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On the contrary, his gambit was in keeping with the North’s longstanding policy of trying to weaken the US-South Korean alliance.
He was reluctant to harness his followers’ nativism and economic insecurity to build an anti-system movement that might weaken the foundations of the country’s parliamentary democracy.
Confident that their own generous pensions will be paid out no matter what, politicians like Ryan often advocate measures that weaken the government’s fiscal position.
There is also the risk that the politics of identity can replace – or severely weaken – the politics of economic justice.
By helping to de-legitimize Yasir Arafat and by accepting Prime Minister Sharon's characterization of Israel's reoccupation as "self-defense," American policy threatens to weaken the moral clarity and credibility of the US in the eyes of the world.
They do not need to dismantle existing environmental legislation, weaken incipient climate policies, or favor fossil fuels over clean energy sources to ensure prosperity.
For the worst hypothesis is not that EMU will run into some turbulence -- that is more likely than not -- nor that some irresponsible government may weaken EMU’s low-inflation policy, but that the whole system could run into serious economic difficulties, or even fly apart.
If negotiations stall, financial and liquidity stress, resulting from Greece’ inability to borrow at current interest rates – ten-year bond yields have reached 9.5 % – will weaken the fiscal position and banking system further.
Thus, the euro could afford to weaken substantially.
Politicians across the political spectrum know that such a situation would unsettle an already fragile US economy, severely weaken the dollar, and raise serious concerns about the country's ability to meet its debt-service obligations, including to the many foreign creditors that the US will need in the future.
Indeed, the United States has run four straight trillion-dollar deficits, driving the national debt to a record $16 trillion, and threatening to weaken the dollar and derail the global economic recovery.
That would certainly satisfy Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and the Palestinian fringe seeking to weaken the Palestinian Authority.
Their analysis found a clear tendency for austerity programs to reduce consumption expenditure and weaken the economy.
A restructuring of Greece’s official debt, despite offering short-term benefits, would weaken that framework in the long run by setting a precedent for exceptions, with other eurozone countries, sooner or later, requesting the same concession.
In the first scenario, SCAF – which, aside from dissolving the parliament, stripped the presidency of most powers in order to weaken its rivals – continues to rule the country under the military system introduced in 1952 when Mohamed Naguib and then Gamel Abdel Nasser seized power.
Worse, national decline would likely strengthen, rather than weaken, the Putin regime’s predatory, chauvinistic tendencies.
They sought to limit the authority of tribal chiefs and to use their powers over schools, land, and jobs to weaken, if not altogether eradicate, tribal consciousness.
A lower rate would strengthen incentives for investment and job creation in the US, and weaken incentives for tax avoidance.
A lower corporate-tax rate would weaken this justification.
Even Switzerland is intervening to weaken the franc.
So the Japanese started to intervene to weaken the yen.
In fact, quantitative easing is a more effective tool to weaken a currency, as foreign exchange intervention is usually sterilized.
Indeed, though the US pretends not to intervene to weaken the dollar, it is actively doing precisely that via more QE.
In such a scenario, the economy would gradually weaken, hampering the royal family’s ability to continue buying middle-class support, while enabling rebel groups in the east and the south to erode the government’s authority.
This will require painstaking efforts to promote pro-Russian groups and gradually weaken and neutralize pro-Western circles.
Yes, the catastrophe would weaken the regime; but society would weaken even faster, assuring the regime continued control.
Without it, the Kim dynasty’s hold on power would almost certainly weaken, given Kim Jong-un’s youth and inexperience, plunging the country into chaos.
Any open rupture will weaken the hands of the reformers who want to have close ties with the West and the US.
The plan itself recognizes that its adoption implies another “lost decade” of economic activity and will weaken the island’s debt sustainability, thus perpetuating a crisis that all parties would like to end .
Every national supervisor has an incentive to find that “our banks are safe,” even if many institutions are only thinly capitalized and thus weaken the system as a whole.
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