Globalization allows companies to find lower-cost ways to produce their products. It also increases global competition, which drives prices down and creates a larger variety of choices for consumers. Lowered costs help people in both developing and already-developed countries live better on less money.
Based on the sentence of the excerpt,
The main purpose of the final sentence from Thomas Paine's common sense would be :
To indicate that the American colonies can establish a better government thana monarchy
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Abraham Lincoln was the president
I believe the answer is: somewhat more
When a person make a public virginity-until-marriage pledge, they tend to be more likely to feel some sort of social pressure to follow on their words in fear of being seen as a hypocrites by other peers. This would indeed improve their likelihood to stay a virgin, But the effect of the social pressure tend to diminish over time