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Two of the three presidents elected in this century assumed office despite having lost the popular vote.
So the entire world quite naturally assumed that any process of EU disintegration would start primarily in the crisis-ridden European south (Greece, first and foremost).
Two popular brands in China are Qomolangma Glacier, sourced from a supposedly protected reserve linked to Mount Everest, on the border with Nepal, and 9000 Years, named after the assumed age of its glacial source.
Under federalism – whether cooperative or “uncooperative” – it is often assumed that state and local governments are pursuing the same goals.
In the past, it was assumed that military power dominated most issues, but in today’s world, the contexts of power differ greatly.
Instead, the US has assumed various unproductive roles, becoming the world’s money launderer, political-risk insurer, and money-holder of last resort.
If the October 24 strike is larger than the spontaneous demonstrations of October 3, support for PiS will surely drop significantly for the first time since it assumed power, and Poland will find itself in a new political situation.
The Obama administration then assumed responsibility for organizing the government’s efforts to boost recovery, the centerpiece being a large stimulus package to shore up the real economy.
Most people assumed that these pampered men in expensive suits, governing the world’s soccer federation, were beyond the reach of the law.
It was assumed that Cyprus should be united when the country joined the EU in 2004.
In the US, the key driver of the biggest institutions’ decision-making is the Fed’s stress tests, which essentially assumed that everything that could go wrong would go wrong.
These powers were transferred to financial regulators, who were assumed to be sufficiently independent and therefore insulated from political pressure.
They have found that applying the major banks’ different internal models to the same portfolio of loans can produce very different numbers, meaning that some banks would be carrying significantly less capital than others for the same quantum of assumed risk.
Indeed, after the federal government assumed the states’ debt (already a small part of the total), state revenues fell by 80-90%.
As impressive as Europe’s history has been since the Treaty of Rome established the European Economic Community in 1957, by no means should it be assumed that the EU has become permanent.
Moreover, the plan assumed that the fundamental problem was one of confidence.
However, as financial products became more complex, nobody knew who assumed the risks.
Instead, they often acted as if the crisis was merely a cyclical – albeit dramatic – shock, and assumed that the economy would bounce back in a V-like fashion, as it had typically done after a recession.
Even “official” statistics cannot be assumed to stand for objective, eternal “facts.”
Many assumed that Musharraf would follow the lead of his military predecessors, who on several occasions announced elections and a return to democracy, only to postpone the vote when it drew near.
Nicolas Sarkozy has just assumed the French presidency.
Likewise, if economists had listened to their critics who warned about currency manipulation, trade imbalances, and job losses, instead of sticking to models that assumed away such problems, they might have been in a better position to counter excessive claims about the adverse impact of trade deals on employment.
With hindsight, we can see the misconception that took hold at the end of the Cold War, when conventional analysis assumed that authoritarian regimes would liberalize and democratize.
Having now assumed the chairmanship at Chatham House, I am eager to encourage more research into how factors such as housing costs relate to larger issues of income and wealth inequality.
While a small army of experts argues that China’s rise to power should not be assumed, and that its economic, political, and demographic foundations are fragile, the conventional wisdom is that China’s power is growing.
It repeats the mistake made in 1957 by Massu, who assumed that he faced a cohesive organization with a single command structure.
When German and Japanese dictatorships were defeated in WWII, it was assumed that recovery would take decades.
That does not mean that the OSCE should be replaced with something new – especially since it has now assumed important control functions in Ukraine.
Instead of the EU claiming center stage, as its leaders assumed it would, the key actors were the United States, Brazil, South Africa, India, and China.
It is assumed in such circumstances that the violence will be carried out by those who sympathize with the views of the person inciting hatred.
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