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On the contrary, it is the necessary antidote.
On the contrary, Parfit argued, desires can be irrational.
On the contrary, it requires a special focus.
And, contrary to the regime’s expectations, the Winter Olympics in Sochi also failed to revive Putin’s popularity.
On the contrary, as a measure of GDP, foreign financial flows to Africa are higher than those to emerging markets, and they come from a broader range of sources.
On the contrary, they risk reproducing the havoc that such measures have unleashed in Iraq and elsewhere in recent years.
And yet, despite abundant academic evidence and country experience to the contrary, the IMF remains stubbornly wedded to the idea of eventual capital-account liberalization.
Scottish independence, the “No” campaign argues, would bring few if any of the claimed benefits; on the contrary, it would cause many economic calamities, ranging from financial panics to the flight of jobs and industry from Scotland.
On the contrary, there is no reason to presume that owners of capital will not continue to be the main beneficiaries.
On the contrary, it can be seen across the Western world – and it does not bode well for peace.
On the contrary, if Trump follows through on his campaign promises, the greenback could eventually be toppled from the peak of the global monetary hierarchy, as a widening range of alternatives emerge to pull it down.
Of course, governments should be concerned about the long-term trajectory of public debt, all politically charged and polemical nonsense to the contrary.
On the contrary, it would compel member states’ governments to look beyond narrow national interest, defend openness and multilateralism, and confront head-on the exclusionary political forces that have lately been gaining ground.
On the contrary, the point is to highlight why EU member states must dedicate themselves to the continued construction of a stronger and deeper union.
At the same time, despite news headlines suggesting the contrary, there was no uniform wave of anti-Europeanism, or of disillusion with the European project.
On the contrary, it amounts to a surrender of influence.
On the contrary, Clinton reiterated an earlier warning to Pakistan against keeping “snakes in the backyard.”
On the contrary, the technology gap between developed and developing countries, measured by levels of penetration by personal computers and information-technology and communications services, has narrowed markedly over the course of the past decade, with rapid growth in mobile phone and Internet use.
In spite of official declarations to the contrary, EU enlargement is not considered a real priority.
To the contrary, by excluding different types of financial incentives based on different abilities, it deepens the cleavage between rich and poor, between big cities and provincial towns and villages.
State-owned health insurance companies, state guaranteed retirement, etc. are not only insecure and inefficient; they are also contrary to the idea of political reform.
On the contrary, European countries continue to forge bilateral deals with Russia, with little consideration for common EU interests.
On the contrary, there will be less than half as many, not more than 700 in total.
On the contrary, experience indicates that governments often struggle to align public spending with underlying or mounting problems, such as public-health threats, until they reach a crisis point.
On the contrary, Europe has now rushed to initiate QE.
On the contrary, it promises more asset bubbles, financial crises, and Japanese-style secular stagnation.
Yet, contrary to conventional wisdom, this is not the beginning of the end of the postwar liberal order.
On the contrary, the way in which the various religious and ethnic groups in Iraq responded to his execution is emblematic of the difficulty of holding Iraq together as a coherent entity.
After all, the Russian media do not seem more trustworthy, better informed, or more professionally run than in most countries; quite to the contrary, they are owned by a few oligarchs, and their bias and manipulation are both transparent and crude.
Of course, contrary to China, India still finds it difficult to fully perceive itself as a world power, though it is well aware that it has become a regional giant.
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