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Moreover, the US insists that it is not containing China (as it did the Soviet Union); on the contrary, China’s economic rise has been facilitated by access to US markets, as well as to global markets through American support for Chinese accession to the World Trade Organization.
On the contrary, if the nation-state model wins out over integration, Europeans will pay a high price in this century.
On the contrary, if privatization does not raise budget revenues or increase efficiency, the public is likely to deem it illegitimate.
This served to prevent any mobilization of the 48% of the voters who had voted “Remain” and who, contrary to the expectations of most professional politicians, remain strongly opposed to Brexit.
Contrary to government claims, May’s goal here was not to gain the upper hand in negotiations, by keeping the EU27 in the dark about Britain’s objectives.
On the contrary, advanced economies need many skills, and high-quality technical education, especially if followed by effective apprenticeship programs, can create smooth transitions from school to work.
On the contrary, even if a number of large member states talk up about a common foreign policy, they prove by their actions that they are determined to maintain their own national foreign policies.
On the contrary, she has unflinchingly steered the CDU towards the left, because she learned three things from the CDU’s election defeat in 2002 and its narrow victory in 2005: Germans don’t want to go to war, don’t think much of economic reform, and are mostly to the left of the CDU/CSU.
On the contrary, China covets much of eastern Russia, lands taken from it during its years of “humiliation” in the nineteenth century.
Yet, contrary to this theory, there has been no overall tendency for the poorest countries to catch up , or converge, with the richer ones in recent decades.
On the contrary, market confidence remains high, boosting expectations of increased investment and consumption.
On the contrary, it is possible that the world will experience even-faster-than-expected growth this year, with growth forecasts being revised upward again this summer.
On the contrary, the World Bank is a global public institution.
On the contrary, he appointed Paul Volcker, a towering pillar of monetary stability, as chairman of the Board of Governors.
On the contrary, developments in these countries have first-order implications for the world economy, given how emerging markets have accounted for the majority of global growth in recent years.
On the contrary, some of their actions so far have made the situation even worse.
Public demonstrations of dissent are regarded as contrary to Islam, because they foster divisiveness and lead to civil strife.
On the contrary, they typically get significantly lower returns than Americans get on their investments abroad.
On the contrary, it allowed national identity to flourish.
Faced with contrary behavior, the economist reacts like the tailor who blames the customer for not fitting their newly tailored suit.
Talk is cheap, and, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, the status quo usually appears comfortable enough.
If, on the contrary, the Atlantic partnership disintegrates into rivalry or hostility, the world will become more dangerous.
But, contrary to Weber’s assumptions, a growing number of Westerners today regard neither the logic nor the fairness of the rules as obvious.
On the contrary, they have come to be identified with the powerful – part of a media-business-political elite divorced from the concerns of ordinary people.
On the contrary, some have begun to warn that, in 2038, certain computer software and systems will experience “integer overflow,” causing them to report negative system times and, in turn, to fail.
For example, in 2008, the Russian physicist Grigory Vilkovisky claimed to have proved that black holes radiate away only about half of their mass – contrary to Stephen Hawking’s celebrated finding that they radiate away their entire mass.
On the contrary, if you are from the upper class, you lay it on thick, you turn yourself into a caricature of the higher born, like the old-fashioned aristocrat who despises the timid bourgeois, but gets on fine with his gamekeeper.
On the contrary, the dollar was one of the few clear beneficiaries of the crisis, as foreign investors, desperate for liquidity, piled into US Treasury bonds.
Despite their protestations to the contrary, Hong Kong Chief Executive C. Y. Leung and his government have considerable room for maneuver.
But there is a contrary moral attitude, the essence of which is that, whereas excessive debt is to be deplored, the blame for it lies with the lender, not the borrower.
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