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This was most obvious with the intellectual responses to Islamist terror: terms like “Islamo-fascism” or “third totalitarianism” were coined not just to characterize a new enemy of the West, but also to evoke the experience of the anti-totalitarian struggles that preceded and followed World War II.
Qualitatively similar, though less pronounced, trends characterize other major countries such as France, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
As functionaries of the state, they had certain duties imposed by law: to evaluate and characterize the risks that were present in L’Aquila.”
Everyone knew about the underinvestment, over-exploitation, and lawlessness that characterize Putin’s Russia, but no international power was interested in discussing, let alone combatting, it.
Yet most people’s instinct was to characterize the shock as temporary and reversible – a V-shape disruption, featuring a sharp downturn and a rapid recovery.
And, as if this were not enough, another menacing fault line has appeared along the former Iron Curtain, with governments of formerly communist countries openly defying the spirit of solidarity that used to characterize (at least in theory) the European project.
Five years into this new era, how should we characterize it?
A case in point is the dramatically low levels of violence that characterize the present, a fact uncovered by Steven Pinker in his 2011 book The Better Angels of Our Nature.
As leader of the nationalist Likud opposition to the governments of Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres, his tactics in opposing the Oslo agreements between the Labour led government of Israel and the PLO was to characterize both Mr. Rabin and Mr. Peres as traitors, the functional equivalents of such infamous collaborators as Petain and Quisling.
This redistribution, channeling net public resources toward lower-income households, is a sensible correction to the market economy, a kind of insurance against life’s vicissitudes and the rigors of scarcity pricing that characterize the market economy and have little to do with equitableness.
But to characterize the election result as a rejection of Europe simply is not quite accurate (or fair).
The first ethical hurdle is to reach a consensus on how to characterize drug resistance.
In any case, a quota is too blunt a measure by which to characterize a country’s absorptive capacity.
But China has attained much higher GDP growth than the OECD economies, driven largely by the rapid productivity gains that characterize the initial “catch up” phase of emerging-market development.
But some observers will undoubtedly characterize it as yet another chapter in the great-power rivalry between Russia and the US.
America’s third mistake was to overestimate how effective conventional military power would be in dealing with the weak states and networked transnational organizations that characterize international politics, at least in the broader Middle East.
If it is deemed sensationalist to characterize this situation as terrifying, one may add that a much larger share of the population (estimated at close to 50% in the NIMH study) is affected by less severe forms of mental disease that only occasionally disturb their functionality.
The two-week conclave meets annually, and while it is unfair and inaccurate to characterize the Congress as a rubber-stamp exercise, delegates tend, in the main, to jump on the bandwagon of policies constructed by the central government, and by the Communist Party.
What to do about it depends on how we characterize the problem.
Matching problems with solutions requires us to characterize the issue properly.
Liberal Western and domestic circles commonly characterize Vladimir Putin’s government as increasingly authoritarian and ineffective.
Assisting Iraq's political regeneration may be the most difficult task, given the many religious, ethnic, geographic and political divisions that characterize Iraqi society.
To cope with the transnational challenges that characterize a global information age, the international community will have to continue to develop a series of complementary networks and institutions that supplement the global framework of the UN.
Some characterize Trump’s efforts – and his Twitter forays, in particular – as more style than substance, unlikely to have any longer-term quantitative impact.
Is it entirely relative, or are there objective grounds to characterize a behavior or act as evil?
As a result, they are approaching negotiations skeptically, rather than emphasizing the sense of mutual obligation that should characterize the alliance.
None of these advances would have been possible had researchers been operating according to the three-year plans that characterize much of current academia.
Crisis and TransformationANKARA – It has become a cliché to characterize our era as one of multiple rapid transformations.
Whether or not they make Miliband the next prime minister (in a coalition with the Liberal Democrats, the SNP, or both), they are likely to characterize elections elsewhere as well in the years ahead.
SEOUL – As China continues its unremitting rise, people throughout East Asia are wondering whether their states will ever be able to achieve the peaceful, stable relations that now characterize Europe.
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