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On the contrary, economic theorists have been puzzled by the historical rate of increase in the stock market, which they call “the equity premium puzzle.”
Unfortunately, the West did not provide the needed financial assistance, contrary to my (and many other people’s) recommendations, and the Russian economic and financial calamity was more severe as a result.
This is not to say that the currency re-alignment that is currently underway is necessarily a problematic development; on the contrary, it has the potential to boost the global economy by supporting the recovery of some of its most challenged components.
On the contrary, it is an outgrowth of the system for assessing and promoting Chinese bureaucrats that prevailed until the early twentieth century.While it is a form of meritocracy, and thus superior to nepotism, it fails to take into account the reality that a capacity for rote learning does not necessarily imply an aptitude for creativity or ingenuity.
On the contrary, one of them has been promoted to command the newly formed (and US-funded) Jakarta Anti-Terror Unit.
On the contrary, it will leave them far more vulnerable to the phenomenon’s myriad risks.
On the contrary, the Minsk Protocol marked only the end of the beginning of Putin’s program to turn Ukraine into a vassal state, and to restore a Russian veto over its neighbors’ international relations.
Indeed, contrary to what Putin claims to the Russian public, the Chinese are not fully committed to backing him in his confrontation with the West.
On the contrary, the party’s success put it in a strong position to reach out to the Muslim community on core development issues.
More PhD production and burgeoning research in China, for instance, doesn’t take away from America’s store of learning; on the contrary, it enhances what we know and can accomplish.
Indeed, the relationship would almost certainly survive even if Israel, contrary to US advice, were to attack Iran.
On the contrary, the Syrian army was very close to collapsing at one point.
On the contrary, MAPs would put heavy demands on Ukraine and Georgia.
Today, no one threatens Russia's independence, despite paranoid rants to the contrary.
Russian interests concerning NATO, harsh rhetoric to the contrary, are ambiguous.
On the contrary, their domestic problems threaten to turn uncertainty into peril.
On the contrary, with a young, well-educated population unable to find suitable work, the regime has created its own cadre of potential protestors, who are aware that it is using empty slogans to keep the state of emergency and stay in power.
Contrary to myths that he and his insurgents lived frugally during the Yenan days, they lived well on trading profits.
Xi’s motive in pursuing modernity is not, as many in the West have wrongly inferred, to establish China as a superpower on par with the United States; on the contrary, Xi views his current challenge and mission as being primarily domestic.
On the contrary, all other leaders – starting with China’s President Xi Jinping – have confirmed their commitment to it, and 174 countries have formally ratified it.
On the contrary, democracy’s strength lies not just in its character, but in its achievements as well.
On the contrary, Greece’s creditors – and its own politicians – have handled the crisis in a way that has thrown the entire constitutional achievement of the past four decades into doubt.
On the contrary, America’s current economic difficulties will hit Europe hard, but with a time lag – the best guess being 2009.
On the contrary, the Bank’s current policy of fighting inflationary pressures by slower growth, a stronger euro, and the credit crunch seems just about right for the time being.
On the contrary, the outcome represents a significant victory for the Tea Party’s minions, whose purpose seems to be to reduce government obligations and expenditures to a bare minimum (some object even to having a central bank), and to maintain President George W. Bush’s outrageous tax breaks for the wealthy.
On the contrary, PAS remains a viable opposition force and will continue to push for the expansion of Sharia.
On the contrary, there is some evidence that they acted counter-cyclically in the crisis.
On the contrary, as soon as government information is designed to be immediately open to everybody, its value as information declines and its value as an instrument of manipulation increases.
On the contrary, events have imposed an agenda on Europe that we cannot escape and for which solidarity – true union – will be needed.
On the contrary, the global economy is leaving vast numbers of people behind, including in the richest countries, while planet Earth itself is under unprecedented threat, owing to human-caused climate change, pollution, water depletion, and the extinction of countless species.
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