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In fact, despite its politicians’ anxious rhetoric, the United Kingdom is a more ethnically mixed, and in some ways more open, society than Germany.
A large number of Americans are living longer, but are anxious, as they have failed to set aside the funds needed to ensure that their retirement will allow them to live comfortably into old age.
It is still possible that the Turkish government will find a way to release Brunson, and that US President Donald Trump, anxious to demonstrate fealty to the evangelicals who form a core part of his base, will rescind the tariffs.
If people are anxious about their national identities, the sovereignty of their governments, the demographic and social complexion of their societies, such fears are best voiced in the political arena.
China’s neighbors are increasingly anxious about its growing power and assertiveness.
More and more people in democratic countries feel unrepresented, anxious, and angry.
Moreover, many less developed countries, anxious to secure for themselves a place in tomorrow’s global economic order, are taking unilateral action to seize links of the global value chains of low-carbon industries, notably renewables.
For Turkey – so proud of its imperial history, yet anxious over the loss of its former glory – the obvious conclusion is that its Kurdish population must not, under any circumstances, secure control over any of its land.
Such voters are also almost certainly anxious about the effect of rapidly rising information technology on jobs and incomes.
This is a guest list that says to an anxious electorate: I respect you, wherever you are on the socioeconomic scale.
But this has led, in turn, to an anxious, balkanizing quest for identity.
Fourth, the liberalization of the statist Indian economy from 1991 onwards, in response to global market realities, led to the empowerment of an increasingly wealthy business community that was anxious to see more obstacles removed and rent-seekers eliminated, and willing to finance political change to make it happen.
Worse, the prospect of devaluation could spark massive capital flight from China as anxious companies and individuals seek to protect the value of their assets.
Democrats, journalists, and others are anxious to see Mueller’s actual report so that they can read what Mueller weighed as reasons for saying that the president obstructed justice, even if in the end he decided to not charge him for it.
Besides becoming angrier and more anxious, voters in the study also reacted with increased sadness and disgust, and both Democrats and Republicans reported feeling less enthusiastic and less hopeful.
Comprising more than three billion people in developing countries, they are both ambitious in pursuing a better future and anxious about the constant risk of falling back into poverty.
Whereas Europe, in general, has grown increasingly anxious about technological threats to employment, the United Arab Emirates has enthusiastically embraced the labor-saving potential of AI and automation.
Given all this, it is hard to understand why the ECB in particular should be so anxious to find new ways to make its stance even more expansionary.
I was anxious when I first met Larry Pressler, a Republican US senator who represented South Dakota from 1979 to 1997 and had taken positions on international trade, business, and foreign policy that I did not share.
For anxious parents, the best way to predict the future of work is not to study the latest technologies, but rather our own past.
But this is unlikely, because households will be anxious to replenish the savings they depleted during the lockdown.
In France, protesters have taken to the streets to oppose a fuel-tax hike, not because they are against climate action per se, but because they are anxious about the high cost of living and frustrated with the elite’s perceived indifference.
Although they are anxious about the steady deterioration in their economic prospects, studies suggest that trade or even immigration are not their only concerns.
And they were anxious about their prospects in economies buffeted by natural disasters and weak leadership.
But he’s also noticeably (and typically) anxious to maintain the loyalty of the rural voters who form an important part of his base.
Abe is clearly anxious about keeping Japan and the United States on the same page now that Trump’s denuclearization talks with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un have faltered.
Europeans are understandably anxious about great-power competition, new security threats, and a technological revolution that threatens to upend entire economic systems and societies.
I was anxious, having recently heard the story about an American economist who doubted that a joke he was about to relate in a public lecture would survive translation.
But we should not accept the anxious narrative of a workless world.
And it doesn’t help that Macron launched his initiative without first consulting other Europeans, many of whom are already anxious about America’s waning commitment to EU security.
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