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Most participants failed to distinguish between history as a constraint and history as a determinant.
Over the last two years, the hard work of the Modi government and the Rajan-led RBI has enabled India to distinguish itself among emerging-market economies.
(And activists frequently destroy conventional plants inadvertently, because they are difficult to distinguish from genetically engineered varieties.)
In this context, policymakers should distinguish between categories of debt.
First, it would clearly distinguish between the EU and the eurozone.
In Libya, Saif al-Islam has sought to distinguish himself as an agent of democratic change by setting up “non-governmental” organizations, establishing “independent” media outlets, and even sponsoring his own private drafting committee for a new constitution.
Furthermore, the ceiling does not distinguish between government consumption and investment.
For example, they use return on equity as their primary measure of profitability, but neglect to distinguish between ROE and shareholder value.
The insurer faces “adverse selection,” because he cannot distinguish between good and bad risks.
Although psychiatrists tend to worry more about identifying potential patients in need of help and less about eliminating normal eccentricity and distress from diagnosis, it is crucial in any society that respects human variation and encourages individual moral responsibility to distinguish normal suffering and eccentricity from mental disorder.
By failing to distinguish adequately normal distress and eccentricity from disorder, the DSM-5’s proposals threaten to increase dramatically the types of abuses that the DSM was designed to prevent.
Moreover, they usually lack the necessary finance, and often find that their local bankers – unable to distinguish between a realistic market-entry strategy and wishful thinking – are unwilling to lend.
In marketing the TPP, Obama tends to emphasize some of the features that distinguish it from earlier pacts such as the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
Fundamental to the law of war, including the law applicable in non-international armed conflicts, is the principle of distinction – the requirement that fighting parties distinguish between civilian and military targets.
But this reading fails to distinguish between the long-term trend of the debt-to-GDP ratio when the economy grows at its potential rate and the real-time debt-to-GDP ratio when the economy grows at a below-potential rate.
The ability to distinguish individual features from the mass, to reach nuanced judgments, and to control initial impulses of rage and revenge are hallmarks of maturity in societies and people alike.
The obvious solution is to distinguish between investments and current consumption, and increase the former while reducing the latter.
Instead of automatically resisting such change, therefore, environmentalists and conservationists should distinguish between “good change” and “bad change.”
The rats can detect TB with almost 100% accuracy, though they cannot distinguish between normal and drug-resistant strains.
In another move to distinguish her ingredients from Western versions, Kinyanjui also sells through grocery stores flour flavored with Amarathan, a green vegetable that grows around Kenya.
China has a two-tier system in which the capital account is strictly controlled; most other currencies don’t distinguish between current and capital accounts.
It is essential to distinguish between what we know, what we ought to know – and what, therefore, we would like the Iranians to tell us – and what is speculation.
The beating death of Vincent Chin, a Chinese-American who was mistaken for a Japanese, also resonated historically, recalling a pseudo-scientific article on how to distinguish the Chinese from the Japanese that Life magazine published in December 1941.
In considering which lessons of Germany’s turnaround should be applied to other eurozone countries, one must distinguish between what government can do and what remains the responsibility of business, workers, and society at large.
It is important to distinguish between two sources of concern about pay in financial firms.
And, as in economics, democracies’ principal-agent problem is a problem because the principal may not be able to distinguish capable agents from inept ones.
To understand why, it is useful to distinguish three types of stable coin.
But many average Libyans, including Hakim, do not distinguish between Islamist organizations and their histories.
Perhaps at the next debate among presidential candidates, participants should have to distinguish – from a moral standpoint – politicians attacking the scientific process from Islamic State militants destroying ancient artifacts.
But, with no shared cultural norms on which to base decisions regarding, say, how to achieve wellbeing or to direct one’s life, how can one distinguish between good and bad choices?
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