They are going to dig in their heels and fight the good fight so they can maintain face within their respective dogmatic camps.
The author suggests that the truth about China is ultimately unknowable due to compelling cultural pressure to maintain face, which inevitably means suppressing critical information.
What always puzzled me was how we manage to maintain optimism in the face of reality.
And what you have to do is try and maintain a pretty neutral face, and you say, wow, well, how do you feel about that?
That is at model time folks seem to forget that they are dealing with a complex system that has specifically evolved to maintain equilibrium in the face of exogenous shocks.
The moves suggest Mr. Obama is presenting Iranian, Pakistani and North Korean leaders with a choice: respond positively to diplomatic outreach and potentially receive American aid and recognition in return, or maintain current policies and face sanctions or military force.
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In trying to maintain standards, English universities face a particular problem (the Scottish system is different).
They also have to be able to maintain an alibi in the face of parental questioning and scrutiny.
Even in the best of conditions, banks cannot maintain credit standards in the face of such politically directed lending.
The commercial transport business has struggled to maintain market share in the face of heavily subsidized competition from Airbus.
Netanyahu's task is to maintain that support in the face of administration hostility, as he implements policies towards Iran and the Arabs alike that are necessary to ensure Israel's long-term survival and prosperity.
The Master Settlement Agreement is a masterpiece of lawyerly tinkering with market economics, giving tobacco giants like Philip Morris protection from competition by requiring smaller companies to maintain their market share or face oppressive increases in their payments to the states.
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Also, the Palms Casino Resort and the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino are revamping to maintain their trendy vibe in the face of mounting competition.
So, how does a small business maintain a competitive advantage in the face of pressure from high tech innovation and the primordial human desire for high touch connection?
The Indian firms see consulting work as a way to maintain their competitive edge in the face of wage inflation in India and the rise of Chinese data processing firms.
But in doing so, Asian institutions need to maintain a cautious conservatism in the face of unfamiliar booms that could so easily go bust, as Japan's bubble-economy bankers have seen.
It was the end of the era of trying to maintain a high oil price in the face of falling world demand, brought on by the high oil price.
Rio Ferdinand is hoping to be reunite with Terry in the centre of defence after missing the latest in England's current run of five successive victories and agrees the team will face a tough task to maintain their winning ways.
Fortune 100 corporations and small business owners voiced strong support for the status quo, partly because they face their own legal pressure to maintain racially diverse workforces.
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We worry how future generations will shoulder the burden and how we will manage to maintain our way of life without having to face a Greek-like implosion.
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The Left's assault on Netanyahu is not the only way it has enabled Obama to maintain his pro-Palestinian policies in the face of the Palestinians' embrace of terror and war.
The best that fiscal policy may be able to achieve is to maintain the current level of spending in the face of falling tax revenues, says Augusto de la Torre, the World Bank's chief economist for Latin America.
At the same time, LinkedIn will need to maintain or grow its job post pricing in the face of competition from a variety of sources (Monster, Careerbuilder, TheLadders, Dice).
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According to this thinking, single nations are too small to maintain high-cost social-welfare models in the face of global competition.
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The defeat means Patrick McEnroe's U.S. team face a relegation playoff later this year to maintain their record of playing in the World Group every year.
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But then what the OECD countries are doing is simply trying to maintain status quos which really have no validity in the face of demanding efficiency through competition.
Television is already struggling to maintain its relevance--and viewers--in the face of new technology.
At worst, it was a supremely unfriendly act towards Israel's friends in Congress who are trying to maintain the current level of US military aid to Israel in the face of a popular push to slash the US's foreign aid budget.
In an increasingly crowded marketplace teeming with entertainment options, a bold-face star isn't enough to guarantee--and maintain--widespread interest.
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