That would have meant too much pressure.

To do so would mark the beginning of the end for Hong Kong.

That would be a disastrous step.

To allow them to win would be to accept the supremacy of evil.

But it would certainly not mean the end of the world.

That would mean sawing off the branch you're sitting on.

It is then inferred that this means that manufactures must be expanded.

Motivating financial executives to focus on the effects of their choices on all those contributing capital to the bank would significantly improve their risk taking incentives.

But moving in this direction, even if imperfectly, would mean real progress.

Was that a yes?

Was that a no?

That could plunge the global economy into another financial crisis, delivering a shock equivalent to the autumn of 2008. It would also mean a eurozone failure that would not leave the Common Market unharmed.

It would also mean a eurozone failure that would not leave the Common Market unharmed.

It meant I commit myself. I engage myself.

Such a precedent would be applicable to the other member states, which would mean the end of the EU.

This is a demographic, not a religious, question an Arab state is where the Arabs are the majority, and the Jewish state is where the Jews are the majority.

If such a right were recognized, there would be a Palestinian majority instead of a Jewish majority, which would mean the end of the Jewish state.

Viewed from a matching perspective, there is no failure of aggregate demand whatever that means.

He had understood what 'If it is possible' meant. It meant, if it is possible to arrange the divorce so that she should have her son...

For Russia, this would mean a significant improvement on what it has been offered since the end of the Cold War.

They didn't even get amnesty or impunity since these would imply their guilt.

Reduced debt service costs would mean that the debt GDP ratio would start to fall, and government spending on infrastructure, education, healthcare, and redistribution could rise. Reduced government debt would also means more money available for private investment, providing a further boost to labor productivity.

Reduced government debt would also means more money available for private investment, providing a further boost to labor productivity.

This would mean less wasted time and more clarity for litigants.

It would mean saying, in effect, We have unnecessarily humiliated you over the last ten years.

Failure to comply with this formula would constitute, in his view, a serious breach of the Governors Island Agreement, which would be immediately reported to the Security Council.

That meant avoiding a war with Israel.

In imperial China, this meant Confucian orthodoxy.

To make rights or its related notion of justice the whole of morality would narrow and impoverish the very concept of morality.

Subsidizing their own farmers would divert money from education, health, and urgently needed development projects.

I want to be optimistic enough to say that we are getting there, wherever there might be.

Government stabilization of the banking system can either be international, provoking complaints by outraged taxpayers about subsidizing others, or national, but only at the cost of greatly extended regulation of capital movements.

The continuous injection of liquidity would imply a greater likelihood of renewed asset bubbles in housing, equities, or modern art.

Israel cannot afford to lose one major war, as it would mean the end of the Jewish democratic state.

More importantly, rallying the world solely against Russia would mean taking Russia s great power pretensions too seriously.

Deregulation meant competition and thinner margins.

The word belief itself originally meant to love, to prize, to hold dear.

Even back in January, a lot of people meant 30.

This meant Florida had to count the votes again.

According to the Turkish constitution, it is illegal for any agency, even the military, to try to overthrow a democratically elected government. Had such a coup attempt taken place, much less succeeded, it also would have put an end to Turkey s aspirations to become a full member of the European Union.

Had such a coup attempt taken place, much less succeeded, it also would have put an end to Turkey s aspirations to become a full member of the European Union.

This would reestablish monetary sovereignty and create a normal central bank (like the Federal Reserve or the Bank of England) at the European level. But it would also mean abandoning France s republic in favor of a federal European government anathema to that certain idea of France.

But it would certainly mean a paradigm shift for a conflict in which everyone has been treading water for almost two decades.

Through a credible intermediary, the US could offer to consider security guarantees and relief from existing sanctions if Iran agrees to forego domestic enrichment and accept the Russian offer, perhaps garbed as an IAEA backed international consortium in which Iran could participate. This would mean abandoning the temptations of coercive regime change that hamstrung American diplomacy in Bush s first term.

But it would also mean abandoning France s republic in favor of a federal European government anathema to that certain idea of France.