Opponents of the measure say it's political grandstanding that could prove devastating to the economy.

该措施的反对者说，正是政治上的哗众取宠可能验证对经济造成毁灭性破坏的这一结果。

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Discussions at Davos at times appeared to measure the health of the global economy by the strength of growth in both countries.

在达沃斯峰会的讨论中，很多时候如果要衡量全球经济的健康状况，那就需要先看这两个过的经济增长。

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The economy is not the measure of all things.

经济并不是衡量一切事情的指标。

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President Obama had this reaction to Thursday's report on the gross domestic product a wide measure of goods and services in the economy.

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From Barak Obama.com, a moral imperative by any measure, by any measure, mark that, Dr. Sowell, a better health care system is also essential to rebuilding our economy.

援引，Barak，Obama。com网站的话，道德上,不管怎样，不管怎样，索尔博士，听听他说的，一个更好的医疗体系,对于重建经济很重要。

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Critics considered an earlier measure too small to fight the recession in Europe's largest economy.

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Now, I've said before that the way I measure our economy's strength -- the way you measure it -- is by whether jobs and wages and incomes are growing.

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Economists tend to measure the economy using productivity metrics such as output per hour worked.

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Which is really evidence of quite how wrong we are in the way that we measure the economy.

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