WASHINGTON, DC American foreign policy stands on the brink of substantial belt tightening.

European leaders have so far offered no solution to the growth conundrum other than belt tightening.

Some countries face the growing risk of near perpetual belt tightening, which would further dampen growth and thus keep debt ratios high.

In particular, Germany demands more fiscal belt tightening from heavily indebted Southern European countries, whose unions (and voters) are rejecting further austerity.

Even German government officials now concede that something more than fiscal belt tightening is needed to revive the economies of the eurozone periphery.

Some see another Weimar moment, reminiscent of the belt tightening and surging unemployment that characterized Heinrich Brüning s Germany and helped to bring the Nazis to power.

Typically, the IMF assesses whether a country, after undertaking reasonable belt tightening measures, can service its debt and lends only when it is satisfied that it can.

European leaders must move beyond the increasingly implausible mantra of belt tightening today full bellies tomorrow, and recognize that, at its core, the euro crisis is a political crisis.

This is the paradox of thrift belt tightening causes people to lose their jobs, because other people are not buying what they produce, so their debt burden rises rather than falls.

This cleared the way for politicians with a simple message our countries have had enough of Western tutelage and belt tightening the time has come to return to our national values and interests.

The success of the rescue is far from assured, in view of the magnitude of belt tightening that it calls for and the hostility that it has aroused on the part of Greek workers.

And the higher the debt, the less likely it is that the country will be able to achieve the mix of belt tightening and growth that would enable it to generate the necessary surpluses.

Righteousness will be the belt of his waist, and faithfulness the belt of his waist.

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Fasten your seat belt, please.

Jim detonated his explosive belt.

The success of the rescue is far from assured, in view of the magnitude of belt tightening that it calls for and the hostility that it has aroused on the part of Greek workers. When push comes to shove, domestic politics trumps foreign creditors.

Without growth, it will be difficult to stabilize public and private debts and deficits as a share of GDP the most important indicator of fiscal sustainability. Moreover, without growth, the social and political backlash against painful belt tightening will eventually undermine austerity and reform.

The phosphates are transported to the coast by an automated conveyor belt, the longest such belt in the world.

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Like Hitler's solution, the proposed cancellation of Greek debt is an attempt to redistribute other countries' gains. Were it to succeed, it would strain every other country in the eurozone, including those, like Italy and Spain, that have had to carry out their own belt tightening.

They have their own belt color system, in which participants earn color stripes on the belt, instead of fully colored belts.

The Bundesbank is also tightening credit at home.

But monetary tightening would weaken already slow growth.

It works slowly, if at all, because elected governments are often reluctant to implement their promises and may not feel bound by those of previous administrations (especially if they owe their victory to voters who are rebelling against years of belt tightening with no evidence of renewed growth).

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The transfer belt passes in front of all the toner cartridges and each of the toner layers are precisely applied to the belt.

Orion's Belt or the Belt of Orion, also known as the Three Kings or Three Sisters, is an asterism in the constellation Orion.

Barbados is outside of the principal Atlantic hurricane belt.

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One side of the belt is yellow and the other black, so that in a competition, opponents may be distinguished by the visible side of the belt.

But inflation remains high or rising, so more tightening is imposed.

At that time, both domestic investment and exports required immediate tightening.

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He has been training in martial arts since the age of 12, earning a 5th dan black belt in Shotokan Karate and 2nd dan black belt in Hapkido.

Sound judgment is needed regarding the speed and timing of regulatory tightening.

Trade is the transmission belt through which supply adjusts to demand.

Then I went to the Euphrates, and dug, and took the belt from the place where I had hidden it and behold, the belt was marred, it was profitable for nothing.

But when and how the Fed will begin tightening monetary policy remains unclear.

Almost the entire tribal belt along the Pakistan Afghanistan border is suffering.

He later gained a 1st dan black belt on 11 March 2006.

He pours contempt on princes, and loosens the belt of the strong.

With Gazprom having already doubled gas tariffs for Georgia, the energy noose is tightening.