Unwillingness
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The logic is that India’s response to this tactic would always be tempered by its desire not to derail its ambitious economic development plans, as well as the Indian government’s
unwillingness
to face the risk of a nuclear war.
China’s unwillingness, for example, to join other members of the international community in pressuring Iran and North Korea to abandon nuclear weapons programs foreshadows the potential collapse of the nuclear non-proliferation regime.
There are moments when
unwillingness
to use force is immoral, and moments when the measured use -- or threat of use -- of force may be the only moral alternative.
Indeed, given stronger economies’
unwillingness
to be exploited in this way, the risk of moral hazard is the most significant obstacle to pooling debts in the eurozone.
Doubters need only recall the
unwillingness
of Secretary General after Secretary General, from U Thant to Kofi Annan, to meet with – or, in some cases, even to permit on the UN’s premises – victims of human rights violations who had the misfortune of being born in powerful countries.
True, across Europe, even in corporate boardrooms, there remains an
unwillingness
to go to the US extreme of "perform or perish" Politicians of all stripes are committed to the cradle to grave welfare state, no mater its expense and debilitating effects on the economy.
Russia’s uncompetitive manufacturing sector certainly cannot pick up the slack, and this is unlikely to change, given Putin’s
unwillingness
to pursue the needed shift to a more knowledge-intensive economy.
If China replaces its eroded communism with nationalism or ensure social cohesion, the result could be a more aggressive foreign policy and
unwillingness
to deal with issues like climate change.
For Israelis, that omission reveals even the most moderate Palestinians’
unwillingness
to embrace the existence of a Jewish state.
At the time, I did take a position in the Italian lira, because I was listening to the Bundesbank talking about its
unwillingness
to provide funds to maintain the European exchange-rate mechanism – the ERM.
Solidarity could count on the logic of Gorbachev's recent reforms in the neighboring Soviet Union, the perennial inefficiency of the communist economic system, and the
unwillingness
of the government, under General Jaruzelski, to go back to the martial law regime.
Defaults stemming from an
unwillingness
to pay do not deserve international support.
The reason why there still is no good interconnection between the Spanish and French power grids is not a lack of financing, but the
unwillingness
of monopolies on both sides of the border to open their markets.
At the center of the failure to make headway on the creation of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) is America’s unwillingness, and that of the Bush administration, to open up its agricultural sector to competition from countries such as Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay.
Whilst the Dutch Medical Association does not oppose the profession’s role in the practice of euthanasia, current evidence suggests a continuing
unwillingness
on the part of Dutch doctors to report cases of assistance in dying to the authorities, and a return to practices that are closer to a medical context, such as terminal sedation.
The Indians agreed to resume the suspended dialogue with Pakistan, despite the failure fully to resolve the Mumbai attacks legally, as well as Pakistan’s inability or
unwillingness
to move against the two domestically-based terrorist groups that India had accused of having masterminded those and several other attacks on its territory.
Saving Our Drowning HumanityLONDON – In the last week of May, at least 1,050 migrants and asylum-seekers died in the Mediterranean Sea, victims of the international community’s
unwillingness
to address the needs of the world’s most vulnerable people.
The Kibaki government should be acknowledged for gracefully conceding defeat, but true credit goes to the Kenyan public for its
unwillingness
to allow the authorities to dispense with the rule of law.
America’s misadventure in Iraq, its exhaustion as a world power, and its
unwillingness
to maintain its previous level of commitment to the region have rendered the Sykes-Picot structure untenable, because no other external force for order is available.
The IMF’s involvement was necessitated only by America’s
unwillingness
to provide support.
Both Israel and the United States seem to be frozen in their
unwillingness
to negotiate with a Palestinian Authority that includes Hamas.
The sticking point is Hamas’s
unwillingness
to recognize the existence of Israel; but that could be made a condition for an eventual settlement rather than a precondition for negotiations.
Why Europe Needs to Save GreeceSTOCKHOLM – The fundamental problem underlying Greece’s economic crisis is a Greek problem: the country’s deep-rooted
unwillingness
to modernize.
The subsequent effort to “Israelize” the city, by building a network of Jewish neighborhoods in Palestinian-dominated East Jerusalem, has failed to secure a solid Jewish majority, largely owing to the
unwillingness
of middle-class Israelis to settle there.
This is particularly notable, given that Ecuador’s was perhaps the first opportunistic default (triggered by unwillingness, rather than inability, to pay) in recent history.
China’s
unwillingness
to address North Korean perfidy – that is, to go beyond vague and feckless calls for dialogue – is a case in point.
But the biggest problem Argentina faced was creditors’
unwillingness
to accept the proposed debt exchange.
The major problem in the Arab-Isreli conflict, as in many other intricate disputes, has always been the incapacity or
unwillingness
of leaders to conduct a peace policy that is not supported by their societies’ prevailing, and frequently paralyzing, consensus.
Israel’s first prime minister, David Ben Gurion, inaugurated the enterprise to compensate for Israel’s strategic vulnerability, a fledgling army, and the West’s
unwillingness
to enter into a formal alliance to defend the Jewish state.
This recognition has already dampened US policymakers’ support for the Arab Spring uprisings: witness Obama’s hesitation to intervene in Libya and his unwillingness, at least so far, to involve America directly in Syria’s bloody civil war.
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