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Lenin described Kerensky as the “balalaika” played by the old order to continue to deceive the workers and peasants.
He described it as a means for creating a “fusion of interests…that will be the leavening from which may grow a wider and deeper community between countries long opposed to one another by bloody conflicts.”
In December, he described Twitter’s response to his questions as “completely inadequate.”
The resulting deficits may be described as “supply-side economics,” rather than Keynesian stimulus, but the effect will be the same: growth and inflation will both increase.
The initiatives described here, as well as others discussed in the AGF’s report, offer a major opportunity to reorient the global economy towards resource-saving, low-carbon growth by using limited public resources to stimulate large-scale private investment.
At a crucial moment in 2005, while he was a governor but not yet Fed Chairman, Bernanke described the housing boom as reflecting a prudent and well-regulated financial system, not a dangerous bubble.
Such arrangements, which should be described as government-sponsored commercialism, are considered unacceptable by all relevant international declarations.
One patient described the recurrence of voices as akin to being "in a constant state of mental rape."
Joan of Arc described hearing the voices of saints telling her to free her country from the English.
In fact, Pope John Paul II, a man not usually described as soft in his religious commitments, has openly endorsed evolution, even Darwinism.
Dangote has described how thousands of college graduates applied for a handful of truck-driving vacancies in his factory.
The bombing – the worst terrorist attack in the United Kingdom in more than a decade – can be described only as blowback from the activities of the UK and its allies in Libya, where external intervention has given rise to a battle-worn terrorist haven.
What I have just described is no mere hypothetical, of course.
The answer may be that we, too, feel that we ought to live much more ethically, and the people described in Strangers Drowning are a standing reproach to our own way of life.
Mercosur is usually described as a trade grouping; in fact, it has been a political creation from the start.
In Search of ConvergenceCAMBRIDGE – One puzzle of the world economy is that for 200 years, the world’s rich countries grew faster than poorer countries, a process aptly described by Lant Pritchett as “Divergence, Big Time.”
Indeed, Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, invariably described in the US as “the self-proclaimed chief architect of 9/11,” told the Red Cross that at Bagram he had been suspended by shackles and sexually assaulted: “I was made to lie on the floor.
The prisoners independently described “a secret prison” inside the prison, called “the black hole.”
His group was awarded a major environmental prize from Ford Motor Company in 2006, and in 2008 the Chinese government described him and his organization as “an extremely beneficial supplement to the government’s environmental protection work.”
The Indonesian genocide – and it deserves to be so described, even if its impulse was ideological rather than ethnic, religious, or national – is an alarming case study in the politics of mass murder.
Belfort has been described as a perverse Robin Hood, robbing the rich to give to himself and his pals.
But any money that bankers earn over and above the cost of compensating them for providing an essential service represents what former British regulator Adair Turner calls “social waste,” or what used to be described as “usury.”
Nearly 120 years ago, Winston Churchill described the futility of warfare in the region: “Financially it is ruinous.
As US President in the 1980’s, the conservative icon Ronald Reagan described his approach to fiscal policy as “starve the beast”: cutting taxes will eventually force people to accept less government spending.
(Latin America, in particular, played a pivotal role in all the situations described above.)
They also underpin the myriad examples of policy innovation and civic engagement at the local level described by James Fallows in a recent article and upcoming book.
Instead, EU enlargement is being carried out according to what might be described as the principle of "asymmetrical integration."
The first response can be described as realist: no matter who governs in America, concrete results need to be achieved.
But it is one thing to be described as the best pupil in class – Germany is used to that; it is quite another to feel like the only pupil showing up at all.
Both terms originated as criticisms that were supposed to undermine and subvert the political tendencies they described.
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