Description
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One contemporary observer’s
description
of Baroque court culture could be applied to the Kushner-Bannon relationship today: “The court is a place where no friend is ever close enough not to become an enemy later.”
The railway minister has created a dream budget –though “pipe dream" might be a more accurate
description.
If anything, the
description
above is already dated.
In fact, Xi has lately toned down his
description
of China’s aims, recently telling Communist Party leaders that, “We should increase China’s soft power, give a good Chinese narrative, and better communicate China’s message to the world.”
Of course, the government’s reduction of community policing in favor of paramilitary forces stationed in quasi-military barracks, and the Minister of Interior’s
description
of the young rioters as “scum” who should be washed away with an industrial power hose, has not helped.
That may sound like a
description
of a failed state, a desperately poor country beset by civil war, or a fictional dystopia.
The Houthis – and their leader Abdul Malik al-Houthi – are often described in the West as an “Iran-backed” group, a proxy
description
of the Houthis’ most politically salient characteristic: their adherence to Zaidism, a branch of Shia Islam.
In fact, the Houthis had previously joined with Sunni tribes in the south of the country to help spark Yemen’s Arab Spring (a quaint – and not particularly accurate –
description
of the insurgency that led to the fall of President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s regime in 2011).
Countries that fit this
description
include Austria, Finland, and Sweden, and, outside Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and South Korea.
The journalist Matt Taibbi’s memorable
description
in 2009 of Goldman Sachs – “a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money” – still resonates, and for good reason.
In 1970, the radical left-wing Italian underground periodical Sinistra Proletaria carried an article entitled “The Process of Globalization of Capitalist Society,” which was a
description
of IBM, an “organization which presents itself as a totality and controls all its activities towards the goal of profit and ‘globalizes’ all activity in the productive process.”
In October, James Watson, who shared the 1962 Nobel Prize for his
description
of the structure of DNA, was in London to promote his memoir, Avoid Boring People and Other Lessons From a Life in Science .
Economists’ conventional
description
depicts high finance as providing us with three types of utility.
What would be the repercussions of losing a historic “partner” (many Chinese today would bristle at such a description), and potentially strengthening a rival, for China’s own political system or foreign policy?
After all, two of his main economic advisers, Glenn Hubbard and Greg Mankiw, have both authored textbooks in which they argue that the Laffer hypothesis is incorrect as a
description
of US tax rates.
Some will object to the
description
of a person with advanced dementia as an “empty husk.”
All the other names in the ring have to be accompanied by a
description
– the former Finnish this or Austrian that.
The text of the Lisbon treaty is studiously vague in its job
description
of the president’s role – an approach that prevented trouble for treaty’s framers, but merely postponed disagreement.
While the US has problems, it hardly fits the
description
of absolute decline in ancient Rome, and the analogy to British decline, however popular, is similarly misleading.
A Czech MomentPRAGUE – As I listened to what some Europeans were saying as my country prepared to take over the presidency of the European Union, I heard dim echoes of Neville Chamberlain’s infamous
description
of Czechoslovakia as “a faraway country of which we know little.”
Cities versus suburbs and rural areas is a better
description
than coasts versus heartland.
To say that “the people” are rising up against “the establishment” is not a neutral
description
of political developments; it’s actually populist language.
In particular, the fifth season, which aired in France in late 2014, offered a clinical
description
of how young people in the Paris suburbs went astray, while portraying the relationship between the police and their political superiors as cynical and even combative.
“Ambiguous” is a reasonable
description
of the morality of Cromwell’s actions.
That could be a
description
of today’s Middle East.
It is – to quote US President Barack Obama’s
description
of what motivated a married couple of Pakistani origin to carry out the recent mass shooting in San Bernardino, California – a “perverted interpretation of Islam,” and the ideological mother of jihadist terrorism.
Today’s China seems to recall Winston Churchill’s
description
of Russia as a “riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma” – a new, great power rival that is difficult for US policymakers to understand.
The prosecutors on Mueller’s team in the Virginia case opened the trial with a
description
of Manafort’s extravagant tastes, including a custom-made $15,000 ostrich-skin jacket (think leather that has caught the measles).
Obama referred to the US as “the indispensable nation,” and that
description
still holds true, in part because US military spending exceeds that of the next nine countries combined – five times more than China, the world’s second-largest military spender.
This is a classic
description
of the “herd behavior” that George Soros has identified as financial markets’ dominant feature.
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