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Moreover, Pinker argues that more moral progress has been achieved in the last few centuries than most macroeconomic measurements can reflect.
What has been unfolding in front of our eyes in the last four weeks has been a modern and reduced version of the balance-of-power system that dominated Europe and the world in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
It results from the way we have been living for two centuries.
The learned, cultured, and radiant traditions of earlier centuries seem to have vanished.
Doping in sports has most likely been going on for centuries.
And, remember, the country’s operating model for centuries has been to provide a safe haven for foreign capital.
Training for Gender EqualityMUSCAT – For centuries, women around the world have struggled for even the most basic rights.
Originally mainly Berber, it was conquered by the Arabs, Islamized, and became for centuries a dependency of the Sublime Porte, and therefore Turkish.
Realists warn against letting values determine policy, but democracy and human rights have been an inherent part of American foreign policy for two centuries.
But, after around two centuries, physical strength was rarely in demand.
By putting a premium on mental endeavors and making physical routines obsolete, the transformation over the past three centuries gave people more opportunities to think.
The singular "people" that defines citizenship in a traditional nation-state could be forged only by plunging Europe into appalling repression and war lasting generations, if not centuries.
A few months of politics will never overcome a few centuries of sociology.
China, too, has endeavored for centuries to bind Burma to itself, mostly in search of a southern route to India and the Indian Ocean.
These risks to democracy are greatest because of the bad and sad traditions of Soviet power and the centuries of the pre-Soviet epoch.
Unlike China, which for centuries had a unified, bureaucratic-authoritarian, imperial state, Japan evolved a unique form of dual and at times triple government.
A majority of French teachers saw the wearing of headscarves as the work of an organized movement that aimed to question the religious neutrality of schools – and even to contest, as the Roman Catholic Church did centuries ago, the very principles of the Enlightenment.
The standard checklist of what to do in a financial crisis to avoid a deep and prolonged depression has been gradually worked out over two centuries: by Bank of England Governor Cornelius Buller in 1825; by the Victorian-era editor of The Economist , Walter Bagehot; and by the economists Irving Fisher, John Maynard Keynes, Milton Friedman, among many others.
They were devised more than two centuries ago for a mostly agrarian world.
On the other hand, it is only in the last couple of centuries – not long enough to have any evolutionary significance – that we have been able to harm anyone by throwing a switch that diverts a train.
Catholicism – or, more accurately, the celibate male mythos at the heart of the institutional church – rests on centuries of sexism.
Separatism and Russia's FutureMOSCOW: “Self-determination” dominated international politics for two centuries.
Throughout the North Caucasus many nationalities and ethnic groups have lived in close proximity for centuries.
Supported by extensive genealogies, including centuries of church and national health registries, their argument is convincing.
Unlike the framers of the US Constitution, we have had centuries of experience to judge whether it does or does not “promote the general welfare.”
World Order 2.0NEW YORK – For nearly four centuries, since the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 ended the Thirty Years’ War in Europe, the concept of sovereignty – the right of countries to an independent existence and autonomy – has formed the core of the international order.
There are simply too many “nations,” actual or potential, to form the basis of a world system of states, not least because so many of them, having been jumbled up for centuries, cannot now be disentangled.
For centuries, sovereign states have regulated their relations – from ending wars and demarcating borders to establishing diplomatic privileges and conducting trade – with treaties.
And yet, throughout these centuries of treaty-making, violence between countries persisted.
Military strategists have known for centuries that there is, and can be, no final science of war.
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