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Banning either is inconceivable; even restricting either is hard to conceive.
Had business schools existed before the American Civil War, one can conceive of at least a lecture, if not a full course, on the subject.
The last of the revolutionary generation, President Abdulaziz Buteflika must still conceive a succession that ends his country’s civil war.
But, for all we know, it is the next fetus that the woman will conceive, not the one she aborted, that will turn out to be the Beethoven or Einstein.
I think that when the authorities conceive such strategies, they assume that the outcome will be manageable.
Liberals, being people of good will, find it hard to conceive of implacable enemies.
In such a context, a common long-term strategy is extremely difficult to conceive.
No matter how inconsistent such attitudes appear to be, they remain widespread and cannot be overlooked, because they suggest that people here conceive of NATO as a protective umbrella, not something to which they must contribute.
For anti-liberals, the true enemies of peace today are those nation-states and institutions that seek to place external limits on sovereignty and conceive of political community in normative rather than territorial and cultural terms.
But the same outcome is assured if the US and Israel conceive the conference solely as a way to isolate and force NPT compliance on Iran and Syria.
Yet it is impossible even to conceive of falling incomes bringing about greater justice in the world.
For millennia, their ancestors took their watery environment for granted; to them, it was “emptiness” as empty as they could conceive.
What is especially sophisticated about the new ideas cropping up in the US, Europe, India, China and elsewhere is the recognition that, as with drugs and toys, it is impossible to say in advance which financial products we should allow and which we should not, because we cannot conceive of all the products that can and will come to market.
For example, realists could conceive of the US trying to offset China’s geopolitical rise by bolstering its alliances in the Asia-Pacific region, especially with Japan and South Korea.
It is also a fundamental human right; only individual adults should have the power to decide whether, when, or how often to conceive.
In fact, it is hard to conceive an upper limit for how advanced AGI could become.
In theory, it should be easy to conceive of two different regulatory systems that reflect, for example, the different priorities that the US and the EU assign to privacy.
Are there no limits, or does today’s China conceive of itself as a restored Middle Kingdom, to whom the entire world must kowtow?
To conceive the needed package of reforms, though, we must first understand the West's economic model: how its parts were designed to work and how it can be refitted to regain its capabilities.
But the lessons that elites learn – and they clearly will want to turn the protests to their electoral advantage – will partly depend on how these movements are described, and how they conceive of themselves.
In other words, to be successful, he must conceive and project a vision of the UN as it should be, while administering and defending the organization as it is.
Perhaps only someone who comes from one of the post-Soviet states can conceive of politics in terms of original principles in the manner of Rawls.
According to the World Health Organization, an estimated 222 million women in developing countries do not want to have children now, but lack the means to ensure that they do not conceive.
“I conceive, therefore, that a somewhat comprehensive socialization of investment will prove the only means of securing an approximation to full employment.”
From my perspective as the group's only European member, the overarching message should be that the US must conceive of itself not as “the indispensable power," as it now does, but as “the indispensable partner."
They must not conceive of their decision so narrowly because, in Bulgaria at least, their words and actions are beginning to twist the very meaning of what it is to be “in” Europe.
To avoid being the losers in today’s US-China competition, we must relearn the language of power and conceive of Europe as a top-tier geostrategic actor.
Britain stayed aloof from every European effort to establish common institutions, not just because Clement Attlee’s socialist government in the 1940s believed that Europe would destroy Britain’s welfare state, but also because the British could not conceive of their country being on a par with other European powers.
The problem is that it is easier for us to conceive of a technological fix for complex social problems than it is to imagine politicians and citizens uniting around a common cause.
So the idea that people – even ordinary people working in all industries – possess the imagination to conceive of new goods and new methods was not considered.
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