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Revoking America s Exorbitant Privilege

Who can afford to buy such an expensive house?

The Chinese market for expensive watches is in steep decline.

Imperial overreach, political polarization, and a costly financial crisis are weighing on the economy.

Lavish wedding halls have mushroomed across Kabul in the last few years.

European branches of Russian banks face over regulation and expensive certification procedures.

The two global economic superpowers resent each other s exorbitant privilege.

First, it will be difficult to afford these expensive new sources of energy.

The panel found that expensive, global carbon taxes would be the worst option.

Duplication, overlap and inefficiencies had too often been the expensive result of a lack of coordination in programme planning and implementation.

He had also taken out several major loans from Russia and Britain to pay for his extravagant lifestyle and the costs of the central government.

The British economic journalist Martin Wolf thinks of Europe as a marriage kept together only by the high cost of divorce.

The prohibitive costs of clean technology, and in some cases political, cultural and social constraints, have also hindered implementation of measures.

But it might also mean an end to America s position at the center of the world s financial system and thus an end to its own exorbitant privilege.

Providing centralized access to costly journals has always been an important function of United Nations libraries.

The Almaty Programme of Action recognized that excessive transit transport costs posed a major barrier to access to foreign markets.

Ministers are too busy recovering from their trauma to think about paying fat fees for big new international bond issues.

The system by which doctors and hospitals are paid is another factor in providing expensive treatment that is of little benefit to the patient.

In the land where the Taliban brought down the Buddhist statues of Bamiyan, mannequins in Kabul's shop windows don extravagant bridal wears.

Iraq argues that Syria has not suffered any measurable economic loss either in terms of extraordinary expenditure or loss of revenue.

BRUSSELS Two years have passed since the financial crises erupted, and we have only started to realize how costly it is likely to be.

The step from here to lamenting the high taxes spent on welfare for immigrants is a but a short one.

But, despite this expensive military campaign, all evidence shows that the war on drugs has been a fiasco.

Disabled soldiers also will cost a lot of money, even if the Pentagon won t automatically pay everything for them.

However, firms active in the distribution sector have expressed concerns about the impact of high infrastructural costs on competitiveness.

Market saturation, higher production costs and the need to secure natural resources pushed South African firms to go abroad.

As laudable as it may be to help low income drivers deal with soaring fuel costs, this is not the way to do it.

These men entice girls with necessities such as food, money or school fees, or luxuries such as expensive gifts, in exchange for sex.

We cannot really afford an expensive competition in outer space while there remain so many other challenges before us, such as poverty, hunger, disease and other deprivation.

Individuals or legal entities that trade luxurious goods or those with high prices or that perform activities that involve great amounts in cash.

Accordingly, the Committee on Contributions, during its forthcoming deliberations and in the application of any methodology approved by the General Assembly, should endeavour to avoid such, exorbitant increases.

This has led the popular press to howl that we now live in a costly, bureaucratic, and inefficient human rights culture a charge with profound political resonance.

Do we really need to bring together so many people for so little gain and at such a high cost?

Great as they are, the costs are trivial in comparison to the expense of humanitarian aid, international military intervention, and reconstruction assistance.

As the International Herald Tribune reports, one aspect of the Chinese government s campaign against corruption is a clampdown on expensive gifts.

As the wealth of the lower classes increased, Parliament brought in fresh laws in 1363 to prevent them from consuming expensive goods formerly only affordable by the elite.

The world cannot afford an expensive competition in outer space when there remain so many challenges before us, such as poverty, hunger, disease and deprivation.

And of course, the Swiss can be divided into two general categories those who make small, exquisite, expensive objects and those who handle the money of those who buy small, exquisite, expensive objects.

Unfortunately, the purchasing power of Europe s dollars shriveled during the 1970 s, when the costs of waging the Vietnam War and a surge in oil prices ultimately contributed to a calamitous rise in inflation.

Sub Saharan Africa s economies, one hopes, will not have to repeat the costly lessons that other developing countries have learned over the past three decades.

Most major countries fiscal deficits nowadays reflect the recent collapse of tax revenues that followed the growth downturn, as well as very costly financial sector bailouts.