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Yet Europe’s problems, by definition, cannot be solved simultaneously.
Ignorance TodayNEW YORK – Ignorance is the root of all evil, according to Plato, who also famously gave us a still-current definition of its opposite: knowledge.
That definition is worthy of consideration as we reflect on the perils of ignorance in the twenty-first century.
The wide-scale extrajudicial killings carried out under Duterte’s drug-war banner already meet that definition.
By definition, their welfare is being discounted.
I do not disagree: by definition, structural reforms take more time than changes in monetary and fiscal policy do.
This, of course, would be an issue only with open pollinating plants, and only if the definition of “organically produced” excludes GM, something that is difficult to justify, since genes are as organic as anything.
“People will always favor their own families and communities,” Goodhart argues, and “it is the task of a realistic liberalism to strive for a definition of community that is wide enough to include people from many different backgrounds, without being so wide as to become meaningless.”
To sum up: the less our time favours politicians who engage in long-term thinking, the more such politicians are needed, and thus the more intellectuals - at least those meeting my definition – should be welcomed in politics.
But, beneath this definition lie rich notions of voluntary association, accountability for strategic decisions, and concern for the communities that cooperatives serve.
The EMU should have a “golden rule” for public and social investment, with a clear definition of such projects and a mechanism for assessing their validity.
At the other extreme, some experts use a narrow definition of cyber war: a “bloodless war” among states that consists solely of electronic conflict in cyberspace.
A more useful definition of cyber waris hostile action in cyberspace whose effects amplify or are equivalent to major physical violence.
But, to implement this shift, governments must ensure that all people have guaranteed access to land and potable water, and they need to create political frameworks to promote ecologically and socially just agricultural models – which, by definition, excludes industrial agriculture.
According to this definition, eight countries currently qualify: the BRIC countries, along with South Korea, Indonesia, Mexico, and Turkey, while others – including Saudi Arabia, Iran, Nigeria, and the Philippines – could join the list in the next 20 years.
Whatever the definition, what has concerned many economists and gained policymakers’ attention is that the size distribution of firms in developing countries has a long tail.
This definition is all too reflective of traits that Trump regularly exhibits.
In government, any leak is, by definition, embarrassing to someone, somewhere in the system.
The PRI is, by definition, the party of “No.”
A 2001 study sponsored by the US National Science Foundation found that roughly half of people surveyed understood that the earth circles the sun once a year, 45% could give an “acceptable definition” for DNA, and only 22% understood what a molecule was.
But best-practice institutions are, by definition, non-contextual and cannot take local complications into account.
Paradigm shifts, particularly in diplomacy and security issues, are by definition major undertakings.
The resulting empire will be liberal, according to Chubais’s definition, because it can be built with money rather than tanks.
Whereas much of culture seems to be looking backward, science is, by definition, in forward motion.
Is the US, in contrast to Russia, by definition honest, innocent, and high-minded?
With the 1995 Social Summit adopting a wider definition of poverty that includes deprivation, social exclusion, and lack of participation, the situation today may be even worse than suggested by a money-income poverty line.
By definition, development is not just more of the same, just as an adult is not just a big baby.
Finally, rebuilding trust will require a new definition of news itself.
But the origins of the current Constitution, and its definition of secularism, are highly suspect.
Hezbollah has refused to disarm in the face of what it has called the Israeli threat, although its definition of this threat has shifted frequently enough to cast doubt on whether it would ever be willing to surrender its weapons.
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