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For example, in the case of gender, those who identify as men also want to behave as men are supposed to behave; those who identify as women want to behave as women are supposed to behave.
He not only probably won his last election by openly opposing military action in Iraq, but he continues to behave as if he were heading a peace march rather than a country.
Psychologically, we are naturally impatient, so it is good for us to believe that our wealth is safe and secure, and that we can add to it through skillful acts of investment, because that delusion makes us behave less impatiently.
If investors in derivatives, repos, and credit-default swaps lacked favored treatment, they would behave differently.
ORLANDO – One of the most common popular misunderstandings about the causes of terrorism is the notion that terrorists must be “insane” to behave as they do.
The carrot – the inducement to behave ethically – should be to recognize and reward those who admit past mistakes and demonstrate the will and an effective strategy to correct them.
Whether they like it or not, it is time for our leaders to behave in ways that are good for them – and us.
We need politicians willing and able to rise above their own power interests, or the particular interests of their parties or states, and act in accord with the fundamental interests of today's humanity -- that is, to behave the way everyone should behave, even though most may fail to do so.
Second, although Great Powers are de facto unbound by international rules on the use of force, they abide by a sort of unwritten “agreement between scoundrels” to behave similarly.
The Fed was reasonably forthcoming in providing dollar swaps in the last crisis in 2008; but there is no guarantee that it will behave similarly in the future.
Ratings agencies wait too long to spot risks and downgrade countries, while investors behave like herds, often ignoring the build-up of risk for too long, before shifting gears abruptly and causing exaggerated market swings.
One major roadblock that Leung fails to appreciate is caused by an obscure 1981 UK Privy Council ruling, Hang Wah Chong Investment Co.Ltd v. Attorney General of Hong Kong, which gave the government unlimited authority to behave as a revenue-maximizing private monopolist.
But that did not happen in Libya, and events will likely tempt future presidents to behave in the same way, despite the risks.
Depending on timing and political conditions, it could fudge the rules or help enforce them; it could behave more selfishly or more generously; and it could pursue narrow, short-term interests or broad, long-term goals.
The Fund’s own analysis does not demonstrate that insurers behave in a procyclical way.
Many government behave as if the economic setback is temporary and happy pre-crisis days will return fairly soon.
To bet that these countries, having acquired such weapons, would behave responsibly would be a high-risk gamble.
America’s BerlusconiLONDON – For the past couple of weeks, the world has been guessing at how US President-elect Donald Trump will behave in office and what policies he will pursue, following a long campaign full of contradictory statements.
But his main competitor, center-right Prime Minister Mark Rutte, adopted Wilders-like rhetoric – telling immigrants that they should leave the country if they do not want to behave “normally.”
At that point, the international community would be obliged to begin acting against any party that was denying Palestine the right to behave as a fully functional and sovereign state.
The more distant and neutral to the European project Germany becomes, the more its partners, especially France, must behave like engaged and responsible Europeans.
When the world’s two leading nuclear powers behave like this, the prospect of another major war in the Middle East becomes all the more terrifying.
But their horizon of reform is similarly confined to the banking sector, and they rarely ask what caused the banks to behave so badly.
A privatized social security system like the one Bush proposes might turn out very well, assuming that people behave sensibly and/or the stock market keeps going up.
In a setting of moderate world growth and a dollar unlikely to weaken, commodity prices will behave well.
Getting Anxiety RightNEW YORK – When researchers want to evaluate the efficacy of new anxiety treatments, the traditional approach is to study how rats or mice behave in uncomfortable or stressful situations.
In their 2011 book Beyond Mechanical Markets, the economists Roman Frydman of New York University and Michael Goldberg of the University of New Hampshire argued powerfully that economists’ models should try to “incorporate psychological factors without presuming that market participants behave irrationally.”
By contrast, the general view in the West is that states now behave, or should behave, according to the principles of international law.
As a result, it is likely that the machines will behave more ethically than most human beings, and serve as positive role models for us all.
On the contrary, they would help us considerably, not just by working for us, but also by showing us how we need to behave if we are to survive as a species.
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