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It could be said without any exaggeration that the
weight
of the Holocaust is even more present today than it was decades ago.
Putin believes that the EU suffers from the same flaws as the former Soviet Union, regarding it as a utopian, multinational project that will crumble under the
weight
of its contradictions.
If Germany wants to increase its diplomatic weight, it must increase its defense spending.
First, the economic
weight
of the economies such as South Africa, India, and Brazil will be substantially higher.
We are not good at giving the appropriate
weight
to low-risk events, however catastrophic they may be, and we are more concerned about saving identifiable people than about saving lives when we don’t know whose will be saved.
For the first time in almost 200 years, China can really throw its
weight
around, and it will do what it wants, regardless of what other countries may think.
A little more sharp-eyed honesty about Britain’s real
weight
in the post-war world might have enabled us British to play a more central role in Europe’s affairs, molding the emerging European Union more closely to our own national interests.
A country whose
weight
in Middle East politics has stemmed more from its role as an engine of the Arab-Israeli conflict than from its objective military or economic power, Syria under the Assads always feared that abandoning ideological confrontation with the Zionist enemy would undermine the regime.
The e-SDR-denominated debt market would even be good for all reserve currencies – except the US dollar – as their
weight
in determining the asset’s value exceeds their current shares in foreign-exchange markets.
They know that the TTIP’s potential to boost innovation and economic growth, if realized, would increase its member countries’ geopolitical
weight
and power.
They knew that they could not continue to sustain their power through violence and oppression, as that would ultimately cause their regime to collapse under the
weight
of international sanctions and isolation.
Trying to copy the resulting ecosystem is like trying to build a bridge with no scaffolding: it cannot be done, because the structure cannot bear its own
weight
while it is being built.
With deflation leading to negative income growth, the
weight
of debt relative to income increases, potentially becoming unbearable for borrowers – and thus increasing the risk of sovereign- and private-debt crises.
Even today the three largest EU members barely manage to offset Europe’s loss of political weight, much less to stem the tide.
So, it looks like Republicans will continue to delude themselves that supply-side, trickle-down tax policies work, in spite of the overwhelming
weight
of evidence to the contrary.
The equivalent
weight
of platinum sells for $1,450.
Californians will have to decide how much
weight
to give to respect for adult liberty, protection of minors, avoidance of a large-scale black market, fiscal considerations, and protection of marijuana users’ health.
Making European Defense a RealityBRUSSELS – Anyone reflecting on the value, weight, and relevance of today’s European military forces for global affairs needs to keep two crucial questions in mind: Where do we want to go?
So the merit criterion happens to coincide well with the much-recognized but never-honored need to give emerging-market countries more
weight
in the IMF’s governance, in line with their new
weight
in the global economy.
For example, in his 2004 book Fooled by Randomness, Nassim Nicholas Taleb said of economic sciences: “You can disguise charlatanism under the
weight
of equations, and nobody can catch you since there is no such thing as a controlled experiment.”
For that, the US must throw its
weight
behind the pro-Western KRG and offer resolute support for the independence effort.
The Lisbon Treaty was a compromise constitutional arrangement that would nevertheless give the EU greater
weight
and authority precisely for occasions such as the Copenhagen summit, when global issues are addressed.
On the contrary, it is a
weight
that must be borne as transparently, inclusively, and judiciously as possible.
The third option would be to introduce a new rule conditioning sovereign bonds’ zero-risk
weight
on banks’ willingness to hold them in certain proportions – for example, relative to GDP.
But, while all of that holiday feasting may have led to greater girth, how should we understand what higher or lower body
weight
means?
The BMI is calculated by dividing a person’s body
weight
in kilograms by the square of his height in meters (kg/m2).
First named after the Belgian astronomer, mathematician, and statistician Adolphe Quetelet, who demonstrated in 1835 how adult
weight
normally increases in proportion to height squared, the index provides a measure of body weight, independent of stature, allowing us to compare the
weight
of short and tall people.
Typically, doctors use it to categorize patients as “underweight” (a BMI value below 18.5), “normal weight” (18.5-25), “overweight” (25-30), or “obese” (above 30).
Because the index is calculated from two biological measures
(weight
and height), the resulting score has no biological meaning in itself.
In fact, the use of the BMI is likely to obscure our understanding of genetic effects on body
weight.
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