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Europe’s three key new leaders – Britain’s Gordon Brown, Merkel, and Sarkozy – all
belong
to a generation that is no longer emotionally moved by the project of European integration.
But, while machines work everywhere, managers must abide by local traditions and
belong
to indigenous social networks.
Typically, in the populist political imagination, elites disproportionately care for those who, like themselves, do not really
belong.
He was not making a xenophobic argument that Muslims do not
belong
in Great Britain, or a multiculturalist argument that Muslims should be allowed to wear whatever traditional garb they believe best expresses their cultural and religious sensibilities.
As then President-elect Dmitri Medvedev said in 2008 “no country would be happy about a military bloc to which it did not
belong
approaching its borders."
In her novel The Cairo House, Samia Serageldin remarks that, “for those whose past and present
belong
to different worlds, there are times that mark their passage from one to the other, a transitional limbo.”
Furthermore, because governments did not trust one another, they insisted on including in treaties what would normally
belong
in ordinary legislation.
Moreover, there is no “Asian” economic system: China’s state capitalism does not
belong
to the same category as the private capitalism practiced in Japan and Korea.
Our criteria
belong
to the past.
As a country that does not
belong
to any power bloc, India cannot afford to put itself in the position of needing multilateral support – a trap into which even developed countries, like Portugal and Spain, have fallen.
That is an expression of national solidarity, a sense that a country’s citizens
belong
together and are prepared, in a crisis, to sacrifice their own interests for the collective good.
Today, the innovative technologies and ideas that are driving the Fourth Industrial Revolution
belong
to all of humankind, and they are proving Pasteur right in ways that he could not have imagined.
Prizes
belong
to those who make great discoveries, write great poems, or discover new ways of living – to the bringers of new things.
The changes in how teachers are evaluated and their labor rights (wrongly described as an education reform), together with changes to tax and telecommunications legislation,
belong
to the first category; energy and political reforms
belong
to the second.
All of these are worthy goals, to be sure, but they
belong
intrinsically to the sphere of national political decisions.
Tiananmen and its spirit
belong
to the world.
The three new members of the Alliance
belong
to the Western sphere of civilization.
But, more important, 43% of Africans will
belong
to the middle or upper classes, up from 39.6% in 2013, implying considerably higher demand for goods and services.
For these companies – and for the rest of us – the best insurance is to keep fossil fuels where they belong: in the ground.
So the future in Asia now appears to
belong
to China, whose economic growth supports that of neighboring countries – and whose mercantilism is prevailing in the region.
Thus, should Germany be forced to exit, the result would be northern and southern euro blocs, the only question being which bloc France would choose to
belong
to.
As I travel in small towns, many of the businesses that I see – most of them, it seems –
belong
to large chains, with mass-purchasing contracts, standardized training procedures, consistent quality, and, I assume, profitability.
The former president of the Bundesbank, Hans Tietmeyer, liked to quote a medieval French philosopher, Nicolas Oresme, who wrote that money does not
belong
to the prince, but to the community.
The US and its allies are already bombing perpetrators of crimes against humanity in Syria, but only when those perpetrators
belong
to ISIS rather than to the Syrian government.
We cannot be pacifists when people around the world live in fear of mass murder because they
belong
to a particular ethnic or religious minority, believe in the “wrong” ideology, or live in vulnerable countries alongside revanchist powers.
I saw great interest in Somalia at the African Union’s recent summit in Addis Ababa, and at a meeting in Djibouti of more than 40 governments and regional groupings that
belong
to the International Contact Group on Somalia.
One argument in favor of the separatist choice is that an independent Quebec will
belong
to the North American Free Trade Area (NAFTA).
Because I
belong
to the generation taught by old sages – Lawrence Klein, Franco Modigliani, and James Tobin – I think this is a worthwhile assessment – one that should be applied to today’s discussions about monetary policy and inflation.
Many of the disadvantaged
belong
to specific demographic groups that tend to fare worse than others in all countries, not least because they face similar economic, legal, political, and cultural barriers.
The future will not
belong
to Asia merely because it is the world’s largest, most populous, and fastest-developing continent.
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