Some may defend the policy as an instance of robust unilateralism, but the failure of the administration's multilateral and regional initiatives was not a price that had to be paid to defend America's interests: on the contrary, those failures directly harm the American economy.
But that line may prove difficult to defend as inflation continues to surge.
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But a prolonged period of sky-high interest rates, which may be necessary to defend the exchange rate, can wreak havoc with a country's banking system.
With the legal vultures circling, Microsoft may now be forced to defend itself on several fronts.
Whoever wins, Peruvians may end up having to defend their democratic institutions themselves.
Republicans will circle the wagons and defend what many may consider indefensible.
But some lawmakers sought safeguards while making these non-bailable as they said the accused may find it hard to defend themselves on some occasions, leading to the possibility of misuse of the law and unjust punishment.
Some lawmakers sought safeguards while making stalking and voyeurism as non-bailable as they say the accused may find it hard to defend themselves on some occasions, leading to the possibility of misuse of the law and unjust punishment.
The Leveson Inquiry has refused a request from the culture secretary to have his appearance - expected to be in mid-May - moved so he could defend himself.
Regulators may interfere with the ability of entrepreneurs to price their services attractively, and beneficiaries of the status quo may deploy lawyers and politicians to defend their franchises.
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The central bank may have to raise interest rates to defend the weak rupiah.
Once most scientists agree that the rival theory should replace the old paradigm, a paradigm shift has occurred, even though some individual scientists may remain intransigent and continue to noisily defend the old paradigm.
Trying to defend mid-teen operating margins may simply not be an option for HTC.
Unfortunately, when public pensions defend their investing decisions, truth may fall by the wayside.
Some scientists still defend those results: the soil may have had microbes living on ice beneath the surface, they say.
Resist the temptation to "fix" a big tree with aggressive cutting, which may diminish the tree's ability to defend against environmental stresses.
More neutral observers agree that while Syria may indeed be fighting a covert struggle to defend its soft underbelly, the Syrians are unlikely to control any but a few of the varied groups seeking to undermine the Lebanese government.
He wants access to quite a few of them in order to show something about Mr. Libby's pace of work and so forth and help defend himself against the charge that he may have concealed information about this case from a grand jury.
This is because they think power may not be the best way for states to defend themselves against a new kind of threat: the sort that comes not from other states but networks of states and non-state actors, or from the unintended consequences of global flows of finance, technology and so on.
Some professional historians may grumble about Ambrose's methods, but others defend him.
It can also demoralise intelligence officers, who may have signed up, high-mindedly, to defend democracy, and find themselves working in something less exalted such as arms sales.
Armstrong wrote that the newspaper account itself pointed out that the science may be flawed and that there was no way he could defend himself against the charges.
Because, in some cases, the government, as I suspect may be the case here, would need these facts out there to defend its actions and win the lawsuit.
Federer was using the tournament as a warm-up to the French Open, where the Swiss ace will be looking to defend his title when the tournament starts at Roland Garros on May 23.
"You have to be a friend to them first, but you have to defend them and then you have to defend yourself at all times, no matter what the consequences may be, " said Army Spec.
But for others, the move may be seen as a bold - and strategically wise - attempt to defend the carefully constructed and heavily politicised system of collective bargaining, which has been at the heart of South African labour policy since the end of apartheid and which has, over the past few weeks, seemed on the brink of collapse.
"I think this is the right time to sort out Europe's problems, sort out the eurozone problem, defend your national interest, and look to the opportunities there may be in the future to repatriate powers back to Britain - and obviously the idea of some limited treaty change in the future might give us that opportunity, " he told a news conference.
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