After all, the best way to convince others to sacrifice is to do so yourself.
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Spaniards are proud to be in the euro, willing to sacrifice to meet the targets, embarrassed to even be considered bailout material.
You have to decide how you want your character to improve and progress, and you have to actually sacrifice to do so.
The prices for goods and services that emerge from voluntary exchange provide a measure of the alternatives people are willing to sacrifice to get those goods and services.
"We decided it was better to get together than to sacrifice both our margins to the cruise companies, " recalls Fluxman, who quickly set about preparing it to go public.
Among the commission's preliminary findings, released on Monday, was that there was "no evidence at this time to suggest that there was a conscious decision to sacrifice safety concerns to save money".
Nine percent of those polled said they would pack on 15 extra pounds, though only 5 percent of women said they would be willing to sacrifice to their figures if someone paid their bills.
According to Dr Fehr, a person is a strong reciprocator if he is willing to sacrifice resources to be kind to those who are being kind, and to punish those who are being unkind.
This introduces its own perverse incentives, particularly to sacrifice to broader political calculations the interests of the sickest and most costly, always a small minority not nearly fully aware of the scope of possible medical alternatives.
To enter the South Lawn party tent, all the Salahis had to do was openly, publicly give up the pretense that they are any different from many of those who were asked to be inside it: Hungry for power and status, willing to sacrifice dignity to get both.
Senior naval officers are so convinced of the need for larger carriers that some will, if pressed, admit to being willing to sacrifice a few frigates or submarines in order to have them.
The key to getting a deal done is for Boehner to sacrifice his leadership position to do what is in the best interests of all the other Americans who are not Tea Party members.
An opinion poll earlier this year suggested that a majority of policyholders was prepared to make a sacrifice to stabilise the fund.
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"We do need expeditious attention to this, but we need to make sure that these investments are made wisely and that we don't have to sacrifice speed in order to get smart investments, " says Robert Puentes, a transportation expert at the Brookings Institution.
"I believe it is necessary to sacrifice myself to break with the lethargy that is overwhelming us, " he was quoted as saying in the message.
You know, as we saw with the global trade talks and all these negotiations, it's not so much about agreeing on goals as who has to sacrifice what to get there.
Because he will not accept a deal that has specific cuts in spending, specific cuts in entitlement programs that asks middle-class Americans, seniors, college students who need loans, families with disabled children to sacrifice, to pay a price, on the one hand, and the promise -- the vague promise, the unspecified promise -- of some magical revenue that will appear from wealthier Americans in the future.
It should be clear to everybody, he does so at great personal sacrifice to himself and to his family.
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"People want to take entertainment on the go, and there is no reason to sacrifice a quality picture in order to do so, " stated VIZIO Co-founder and V.
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And to get anywhere close to it looks like requiring a big sacrifice to the tax take by either London's or, perhaps in future, Edinburgh's treasury.
Going back to the construction example, while you may not want to sacrifice skilled labor, you might want to slim the administrative ranks whose work can more easily be outsourced.
Everybody is going to have to share in some sacrifice, but it starts with folks who are in the best position to sacrifice, who are in the best position to do a little bit more to step up.
And subsidies for preschool make it harder for families to justify making the sacrifice to keep kids at home.
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But in the current climate having one successful person in a couple often seems to require another to sacrifice their career at least temporarily.
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President Obama is even reported to have offered to sacrifice a large portion of his predecessor's missile defense plans as a quid pro quo of sorts for Russia's cooperation.
It's very difficult to reach someone spiritually if they are struggling temporally, Foy said, and some have had to sacrifice time with family and church to pay the bills.
That brand cannot now be bulletproofed even if Boeing were inclined to offer up GS Yuasa as an easy sacrifice to stakeholder demands for someone to glibly blame, especially as Boeing has itself been accused, however unfairly, of cutting corners to avoid future delays.
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Yahoo needs to ask employees how to improve productivity and creativity without having to sacrifice telework.
When you define a goal according to this method, you make your plans more real, and you now have a reason to sacrifice the things that are less important to you than your goal.
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