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A group of well-known nationalist intellectuals, including film director Nikita Mikhalkov, artist Ilya Glazunov, and writers Valentin Rasputin and Vasily Belov, weighed in with a petition calling the exhibition a "new stage of conscious Satanism."
He consulted the best advisory team in the nation, weighed each course of action carefully, and then issued a series of precise, calm statements.
In the US, such an agency could have weighed in on the costs and benefits of bailout plans, perhaps helping to end congressional paralysis and steeling nerves to give taxpayers more upside risk.
But any risk must be weighed against other grave threats that we face.
But the risks of losing control of the situation weighed heavily on Kennedy, too, which is why he took a more prudent position than some of his advisers would have liked.
I wish they weighed in more frequently on finance-related issues, rather than deferring to the US Treasury.
The Greek economy was not “unfit” to join the euro in 1999, just as no one is too heavy to be weighed in kilograms.
By contrast, David Remnick, the editor of The New Yorker, weighed in with a piece on the Tsarnaev brothers that opened with Stalin’s banishment of the Chechen people “from their homeland in the northern Caucasus to Central Asia and the Siberian wastes.”
The 2008 global financial crisis revealed fundamental flaws in the international monetary system, as the failure to ensure sufficient liquidity weighed heavily on emerging Asian economies.
But Egypt is weighed down by domestic concerns, including a plummeting economy and a security situation in which the military is used for police tasks.
Historically, this is what happens in countries weighed down by large debts.
These medium- to long-term side effects need to be weighed carefully against the benefits of short-term stimulus.
As it happens, the charges were duly dropped, and there the case might have rested if President Obama, tired and frustrated after weeks of fighting for his healthcare bill, had not weighed in on behalf of his “friend” Gates, and called the police “stupid.”
Russia, weighed down by low commodity prices and persistent Western sanctions, is also eager to boost energy exports to Turkey.
The question is whether Obama – who is weighed down not only by domestic woes, but also by efforts to reach an agreement on Syria and an interim nuclear deal with Iran – has the political room or personal inclination to enter into risky negotiations with North Korea.
Kohl once asked me, to my surprise, if his big bulk – he was 6 feet 4 inches (193 centimeters) tall, and weighed more than 300 pounds (136 kilograms) during his leadership years – might not confirm fears of an overbearing Germany.
If the government ignores market price signals, mismatches between supply and demand could build up, undermining growth in dynamic regions, while leaving low-growth regions weighed down by excess capacity and bad assets.
While Bulgaria has a low budget deficit, it remains the EU’s poorest member state, weighed down by slow GDP growth and high unemployment.
Educating EveryoneEDINBURGH – The odds are weighed heavily against achieving the target set by the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) of ensuring by December 2015 that every school-age child is actually in school.
After reviewing the evidence, it concluded that the case for going to war had not been made, while the risk of turmoil – about which most experts in the region warned – almost certainly weighed on the deliberations.
How could huge conglomerations of such particles – proteins, people, planets – behave as they do if their constituent parts weighed nothing at all?
There needs to be a strategy, priorities must be weighed, and empirical evidence analyzed.
Political problems, however they are addressed, should be weighed against the vulnerability of European banks.
With any innovation, risks need to be weighed against possible benefits.
Democrats, journalists, and others are anxious to see Mueller’s actual report so that they can read what Mueller weighed as reasons for saying that the president obstructed justice, even if in the end he decided to not charge him for it.
At the most recent NPC and CPPCC, Chinese policymakers weighed the backlash against the standard neoliberal economic model, based on free movement of goods, capital, information, and sometimes labor.
This arrangement was largely spared from the 2010-2011 Arab Spring, most likely because the trauma of Algeria’s civil war, which claimed as many as 200,000 lives between 1991 and 2002, still weighed heavily in people’s minds.
Banks are weighed down by bad debt, the public sector is hemorrhaging money, automobile factories are closing, unemployment is at a 46-year high, and farmers are committing suicide in record numbers.
Each must be weighed in terms of what it would cost, what would have to be sacrificed to pay for it, the net impact on the deficit, and critically, whether it empowers or alienates swing-state leaders.
Although such interventions may require the reallocation or reprioritization of existing resources, they would almost certainly be cost-effective when weighed against the costs of not addressing the additional NCD burden.
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