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On the contrary, they continue to refine their arsenals, while countries without nuclear weapons want them, believing that the nuclear club’s monopoly is a threat to the world peace.
Australia accommodated these people with humanity and compassion, believing it to be an ethical and moral obligation.
Many UN members, believing that power within the UN has been shifting from the General Assembly, resist giving up what they regard as its last vestige: control over the budget through the work of the Assembly’s Fifth Committee.
The Fed, Trump claims, is applying overdoses of monetary stimulus to hypnotize voters into believing that economic recovery is underway.
With 30% of foreign workers believing that they are overqualified for the job they perform, Italy is losing its appeal, especially to skilled professionals.
Believing Jacques Chirac would deliver on his pledges of support, it promised NATO membership.
Thus, the US has continued to do the wrong – or at best inadequate – thing: listening to and, worse, believing those who have been part of the problem.
He somehow lulled Italians into believing that all was well in their economy and society, even in the wake of the 2008 global economic crisis, when plainly it was not.
A new Pan-European security alliance was conceived as a replacement, with the more naive among us believing that, in the new era in which all are democrats, security alliances no longer mattered.
Some have already resigned themselves to believing a viable Palestinian state will never emerge.
The era of believing that something can be created out of nothing should be over.
In 1986, Thatcher signed the Single European Act (which set the objective of establishing a single market), apparently believing that it was only an extension of free trade in goods to services, capital, and labor.
This was just what his people had done in Sighet, believing that one day the Messiah would come.
The moment people stop believing that the demagogues can be prevented from doing their worst is the moment we can be sure that it is already too late.
Wilhelm flaunted his absolute power, believing it to be divinely ordained.
Western leaders put on a brave face, believing that moderate crooks were better than motley extremists.
Some members of South Korea’s governing conservative Saenuri Party now openly call for the acquistion of nuclear weapons, believing that this will deter a North Korean attack and prompt China to increase pressure on its client to roll back its weapons programs.
(He did not suggest that men are on average more gifted in these fields than women, but that there is some reason for believing that men are more likely than women to be found at both the upper and lower ends of the spectrum of abilities in these fields – and Harvard, of course, only appoints people at the extreme upper end.)
This is particularly apparent with respect to migration: contrary to the view shared by virtually the entire political establishment, a majority of Germans wants to close the country’s borders to refugees, with 70% believing that “Islam does not belong to Germany.”
The ancient Egyptians and the Incas practiced a religion of the Sun, believing it to be at the beginning of all life on Earth.
Believing that stronger pursuit of revolutionary ideals is the only way to strengthen their country, these idealists seek to inspire a “return of the radicals,” triggering sharp conflict with their more pragmatic co-revolutionaries.
It will be a tragedy for Russia if it spends the next 20 years believing it to be the case.
Many Western diplomats appear to be of the same superficial cast of mind as Sykes and Picot, believing that Assad’s fall from power would remove Syria from the Iran-Hezbollah-Hamas axis.
Rather than slavishly believing policymakers’ assurances, emerging-market researchers have learned to be cynical about official promises.
Recently, however, concern has been expressed – from within the diamond trade – that the scope of the Kimberley Process is too limited, and that consumers have thus been lulled into believing that there are no longer any ethical problems with diamonds.
The world’s liberal democracies must start believing in themselves again.
Their energies were hardly absorbed in distinctions between Macedonians, Serbs, and Bulgarians (“they are all cloned Slavs,” as one ethnic Albanian leader unhelpfully remarked to me); but nor did they want to live as a “national minority,” believing that to do so would be to live as a second-class citizen.
Now many have gone back to believing in decline.
In the European Union, carbon prices have been low for several years, and for now market participants seem to be following the herd in believing that they will remain so.
When supply shocks hit the US economy, the neo-Keynesians’ response was to pour on more demand, believing it would revive employment.
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