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Traditionally a closed society, Russians love or hate, explained filmmaker Andrei Konchalovsky in 2015; they do not respect.
Occasionally, his speech lapses into the slang of the prison, or tyurma, the epitome of the closed society.
The exclusive and closed nature of autocracy bars many talented individuals from rising to senior government positions, owing to a pattern of succession that rewards political loyalty over capabilities.
For one such area, New York City, an alternative has been proposed: massive storm-surge barriers across the entrance to the harbor region that could be closed when a major storm approaches.
Similarly, Facebook closed accounts of individuals and organizations that were using the platform to document violence against Muslim Rohingya in Myanmar, a crisis that the United Nations has called a “textbook example of ethnic cleansing.”
And in Egypt and Syria, Twitter has blocked citizen journalists from reporting on human-rights abuses, according to journalists whose accounts have been closed.
The profitable parts, such as the TGV, will easily find buyers; the unprofitable plants should be closed.
The story of the Al Saud’s succession struggle is no longer whispered behind closed doors.
Of course, the idea of reusing materials within continuous closed loops to extract their maximum value is not a new one.
I can imagine the celebrations in Gibraltar Town, where, now that the British naval base has closed and Spain is being difficult at the border, financial services are crucial for employment.
Meanwhile, wealthy countries like the United States, Canada, and the Gulf monarchies have largely closed their doors to the refugees, just as the US closed its doors to all but a tiny number of the Jews fleeing Nazi-occupied Europe.
But, ultimately, there is no broad-based support in the US for a return to closed borders.
Leading By EngagingWASHINGTON, DC – In his first inaugural address, US President Barack Obama offered an invitation to the world’s most closed countries.
Whatever America’s Republican Party tries to claim during the 2016 presidential election campaign, Obama’s policy of engagement has worked, enabling the US to shape events in even the most closed countries.
Significantly, as the CIA closed in on bin Laden, the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, for the first time publicly linked the Pakistani military with some of the militants attacking US forces in Afghanistan.
But no one anticipated China’s abrupt shift away from a closed, centrally planned economy to a more open, market-oriented one with expanded economic freedom for individuals and enterprises alike.
But, while America had a superior wage level in the 1700s, Britain nearly closed the wage gap with America by the 1880s, and Germany came almost as close by 1913.
Political survival is one reason: when in a minority, the option of pressing for an Islamic state, with all its undemocratic potential is closed.
In other words, it is an open market for information, operating more or less parallel to the closed, non-market systems run by most companies.
The window of an historic opportunity is being closed.
In closed societies, preoccupation with blasphemy is obsessive and assists the system’s artificial cohesion.
They recognize, of course, the differences between a closed society, distorted by terror and misery, and an open society, distorted by selfish competition and trivial publicity.
Far more damaging is the simple fact that when a closed group monopolizes much of society's power and wealth, initiative and enterprise are stifled in the wider population.
But with the introduction of sanctions, financial markets are closed, for the most part, to Russian businesses.
Despite its lack of drama, intrigue, and competitiveness, the election was important not because Russia's political class renounced all the key elements of authentic democratic electoral procedures, but because it closed the chapter on Russia's liberal democratic experiment, legitimizing Putin's new Russian political system.
But when France adopted the euro, two of these channels of response were closed off.
Waiting lists for medical and nursing services in Norway already seem endless, and school buildings are deteriorating - some have even been closed down by the public health authorities.
The structure of such an alliance is principally closed -- it is a structure in which power is more important than value.
Still, it must be repeated that NATO is open to all Euro-Atlantic democracies; it is not closed to any country for this or that tactical reason.
Johnson is a tribune of the people who grew up with the privileges of the 1%; a child of immigrants who campaigned for closed borders; a Conservative who wants to upend the political order; an erudite man who mocks expertise; and a cosmopolitan who casually calls black people “piccaninnies.”
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