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Of course, says Goodhart, immigrants do not have to abandon their traditions completely, but “there is such a thing as society,” and if they make no effort to join it, native citizens will find it hard to consider them part of the “imagined community.”
But this means that newspapers, in order to survive, will have to abandon their top-down tone, their “we decide what's important” sense of hierarchy, and create more collaborative kinds of documentation and feedback with citizens.
Like Franklin Roosevelt, who acted very cautiously in trying to persuade American opinion to abandon isolationism in the 1930’s, Merkel has proceeded cautiously on saving the euro.
Of course, Ukraine’s position may change in the future, with cultural, demographic, and economic shifts producing the needed consensus to abandon neutrality.
But continuing opposition by EU institutions has led most candidate countries to abandon the idea of adopting the Euro unilaterally or as quickly as possible after entering the Union.
So European institutions should abandon their paternalistic approach and take seriously the concerns of accession countries' central bankers about the risks of maintaining their own currencies for a long period during which their economies have to open up completely to capital flows.
For Hong Kong, the defining symbol of the Communist government is the killing of students with abandon on June 4, 1989.
But the bloodstained shambles of the US occupation led America to abandon the quest for democracy.
Policymakers should abandon fraught carbon-reduction negotiations, and instead make agreements to invest in research and development to get this technology to the level where it needs to be.
President Richard Nixon’s unilateral decision in 1971 to abandon the gold standard was a major blow to the international monetary system.
UMNO’s repression of the opposition has had the unintended consequence that the party gradually had to abandon its secular-nationalist politics and enter an Islamization race with PAS.
With the US signaling that it will abandon this role, the Fund’s ability to respond effectively is now in doubt.
But what if Turkey were to abandon its European ambitions and align itself strategically with Russia or even Iran?
For the sake of its European vocation, Germany proclaimed itself ready to abandon its cherished deutschmark, the currency that had accompanied and symbolized its spectacular economic rebirth and post-war social stability.
Those who want to force Cyprus to abandon its model – condemning it to suffer for years with a debilitated economy and continual transfers from the EU – do not understand the country’s history and role.
Furthermore, Libya formally accepted responsibility for the bombing, agreeing to pay more than $2 billion to victims’ families, and to abandon its weapons of mass destruction program.
But unlike Chavez, who leads one of the world's top oil producers, the need to stabilize an economy closely monitored by international financial markets forced Gutierrez to abandon campaign promises that helped secure his victory.
Yet Thaksin’s supporters did not abandon him.
Behind these slogans rests an notable principle: self-interest often causes political parties to radically depart from, even to abandon, their traditional ideologies.
American reluctance to abandon Musharraf – together with prolonged electricity shortages, which made the new government appear incompetent – also raised his hopes.
Countries were advised to abandon their national development strategies in favor of globalization, market liberalization, and privatization.
As democracies abandon moderation, abuses of power are proliferating, and social and political tensions are rising.
For him, Germany had to abandon its man-in-the-middle position, and thus its isolation, by irreversibly integrating with Western security and economic institutions.
Europe will enter an extended period of competitive deterrence, during which it will gradually abandon its old social values.
To produce more accurate figures for fixed-capital formation, China will need to modify or even abandon the current system, based on local government reports, and adopt an independent survey and accounting system to measure fixed-asset investment.
A smoother international distribution of power, even in a global system that is less than fully democratic, would pose fewer temptations to abandon the prudent exercise of power.
But these same companies, which shaped much of the 20th century, are now under myopic pressure from their shareholders to abandon long-term research in favor of short-term profits.
The key to regaining stable prices was to abandon the full-employment commitment, emasculate the trade unions, and deregulate the financial system.
In the 1970s, many Latin American countries had borrowed in dollars with abandon.
But if Chinese leaders do not abandon the system of upward accountability, how would they measure and assess local officials’ relative performance?
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