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On the contrary, since the 2008-2009 global financial crisis, interest rates have been collapsing worldwide.
On the contrary, it means taking care not to exclude any significant advocate or useful tool in reducing the risk of the unthinkable becoming reality.
On the contrary, it is a significant window into the arena in which the conflict over the future of Iran's nuclear program is being waged.
On the contrary, that anti-corruption/good governance agenda precedes and outlives the person at the helm of the institution.
On the contrary, people are often in an ensemble of different players, on a stage with various props, costumes, scripts, and stage directions from producers and directors.
On the contrary, it was using the Holocaust – which we would all agree was utterly horrific – to suggest, as Isaac Bashevis Singer did, that there are parallels between the way the Nazis treated Jews and the way we treat animals.
On the contrary, Iran is more likely to remain a hybrid regime in which a government coexists with a permanent religious authority and with powerful military forces and intelligence units that exercise considerable political influence and largely operate outside the government’s control.
Contrary to prejudices, the southerners have largely done their part.
And both repeatedly claim widespread popular support, contrary to data (although Duterte does seem to have the edge in actual popular backing).
Contrary to what some right-wing economists argue, such free services cannot make increasing income inequality irrelevant.
Though the Russian leadership denies that it is implementing state capitalism and affirms its commitment to privatization and competition, the Rosneft deal is a bold statement to the contrary.
On the contrary, everything becomes brighter.
On the contrary, the accumulation of wealth in the Chinese government’s hands should enhance its ability to press ahead with reform.
This means consolidating Party leadership, contrary to America’s wishes, in order to maintain a pragmatic, flexible, and strategic approach to managing systemic risks and addressing internal concerns and external threats.
On the contrary, Putin will be able to gain considerable economic benefits from dividing Europe and exploiting the connections with commercial interests and anti-European parties that he has carefully cultivated.
Russia's problem was not at all a lack of demand or credit, but on the contrary the absence of a demand barrier.
On the contrary, the prevailing view was that people ought to be left to look after their own affairs.
On the contrary, it may be even more useful today in understanding the present moment in history and in providing a practical guide to political action than it was at the time Karl Popper wrote his book--but it needs to be thoroughly rethought and reformulated.
On the contrary, it is more likely to fuel it.
On the contrary, an open border would facilitate resolution of the conflict – not because it would be a tradeoff for something else, or come with strings attached, but because an open border demonstrates evenhandedness towards all neighbors.
On the contrary, today’s political disruptions could make some of the outcomes that these groups favor more difficult to achieve.
On the contrary, the backlash against globalization and immigration will likely damage global growth, while the need to build ad hoc coalitions of the willing undermines progress in building new institutions.
On the contrary, economies worldwide are making progress in recovering from the 2008 disaster, and the US Federal Reserve’s tightening of policy last December signals that the global interest-rate cycle is moving into the next phase.
Contrary to what zealots in either camp claim, neither public nor private schools perform better than the alternative at all times.
On the contrary, as Ye has candidly acknowledged, the number of corruption cases “has continued to rise.”
Indeed, if Marx was writing today, he'd be vilified for blasting the idiocy of rural life, for today every idiocy is interpreted - all evidence to the contrary - as a form of intelligence.
Thus, the Commission was able – even before it was officially asked to intervene – to preempt measures that were contrary to single-market logic.
On the contrary, through its low tariffs and general lack of import restrictions, the US has turned itself into an international shopping theme park.
On the contrary, performing well on both measures was the exception.
On the contrary, in the world of Kremlin politics, the move is as bizarre as it gets.
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