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All madmen in authority, after all, believed they were doing their duty.
Three years ago, few would have believed that the world would do so little to prevent such a situation.
Investigators concluded that one of the underlying causes was complacency: those in charge of the facility believed that their safety systems were robust, and there was no effective independent oversight.
A significant reason is believed to be the steady flight of intellectuals from Iraq, which seems obvious, but is difficult to measure.
Third, it was (somewhat naively) believed that the institutions underpinning the euro would improve the overall quality of economic policy, as though Europe-wide policies would automatically be better than national ones.
Given Hollande’s rock-bottom approval ratings, it is widely believed that the winning Republican will be France’s next president.
Why Iran Won’t BudgeTEL AVIV – No one really believed that the latest round of international negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program would produce a breakthrough.
But I have always believed that a country cannot make itself richer by writing checks to itself.
Bankers – and the rating agencies – believed in financial alchemy.
He believed that “man is a slave neither of his race nor his language, nor of his religion, nor of the course of rivers nor of the direction taken by mountain chains.”
The US believed that shifting Pakistani leaders’ attention from nuclear-weapons development to power-plant construction would, in addition to bolstering efforts to close the energy gap, limit Pakistan’s dependence on China for nuclear technology and reduce the risk of an immensely destructive war in South Asia.
Kim believed that his nuclear strength had forced Trump to the summit without preconditions, making him Trump’s equal as a head of state.
The North, mistakenly concluding that its nuclear deterrent had brought Trump to the summit, believed it was on the cusp of achieving its own long-sought goal: a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula, including an end to the US nuclear umbrella for Japan and South Korea.
They believed that neither side would use nuclear weapons, owing to the fear of retaliation.
Given this recognition and remorse, we Japanese have believed for decades that we must do all that we can to contribute to Asia’s development.
Indeed, I have long believed that diagnostics could be the single biggest game changer in the fight against AMR.
The impediment, it was believed, was on the production side, as gushing returns on oilfield investments spurred ever more ambitious exploration.
Who would have believed, after the last two elections, that the American public was capable of electing such a candidate?
In 1994, Hobsbawm believed that there could “be no serious doubt that in the late 1980s and early 1990s an era in world history ended and a new one began.”
Bulgaria’s Betrayal of EuropeWhen Bulgaria joined the European Union this past January, I believed that my country had finally left its repressive past behind.
Indeed, it is believed that North Korea during this time increased its stockpile of nuclear weapons.
At the same time, Burundi's Hutu saw Rwanda as a role model and believed their ethnic majority should guarantee them de facto control of the country.
Even as the British were dismantling their empire after World War II, the French and Dutch still believed that parting with their Asian possessions would result in chaos.
After all, although many believed that his indictment by the Hague War Crimes Tribunal, announced during the bombing of Serbia, would make him fight to the bitter end, he yet accepted unconditional surrender.
Salvation does not lie in better “risk management” by either regulators or banks, but, as Keynes believed, in taking adequate precautions against uncertainty.
Kavanaugh has written that he believed that a president cannot be investigated or prosecuted while he is in office.
In every case, engineers believed that they were just building incrementally on successful practice.
Though it was Stalin who used the phrase “rootless cosmopolitans" to describe unwanted Jews, anti-Semites believed that Jews were natural Bolsheviks and probably pulled the strings in the Soviet Union, too.
We once naively believed that mass access to the World Wide Web would inevitably democratize information; today, we worry about the emergence of an “addiction economy” that is bad for everyone.
Why France Will Sink Europe’s ConstitutionIf public opinion polls are to be believed, on May 29 the French will reject the European Union’s draft constitutional treaty.
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