Without a clear end that justifies it, sacrifice becomes meaningless.

As a result, fiscal consolidation becomes increasingly difficult to achieve, inviting renewed speculative attacks.

ROME As drought becomes increasingly common, farmers worldwide are struggling to maintain crop yields.

A military alliance without a clear common enemy, or a clear goal, becomes almost impossible to maintain.

The quality of developing country OFDI has also improved, as it becomes increasingly strategically oriented.

As the funding of core capacities becomes dependent primarily on supplementary funding, maintaining the basic technical and programming capacity of United Nations entities becomes increasingly difficult.

Choices or events early in the process can force a path from which it becomes increasingly difficult to deviate.

Meanwhile, the military and economic opportunity costs of this misadventure become increasingly clear.

Whenever a firm chooses to evade, it becomes increasingly difficult to find a vendor willing to engage in legal transactions.

In the process, America s new foreign policy priorities and objectives are becoming increasingly clear.

It becomes increasingly difficult for governments to keep telling their citizens that they can t have an affordable home because of land restrictions.

The coming years, indeed decades, will be characterized by an increasingly aggressive US Chinese dualism as China becomes stronger and America s weakness persists.

And after just a few days, it becomes clear that whatever is causing this illness, marmite is the cure.

Fortunately, my bearish view comes to fruition in May, when the full extent of the country s fiscal problems becomes clear.

What becomes clear is that the obsession with memory coincides with the fear of forgetting and the aim for authenticity.

But it is increasingly clear that the eurozone needs a major overhaul if it is to survive.

Admittedly, however, the argument in favor of capital punishment becomes less clear cut as the number of lives saved per execution falls.

It is now increasingly clear that Arab governments that fail to implement such measures urgently are unlikely to survive.

But it is increasingly clear that Kenyans pronouncements of never again were little more than an expression of relief.

The Tartar Strait was a puzzle to European explorers since, when approached from the south, it becomes increasingly shallow and looks like the head of a bay.

If we place imperfect knowledge at the heart of economic analysis, the implications of our limited ability to predict market outcomes becomes clear.

Europe s weakness becomes even more obvious given that it is not at all clear whether the American missile defense system will ever work.

The contrast between saving lives today and aiming at tomorrow becomes clear when efforts to tackle global warming are included in the comparison.

The resulting decisions could establish clear ground rules to guide future policy toward Europe s increasingly numerous ethnic and religious minorities.

ROME It is becoming increasingly clear that if Europe is to overcome its crisis, business as usual will not suffice.

It is also becoming increasingly clear that Hu will continue to rely on a variety of politically retrograde propaganda tactics.

If, as appears increasingly likely, Mockus becomes president, his agenda promises to be prudent neither a leap into the void nor immobilized by the need for profound changes.

Global leaders have every incentive to respond to this imperative, as the central role of education in enabling the world to achieve its development goals becomes increasingly clear. Put simply, we cannot achieve our vision of a prosperous, healthy, and peaceful world the one that the SDGs aim to advance without education.

c) Becomes clear to the person submitting the report that the proposed or concluded transaction obviously does not follow an economic or regular objective

As skilled labor becomes increasingly expensive relative to unskilled labor, firms and businesses have a greater incentive to find ways to cheat by using substitutes for high price inputs.

As the science has become increasingly clear, climate change is now a major political issue at the global and national levels.

Indeed, it is becoming increasingly clear that, by hook or by crook, Putin will spend six more years as Russia s ruler.

In the later stages of the revision process, it became increasingly clear that continuity was an important element for many countries.

When participation becomes complicated, decision making becomes necessary.

Whether they are right or wrong becomes clear in retrospect, which is why errors are unavoidable (though they should not be left uncorrected for long).

In the weeks since the debt ceiling agreement, it has become increasingly clear that good government might be impossible in the US.

At the same time, to the extent that the Commission becomes less a body of technocrats and more a political body, the so called democratic deficit will increasingly become a problem.

Increasingly, there is a clear understanding of the need to form partnerships, share information and harmonize donor interventions around country priorities and systems.

Small steps lead to big changes. As the value of altruism becomes increasingly obvious, the new approach will spread through the economy, benefiting all of society, future generations, and the planet, too.

To those of us who know and love Syria, what happens in this country pains us deeply, and even more so as it becomes increasingly invisible to the rest of the world.

It is becoming increasingly clear, however, that the problem is one not only for the US, but for the rest of the world as well.

The prospects for Egypt s democratic transition have become increasingly difficult to predict, but one thing is clear the military cannot and must not be trusted.

Moreover, as it becomes increasingly difficult for currency markets to perform the role of orderly reconcilers, friction may arise among countries. This could disturb the unusual calm that lately has been comforting equity markets.

The contrast between saving lives today and aiming at tomorrow becomes clear when efforts to tackle global warming are included in the comparison. How could 10 best be spent?

The world s central banks are already cutting interest rates on safe assets, and will cut them more as the proximity and magnitude of the likely global slump becomes clear.