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But, despite opportunities for self-expression, community building and activism remain marginal and do not alter or weaken the state’s dominance over society.
Is the German government’s willingness to issue more debt and run bigger deficits limited because the market recognizes and penalizes nation states that allow their fiscal positions to weaken?
During President George W. Bush’s administration, the US worked with the Saudis to track financial flows to radical groups and thus weaken such groups’ operations throughout the region, including in western Iraq.
For the US and its allies, the war is little more than a proxy battle to weaken Assad’s patrons, Iran and Russia.
Software engineers call backdoors “vulnerabilities,” deliberate efforts to weaken security.
In addition to “undermining every American’s cyber security and the nation’s economic security,” the signers argued, “introducing new vulnerabilities to weaken encrypted products in the US would also undermine human rights and information security around the globe.”
Severing moral concerns from global affairs would only weaken the US and all who emulate it.
If, say, French President Sarkozy wanted to stop too-big-to-fail French financial institutions from transacting in ways that weaken them, a Tobin tax on their transactions, wherever in the world they occurred, could work; the tax would affect the institutions, even if it could not shape world-wide markets.
This means that the primary objective of the Russian attacks is to weaken the entire opposition, including the democratic opposition, fighting the Assad regime.
But Northern European surplus countries reject such an approach, fearing that it would weaken the pressure on Southern European debtor countries to undertake structural reforms in the first place.
To save the ECHR from this crushing burden, some member states have proposed changes that could weaken it, even if unintentionally.
What happens now can either legitimize the mechanisms that have been created, or weaken them severely.
The problem is that both sides believe that showing willingness to compromise would weaken their future bargaining situation.
As the deflation gap narrows, however, the overall impact of monetary policy will weaken, as it increasingly influences prices more than output.
Consider the effects of pension “reforms” that force individuals to bear more risk, or of labor-market “reforms” that, in the name of boosting “flexibility,” weaken workers’ bargaining position by giving employers more freedom to fire them, leading in turn to lower wages and more insecurity.
The BOJ’s effort to weaken the yen is a beggar-thy-neighbor approach that is inducing policy reactions throughout Asia and around the world.
Alternatively, rising interest rates and a downturn in the real estate market could so weaken consumer demand that the economy slips into recession, squeezing exporters in other countries that depend on the US market.
On the other hand, if the ECB preferred to let major countries, such as Italy, default on their debts, this would likely weaken the euro even further, as investors feared a contagion of defaults.
My support for capital punishment would weaken greatly if the rate of killing innocent people were as large as that claimed by many.
The same dynamics that inflated the dollar value of GDP growth in the good years for these countries will now work in the opposite direction: stable or lower export prices will reduce real growth and cause their currencies to stop appreciating or even weaken in real terms.
But climate models that depend on elusive technologies weaken the imperative to enact the deep structural changes that are needed to avoid climate catastrophe.
In fact, we may have entered a period of fundamental change that could weaken growth everywhere, as the “old” shrinks before the “new” can occupy sufficient space.
Moreover, the country’s strategic situation is deteriorating with each passing year, because the global redistribution of power and influence from the West to the East can only weaken Israel’s position.
Whether he is seeking to weaken Ukraine or to enlarge Russia’s territory, Europe’s response must be firm.
Its strategic relevance, even in the transatlantic partnership, is destined to weaken further.
This explains the Kingdom’s eagerness to increase oil production, which would weaken its competitors’ economies (and please the West).
But this support could weaken or even cease if the dollar falls too low, if the price of oil rises too high, or if the American economy backfires.
This can only worsen Europe’s sovereign-debt problem and weaken its already meager growth prospects.
The findings also suggest that while Jakarta’s “jockeys” were a visible presence, they did not weaken the effect of the policy.
This requires that Sudan’s various leadership collectives have sufficient strength and cohesion to bring their constituencies into the settlement, and therefore that no one, from near or afar, does anything to weaken any of these collectives.
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