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For most new New Yorkers, the attack on the World Trade Center and the image of the gargantuan towers, which for a generation imposed itself over the lower Manhattan skyline, is something distant.
The trouble with reaching definitive conclusions about this or any other contested aspect of India's distant past is that, unlike in neighboring China, there is little in the way of an objective historical record to rely upon.
Meanwhile, the ECB would need to play a different and more distant role than it has.
And given its high degree of integration into the global economy, Germany is vulnerable even to distant developments.
Every day more intermittent wind energy is deployed and in the not so distant future we will also see much more local energy production - for example from solar panels on buildings.
Unlike colonial states, in which colonizers came from distant metropolises (and only in small numbers) the Palestinian territories are just across the border from Israel.
The same is true of all the aforementioned humiliations: they are particularly painful because an Asian neighbor, not a distant power, inflicted them.
The same crisis looks like a solvency crisis for those who are geographically distant.
Today, the prospect of their return seems more distant than ever.
The French perceive Europe as distant, technocratic, and often the Trojan horse of liberal globalization and deindustrialization.
Larger and more powerful nations were envious of so a powerful spokesman, and his speeches became textbook models for statesmen and diplomats in distant lands.
The truth is that economic policymakers are juggling sets of potential disasters, exchanging the one that appears most threatening for a threat that seems more distant.
Nonetheless, gender parity in the sciences remains a distant goal.
Unfortunately, consumption-led growth remains a distant prospect.
Following World Wars I and II, the European powers and the United States sat around distant tables and fabricated frontiers, giving birth to Iraq, Israel, Kuwait, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia – and thus to most of the of the Middle East’s current ills.
The emergence of the nation-state in the eighteenth century, and the extreme level of barbarism reached in the twentieth century, may have created the impression that an ethical politics was an unrealizable dream, or that it was a dream growing ever more distant as it receded into the future.
Whatever the scenario that ends the calm, today’s age of low volatility will seem like a distant dream to most of us – and a forgotten nightmare for ambitious financial traders.
Long-term growth considerations, while recognized as crucial, seem distant from the here and now of financial repair and restoration of confidence.
Equally, it is now far harder for Scots to blame a distant government in London for their problems, although the SNP will now try to make blaming Westminster for all ills even more of an art form.
Their behaviors are what matters, and they cannot be adequately perceived from the distant perspective of economic models and statistics, but only on the ground – where an economy is built, where it breaks, and where it must be fixed.
His chief goal – obtaining a permanent seat for Brazil on the United Nations Security Council – is more distant than ever, and his more modest aims have not met with greater success.
Does he share with his distant Republican predecessor a strong enough predisposition to melancholy?
This generation of American diplomats is fast overcoming a reputation for being remote, emotionally distant figures.
Indeed, unlike the artisanal fisherman of the past, factory ships and modern technologies have enabled the massive scaling up of catches to satisfy demand not only locally, but in distant markets as well.
Will 2010 see a recovery shaped like a “V” or a “W,” or will there simply be an anemic tilt towards a very distant prospect of better times?
In Colombia’s south – where the heavy presence of illegal armed groups makes social peace a distant dream – I went to visit a secondary school, as part of a needs assessment.
Seattle and Vancouver are close geographically, but Vancouver trades more with distant Toronto than with nearby Seattle.
If I beat my sister or spat, pulled her hair or took away her toys, Nanny would wait for my storm to blow itself out, then take me to a distant room and feed me sweets and pies, taken from an old pillowcase.
It thus seems unavoidable that energy consumers, especially in many rich countries, will have to learn to exchange their current worries about the distant future consequences of global warming for the reality of energy shortages during periods of peak demand.
But the lessons of the past seem to be too distant in policymakers’ minds these days, whereas domestic political pressure to put national economies first appears overwhelming.
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