Circumstances
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PARIS – Exceptional
circumstances
– namely, the depth and urgency of the financial and economic crisis – have contributed to bringing an exceptional man, Barack Obama, to the American presidency.
Our new and strange relationship to politics, as evidenced by the current circumstances, can be summed up in three terms.
A weaker economy calls for a larger deficit, and the appropriate size of the deficit in the face of a recession depends on the precise
circumstances.
Political ideas are easily translated into religious language, and in extreme circumstances, violent jihadism is used to express political frustrations.
Will he be remembered as the French Harry Truman – a discreet, uncharismatic man who, when faced with urgent and dramatic circumstances, ended up doing the right things for lack of a better alternative?
But in the end, these very different
circumstances
produced a common and inherently simple problem: over-indebtedness.
In such circumstances, small countries seemingly have no choice: financial markets’ Diktat on austerity, lest they be punished by withdrawal of financing.
As Stanford biologist Robert Sapolsky has argued, behavioral dichotomies that might seem inevitable and crucial one minute can, under the right circumstances, “evaporate in an instant.”
What liberals should do in these
circumstances
is obvious: support Putin’s regime insofar as it maintains the foundation and institutions of a liberal order.
Lying or hiding the truth in some
circumstances
can, it appears, make people better off.
Attitudes formed in such congenial
circumstances
die hard.
Under such circumstances, it does not take much to lead to an aborted takeoff, or worse.
In such circumstances, seemingly small events can trigger an unforeseen and disastrous chain reaction.
When the global financial crisis erupted, the euro shielded countries that in comparable
circumstances
would have been plunged into a deep currency crisis.
The government has ordered civil registry officers to refrain from issuing any identity documents for persons who were born to “foreign parents” and received Dominican birth certificates under what the government now calls “irregular circumstances.”
Above all, it is a politics that realizes that citizens – without theorizing, as I am now – know perfectly well whether political actions have direction, structure, a logic in time and space, or whether they lack these qualities and are merely haphazard responses to
circumstances.
The ECB, in such circumstances, would have no choice but to slam the monetary brakes down hard.
Appalled at the
circumstances
of the Japanese people, who were largely peasants, the emperor decided to suspend taxation.
But, regardless of the circumstances, central banking is too important to be left to technocrats.
Today, the EU is being asked to conduct complex missions in adverse
circumstances.
And, even as their
circumstances
worsen and their numbers increase, their plight is going all but unreported.
To pass judgment on redistributive outcomes, we need to know about the
circumstances
that cause them.
For example, in El Salvador, where more than 7,000 cases of Zika were reported between December 2015 and January 2016, abortions are illegal under all
circumstances.
Under these circumstances, Britain would be likely to change its mind about Brexit.
Although the
circumstances
are different, the fundamental issues are always the same, for they touch on questions of legitimacy and morality.
People have always moved, either by choice or when forced by
circumstances.
Indeed, while corruption is generally harmful to economic growth, there is a case to be made that in the years since China launched its transition to a market economy in the late 1970s, it was a necessary evil because of the country’s unique initial circumstances: rigid state control and limited international trade.
It is a dynamic system that requires calibration and innovation to adapt to changing
circumstances
and emerging threats.
Only in “extreme circumstances” would the US consider using nuclear weapons.
Most experts agree, and Deaton concurs, that at least a billion people on the planet live in desperate
circumstances
resembling conditions that prevailed hundreds of years ago.
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