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Look at the European model: cling to the status quo, don't make waves, workers councils, Mitbestimmung, unions, and masses of well-paid unemployed people.
It would be understandable -- and rather unimportant -- if such attacks came merely from the old, traditional, and nationalist sectors of society, those parties that cling to ancient taboos everywhere.
It certainly isn’t a reason to cling to the status quo.
So their governments cling to power while exploiting rivals’ internal weaknesses.
Many Western feminists cling to the belief that socialism's fall harmed women, or at least "threw them back" into the past.
Belarus won independence in 1991, but, since 1994, President Alexander Lukashenko has shamelessly embraced communist symbols – and methods – to cling to power.
Libya is experiencing a deadly struggle between people insisting on change, and a desperate, greedy regime determined to cling to power after 40 years of crass misrule.
The Koch brothers, for example, stubbornly cling to impractical and thoroughly debunked libertarian ideas, and numerous Fortune 500 CEOs instinctively side with Republicans, even though the US economy consistently performs better under Democratic administrations.
The middle class continues to cling to the hope that their savings can be salvaged, but these funds, which are now frozen in the nation's banks, are unlikely ever to be at anyone's disposal.
If corporate America and the US more generally are to realize the full potential of all citizens, we can no longer use Asian Americans to cling to the idea that it is an unalloyed meritocracy.
In a democracy, the party of the majority is most likely to be constituted by those “who cling most tenaciously to the exclusive class interest.”
For now, Assad is doing his best to cling to power.
His followers, unsurprisingly, cling to his parting promise to return to Liberia.
It will cling to artificial exchange rates, while avoiding reforms that could actually plug leakages in state-owned enterprises.
In the long run, however, democracies benefit from intrinsic self-correction mechanisms that are absent in autocracies, where often-inadequate leaders cling to power.
Modern history shows that the easiest way for a developing country to become ensnared in the dreaded “middle-income trap” is to cling to its old model for too long.
Likewise, French banks holding Greek bonds cling to whatever thin reed of optimism they can and lobby furiously against restructuring.
To be sure, many of Iran’s ruling elites came of age politically during the anti-imperialist and anti-colonialist agitations of the 1960’s and 1970’s, and still cling to that worldview.
But the one anchor they could cling to was their sense of racial superiority over blacks.
I also believe that Western countries that do not adopt this framework, and instead cling to a neoliberal political economy, will find it increasingly difficult to innovate and grow.
Voluntary public disclosure by hedge funds could also prevent a much stronger regulatory intervention that might otherwise cling to the alarming headlines generated by Rajaratnam’s trial.
Weaker members will certainly cling to it; if there is any danger, it comes from its strongest member, Germany.
We still cling to conspiracy theories even after bin Laden and his fellow conspirators bragged about their great "achievement."
He described the “moral revolution” that must accompany technological progress, with societies resisting the “logic of fear” that compels them to cling to their nuclear arsenals.
Indeed, every member state can be expected to cling to its right to pursue an independent foreign policy for the foreseeable future.
Rescuing a RevolutionBrussels – There is no more depressing sight in politics than a leader who, desperate to cling to power, ruins his country in the process.
I contend that it would be better to recognize the uncertainties inherent in the behavior of financial markets than to cling to a supposedly scientific theory that distorts reality.
Instead of assuming a new national paradigm based on the reality of their accomplishments (national unity, robust international trade, and growing global influence), China’s leaders cling to the old paradigm of their country as victim, the “sick man of Asia” being “cut up like a melon” by predatory imperial and colonial powers like Japan.
They are desperate to cling to power, no matter what, and so are unlikely to question Tudor's democratic pedigree.
As a result, people have begun to cling to other, more primordial group identities.
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