Abe s Safe Bet

Indeed, the rest of the world s stake in American success is nearly as large as that of the US itself.

But this is a bad bet.

But now he is playing for higher stakes.

The second part of Sarkozy s wager concerns reforming and renewing the alliance.

France s bet on nuclear power is a more proven option.

It is in rebuilding Gaza that the stakes of the competition will increase.

The dollar, on the other hand, looks like a safer bet in 2011.

The chancellor played for high stakes, seemingly against the odds, and hit the jackpot.

To many, this looks like a one way bet.

In Britain and the United States, this monetarist bet turned out well. In Western Europe, it did not.

It was not weakness or helplessness that induced Obama to play for high stakes.

the pilots we regard a decision to launch an attack on Iran as a highly mistaken gamble, which would entail severe risks for the State of Israel and would not solve the basic problem.

Nevertheless, the scope and requirements of the task go beyond the country's capacity and call for ongoing mobilization on the part of the donors to help finance development and overcome poverty.

Suppose you had placed a long term bet on financial equities in 1900, along with a short bet on general equities in effect a gamble on whether the UK financial sector would outperform the market.

Fifty years of communist misrule have left what was once the most advanced city in Asia a distant also ran.

So, for young African athletes, embarking on the path to high level sports is a risky wager.

Draupadi, an important female character in the Hindu epic, Mahabharata, was the subject of a bet in a game by her husband Yudhisthir, who eventually lost her in a round of the game after losing everything else.

My best bet is that these countries will maintain rapid growth as they shift their economic focus to their vast and untapped domestic markets.

Yet focusing mainly on how much banks borrow while ignoring other, more serious recklessness is a bad regulatory bet.

Pada Surat Tahunan tahun ini, saya dan Melinda bertaruh bahwa Afrika akan dapat memberi makan dirinya sendiri selama 15 tahun mendatang. Bahkan dengan resiko perubahan iklim, menurut saya, saya akan memenangkan taruhan ini.

Tunisia remains convinced that achieving the Millennium Goals requires joint efforts by the international community Governments and organizations alike in order to further promote the values of solidarity in helping developing countries, particularly in the African continent, to implement their development programmes and plans and meet the challenges of modernity and progress.

Private companies, not the state, generate Russian growth. Practically everything that a Russian citizen can find in a supermarket, including the supermarket itself, is produced or imported by private firms.

That s why the world took the neo liberal bet in the 1990 s international capital mobility would come to the rescue by relaxing capital constraints where they were binding, and by reducing the scope for corruption and rent seeking, which was often a more significant binding growth constraint.