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Development Aid for Development’s SakeAlmost daily, the United States and Europe brandish threats to impose economic sanctions or cut off development assistance unless some vulnerable government accepts their political strictures.
No credible government or international organization accepts Russia’s description of the annexation as a legal democratic act by the Crimean people.
Palestinian officials called this the most important development in the Islamic world in a decade, since it implicitly accepts Israel’s right to exist.
Notwithstanding the opinion polls, it does seem as though the public not only accepts his conviction, but that they respect it as the outcome of a fair system that has been allowed to work.
By opening itself to finely shaded demands of the individual, the democracy of late capitalism not only accepts outrage, it cohabits with the outrageous.
The grand strategy for the coming decades should be centered on a simple idea: Though Russia can never be allowed to influence Europe from outside, it will be welcome to gain a place of influence from within, if it accepts Europe’s rules and norms.
India’s borders were defined by British imperial administrators in 1913 – the MacMahon Line, which China rejects (though it accepts that line as its frontier with Burma, which was then part of British India).
And if Britons are turning against May’s agenda, will EU leaders offer them a face-saving compromise similar to that offered to Norway, which remains outside the EU’s institutional structures, but accepts most of the obligations and costs of EU membership in exchange for the commercial benefits of the single market?
But the complacency with which the political establishment accepts the disruption of Parliament suggests that even experienced politicians do not understand this.
He could also be tried before a national court in a country that accepts the idea of universal jurisdiction, as happened in Spain as well as in the United Kingdom in the case of Chile's former dictator, General Augusto Pinochet.
The new right accepts capitalism and modernity, and it mostly avoids anti-Semitism.
This is particularly so if one accepts - as I do - intervention in the internal affairs of countries in order to prevent genocide or the murderous suppression of minorities and opposition groups.
But, broadly speaking, in Chinese, the term “international order” refers to a combination of the United Nations, the Bretton Woods Institutions, the G20, and other multilateral institutions (which China accepts), as well as the US system of global alliances (which China does not).
Yes, it officially belongs to India, but only because of the McMahon line, a boundary drawn by British imperialists in 1911, which China no longer accepts (though China did settle its boundary with Myanmar along the same line).
It fails to recognize that neither expanded peacekeeping nor efficiently delivered aid will achieve their desired ends until the Afghan public accepts the Karzai government as fairly representing its interests.
It accepts the populists’ claim that they authentically represent “the people.”
The Muslim Brotherhood should be allowed to participate in the political process so long as it accepts the legitimacy of that process, the rule of law, and the constitution.
If he accepts it, he will have to think carefully about what he says.
Likewise, diplomacy can work in Syria only if it accepts the reality on the ground (including the survival of the Assad regime for the foreseeable future), rather than seeking to transform it.
This suggests that France’s center-left largely accepts the current approach.
Unlike other Russian leaders, Gorbachev accepts responsibility for the negative consequences of his rule.
Today, despite what happened in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia – and appeared to be on the verge of happening after the recent disputed election in Kenya – no country openly accepts racist doctrines.
If Syria in turn accepts Lebanon’s sovereignty, and if it helps force Hezbollah into becoming a political force shorn of its military power, Israel and America ought to persuade Lebanon’s government to accept that Syria and Lebanon need to consult each other in security matters.
Indeed, it is impossible to imagine China’s leaders approving a loan to a country that, say, recognizes Taiwan or accepts Tibetan claims to independence.
Anti-Semites often cite a passage in Matthew in which a Jewish crowd cheers for Christ's execution and voluntarily accepts permanent guilt: "His blood be on us and on our children."
More important, even if one accepts the view that globalization constitutes a threat to Europe’s social model, there is little scope for further integration, given that trade policy is already fully unified at the EU level.
Ours is a civilization that accepts selfishness towards one's own family and group; that tolerates, with few exceptions, autonomy in moral matters; and that considers blasphemy, criticism of authority, and even civil disobedience fundamental freedoms.
After all, nobody accepts Israel's claim to oppose as a matter of principle the establishment of a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza.
A further difference between the eurozone and the US is that the Federal Reserve normally lends only against public debt, and accepts only federal debt (T-bills) as collateral.
The ECB, on the other hand, accepts private assets and, in the absence of federal debt, national debt as collateral.
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