No amount of lingering faith in stability will change that.

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Are we facing a long global slump, or possibly even a depression?

As a result, interest rates would have remained high for a long time to come, impeding efforts to restore growth.

None of this would have been possible without Shevardnadze s decades long career of cunning, yet brave, political triangulation.

Also , prolonged deflation could involve risks for the stability of the economy .

The UK has been more vulnerable than the US to the eurozone s prolonged crisis.

I started using a wheelchair 16 years ago when an extended illness changed the way I could access the world.

In early 2001 there were widely held expectations of a recovery in the course of the second half of the year , but evidence gradually accumulated pointing to a deeper and more prolonged downturn .

The longest election campaign in UK history has been strikingly short of focus.

The long political, intellectual, and, at times, military confrontation that we knew as the Cold War was over.

Chronic use of benzodiazepines also can cause or worsen depression, or depression may be part of a protracted withdrawal syndrome.

300,000 people are at risk of famine in the region because of a severe and prolonged drought since November 2014.

It lay on a hill just to the north of the Via Valeria, which was probably prolonged beyond Tibur at this very period.

The disease is a protracted balance sheet recession that has turned a generation of America s consumers into zombies the economic walking dead.

The long term nature of chronic diseases, and the complexity of providing better treatment for patients in the developing world, calls for innovative solutions.

Continued reduction of interest rates and extension of repayment maturities have served only to prolong Greece s struggles.

The alternative would be a system of bilateral agreements , which would be difficult and time consuming to negotiate across all Member States as well as costly and complex to implement .

It is likely that the El Niño phenomenon which causes global changes in temperature and rainfall, will make the rain season even longer in Peru this year.

In 1929, a crisis among speculating capitalists prompted poorly conceived and excessive reactions, leading to a deep and prolonged depression.

It is not clear whether these countries current regimes could survive a substantial and sustained future decline in oil prices.

Why should we refuse it to farms that have formed themselves into cooperatives in another country, just because their combined workforce runs into hundreds?

Against this background, the expiry of the Multifibre Arrangement and the subsequent inclusion of the textile and clothing industries in the GATT, while it is accepted as necessary, is nevertheless viewed with concern by industry representatives.

Association and collective bargaining rights could increase the capacity for innovation and employability of workers and also their long term attachment to the same company.

This protracted global output gap underscores the absence of a cushion in today s world economy, as well as its heightened sensitivity to shocks.

In mid June, the prolonged surge in stock prices finally drove an unnerved China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) to impose restrictions on offline private fund matching.

Taking into account his age, however, a lengthy prison term may not leave Sheikh Temur with much time to rule the world.

The long and exceptionally severe drought this year has seriously affected agricultural production in Greece, indeed losses are estimated at over Drs. 200 bn (i.e. ECU 1 bn).

Every year it invests more than ECU 6 billion in high risk research and development financed from its own income.

Regime change in Libya has created a failing state lukewarm support for regime change in Syria has set the stage for prolonged civil war.

As a result, Greece has fallen into a deep and prolonged recession, with output down 25 from pre crisis levels.

As incumbent party, PDP is furthermore believed to benefit from more resources than APC, making an extended campaign phase seem preferable.

Even in the midst of a protracted currency crisis, European governments can surely sign on to an agenda that prioritizes transfers of know how over cash infusions.

Yes, the economy s long slide reflects Italian leaders failure to confront the country s loss of competitiveness but it is a failure that is widely shared in Europe.

With protracted recession in Europe and slowdowns in emerging markets, concern about budget deficits has given way to apprehension about growth.

The prolonged uncertainty drove Greeks to withdraw their bank deposits, the cash for which came from the 90 billion of emergency liquidity assistance provided by the European Central Bank.

What we can learn today from the prolonged crisis in the Middle East is that regional powers are increasingly trying to replace the US as a force for order.

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of 1999 , a protracted monetary expansion was evident .

Encouraged by sharp reductions in households debt service costs and a surprisingly steep fall in unemployment, they argue that the long nightmare has finally ended.

Last but not least, makeshift solutions such as protracted wage freezes may eventually erode the quality of public services.

In the aftermath of the attacks of 11 September , it became increasingly clear that the economic slowdown in the euro area would last longer and be more pronounced than previously expected .

When confronted with a debt crisis in the eurozone, European leaders repeatedly kicked the can down the road. The result was an unnecessarily deep and protracted recession.

The common currency, once portrayed as the start of a quasi federal Europe, instead created serious tension between creditor and debtor countries when many debtors faced a protracted economic downturn.