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Although people had warned me not to go see the film, I simply assumed they couldn't appreciate good film or "art."
The crisis challenged the Washington Consensus, which assumed that the world was moving gradually towards free movement of capital and market-determined exchange rates.
And, foreseeing Morsi’s victory, SCAF assumed all legislative powers; severely limited the president’s powers; seized the authority to appoint the committee tasked with drafting the new Constitution; took control of the country’s budget; and claimed sole power over domestic and foreign security.
Rodents, in particular, are sensitive to these noises, and studies show that this sensitivity does not diminish with time, as is commonly assumed.
When the Cold War ended, the EU and NATO were at the center of an expanding unipolar order that, it was assumed, would establish the conditions for European security.
Reagan had four key economic goals when he assumed office in 1981: reduce inflation, reduce high personal tax rates, reduce the size of government, and reduce regulation of the private sector.
The Dear Leader Cleans House for the Young GeneralSEOUL – There was a time, not long after the Cold War’s end, when almost everyone assumed that North Korea would soon collapse.
Including more women on decision-making teams, it is assumed, will automatically integrate gender considerations into policy.
After all, AIG was an AAA-rated firm that turned out in late 2008 to have assumed more risk than it could handle.
The dissonance on the left, in power since 2012, began as soon as Hollande assumed office.
A retail banker once told me that in making credit decisions in Russia, his analysts had faced a shortage of data and had assumed that a criminal record would be one easy way to weed out the bad eggs.
Just as parents are expected to provide for the interests of their own children, rather than for the interests of strangers, in accepting the office of president of the United States, George W. Bush assumed a specific role that makes it his duty to protect and further the interests of Americans.
That is why Europeans, and people in many other countries are incensed at the casual way in which America’s President assumed that “first things first are the people who live in America.”
Until recently, the US seemed to have assumed that China’s engagement with Western democracies would bolster peaceful ties.
When the PiS assumed power in 2015, Poland’s foreign and defense policies took a bizarre turn, starting with the appointment of Antoni Macierewicz as Minister of Defense.
China’s Real Reform ChallengeLONDON – It is often assumed that emerging-economy living standards are bound to converge with those in developed countries.
In the Middle East and Central Asia, this policy seems at times to have assumed predominance comparable to that of the former doctrine of deterrence deployed against the Soviet Union and its Communist allies.
At the start, the Fed assumed that it was facing a first-mode crisis – a mere liquidity crisis – and that the principal cure would be to ensure the liquidity of fundamentally solvent institutions.
Nineteenth- and twentieth- century anti-Semites assumed that a Jew was always a Jew, no matter what he or she professed to believe.
It is widely assumed that monetary policy is a spent force in the US and Europe, and that fiscal stimulus and expansion – for example, via tax cuts and infrastructure spending – must take over.
MEXICO CITY – Shortly before America’s elections last November, then vice-presidential candidate Joseph Biden was widely criticized for predicting that an Obama administration would almost certainly be tested by what he called a “generated” international crisis, in much the way that the Soviet Union “tested” John F. Kennedy shortly after he assumed office.
In this monumental work, totaling about 1,900 pages, Parfit challenges the idea – almost universally assumed by economists, and by many philosophers from David Hume onward – that the role of reason is to tell us how to get what we want, but not to tell us what to want.
Faith in a Globalized AgeLONDON – For years, it was assumed, certainly in the West, that, as society developed, religion would wither away.
When I was a student in Delhi in the early 1970s, it was commonly assumed that the US “participated” in Indian elections.
Indeed, if measured by skill levels rather than income, the region’s social and economic achievements – including the much-vaunted expansion of the new middle class – are far more tenuous than previously assumed.
We Europeans have assumed for too long that it is cheaper and safer to let the US solve our problems, even in our own backyard.
All advanced economies today seem to need much more than the young Smith assumed.
Until this spring, most observers had assumed that the share of the dollar in international reserves would gradually fall, while that of the euro would rise, and that the world would gradually and smoothly make a transition to a multi-reserve regime.
The currency depreciation, it was assumed, would address external imbalances, by encouraging, with the help of lower export taxes, increased production of tradable goods.
More than one half of living Egyptians were born since Mubarak assumed office.
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