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Nevertheless, the public still believed in perpetual growth.
Bush and his hardline advisers believed that only force or “regime change” would stop these “rogue” states’ terrorism or their programs to acquire “weapons of mass destruction.”
Though not publicly declared, it was widely believed that key American policymakers wanted regime change.
The net effect does not change the big picture – the US still took six years to dig its way out of the Great Recession – but the growth trend (averaging output and income, which is a more reliable measure of activity than either alone) was faster than previously believed.
They believe that Russia has inherited a cultural DNA that transcends revolutions, as if some kind of vicious gene was driving the Kremlin’s current imperialist aggression in Ukraine (and, if Putin’s threats are to be believed, Kazakhstan may soon be next).
Arab opposition to the very existence of a Jewish state in what the Arabs call “the Arab region” has been more sustained than Herzl or anyone of his generation -- nurtured on European ideas of humanism -- would have ever believed.
To those who believed that monetary policy had been too tight, the ECB was right to do whatever it could to push inflation up toward the target range.
Thus, King believed that, “one who breaks an unjust law must do so openly, lovingly, […] and with a willingness to accept the penalty.”
If, as is believed, China is sympathetic to the Maoists, it could ultimately be dragged, in some capacity, into a war in Nepal.
He believed that lawlessness began with unorthodox kinds of musical entertainment, and advised the authorities to put a stop to such things.
China believed that it could easily manage the same kind of “executive-led” government that had served Hong Kong well for 150 years under the British.
But, just when Turkey believed that its efforts were bearing fruit, and that direct talks were in the offing, Israel invaded Gaza.
Turkey believed that by engaging Syria, it could lure the Assad regime away from its close alliance with Iran.
This raises an interesting question: was the downfall of Tudjmanism postponed by the opposition's fear of appearing more radical than was believed to be practical?
Who would have believed that one administration could do so much damage so quickly?
Havel, however, believed until the last moment that the common state could be saved.
The mosque was built in the 1520’s by India’s first Mogul emperor, Babur, on a site traditionally believed to have been the birthplace of the Hindu god-king Ram, the hero of the 3,000-year-old epic, the Ramayana.
Membership in the new BRICS grouping, many believed, did not provide a strong enough basis for cooperation.
Don’t venerable capitalist principles imply that anyone who believed in the real estate bubble and who invested in Fannie and Freddie must accept their losses?
By contrast, the weak national Iraqi defense forces are believed to be doing the bidding of the Shia majority.
During Ukraine’s 2004 Orange Revolution, Putin believed that the CIA was behind the widespread protests that blocked Viktor Yanukovych’s attempt to steal the presidential election.
Yet we made this historic compromise because we believed that doing so would bring us to the threshold of liberty.
Economists have traditionally believed that each team member is paid her opportunity cost, that is, the highest income she could receive if she were kicked off the team.
A total of 82% of Irish people surveyed earlier this year believed Ireland had benefited from EU membership, the highest score in Europe, where the average was 54%.
In the 1990’s, when hard pegs were in vogue, it was believed that flexibility reduced credibility.
But I am convinced that he, like Benny Lévy, another friend, believed that a Jew of his type does not come into the world to pursue literature as a profession.
As a result, most of the black money believed to have been in circulation has now flooded into banks, depriving the government of its expected dividend.
It is believed that the epidemic first took hold in the forested regions of Guinea in December 2013, then gradually spread into Sierra Leone and Liberia.
The “black widows” – wives of Islamist fighters killed in the Kremlin’s “pacification” campaign – are believed to be preparing retaliatory suicide missions at airports, train stations, and on buses.
He believed that international institutions, the rule of law, common values, and an elite possessed of a democratic vision could ensure collective security and peaceful conflict resolution.
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