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The EU’s maneuvers may stabilize Europe in the short run and help it to
withstand
better the current speculative attacks on some of the euro countries’ government bonds, but they risk long-term destabilization.
Climate, ecology, food, water, energy, and livability will not
withstand
the pressure.
To stem today’s spiral of pessimism and avoid the burnout of crisis management, we must look at the future in a much more positive, constructive, and dynamic manner, gaining the resilience to adapt to changing contexts,
withstand
sudden shocks, and recover from them while still pursuing critical goals.
The growth of US shale oil means that America can
withstand
a cut in Saudi supplies.
The cajas had neither the corporate governance structures nor the management skills to
withstand
the crisis.
If America's highly trained engineers and computer specialists are unable to
withstand
the onslaught of outsourcing, what about those who are even less trained?
But they must be buttressed if they are to
withstand
the ongoing shifts in countries’ strategic weight.
Buildings regarded as critical infrastructure, such as hospitals, must be able to
withstand
a 1,000-year flood (that is, a flood magnitude with a 0.1% probability of occurring in a given year), while housing must be able to
withstand
a 200-year flood.
For one thing, there is the question of whether its members can
withstand
pressure within the administration.
Indeed, the Arab states have come nowhere close to matching the level of US and European aid to the Palestinians, much less the even higher level of Western support – political and military, as well as financial – that has been the key to Israel’s ability to
withstand
Palestinian demands for freedom.
And new houses, roads, bridges, and other infrastructure, such as water systems, should be built to
withstand
extreme weather.
Euthyphro’s efforts to define piety ultimately fail to
withstand
the scrutiny of Socrates’s probing questions; he does not really know what piety is after all.
That claim does not
withstand
scrutiny.
The first step in assessing China’s financial vulnerability is to distinguish a solvency crisis, which can occur when firms lack sufficient capital to
withstand
an asset-price meltdown, from a liquidity crisis.
In fact, it is far from certain that Iran will be able to
withstand
current sanctions-related pressures indefinitely.
In the absence of a compelling counter-narrative, we may be fated to find out just how much pain the victims can
withstand.
The result is that Berlusconi’s supposed allies such as former Minister Gianfranco Micciche and current Governor of Sicily Raffaele Lombardo, are seriously thinking of setting up a “Party of the South” to ensure that Italy’s southern regions have enough clout to
withstand
the Lega Nord’s onslaught.
But few emerging markets have reached a stage at which they can
withstand
a sustained collapse in the developed economies, much less serve as substitute engines of global growth.
Optimists claim that most emerging economies are well prepared to
withstand
the shock, because their dollar debts are lower than in the past, while their fiscal positions are much stronger.
Nor can it
withstand
the inevitable attacks directed against EU institutions for every action and regulation that citizens dislike and for which national politicians want to avoid responsibility.
Does the system’s remarkable resiliency since 2008 mean that it can
withstand
the next crisis?
If China can
withstand
US counterattacks, its efforts will lay the financial groundwork for the emergence of a multipolar world.
Perhaps US Vice President Joe Biden summed up Russia’s predicament best: “The reality is, the Russians are where they are, having a shrinking population base, a withering economy, and a banking structure that is unlikely to
withstand
the next 15 years.
Trump’s claim that the Paris climate agreement was unfair to the US does not
withstand
scrutiny.
Dampening the repo market could be economically useful, because this funding has proven to be unstable: Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers used repo heavily in ways that made them unable to
withstand
investment reversals elsewhere in their business.
This assertion does not
withstand
scrutiny.
When hit by them, vigorously growing economies have cushions to
withstand
the blows and the resilience to shrug them off.
Seventy years after the liberation of Auschwitz, can the bilateral relationship
withstand
the rising tide of anti-Israel sentiment in Europe?
But this time around, the Chilean economy was in shape to
withstand
massive external shocks.
And, while Japan is a country with a long, unified history, and thus could survive a quarter-century of stagnation, the European Union is an incomplete association of sovereign states that is unlikely to
withstand
a similar experience.
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