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Perhaps the greatest threat to the bilateral relationship is the belief that conflict is inevitable.
Backed by evidence from large empirical studies, some claim that belief in religion is good because it boosts economic performance.
But to do that is to destroy the true character of religious belief.
But, given the extreme deregulatory approach of President George W. Bush’s administration, it defies belief to suggest that it would have created major new rules regarding derivatives but for the 2000 act; so I am not sure how consequential our decisions were.
Instead, the foundation of religious politics is a shared belief, imposed from above, in ideological orthodoxy.
By contrast, those who rule according to a shared belief cannot afford to negotiate, for that would undermine the belief itself.
Its system of governance rests on the belief that an integrated process of bargaining, disagreement, reflection, and compromise – not top-down unchallenged decision-making – is the most effective route to wise, fair, and successful policymaking.
New economic policies and institutions were invented in the belief that a more rationally and humanely organized economy would deliver higher productivity and wages, greater job satisfaction, lower unemployment, wider participation, and milder slumps.
As Sims explained, contrary to popular belief, aggregate demand and the price level (inflation) are not dictated only – or even primarily – by monetary policy.
I came back from this trip with one simple belief: you can massacre people, but you can never kill their desire for freedom.
Another is its belief that any Shia bomb would soon be matched by a Sunni one, making any regional hegemony short-lived.
This largely reflects the belief that, if a breakdown of negotiations triggers another Greek crisis, the systemic risks to the eurozone and the wider European Union would be far smaller than they were just a few years ago.
Moreover, contrary to popular belief, entrepreneurship is not a preserve of youth.
MacKay gave examples, over the centuries, of social epidemics involving belief in alchemists, prophets of Judgment Day, fortune tellers, astrologers, physicians employing magnets, witch hunters, and crusaders.
Preparing for the Green ExitPARIS – Underpinning European integration is the belief that unity between nations should bring shared prosperity instead of social, political, and economic turmoil.
The move highlights the persistent influence of Kennan’s belief that the US maintains a right – indeed, a responsibility – to intervene in the domestic affairs of Latin American countries where government policies are not to its liking.
Consider the belief that the more the government borrows, the higher the future tax burden will be.
If people act on this belief by saving every extra pound, dollar, or euro that the government puts in their pockets, the extra government spending will have no effect on economic activity, regardless of how many resources are idle.
Underpinning the anger over technology transfer is a belief that American ingenuity will one day be used against American interests.
But China's government clings to the belief that Hong Kong's people are not ready for democracy.
Except in extreme cases, confidence cannot cause a bad policy to have good results, and a lack of it cannot cause a good policy to have bad results, any more than jumping out of a window in the mistaken belief that humans can fly can offset the effect of gravity.
Their answer was that the belief that it would work – the confidence fairy – would ensure its success.
Moreover, societies lose their cohesion under such regimes; they begin to lack a shared set of values, for they become relegated to living in “a belief vacuum.”
It further bolsters my belief that the United Kingdom should make state-of-the-art railways a priority, especially in the north, to connect Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool, Sheffield, Newcastle, and their surrounding areas.
The 2,000 Chiquitanos living around the park contend that a tree holds up the Amazon’s seven skies, and they are living that belief in a modern way: by using their forests to help reduce the stratospheric greenhouse gasses that cause global warming.
He is rewriting the rules of business, based on the belief that Tesla’s success depends on that of the entire market for electric cars, and that his company’s commercial interests are inseparable from the interests of society.
Top researchers have had their reports changed by political operatives when the facts contradicted official belief.
War is never inevitable, though the belief that it is can become one of its causes.
The group, it turned out, was led by an exiled patriarch, Li Hongzhi, who had conjured his cult out of traditional Chinese breathing exercises (qigong), a belief in miracle cures, nostrums about clean living, and a mish-mash of Buddhist and Taoist mysticism.
Of course, America has been encouraging Sunni leaders in this belief.
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