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As a good lawyer, Obama weighs the pros and cons, aware that it is impossible to do nothing in the Syrian crisis but remaining viscerally disinclined to leap into any foreign entanglement that would distract attention from his agenda of domestic reform.
Once again, the continued uncertainty weighs most heavily not only on Cuba, but on potential investors, who must assume the worst.
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.
June 4th weighs on the spirits of every Chinese patriot; almost every Chinese person knows that official reevaluation is just a matter of time.
A third challenge is climate change, which weighs heavily on countries where agriculture is still the primary sector for employment.
But nasty politics is nothing new, and much of the evidence for loss of trust in government comes from polling data, which weighs responses that are sensitive to the way questions are asked.
The 12-year-old child's lunchbox blasted at Hiroshima, preserved by chance, with its rice and peas charred by the atomic explosion, weighs as much on our conscience as the Enola Gay .
For this reason, and despite all their deleveraging efforts, the legacy of past failings still weighs heavily on these countries’ economies.
These political transitions could compound East Asia’s challenges, which include the need to institute a regional balance of power and dispense with historical baggage that weighs down interstate relationships, particularly among China, Japan, and South Korea.
A third factor that weighs in the balance in analyzing what sort of government the FMLN may deliver is the economic crisis that is battering Latin America.
Additional food must be produced using technologies that do not damage the natural resources that future generations will need in order to feed themselves; that do not fuel climate change, which weighs heavily on farmers; and that do not accelerate the disintegration of the delicate fabric of rural society.
But today you would be lucky to find a cod that weighs more than two kilograms.
If a passenger weighs 100 kilos, a surcharge would be charged to cover the extra fuel costs.
On the economic front, Europe is facing a dilemma as it weighs its values against its business interests.
Excessive public debt weighs down an economy, leaving it vulnerable to shocks.
Responsibility weighs heavily when your economy is in crisis and people are being laid off in huge numbers.
On the demand side is the randy male, often in transit, who weighs the benefits of going with prostitutes against the costs of getting caught.
Though determined to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, even if doing so requires military action, the US weighs the consequences of a military showdown in very different terms.
The dire legacy of Iraq and Afghanistan weighs heavily on the Western democracies.
On the demand side, according to this view, the hangover from pre-crisis private indebtedness and crisis-generated public indebtedness still weighs on domestic demand.
Each of these vaccine-allocation guidelines weighs factors like occupation, age, and medical risk differently.
The governor also occasionally weighs in about stock-market volatility, even though such interventions may raise eyebrows among central-banking traditionalists.
The size of the market for new technologies naturally weighs heavily on those making investment decisions within profit-driven corporations.
Support for the GNA from Turkey and Qatar, along with the fig leaf of UN recognition, weighs rather less in the military balance.
This problem weighs heavily on the minds of other US policymakers.
As a great deal of empirical evidence has shown, nothing weighs on a country’s long-term trend growth like being financially hamstrung in a crisis.
Muna is nine months old, but she weighs under five kilograms – barely the normal weight for a healthy six-week-old baby.
"As many as that?""Yes, and since the atmosphere's pressure actually weighs slightly more than one kilogram per square centimeter, your 17,000 square centimeters are tolerating 17,568 kilograms at this very moment."
cubic meters-- which is tantamount to saying that when it's completely submerged, it displaces 1,500 cubic meters of water, or weighs 1,500 metric tons.
The first hull has a thickness of no less than five centimeters and weighs 394.96 metric tons.
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