In Kiev, there is also a sober assessment of the medium-term chances of membership of the EU.
If Obama keeps up the charm, he's got a medium-term chance for legislative success and a longer-term chance for political success.
Besides, as life improves, people are paying less attention to corruption and the legal formalities of public life, laments Mr Cardoso.In the medium term, the chance of further reform may depend on the PSDB, which under Mr Cardoso laid the foundations of economic stability and a stronger democracy in the 1990s.
In other words, the market pricing is increasingly priced for a stronger economy over the medium term, even as Labor's chances of winning the election have materially improved.
While Green insisted in his evidence to MPs that BHS was offloaded with a healthy balance sheet, they concluded there was "simply not enough cash in BHS to give it a realistic chance of medium term survival".
As many of the threats facing amphibians are extremely difficult to neutralize in the short- to medium-term, the chances of ameliorating – let alone reversing – amphibian declines seem very poor.
I think the sort of things that we need to be addressing are, obviously, a saving on emissions, but also investment in the sort of technologies that have a chance, in the medium term.
"I think it increases the chance that in the medium term they dispose of The FT," said Ian Whittaker, a media analyst at Liberum Capital in London.
"In the short to medium term," Mr. Craig of Merrill Lynch said, "the chance of them entering the retail market in any meaningful way will be very dependent on whether they can resolve the antitrust problem in the U.S".
Expertise in only limited areas and unwillingness of managers to accept professional advice, reduce possibilities of the company's chances to survive in the medium term (Ooghe & De Prijcker [2008]).
Yet a move to fiscal, political and banking union has the best chance, in the short to medium term, of staving off the economic collapse that would almost certainly bring defeat for the Tories at the next election.
