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The new legislation takes important steps in this direction, calling for additional capital and other charges on firms in proportion to their systemic risks, requiring systemically important firms to prepare “living wills” so that they can be easily wound up, and introducing a special resolution framework if they do fail.
Although these measures initially seemed to work, they wound up harming the economy.
Words can wound.
With the greenback already slowly bleeding out, the pandemic inevitably will open the wound even wider.
This self-inflicted wound will take a long time to heal.
The Pershing IIs were subsequently destroyed, and rumor has it that some of the scrap material wound up in special ballpoint pens at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, which gave them out as gifts.
We wound up conceding that all expressed beliefs have equal value.
But more important than China’s position in global value chains is the recognition that global supply networks overall are wound too tightly and lack resilience, though it is far from clear whether the COVID-19 outbreak will spur change.
When a company is in this situation, the outcome is some form of bankruptcy: the debt is restructured or the company is wound down.
But under Merkel, Germany has avoided such agreements, preferring the status quo or incremental changes, because it usually wound up paying extra.
Its assets were gradually sold to pay its mounting debts, and the company was finally wound up in 2002.
As long as that wound festers, Spanish politics will be unstable.
The recollection of all that had happened to her since her illness; her reconciliation with her husband, the rupture, the news of Vronsky's wound, his reappearance in her husband's house, the preparations for divorce, the parting from her home and son – all now seemed a delirious dream from which she had wakened abroad and alone with Vronsky.
'They want to wound me and torture the child, and shall I submit to them?
Oblonsky was wearing raw hide shoes, bands of linen wound round his feet instead of socks, a pair of tattered trousers and a short coat.
Her virginity which had nothing to learn took fright as at a threatening blow, a wound of which she feared the unknown pain.
At first he stopped before the shaft, lifting his eyes to look at the cut cables; the steel ends hung useless, the bite of the file had left a living scar, a fresh wound which gleamed in the black grease.
With no anger now against these starving people, only enraged by the burning wound at his heart he continued to stammer in the midst of his tears:"Idiots!
That wound which had to be dressed rejoiced his heart.
It was nothing more than a quarry of white slabs in the white plain, a vision of a dead village wound in its shroud.
The empire, hit in mid career by these few balls, affected the calm of omnipotence, without itself realizing the gravity of its wound.
Ah! another piece of luck, that wound!
You gave yourself a terrible wound, and it has melted away in that dog's labour, while mine, which has not stirred from my drawer, still keeps me comfortably doing nothing, as it will keep my grandchildren's children."
The wound was constantly enlarging; the landslip which had begun below was rising and approaching the surface.
It was not the few million francs that had been lost, it was the wound in the flank, the deep incessant fear of the morrow in face of this massacre of one of their mines.
The brains had be-spattered the roof of the gallery, and a purple jet flowed from the wound, like the continuous jet of a spring.
They had left their dead and their money on the field; but Paris would not forget the volleys fired at the Voreux, and the blood of the empire, too, would flow from that incurable wound.
Something was out there, that much was certain, and any doubting Thomas was invited to place his finger on the Scotia's wound.
Our chief officer loaded the blunderbusses, which can launch harpoons as far as a mile, and long duck guns with exploding bullets that can mortally wound even the most powerful animals.
It was a horrible wound.
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