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Indeed, countries that had previously been described as “under-developed” or “Third World” were becoming incipient global hegemons.
Galbraith described that increase in wealth as “the bezzle.”
However, the current mood of the U.S. Senate (best described as a mix of unilateralism and neo-isolationism), may make this the key issue in next spring’s debate to ratify NATO enlargement.
Nature has been described as the “GDP of the poor.”
They seem to confirm the “wisdom” of a Chinese student who recently described her life plan to an American magazine: “I will start with a good American university to beef up my education, then I will work in China and become rich, and then I will retire in Europe and enjoy life.”
The West’s Decadent Foreign PolicyLONDON – Nowadays, the West can be described as decadent.
The consequences of a US default have rightly been described with growing alarm as the risk increases.
One such truth is the murder, described by the historian Jan Grabowski, of about 200,000 Polish Jews by their non-Jewish neighbors.
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall we have found analysis made by the experts of the state security police and the state security ministry of the former German Democratic Republic which demonstrate that the GDR was bankrupt, but that this information was treated as the ultimate state secret (also described was what could be done to fool the world about that fact).
As a junior officer accompanying him to commercial events, I was often privy to his comments about some of his Washington interlocutors: “a mile wide and an inch deep,” was how he described a very senior member of the Carter administration at the time.
He wanted to know all about the negotiations with North Korea, and I described some of the more theatric moments.
There are not two or three Argentina's, one following the experiment that I described above, and another adopting the policies that I prefer.
The main targets – jobs, growth, and research – are considered legitimate from the standpoint of fairness when described in general terms.
In the North is a state that can best be described as a prison camp, run by a hereditary despotic leader whose regime – most politely described as a cult – is pursuing an unrelenting drive to develop weapons of mass destruction.
With what one commentator described as “his rock star looks and PR charm,” Mark Carney, the former governor of the Bank of Canada, has taken the city by storm in his first weeks as Governor of the Bank of England.
While the conditions in Libya were certainly optimal, the situation in Syria is better described as uniquely complicated for any intervention.
Managers are described as those who merely embrace processes and seek stability, while leaders tolerate risk and create change.
Secretary of State Colin Powell’s chief of staff described the situation as furtive and camouflaged by the inefficiency of the formal decision-making process.
Roosevelt never thought that staffs had a monopoly on judgment or information, and has been described as seeking advice from anybody he could: cabinet members, congressmen, newspaper columnists, interest groups, citizens, and friends.
And his government defied Europe’s fiscal rules – described, accurately, by then-European Commission President Romano Prodi as “stupid.”
In a noted essay in 2004, for example, the Indian-born author Fareed Zakaria described the danger of what he called “illiberal democracy.”
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has described the Soviet Union’s collapse as “the greatest geopolitical catastrophe” of the twentieth century.
For six hours, politicians and employees were held at gunpoint; one hostage, Assembly President Julio Borges, described the siege as evidence of the country’s descent into complete “anarchy.”
George Orwell graphically described it in The Road to Wigan Pier.
The late Chicago-school economist George Stigler would have described the IMF’s role in Europe as reflecting acute “regulatory capture.”
While most of the Court's analysis focused on domestic considerations, the Justices also invoked a legal brief filed by the European Union that described the overwhelming disapproval of the practice in the world community.
In its latest statement, Greenpeace says that golden rice is “neither needed nor necessary,” and calls instead for supplementation and fortification, which are described as “cost-effective.”
Abbas has repeatedly described peace as a strategic choice for the Palestinians.
The China Model is sometimes described in traditional terms, as though modern Chinese politics were an updated version of Confucianism.
The Pakistan ConundrumNEW YORK – Harold Brown, the US defense secretary under President Jimmy Carter, was reported to have described the arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union in these terms: “When we build, they build.
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