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Starting in the 18 th century and continuing into the middle of the 20 th , the Left
defined
itself as the defender of knowledge, science, secularism, progress, skeptical thought and universal (not relative) freedoms.
The fourth phase may come to be
defined
by the recognition that governments and markets can both be catastrophically wrong.
The French usually advance this proposal to get some purchase on the ECB’s monetary decisions, which they sometimes consider hostile to growth and employment, or in order to prevent other countries from maintaining unfair tax policies (“unfair” usually being
defined
as a tax rate lower than the relevant French one).
None of them wanted their country to be
defined
by a shooting.
The USTR assumes that China’s government not only has a clearly
defined
investment strategy, but also that an army of obedient firms is willingly carrying it out.
It was also a celebration of the sense of shared experience that
defined
the Tunisian revolution – and the many other historic protests and revolutions that erupted in 2011.
The Palestinians, after all, never accepted any of the left’s peace proposals over the years, and the current fragmentation of Palestinian politics –
defined
by a weak and ineffective PLO and a Hamas obsessed with an irrational and self-defeating war option – does not give room for much optimism.
The California plan, based on a proposal by Teresa Ghilarducci and her colleagues, would automatically enroll eligible employees,
defined
as private-sector workers at firms with five or more employees that do not offer retirement plans.
There may even be considerable international tolerance for some carefully
defined
and limited action in Syria in the event of an obvious imminent humanitarian threat.
If the campaign against the Islamic State is
defined
and conducted with humanitarian protection as its primary and overwhelming objective, it should succeed not only in stopping further atrocities, but also in making large inroads into curbing the wider terrorist threat at its source.
Determined not to establish another king, they considered the Congress more significant than the presidency and put it first in the US Constitution, with presidential powers
defined
in Article II.
The JAEA demonstration projects can be used to develop estimates of cost and other resource requirements – and resulting waste volumes – for
defined
levels of contaminant reduction, but they cannot be used to specify or justify the numerical goals of the regional cleanup.
In 2001, only 8% of Egyptians
defined
themselves as Egyptians above all, while 81%
defined
themselves as Muslims.
In the wake of the Arab Spring, however, these numbers changed dramatically: those defining themselves as Egyptians rose to 50%, 2% more than those who
defined
themselves as Muslims.
There is no point in advocating regionalism for regionalism's sake;Europe's experience shows that agreements based on shared values, peer reviews, and with clearly
defined
achievable goals can form the foundation for an ever-improving economy.
For decades, the Swiss multinational
defined
itself strictly as one the world’s leading food companies.
To many, its behavior in the region suggests a continuing competition with the Sunni Arab world for the mantle of leadership, often
defined
by a misguided and hateful policy toward Israel.
But thoughtful Iranians (and there are many) understand that regional and global roles
defined
by hatred of Israel and antipathy for America are beneath the dignity of a 4,000-year-old state.
These political moderates, and many other Republicans in the 1960s, still reflected the party of Abraham Lincoln in readily
defined
ways.
They point out the potential problem and then attempt to sell solutions that lie within their nationally
defined
spheres of competence.
If politics is
defined
as the art of compromise, Arafat was a master of it at the Palestinian and Arab levels.
And, because infrastructure is not yet a clearly
defined
asset class, investors often find it difficult to plan, assess, and manage their holdings in this area.
Whereas the world of traditional power politics is typically
defined
by whose military or economy wins, politics in an information age is about whose story wins.
In 1963, Edward R. Murrow, the famous journalist who directed the US Information Agency in the Kennedy Administration,
defined
public diplomacy as interactions not only with foreign governments, but primarily with non-governmental individuals and organizations, often presenting a variety of private views in addition to government views.
Later, Maurice Obstfeld pointed out that, in addition to fiscal transfers, a currency union needs clearly
defined
rules for the lender of last resort.
What Sigmund Freud
defined
as “the narcissism of minor differences” caused Yugoslavia to split into seven small states (including Kosovo), following the bloodiest fighting in Europe since World War II.
And still another is a euro with
defined
and predictable internal debt-resolution mechanisms.
On a continent long
defined
by democratic competition between center-right and center-left parties, the collapse of the left could have far-reaching consequences, beyond particular party interests.
Obama
defined
the use of chemical weapons as a “red line” that the Assad regime must not cross.
On issue after issue – from Iraq to Israel-Palestine to Afghanistan – European policy has been
defined
only in relation to what America is or is not doing.
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