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The ECB was chosen as the Single Supervisory Mechanism, despite the wafer-thin legal basis (an ambiguous clause in the Lisbon Treaty) for its new responsibilities.
Democracy remains a worthy and widespread goal, which should be distinguished from the means chosen to attain it.
Then there’s the controversy over her having chosen to use a private, unsecured server installed at her home in Chappaqua, New York to process her emails, business as well as personal, when she was Secretary of State during President Barack Obama’s first term in office.
With the stakes so high, many media owners have chosen to leave the game entirely, selling their outlets to pro-Kremlin oligarchs, many of whom were, fittingly, previously asked by Putin to buy soccer clubs.
He has chosen to demonstrate this most clearly in the field of foreign policy.
But the EU so far has chosen to ignore that Gazprom’s monopoly is a clear violation of the anti-trust and competition policies of the revised Rome Treaty and WTO obligations.
But it does mean understanding that even democracy has many rules – ideally rules that a majority has chosen.
But they are mostly not chosen directly; those rules generally reflect compromises among elected representatives who can argue and negotiate in person, reflecting the overall preferences of those who elected them.
Qaddafi’s armed forces were chosen on the basis of loyalty and ethnic affiliation, rather than any concept of merit, so the temptation to strip everyone to their underwear and send them home (to describe what may be the most humane of outcomes) might be great.
More than thirty years after the disappearance of the long dictatorship of Francisco Franco, Spain finds itself confronted by the shadows of a past it has deliberately chosen not to confront.
Many of the governance reforms proposed for the IMF and the World Bank – affecting, most obviously, how their heads are chosen – finally seem to be on the table.
Which path will be chosen is not clear, but it is far better that a broad coalition be responsible for making such a vital, even existential decision.
Trump can’t be pleased that the Obama administration rushed to push through the reappointment of its chosen World Bank president, Jim Yong Kim.
Burned by a decade of wishful thinking and over-expectations – from the “color revolutions” in the post-Soviet world to the Arab Spring – Western public opinion has chosen to hear only bad news now.
At first, this seemed to be the British government’s chosen tactic.
In this regard, it is a pity that Montenegro's pro-Western president Milo Djukanovic has chosen a separatist path, rather than help Serbia's opposition.
By reappointing a Fed chair chosen by someone else, a president can appear to guarantee financial markets that the Fed is not too much under his thumb.
Appointments in European universities are often governed by complex bureaucratic processes that involve countless "judges" chosen from all over a country.
The postcommunists know that they can no longer live off their legacy of organization and discipline, so they have chosen a clever and attractive 34-year-old leader.
Rather than using the oil windfall to pay for long-overdue reforms in health care, education, and utilities – and thus helping to ensure the macroeconomic stability needed to sustain rapid long-term growth – President Vladimir Putin has chosen large spending increases for public wages and pensions.
Alas, it could not have chosen a man less suited to the task.
Nelson Mandela could easily have chosen to define his group as black South Africans and sought revenge for the injustices of Apartheid and his own imprisonment.
South African President Jacob Zuma has chosen a pro-business tycoon as his vice-presidential candidate and may move toward market-oriented reforms.
That must be achieved by minimizing state intervention, bureaucracy, and privileges for the chosen few.
The Benelux countries, some Scandinavian states, and many of the new Europeans of East Central Europe have chosen traditionally right-of-centre parties.
France has unilaterally chosen to ignore the Stability and Growth Pact by running a predicted deficit well above the 3% of GDP limit.
Although we don’t yet have an estimate of the economic losses the stress tests have chosen to ignore, they may be substantial.
Later this year, China’s President Hu Jintao and Prime Minister Wen Jiabao will be succeeded by men chosen by the Communist Party long ago.
Of course, it is also possible that Gibraltar and Bermuda have chosen to ignore the results, or dispute their significance.
Such an approach would be more relevant and generalizable than industry-sponsored short-term studies that compare new treatments to placebos in a fastidiously chosen population that does not reflect real-world conditions.
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