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Second, high finance provides an arena to curb the worst abuses by managers of large corporations.
Virginia Woolf called the ideal of womanhood in this period “The Angel in the House”: a retiring, fragile creature who could not withstand the rigors of the public arena.
In the socio-political arena, Augustus the Fool faces the Clown of Power.
Meanwhile, the three main parties – the National Action Party (PAN), the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), and the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) – united in order to keep newcomers out of the electoral arena.
Northeast Asia is a dynamic arena, home to many of the world’s powers, including China, Russia, Japan, the two Koreas, and in many ways the United States.
They now base their legitimacy on the notion that the Party, which rose to power as the nation fought foreign domination, is uniquely qualified to keep China from being bullied in a hostile international arena, and that only they can provide the stable environment needed for growth.
“The credit belongs to the man in the arena,” Roosevelt continued, “who spends himself in a worthy cause, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
In the financial and economic arena, this new multipolarity has already led to quota reforms at the International Monetary Fund and resulted in the consolidation of the G-20 as the premier venue for multilateral economic-policy coordination.
In the international arena, Eban's pen was his sword, and the spoken word his lance.
Unfortunately, Lebanon has always been buffeted by its surroundings, and the country could once again become an arena for destructive regional conflicts, regardless of what the Lebanese prefer.
For its part, China should be more sensitive to ASEAN member states’ security concerns, and act to turn the South China Sea into a haven for peace and prosperity, rather than an arena for tensions and rivalry.
In the US, this is most apparent in changing attitudes toward medical-malpractice lawsuits, with libertarians no longer viewing the court system as the preferred arena to deal with medical risk and error.
But providing an arena for thought and debate has brought at least one huge benefit: greater awareness about water issues among the public and policymakers.
Claims that the United States is retreating from the international arena are probably exaggerated, but in at least two of the defining conflicts of recent years – Ukraine and Syria – the US has not played as prominent a diplomatic role as it once would have.
Economic integration and globalization are not exactly the same thing, but they rest on the same Ricardian principles of trade liberalization – principles that are falling on deaf ears in the political arena.
What trade officials have never taken on board is that the fairness argument extends beyond the dumping arena.
That is why these countries must press for quotas and management reforms in multilateral institutions and inject new agendas, new ideas, and new thinking into the global arena.
Equally significant, China has lost the battle in the arena of public opinion – chastised by Western policymakers, a few high-profile academics, and others for having failed to live up to the grand bargain struck in 2001, when the country was admitted to the World Trade Organization.
Tracing outsize current-account and trade deficits to an extraordinary shortfall of US domestic saving – just 1.3% of national income in the fourth quarter of 2017 – counts for little in the arena of popular opinion.
Clearly, this expansion of civil society's operating arena may even turn into open opposition to Syria's rulers.
But the erosion of traditional law remains most pronounced in the international arena.
Unfortunately, in the international arena these two conditions are almost never met.
We have taken the struggle from the technical, legal, and political arena closer to a hearing in the courts.
We lack the climate for a truly democratic arena, where criminal behavior that the state previously supported is prosecuted.
All of these factors place deep stresses on the social fabric which, so the skeptics argue, will ultimately play out in the political arena.
To cynics, APEC is a talking shop, while ASEAN is an arena for an ongoing contest between China and Japan, with India on the side.
Drawing a parallel from this national evolution, developing a financial architecture to perform similar functions in the international arena is essential.
Thaksin’s sins are voluminous, and became the basis of the rise of his yellow-shirted opponents, the People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD), which entered the electoral arena as the New Politics Party.
In earlier times with no formidable adversaries in the political arena, this was a harmless affectation.
In a worst-case scenario, Europe might even become an arena for the larger powers’ fights.
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