenly unwilling to finance current-account deficits with short-term debt.
With the EU forced to promote second- and third-rate strategies, countries would lose confidence in international climate policy’s problem-solving potential and become unwilling to pursue shared solutions.
That is a role that Germany has been eager to avoid and remains unwilling to accept.
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