Willingness
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Obama does not have the votes in the Senate, has not displayed any
willingness
to expend political capital to reach a Senate agreement, and may not even see a Senate vote on the issue in 2010 unless he pushes much harder than he has so far.
The case of Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction is a historic example of a
willingness
to go to hell with your head held high.
A contemporary observer, Winthrop Case, explained it all in 1938: economic revival depended “on the
willingness
of individual and corporate buyers to make purchases that necessarily tie up their resources for a considerable length of time.
Fortunately, European powers have clearly shown some
willingness
to do so, demonstrated by their intervention in Libya and Mali.
Or it could rule that the German government’s participation in the ESM must be conditional on the ECB’s
willingness
to limit OMTs.
That dependence is analogous to the way in which money from emerging economies, mostly in Asia, flowed into the US in the 2000’s, when an apparent economic miracle was based on China’s
willingness
to lend.
And its
willingness
to engage militarily as an early step, rather than as a last resort, has alienated many around the world.
As a result, corporate capitalism is rapidly becoming obsolete, replaced by a creative capitalism in which entrepreneurship, combined with a greater
willingness
to adopt innovations, transforms the business landscape.
The good news for Egypt is that the Palestinians have shown a renewed
willingness
not only to pursue reconciliation, but also to pursue a difficult negotiating process with Israel and its main strategic ally, the United States.
It is not only America's enduring
willingness
to use her unique power in ways generally benign to international stability that should put fears over this trend to rest; nor the other familiar phenomenon that American administrations tend to start off with ideology before they arrive at pragmatism.
The recent
willingness
of ordinary Chinese to condemn corruption publicly is a harbinger, one hopes, of real anti-corruption reforms from the country’s new leadership.
Although they – like everyone else – do pay lip service to it,
willingness
to be bound by international rules is not part of US officials’ DNA.
Indeed, in a time of austerity, US politicians might find it difficult to understand Europe’s
willingness
to cut defense budgets that already total far less than NATO’s official 2%-of-GDP target.
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.
Nowhere is this more apparent than in his
willingness
to stand up to China’s territorial claims in the South China Sea.
Doubts about the Chinese government’s
willingness
to shift economic policy from tightening to stimulus have been dispelled in the past few weeks.
Second, as Xi’s ability and
willingness
to protect China’s economy from any further slowdown becomes clear, Trump’s political calculation will change.
Sovereign-debt attorneys Lee Buchheit and Mitu Gulati warn that markets could “mercilessly test the ECB’s
willingness
to persist in buying unlimited quantities of peripheral sovereign bonds.”
Salim Idris, the council’s chief of staff, has expressed a
willingness
to fight alongside extremist groups that refuse to accept the unified command.
When it comes to Central Europe, there is another factor impeding the
willingness
to accept refugees: the region is not weighed down by the burden of imperial guilt.
This reform represents a victory for multilateralism that demonstrates ownership of how Fund surveillance will be strengthened and members’
willingness
to live up to their responsibilities in the process.
Indeed, one characteristic sign of economic vitality is the frequency of bankruptcy, for business failures indicate a
willingness
to gamble and take risks on innovation.
Instead, the US and its partners need a broader range of responses that would enable them to adopt effective measures that are proportionate to the stakes involved – measures that demonstrate a
willingness
to impose meaningful costs without triggering counterproductive escalation.
Indeed, relying on the capacity to attack the Chinese mainland to defend freedom of navigation and alliance commitments in East Asia could tempt China’s leaders to test America’s
willingness
to risk Los Angeles to defend the Senkaku Islands.
But every variation has provoked others in the region, by signaling China’s
willingness
to encroach on perceived fishing rights (as with Indonesia), rights to exploit resources (as with Vietnam), or their own rights to the land-features in questionThe PCA’s decision punctures any notion that international law now recognizes “traditional” or “historic” maritime claims not directly associated with recognized sovereign ownership of relevant types of land.
Encouraged by the victory of the US-led coalition in the 1991 Gulf War against Iraq (the Islamic Republic’s arch-enemy), in 1995 Rafsanjani sent very clear signals to the US of a
willingness
to restore diplomatic ties.
The government’s
willingness
to address squarely questions about shoddy infrastructure will be a key test of the genuineness of its supposed new found tolerance of freeish speech.
Lower sensitivity of turnover to performance reflects less
willingness
on the part of directors to discipline the CEO.
Its viability would depend on citizens’
willingness
to finance their government by investing their savings in its sovereign bonds, rather than pursuing more diversified and profitable portfolios.
Without a
willingness
to raise revenues, defense expenditure is locked in a zero-sum tradeoff with important investments such as education, infrastructure, and research and development – all of which are crucial to America’s domestic strength and global position.
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