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They have tried to talk up the value of the euro, though currency markets have dismissed this as mere political rhetoric, and are rapidly bringing the euro closer to equilibrium.
In addition, paying teachers according to performance must become the norm, while ineffective teachers should be dismissed.
The G-8 has been dismissed by history as a club of Western industrial nations; its place has been taken by the G-20, which conceals the underlying formula of power distribution within the new world order: the G-2 (China and the US).
All too often, however, these have been ignored or dismissed as impractical by those in power.
One fear should be dismissed immediately: despite worries about the incompatibility of Islam and democracy, more than 500 million Muslims now live in Muslim-majority countries that are commonly classified as democracies – Indonesia, Turkey, Bangladesh, Senegal, Mali, and Albania.
In the case of totalitarian doctrines, that appeal can easily be dismissed.
When the Indian government suggested last year that the Himalayan glaciers were in better shape than the IPCC claimed, the IPCC’s chairman, Rajendra Pachauri, dismissed India’s objections as being based on “voodoo science.”
Which are dismissed with little comment?
Still, I am convinced that the costs of the transformation are not simply to be dismissed.
The left has dismissed any claim that the CRA played a role in the housing boom by pointing out that it was enacted in 1977, while the subprime boom played out in the early 2000’s.
But today’s global downturn can hardly be dismissed as unimportant for the US or anyone else.
The Emotional Clash of CivilizationsThroughout the so-called “war on terror,” the notion of a “clash of civilization” between Islam and the West has usually been dismissed as politically incorrect and intellectually wrongheaded.
Facebook appears to have dismissed that warning, but media development organizations like mine did not.
It is important to note that the Holocaust does not give Israel immunity from criticism, nor can every attack on Israel’s policies be dismissed as anti-Semitism.
When those left behind by globalization and London’s Big Bang complained that immigrants were making it even harder to find jobs, they were too easily dismissed as racists.
Thaksin initially dismissed the violent attacks as the work of bandits.
The Panamanian court dismissed the action, noting that it was a diplomatic and international question, but the South African matter is ongoing.
The police dismissed an initial court order demanding that Biti be produced before the court.
Trump’s Flirtation with ViolenceNEW YORK – Some people might have dismissed Donald Trump’s recent tweet of a video clip showing him punching the face of a man with a CNN logo on his head as yet another example of the US president’s vulgar buffoonery – unseemly, perhaps, but par for the course.
In an industry in which the conventional wisdom has long dismissed efforts to “buck the market,” this is a surprising – and welcome – development.
And now that he is no longer just a presidential candidate, his accusations can no longer be dismissed as bluster.
The long history of Africa’s exploitation demands that this concern not be dismissed out of hand.
That is not to say that Le Pen’s claim – that those who vote for her party are the only true patriots – should be casually dismissed.
Officials who did not do their jobs must be dismissed, and elected officials whose policies aggravated the devastation wrought by Katrina must be removed from office.
European strategists largely dismissed America’s interpretation that force had won the Cold War, believing that cooperation had triumphed precisely because force was absent.
And he has consistently refused intelligence briefings, dismissed the concerns of the intelligence community about Russian meddling in the election, and even likened the release of information about those concerns to Nazi Germany.
Four Fallacies of the CrisisNEW YORK – The current twin crises in finance and the real economy, what Americans call Wall Street and Main Street, and the interminable discussions about financial reform and the prospects for economic recovery, have spawned several fallacies that need to be addressed and dismissed.
Some suggested scenarios can be dismissed, but we should surely try to assess which ones cannot – and study how to mitigate them.
Unfortunately, when the outgoing president of the European Central Bank, Jean-Claude Trichet, proposed a step in this direction by suggesting that a “European Secretary of the Treasury” be created, heads of state and government dismissed the idea out of hand.
Criticism of this anti-business approach is usually dismissed in France as “ultra-liberal” flailing against the “social model” that the French nation has embraced.
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