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And she predicted that empirical evidence and expert knowledge will still carry substantial – if not full –
weight
in decision-making by legislators, presidents, and their advisers.
Everyone will have to pull their
weight.
While the particular chavista creed that destroyed Venezuela will most likely end up collapsing under the
weight
of its own cataclysmic failure, the lesson for others is how costly it is to adopt a potentially dysfunctional belief system.
Nor do I think the report gives sufficient
weight
to the question of whether sufficiently strong safeguards ever could be put in place to prevent the technology’s misuse.
Why Democracy Requires Trusted ExpertsPARIS – Last month, I wrote a commentary asking why voters in the United Kingdom supported leaving the European Union, defying the overwhelming
weight
of expert opinion warning of the major economic costs of Brexit.
The "good offices" approach is effective when the
weight
of the world is behind it and, put simply, Gambari has not been given the clout he needs.
Last year, when separatist forces in the Donbas region appeared to be crumbling under the
weight
of Ukraine's counter-offensive, it seemed possible that Ukraine would be able to reassert its sovereignty over the area.
The two states that gave
weight
to this system, Iraq and Syria, have lost their central authority, and will remain politically fragmented and socially polarized for at least a generation.
Given the
weight
of geopolitical factors in Russian decision-making, it is difficult to foretell which path they will choose.
The Middle East’s geographic proximity means that Europe cannot ignore it, while it would be folly to ignore Southeast Asia’s economic
weight.
I am relatively certain that the US will successfully manage its reorientation and realignment, but the relative
weight
and reach of its power will nonetheless decline in the new world of the twenty-first century, as others grow in strength and catch up.
These structures provided executives with incentives to give insufficient
weight
to the possibility of large losses, which in turn motivated executives to take excessive risks.
Then they agreed in Seoul in 2010 to give emerging-market countries quota shares in the International Monetary Fund that would be more commensurate with their economic
weight.
Through this electoral legitimacy (no matter how rigged the elections), Russia's governors secured enormous
weight
in the political system.
For if the Fatherland/All Russia alliance gains control of the State Duma (the lower house of Parliament), the governors would assume even more weight, for not only would they control the Federation Council (the upper house) but the deputies in the lower house of the Duma would likely be men deeply indebted to their local governors for their seats.
Consider the example of Greek-Turkish relations, which had hardened under the compressed
weight
of “establishment” views that were long entrenched in both countries.
She had been feeling sick for about two months, and when she went to a health clinic, she described symptoms such as
weight
loss, fatigue, shortness of breath, fever, night sweats, chills, loss of appetite, and pain when breathing and coughing.
Fears of excess investment and “ghost cities” fixate on the supply side, without giving due
weight
to burgeoning demand.
Normally, when patients are unable to make decisions about their treatment, the family’s wishes should be given great
weight.
Whatever short-term temptations it faces – to manipulate its search results, use private information, or throw its
weight
around – Google, it is clear, could lose a lot by succumbing to them in a world where its every move is watched.
China’s official behavior following the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to Liu Xiaobo turned an embarrassment into a public-diplomacy disaster, and China’s neighbors have been disturbed by Chinese efforts to throw its
weight
around.
But it has not yet moved toward the more important features of the American economy, such as deregulation of labor and product markets, and a reduction in the
weight
of the public sector on the economy.
The US is perceived as a giant bully throwing its
weight
around.
The Western argument that Russia’s intervention in Syria only increases the likelihood of attacks on Russia’s territory holds little
weight
with Putin.
Even obesity may have connections to vitamin D. A clinical study found that providing supplements to obese and overweight people with vitamin D deficiency aids
weight
loss and enhances the benefits of a reduced-calorie diet.
For others, it was an opportunity to embrace a post-nationalist identity and overcome the
weight
of the past.
The fact that China is now the world’s largest oil importer, as well as its leading trading and manufacturing economy, lends
weight
to its “petroyuan” and other initiatives to internationalize the renminbi.
But the
weight
give to the exchange rate is higher today in the US-China dispute, because, whereas Japan had a “managed float” exchange-rate regime in the 1980’s and 1990’s, the Chinese exercise much tighter control over the renminbi.
By contrast, the US market’s enduring
weight
amplifies America’s bargaining power in plurilateral trade agreements, which also serve the country’s immediate commercial interests.
Nor are there any signs of America’s economic hegemony starting to fold under the
weight
of maintaining its unilateral military dominance.
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