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The problem is not that cap and trade is an ivory-tower theory that cannot work in the real world; on the contrary, its performance surpassed expectations.
On the contrary, when debts become unsustainable and governments have no option but to close hospitals and slash pensions, it is the poor and vulnerable who suffer most.
He became known as “The Peasants’ Tsar,” though he didn’t tolerate any opposition thinking
contrary
to his own.
Contrary
to popular prejudice, local governments and public agencies do innovate; what is missing is a mechanism to select and disseminate innovations in the same way the market selects new products or cost-saving processes.
On the contrary, developing and enacting financial regulation must be a gradual process, shaped by both existing knowledge and firsthand experience.
On the contrary, there probably can be no diplomatic solution or lasting settlement without action that resets the military balance and undermines both the conventional and unconventional capacities of Assad and his patrons.
This suggests that capital controls and prudential policies can complement each other,
contrary
to what conventional wisdom often assumes.
America’s intention was, to the contrary, to seem to be opening up its markets, while doing nothing of the sort, for it appears to allow the US to select a different 3% for each country.
On the contrary, the feminism expressed by women such as these Afghani heroines should educate us in the West about our own shortcomings.
On the contrary, policy errors and delays in individual countries will seriously damage economies worldwide.
First, increased reliance on fossil fuels runs
contrary
to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol’s targets for reducing carbon emissions, as well as to the EU’s own climate-change objectives.
A Coasian analysis of China’s development would center on the complex interaction between the locally minded state and the globally minded market, with the key lesson being that,
contrary
to free-market ideology, less government does not necessarily mean more market.
On the contrary, our experience so far shows that parents are very interested in finding out what killed their children.
On the contrary, it has lost market share among the largest oil importers in Asia, which have increased their purchases of West African crude (diverted from the US).
On the contrary, experience is overrated, often constraining the courage needed to face tomorrow and build an unprecedented new world.
On the contrary, the country’s internal discords operate within the context of a broader, ever-mutable geopolitical rift that many assumed had been buried with the end of the Cold War.
On the contrary, it often comes with more democracy.
On the contrary, both Trinamool and Samajwadi stand to benefit from having a government in New Delhi that is dependent on their goodwill.
The EU’s claims to the
contrary
are based on an inappropriate focus on “real” national income, a metric bound to mislead during periods of falling prices.
On the contrary, Kahneman and his colleagues found that people with higher incomes spent more time in activities that are associated with negative feelings, such as tension and stress.
On the contrary, the biggest US banks are reporting very healthy profits for the last quarter.
On the contrary, he made nuclear disarmament the chief focus of his political activity for the remainder of his life.
Contrary
to Western expectations, most of this domestic Internet censorship is carried out not by the government's Internet police, but by Chinese Web hosting companies, which are being held legally responsible for what their users publish.
On the contrary, it underscores just how important values-driven political leaders can be in advancing human rights in the world – and how tragic it is that there are so few of them.
On the contrary, today’s unprecedented inequality in many parts of the world is precisely the kind of injustice that could spur the emergence of great leaders with compassion for those at the bottom.
On the contrary, GDP contracted by 0.1% last year, and is expected to grow by just 0.6% this year.
On the contrary, for the last two and a half years, the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) has been intervening in currency markets for the opposite purpose: to prevent the renminbi’s value from falling too sharply against the dollar.
Furthermore,
contrary
to claims that securing Kismayo put al-Shabaab at a disadvantage, the United Nations Monitoring Group on Somalia and Eritrea reported in July that the Kenyan Defense Forces have actually gone into business with al-Shabaab.
Moreover,
contrary
to popular perception, the German Constitutional Court’s record is pro-EU and pro-euro.
Uganda seems to be an example of a country that receives a significant amount of aid, and at the same time,
contrary
to the hypothesis that aids creates dependence, is making rapid economic progress.
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