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Yielding in sentence

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Rather than yielding to some concocted “will of the people,” these institutions have emphasized that some principles are beyond majoritarian whims.
As the US National Security Council recently warned, the Italian government is on course to legitimize China’s “predatory approach to investment” without yielding any benefits for “the Italian people.”
In this environment, a Thai government bond yielding 1.35% is irresistible, even though Thailand displays classic signs of financial trouble ahead: a tourism-dependent economy expected to contract by 7% this year and a government that lacks popular support.
One reason for this is the prevalence of ultra-low interest rates globally, and particularly in the eurozone, reflected by the fact that Italian and even Greek ten-year bonds have recently been yielding less than their US equivalents.
Even before Donald Trump was elected US president, the world’s leading economies were yielding to protectionist temptations.
Ironically, that ruinous decision would end up yielding significant strategic benefits for Iran, despite the country’s inclusion in US President George W. Bush’s notorious “axis of evil.”
Investors were recently willing to buy ten-year German government bonds yielding essentially nothing.
The federal government does not need 47 job-training programs in nine agencies, costing some $20 billion per year and yielding poor results.
After all, the long-time argument that gold doesn’t pay interest is less persuasive when other assets are also yielding scant returns.
Yielding too much power to the army would not only hurt the Algerian and Sudanese protesters’ democratic hopes.
Having promised a Grand Deal with China, the 13th round of bilateral trade negotiations ended on October 11 with barely a whimper, yielding a watered-down partial agreement: the “phase one” accord.
The ten-year US Treasury bond is yielding about 2.123%, and in April, the streaming service Netflix issued junk bonds at a rate of just 5.4%.
Likewise, with its Belt and Road Initiative, China is providing infrastructure loans to countries throughout Eurasia, often on onerous terms that enhance China’s access and influence, while yielding questionable benefits for the recipients.
Precautionary saving by the many reinforced the economic depression, yielding industrial-scale discontent on a browning planet.
It is true that real interest rates are down since 2009, with the ten-year US Treasury Inflation-Protected Security yielding 0.8% in February, down from 1.71% in March 2009.
Only then could production begin, yielding revenues whose residual was the capitalists’ profit.
Their marketing campaigns are so far yielding only modest returns.
Merkel and Macron have therefore proposed increasing the European Commission’s budget from 1.2% to 2% of EU gross national income, yielding about €180 billion per year in extra revenue.
Peaceful coexistence would require that US and China allow each other greater policy space, with international economic integration yielding priority to domestic economic and social objectives in both countries (as well as in others).
But some strange evil power prevented her from yielding to her impulse, as if the conditions of the struggle did not allow her to submit.
The young girl ran forward; while a crowd of miners proceeded to the shaft, yielding the fire to others.
It was sixty metres from the cutting to the upbrow, and the passage, which the miners in the earth cutting had not yet enlarged, was a mere tube with a very irregular roof swollen by innumerable bosses; at certain spots the laden tram could only just pass; the putter had to flatten himself, to push on his knees, in order not to break his head, and besides this the wood was already bending and yielding.
For forty years he had struggled without yielding, in the midst of continual obstacles: early searches unsuccessful, new pits abandoned at the end of long months of work, landslips which filled up borings, sudden inundations which drowned the workmen, hundreds of thousands of francs thrown into the earth; then the squabbles of the management, the panics of the shareholders, the struggle with the lords of the soil, who were resolved not to recognize royal concessions if no treaty was first made with themselves.
He called that playing at papa and mama; and when he chased her she ran away and let herself be caught with the delicious trembling of instinct, often angry, but always yielding, in the expectation of something which never came.
And she fell on her back on the old ropes; she ceased to protest, yielding to the male before her time, with that hereditary submission which from childhood had thrown down in the open air all the girls of her race.
After some nights when he had not seen her pale body, he suddenly saw her white all over, with a whiteness which shook him with a shiver, which obliged him to turn away for fear of yielding to the desire to take her.
At last he could not help yielding to his preoccupation.
"No, acknowledge the truth: you are yielding to abominable incitations.
It was expected that on that morning work would be resumed, but the obstinacy of the directors in not yielding exasperated the miners.
Certainly honour prevented them from yielding to the Company's demands; but how much misery!
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