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So the most likely outcome is more of the same: continued drift in a state of semi-stagnation.
The only way to stem the rising tide of destructive populism and prevent the drift toward damaging protectionist measures is to reconnect with frustrated constituencies, and find ways to respond to people’s real economic grievances.
But this proved insufficient to halt a growing sense of drift and decay concerning his Congress Party-led coalition.
Governments, Churchill said then, were “resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, and all-powerful for impotence.”
In 2013, it is irresolution, drift, and the resulting impotence that we, too, must address.
Will Britain drift away from the one on its doorstep?
But the increased sense of drift in Euro-Atlantic structures, fueled principally by Europe’s financial crisis and America’s prolonged political rift, leaves little room for optimism.
At the same time, after one year of implementation, the Constitutional Council has avoided a drift toward a “government of judges,” instead indicating a genuine desire for dialogue with other institutions, notably policymakers.
Some of the past century’s greatest intellectual triumphs, such as those related to the expanding universe and continental drift, have not been celebrated.
Saving Public SarkozyEver since key public figures signed a manifesto in a French magazine denouncing the dangers of a monarchical drift – without ever mentioning the president’s name – the political atmosphere in France has been electric.
But, before we drift into Cold War II, we would do well to recall why we had the first one.
At stake in the debate about EU enlargement into the post-Soviet east is whether Western values will take root in those countries or whether they will drift into a gray zone from which they will sooner or later challenge the values and democratic ways of “Europe.”
Unless Arab and Muslim societies rediscover, revitalize, and in some respects create their homegrown contemporary intellectual tradition, the result will be cultural drift or, far worse, the continuation of bloody civil strife.
That panic subsided – and gold prices started to drift down again – after US banks were subjected to “stress tests,” America’s Troubled Asset Relief Program further backstopped the financial system by removing bad assets from banks’ balance sheets, and the global economy gradually bottomed out.
Letting matters drift toward greater confrontation is not a sustainable policy for Colombia, the US, or the rest of Latin America.
And the oversight that warped Kelvin’s estimate – the possibility that fluid motion could efficiently transport heat within the Earth’s interior – turned out to be critical to understanding plate tectonics and continental drift.
Many working-class voters in western Scotland used to vote for the SNP in Scottish Parliament elections, but would drift back to Labour in UK general elections.
If the Middle East is allowed to continue on its present drift, without American leadership, US military intervention – most likely sooner rather than later – will become a near-certainty.
That means standing up to the authoritarian drift through whatever democratic means are available.
Now, however, the pendulum has swung back toward “imperial” leadership, after a growing perception of drift at the top of the Party hierarchy led many to worry that big decisions – not least those regarding economic reforms – were being ducked.
Structural degradation is thus an indicator of the species’ exposure to random genetic drift: mildly deleterious mutations that would typically degrade the protein structure are more likely to be selected against in bacteria before they can become fixed in the entire population (estimated in trillions of individuals), whereas such a mutation has a far better chance of prevailing in humans.
For my part, I have faith that they will soon take to the streets to reject their government’s drift toward authoritarianism, and to ensure a brighter future for Poland in the heart of Europe.
But piecemeal arrests will not be enough to reverse the drift if a culture of intolerance is allowed to fester.
All of Asia’s powers, including China and Japan, will have to play a part in stopping Bangladesh’s drift into fanaticism and chaos.
Though there is little risk that Qatar will drift too far into Iran’s orbit, any further warming of ties should trouble the US administration, given that Trump’s chief Middle East policy is to isolate Iran.
Increased sand drift was one of the effects noted during and after the first Gulf war.
Her assault on excessively powerful trade unions, moreover, made Britain governable, at a time when the country seemed to be slipping into drift and disorder.
In the meantime, Japan will drift, unable to take any significant foreign policy decision at a time when Asia’s security landscape is changing rapidly.
Who will prevent a global drift into currency wars and trade protectionism?
Meanwhile, we drift downstream seemingly oblivious to the looming peril of the rapids ahead.
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