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The genie is out of the bottle, and people know that they have the power to topple governments, and, more generally, that their political activism has consequences.
Have you, in the past week, bought a bottle of water, a beer, or a coffee when tap water was available at no cost?
We agree on the need to forge a proper European banking union, but disagree on the need to put the financial genie back in its bottle.
Bound by the goal of economic prosperity, China’s leaders let the genie of individual rights out of the bottle.
The future remains uncertain, but the assumption that Arabs’ demands for fair governments and civil dignity can still be repressed, like a genie squeezed back into the bottle, is a self-serving fantasy of irremediable autocrats – and of some in the West.
Europe needs a growth strategy to put this political genie back in the bottle.
In part, it represents a fundamental – some would say fundamentalist – view that taxes are to government what a bottle of whisky is to an alcoholic.
Unfortunately, putting the nuclear genie back in the bottle is next to impossible.
Like the genie that has escaped the bottle, the horse that has fled the barn, and the train that has left the station, the myth has become a cliché.
Putting this genie back in its bottle would be virtually impossible without bloodshed of the type we are now witnessing in some parts of the Arab world.
The democratic genie is out of the bottle.
At best, they are seeking ways to keep health-care spending from rising, as though the genie of medical progress can be forced back into the bottle.
Most important, prophets of doom should have to answer for their predictions – or at least forfeit a bottle of champagne – and those who promote their nonsense should be held accountable for their irresponsible behavior.
I am pleased when I swim fast, but I would get no sense of achievement from improving my time if the improvement came out of a bottle.
The superpowers were likened to a pair of scorpions in a bottle, each knowing a first strike would be suicidal.
If Trump’s progressive opponents fail to engage seriously with the forces that Trump’s victory reflected and reinforced – in particular, the backlash against neoliberalism – not even impeachment will be enough to put the Trumpian genie back in its bottle.
Today, the frontrunner is a device known as a “tokamak,” a magnetic bottle in which the fuel, held at 100-200 million degrees Celsius, fuses, unlocking huge amounts of energy.
Of course, holding the sun in a bottle is no small challenge, especially when one considers that the systems must be engineered so that they can create electricity for a price consumers are willing to pay.
Nor are they the ones who will have to put the inflation genie back in the bottle once it escapes.
More than 250 tests were conducted in the 16 months following the aborted attempt to put the nuclear genie back in its bottle – more explosions than in the 16 preceding years.
While this was still two tests too many, the CTBT clearly has helped force the test genie back into its bottle – and keep it there.
This may be old wine in a new bottle, but old wine often rewards those who are willing to taste it.
Can the genie of disintegration be put back in its bottle?
The bottle could still be sealed before the genie escapes.
I have not opened my bottle of spumante yet.
The first such billboard showed a young woman's face, but no bar of soap or bottle of perfume.
Even in the remotest villages on the Angolan border, where Ovambo people live in stick huts, electricity is in short supply, and villagers trek miles each day to fetch firewood and water, a bottle of Coke or Fanta is easy to find.
For the Arab regimes, neither the promise of subsidies nor the threat of repression can squeeze the political genie back into its bottle.
The genie is out of the bottle.
The EU therefore urgently needs to put the genie of disintegration back in its bottle.
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