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It seems that Homo economicus, who lives for bread alone, has given way to someone for whom a sense of belonging is at least as important as eating.
The standard daily ration is 150-300 grams (5-10 ounces) of corn or rice (equivalent to roughly four slices of dry bread), depending on the location.
Another clash that NEPAD aims to resolve is that between economic rights, or “the right to bread,” which the Beijing model supporters put first, and political rights, or “the right to vote,” emphasized by the pro-Western camp.
Given that a starving person would most likely give up their vote in exchange for some bread, one can surmise that a certain level of prosperity must be achieved before political rights become the top priority.
But the belief that the right to vote would support the right to bread did not quite work out.
A strategic lack of transparency is the bread and butter of shrewd politicians who want to please a lobby by hiding the costs of the public's largesse from the majority of citizens.
First, we are deeply distressed to watch an economy collapse before our eyes, with bread lines and bank queues not seen since the Great Depression.
They understand finance and economics, the bread and butter of the World Bank, and have a network of connections to leverage the Bank’s effectiveness.
The argument for the latter is simple: with national currencies eliminated and everything priced in Euros, how can similar cars or loaves of bread have different prices on either side of a border?
The panic about bread that swept France in 1789, and the inability of the government to guarantee supplies, destroyed the ancien regime.
The Bolsheviks came to power on a promise of bread (and peace).
She removed a sack of flour from a city where people were killing each other for a crust of bread.
HAVANA: A man riding the Chinese-made Forever brand bicycle under the Caribbean sun after eating a single slice of bread, washed down with very bad coffee, finds it difficult to ponder America's trade embargo against Cuba.
Rouhani severely criticized Ahmadinejad’s cash-transfer policy, which was designed to compensate for lost bread and energy subsidies.
But while the UK is certainly a democracy, her argument to the British people is not unlike what Russian President Vladimir Putin tells his own citizens: no one lives by bread alone, and recovering sovereignty and national greatness is worth the economic risk.
Bread and Bush-BashingLondon – I feel a little sorry for President Bush.
The word for bread in Egypt is “aish,” which also means life.
As we know from Deuteronomy, “Man does not live by bread alone.”
Will Lula have sufficient command over Brazilian politics to keep his supporters and political cadres happy with promises of jam tomorrow when it is clear that there will be no bread today?
But, in the event, many Russians pitied the prisoners, and some even threw bread to them.
People of different nationalities and ethnicities have been living in this region side by side for centuries, sharing customs, traditions, bread and wine, and mutual respect for each another’s cultures and languages.
Those images are of children’s shriveled, vitrified bodies; of the wounded whose limbs, for lack of drugs, have been amputated by desperate doctors who are soon massacred themselves; of women mown down by rocket fire, as in Sarajevo 24 years ago, while waiting in line to buy yogurt or bread; of volunteers struck down while digging through the rubble in search of survivors; of human beings drained of strength, surviving in filth and waste, saying goodbye to life.
To curb inflation, Argentina decided to suspend the sale of wheat to its principal export market, Brazil, where the price of bread had increased 20% over the last 12 months.
As a 57-year old retired Iranian professional moonlighting as a taxi driver told me, "When your stomach is empty you don't cry for democracy, you cry for bread!"Conservatives, no less than reformers, must come to terms with this reality.
But, whether formalized or not, simplified narratives are social scientists’ bread and butter.
One slogan was “No bread without freedom.”
We must remember that despite the IMF, the World Banks, and all the market economic phenomena we have experienced in the last decade, Russian bread cannot grow in a foreign style.
The late King Hussein took up this challenge in 1989, after bread riots in the southern Jordanian city of Ma’an.
Aristotle’s Politics offers a radically different interpretation of the relationship between economic performance and political stability: “In order to secure his power, a tyrant must keep the population in poverty, so that the preoccupation with daily bread leaves them no leisure to conspire against the tyrant.”
Salt is in almost everything we eat, from bread and cereals to cheese and cured meats.
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