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In it he outlined his presidential program: playing to the crowds, he declared that Russia is no plaything for the West to kick around.
The brave crowds in Belgrade demonstrated the desire of Serbs to rejoin the family of Europe.
Hillary Clinton, trying to straddle the divide between the two wings of the Democratic Party, is increasingly leaning to the left as Sanders draws enormous crowds, something she has yet to accomplish.
Meanwhile, protests opposing free-trade deals are drawing political support and crowds in Germany, Belgium, Canada, Sweden, New Zealand, Australia, and elsewhere.
Some Russians fear that if China is allowed to build these projects, crowds of Chinese will flock into the country.
The reception seems more appropriate for a rock star than for a presidential hopeful: the crowds are large, the hugs intense (this is the Caribbean, after all), and the candidate’s shirt often gets torn in a melee of enthusiasm.
This assumes “Ricardian equivalence”: debt-financed public spending at least partly crowds out private spending through its impact on expectations and confidence.
Under some conditions, individual behavioral aberrations cancel one another out, making crowds more predictable than individuals.
Yet governments across Europe have clamped down on infrastructure spending for years, giving precedence to fiscal austerity and debt reduction in the misguided belief that government borrowing crowds out private investment and reduces growth.
So is the behavior of soccer crowds, which can sometimes turn violent.
Then came the age of the orator, when figures like David Lloyd George and Ramsay MacDonald spoke directly to large crowds.
And he has been crisscrossing the country, drawing impressive crowds everywhere.
US President George W. Bush never faces hostile crowds in the way that Blair must.
On the Democratic side, the huge crowds turning up for the self-described Democratic Socialist Bernie Sanders are also motivated largely by perceived economic injustice (creating a possible overlap – which Sanders has noted – with Trump supporters).
A transactional mode of thinking, in which discrete problems must be solved quickly (and most often with the massive application of military force) crowds out the difficult diplomatic spadework of long-term foreign-policy success.
When they arrived, brown domes made of crisscrossed branches and layers of multicolored mats would appear like crowds of dappled beetles on the outskirts of town.
The urgent crowds out the merely important.
Indeed, since the protests began, the regime’s security forces have killed 85 demonstrators and wounded over 1,000 more, including by throwing tear-gas canisters into crowds and launching pellets at people’s chests, at close range.
“It’s time to rebuild Michigan, and we are not letting them take your jobs out of Michigan any more,” he told cheering crowds in Detroit in 2016.
As a seasoned Brussels insider, he was not one to move the crowds.
The image of joyful crowds and Spanish flags draped from cars and windows has given way to that of throngs of demonstrators holding banners protesting the government’s latest austerity measures.
A Clash of Western CivilizationsPARIS – Images from the refugee crisis in Europe have juxtaposed smiling crowds in Vienna and Munich with grim, unwelcoming faces in Budapest.
Yet, while the crowds of young people in Cairo’s Tahrir Square and elsewhere in 2011 created the image of an overwhelming constituency for democracy and modernity, a deeper reality soon became clear.
Instead, there is defiance and self-affirmation: “They will not do that to me...”Evita was the wife who would intercede before her husband to defend her “children,” the crowds of “descamisados,” or shirtless people.
At the same time, regulation and taxation should be used to rein in disruptive day trading and other exploitative speculation that crowds out sustainable investment and disrupts regular business activities.
When Chu gave speeches on energy and climate change at Tsinghua University, China’s most elite institution for science and engineering (where his parents had been students), and then at Tianjin University (where his grandfather was once President), he was received with enormous enthusiasm, overflow crowds, and standing ovations.
To loud cheers from the crowds, the populists damn elected politicians as thieves and looters, but in the process disparage the institutions and processes of representative government.
The electronic media are particularly attracted to colorful crowds waving flags and espousing nationalist causes.
They shouldn’t urge urban residents with underlying health conditions to “avoid crowds” without acknowledging empathically that it’s impossible to avoid crowds entirely for the duration of the pandemic.
Threats to life bring crowds on to the streets.
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