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(Never mind that there is little evidence to suggest that a well-signaled, progressive implementation of a carbon tax would weigh on growth.)
China, with its growing energy dependency on the Gulf states, will have to weigh that factor carefully at the negotiating table.
Now Obama faces defeat in the mid-term elections at the hands of Republicans whose past policies created many of the problems that weigh him down today.
Given inter-generational demands, large spillover effects between different communities, and interdependence with the rest of the world, any governance system must weigh the interests of ruling elites and lobbyists against those of weaker groups without voice, and popular demands against long-term planning.
Faced with a nuclear-armed Iran, the Gulf Cooperation Council members, for example, will be forced to weigh their options carefully – and possibly to acquire a nuclear deterrent of their own.
According to one Hamas slogan in the streets of Gaza during the Israeli withdrawal, “Four years of sacrifices weigh more than ten years of negotiations.”
But global conditions this year are anything but traditional, so it seemed appropriate to wait until US President Donald Trump settled into the White House to weigh in on some of the main surprises that might shake up the world economy and financial markets on his watch.
Because the pace of change will only continue to accelerate, transparency must become greater for all stakeholders, so that every part of society can weigh the risks and rewards of each new development.
Recently, the Copenhagen Consensus, whose purpose is to weigh the costs and benefits of different solutions to the world’s biggest problems, commissioned new research into the merits of different methods of combating terrorism.
As with other technologies, countries must weigh the costs and benefits of nuclear power.
The concomitant accumulation of debt will weigh on future economic activity and exacerbate financial vulnerabilities.
That is a consideration that should weigh heavily on indebted governments as they submit their budgets for scrutiny to the European Commission.
Policymakers must weigh the risks of volatility, exchange-rate pressures, and vulnerability to sudden reversals in capital flows against the benefits of wider access to credit and enhanced competition.
With a stagnant denominator, it is hard to reduce the debt-to-GDP ratio: the legacy of the past continues to weigh excessively on the present.
When Japan and other Asian countries weigh the risk of implementing the TPP against the risk of not participating, the risk of not participating is overwhelmingly higher.
Burning fossil fuels also has significant benefits, and we should weigh those benefits against the costs.
And the increasingly heavy influence of political factors on market performance will likely weigh on global growth for years to come.
The sanctions imposed on Iran are starting to weigh heavily on its economy, and a settlement to the dispute is a prerequisite for any effort by the two countries to cooperate on a peace deal in Syria or to address the threat posed by the Islamic State.
In any case, while concern with corporate short-termism has arrived on the US judicial agenda, judges in America (or elsewhere, for that matter) are not well positioned to weigh economic evidence that is far from clear regarding the sources, extent, and even the direction of short-term thinking in large corporations.
Although each krill may only grow to weigh about two grams, together they constitute one of the most abundant animal species on Earth.
When you weigh this against the possibility of the development of the drug industry’s Next Big Thing or, at the very least, a new method to produce high-value compounds at low cost, regulators’ preoccupation with such unlikely events appears to be misplaced.
But it wanted to give Greeks a chance to weigh in on this issue, so critical for their country’s future wellbeing.
Too Much InformationCANBERRA – As a British court weighs whether Julian Assange should be extradited to Sweden, and American prosecutors weigh the criminal charges they will file against Private Bradley Manning, the alleged major source for the disclosures by Assange’s WikiLeaks, global debate continues on whether such revelations do more good than harm.
Venezuelans will be able to weigh in on Maduro’s plan to rewrite the constitution and the opposition’s push for new elections, the restoration of all checks and balances, and the formation of a “national unity” government.
But, while it is true that a fundamentally new technology poses risks that are unknown, that is no excuse for neglecting to weigh the known risks of the existing technology.
But the British people will weigh whether to support Brexit, and an American hand on the scale could be counter-productive.
But the actual metrics by which we weigh global powers are typically discussed in only vague terms, if at all.
In the United States, sport and crossover utility vehicles – the largest of which are five meters long and weigh 2.6 tons – are the automobile market’s fastest growing sector.
In social interactions, and also in business dealings, Koreans maintain a hierarchy that seems to weigh age more highly than performance.
These burdens weigh far more heavily on people than any price tag can represent.
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