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To finance today’s wars, by contrast, the US government has not only avoided raising taxes, but has actually cut them on an enormous scale, with the Bush tax cuts of 2001 and 2003 now extended at least through 2012.
In Argentina, by contrast, a deputy government minister, whose professional background is in academic theorizing, has been tapped to run YPF.
In China, by contrast, pervasive corruption, the absence of a free press, and state capitalism mean that princelings’ conduct is unconstrained – and typically shrouded in secrecy.
By contrast, deciding what to delete is costly.
By contrast, today’s official Russian ideology seems to be focused squarely on the past.
By contrast, government parties that have failed to think progressively about migration or that do not contest populist rhetoric adequately (or at all) are suffering the most ahead of the European Parliament election.
Clinton, by contrast, offered words of support – in English and Spanish – to the victims, and focused on the community and on the need for gun control.
Nowadays, by contrast, bookstores not only report what stock they carry but also when customers’ orders will arrive.
Rouhani, by contrast, proceeded with Khamenei’s blessing.
By contrast, my students often regard occupations like medicine or engineering – involving highly specialized technical knowledge that does not prepare them to navigate the international economy – as particularly vulnerable to commoditization.
By contrast, output in Greece, which was slow to adopt austerity, is still 12% below its estimated potential and continues to fall.
In contrast to Latvia, Iceland let its currency, the krona, devalue massively.
By contrast, Iceland’s debt has become so large that it is likely to constrain future growth.
Ricard could, on request, empathize with others’ pain, but he found it unpleasant and draining; by contrast, he described compassion meditation as “a warm positive state associated with a strong pro-social motivation.”
By contrast, in the French republican system, the state represents the so-called will of the people.
In the US, by contrast, members of the House of Representatives face an election every two years, forcing even the president and senators – who serve four- and six-year terms, respectively – to operate, to some extent, on a two-year time horizon.
By contrast, when the World Bank or the International Monetary Fund lends cheap money to developing countries, it imposes conditions on what they can do with it.
A liberal, by contrast, is someone ready to alter the established order in pursuit of a vision of a better world.
His modest demeanor stood in stark contrast to Qaddafi, who always sat on a luxurious throne-like sofa when greeting guests.
In Europe, by contrast, the fate of all banks depends upon their home governments.
By contrast, branded products, into which producers have sunk major investments in securing the market, have prices that are much stickier and do not reflect the effects of monetary policy as rapidly.
By contrast, the trouble with using military force to punish is that necessity and proportionality cannot easily be applied to the calculus: a slap on the wrist would trivialize the gravity of the offense, while large-scale intervention would wreak death and destruction on many who are innocent.
In contrast to Tunisia, the military is a pillar of the Egyptian regime.
The joint declaration by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, and British Prime Minister David Cameron, calling for a “broad-based government” and “free and fair elections” in Egypt stands in stark contrast to the embarrassed silence that was heard at the outset of Tunisia’s democratic uprising.
In stark contrast to the theocracy’s first decade, today the ruling clergy’s focus is not on exporting Islamic zealotry or political revolution.
In contrast to many of his contemporaries among post-colonial leaders, Lee Kuan Yew was not afraid to embrace whatever elements from that past that would prove useful to the nation-building enterprise.
In China, by contrast, officials can exchange favors while in office for higher-paying jobs or benefits after retirement.
By contrast, trade among African countries accounts for only about 10-12% of the continent’s exports and imports.
Today Chinese consumer spending is just 3% of world economic activity, in contrast to Europe and America’s 36% share.
Today’s money managers, by contrast, tend to resemble gamblers or even fraudsters like Charles Ponzi.
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