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US Secretary of State John Kerry recently described climate change as “perhaps the world’s most fearsome weapon of mass destruction,” warning of “a tipping-point of no return.”
In his 1873 book Lombard Street , Walter Bagehot, the British businessman and editor of The Economist , described these cycles perfectly.
The boom just before the depression of the 1870’s that he described sounds a lot like what happened just before the current crisis.
Although the new tax law is generally described as a fiscal stimulus, it is more accurate to say that it avoids a large immediate fiscal contraction.
This could be described as a temporary advisory parliament, or ‘Shura Council,’ but it should include hundreds of figures from throughout the country and they should be selected through the Governing Council and interim Government after nationwide consultations.
In November 2010, Skidelsky described British Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne as a “menace to the future of the economy,” whose policies “doomed” the United Kingdom to “years of interminable recession.”
The authors, the husband-and-wife team of Chen Guidi and Wu Chuntao, who spent their early years in the countryside, described in detail the imposition of unfair taxes by local officials and the authorities’ rapacious seizure of land farmed by rural residents.
Merah was described as a martyr on the pages of newly established Facebook groups.
But sometimes there is a bit of fakery in the record, especially when the record is described in nominal terms and we have steady inflation.
Soon after, Johnson described May’s EU negotiating position as being tantamount to wrapping “a suicide vest around the British constitution” and handing the detonator to the EU.
Even his own lawyer is reputed to have described him as a liar.
The deep corruption of the Harvard University team chosen to “help” Russia in its transition, described in a detailed account published in 2006 by Institutional Investor, reinforced these beliefs.
He said that there could be no doubt that the methods used to kill whales were inhumane – he even described them as “most horrible.”
The welfare state was described by its intellectual architect, Lord Beveridge, as a structure built to protect the individual “from the cradle to the grave.”
Indeed, US markets were described as “deep, flexible, sophisticated, and by and large well-regulated.”
After all, such a democracy does not work in Israel, or even in the US, a country that G. K. Chesterton described as having “the soul of a church.”
Pursuing these seven principles, described in greater deal elsewhere, is essential in order to calm public fears, reduce chaotic flows of asylum-seekers, ensure that newcomers are fully integrated, establish mutually beneficial relations with countries in the Middle East and Africa, and meet Europe’s international humanitarian obligations.
The former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly described Soros in 2007 as “off-the-chart dangerous,” and “an extremist who wants open borders, a one-world foreign policy, legalized drugs, euthanasia, and on and on.”
Syria’s bloody conflict is often described as an Iranian war, an effort to keep Syria’s Sunni majority in check and build power and prestige throughout the Levant.
Creative destruction, the process of innovation described by the economist Joseph Schumpeter, will be at work.
India’s two largest urban centers – Delhi and Mumbai – are often described as emerging global megacities.
Gene drives have been described as “genetic forcers,” because they literally force genetically engineered traits onto entire populations of insects, plants, fungi, and other organisms.
The Commission’s task is enormous, but easily described: to help put global public health at the center of a new strategy of global economic development.
The expected US growth spurt would be driven by the economic stimulus package described in President Donald Trump’s election campaign.
The situation in Syria is usually – and rightly – described as an intricate, multi-dimensional playing field with a wide variety of political actors and competing interests.
Currency movements are often described as the most unpredictable of all financial variables; but recent events in foreign-exchange markets seem, for once, to have a fairly obvious explanation – one that almost all economists and policymakers accept and endorse.
Objectively strong, subjectively infirm – that is how the EU’s present condition can be described.
The media also reported the development of the Dong Feng 21D ballistic missile, described as an “aircraft carrier killer.”
With 35% of India's men and some 60% of its women illiterate, the country can charitably be described as an imperfect democracy.
He rejected what he described as the European style of very large government and high tax rates and the American style of lower tax rates but large fiscal deficits, in favor of low budget deficits and a tax system that would promote “opportunities” for individuals and private enterprises.
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