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It is less able, however, to withstand looming budget cuts.
I can already hear the sound of lawyers sharpening their pencils: the offense must be defined specifically enough to withstand a human-rights challenge.
What is at stake is not just women’s ability to seize the opportunities offered by the digital revolution, but also their capacity to withstand the coming wave of automation.
Regulators should conduct similar evaluations aimed specifically at assessing facilities’ ability to withstand security threats, including theft by knowledgeable insiders.
When monetary support is finally withdrawn, this will be an indicator of the economic recovery’s ability to withstand higher interest rates.
If the Russian state functioned well, Putin could continue to withstand pressure from opposition leaders.
If stockholders know that holding a company’s stock will eventually allow them to benefit from a lower tax rate, the argument goes, they will be more willing to withstand a drop in that company’s quarterly earnings.
These efforts are, however, almost certainly inadequate to make the EMU resilient enough to withstand future financial crises.
They have demonstrated a genuine capacity to withstand the effects of crisis, owing to their flexible capital base and limited involvement in the international financial system.
The question is whether the economy can withstand the actual divorce proceedings.
In addition to direct help for small farms, donors should provide more help for the research and development needed to identify new high-yielding seed varieties, especially to breed plants that can withstand temporary flooding, excess nitrogen, salty soils, crop pests, and other challenges to sustainable food production.
That agreement would later develop into NATO, which, for four decades, enabled an alliance of independent democracies with shared values and market economies to withstand the Soviet threat – and which has safeguarded Europe to this day.
Such arguments do not withstand scrutiny.
No nuclear reactors are designed to withstand an earthquake of magnitude 8.0.
Moreover, no nuclear reactors are built to withstand an attack like that of September 11, 2001 – which was also unforeseen.
When it comes to building friendships that can withstand strategic conflict with the US, those gains will not be nearly enough.
A thickly woven cord is needed to keep Europe reliably anchored as it points eastward, whereas separate strands would withstand only a limited degree of strain in the turbulent years ahead.
If so, and if denying food aid would result in a famine that the North Korean regime could not withstand, what could such a decision mean for eventual relations among Korean peoples living in the northern and southern parts of a unified country?
Moreover, younger patients, at least, can better withstand the side effects of cancer treatment.
The global economy, barely rising from its knees, could not withstand the contractionary shock if similar speculative forces were to drive oil rapidly towards $100 a barrel.
Prodi’s Commission now proposes to negotiate with any country that meets the political criteria (stable democracy and respect for human/minority rights) and not insist on the satisfaction of difficult economic criteria (a functioning market economy and readiness to withstand EU competition) as a prerequisite for negotiations.
Dubai’s reliance on foreign labor thus threatens its long-term economic capacity to withstand future shocks.
This could happen because, in the long run, the EU won’t be able to withstand its conflicts of interest and the resulting process of “renationalization” in all member states without suffering grave damage.
But it also includes physical resilience and the ability to withstand shocks.
The increased demand for krill, together with the new catching and processing capabilities, has combined in a way that the Antarctic ecosystem might not be able to withstand.
Millions die each year, either of outright starvation or from infectious diseases that their weakened bodies cannot withstand.
Virginia Woolf called the ideal of womanhood in this period “The Angel in the House”: a retiring, fragile creature who could not withstand the rigors of the public arena.
China has several sources of strength that have enabled it to withstand the tough external shocks of the last four years.
Open societies will undoubtedly have to withstand further assaults in the future.
Democracy will withstand attacks like the one in Manchester; and democratic citizens will respond with courage and generosity.
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