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Impulsive actions driven by personal feelings are no substitute for a long-term foreign policy.
Highway spending is allocated in proportion to the number of cars owned by the family and estimated miles driven.
Asia’s boom was driven largely by intraregional manufacturing linkages: intermediate goods and parts were sourced from within Asia for assembly into final goods exported to advanced economies.
Borrowers have often been reluctant to accept its advice, which they perceive as driven more by theory and ideology than by evidence and practice.
For ASEAN, the shift from centralized global supply chains to localized production systems could have a serious impact on export revenues and the investment by which it is driven.
Just as pressures on oil and gas supplies have driven up energy prices, environmental stresses may now push up food and water prices in many parts of the world.
The current crises in the United States and Europe – the result primarily of US capitalism’s inherent ethical failures, and to Europe’s dysfunction – might be seen as lending credibility to Spengler’s view of democracy’s inadequacy, and to his dismissal of Western civilization as essentially being driven by a corrupting lust for money.
These structural risks are largely a result of China’s transformation from an agriculture-led economy to one driven by manufacturing exports.
Driven to the margins of most societies by collective memories of Nazi and fascist horrors, such men (there were hardly any women) had the grubby air of middle-aged patrons of backstreet porno cinemas.
Maliki, according to this view, was endlessly divisive, driven by authoritarian tendencies, lacking in elementary political skills, and incapable of leading an army in disarray.
For starters, its government must be able to convince everyone else that it is being driven toward “insane” acts by voters.
It might also be driven by the intensification of Russian propaganda, despite the truly bizarre nature of some of its claims, such as that EU membership will turn Georgians into homosexuals.
Sure enough, GDP growth from 2010 to 2012, though averaging a respectable 4%, turned out to have been driven by the post-crisis recovery and the further increase in oil prices to $100/barrel.
Rather than proceeding in an orderly manner, today's global changes are being driven by the disorderly forces of de-leveraging emanating from a Europe in deep financial crisis and an America seemingly unable to restore sustained high rates of GDP growth and job creation.
What they do share is that their “success” was driven largely by the sense that powerful external threats made the alternative – no deal at all – much worse.
Some Trump voters claim that they were driven by “common sense,” and that what appealed to them was his message of “prosperity and reducing the debt,” together with “a strong military and reforming immigration.”
It would change the dynamics of labor supply and demand to the benefit of both workers – who would have new protections – and importing countries, which would have access to trained laborers to respond to rapid changes – often driven by technology – in economic conditions.
By the end of this year, it will likely harbor close to two million refugees, driven from their homes by violent conflict in neighboring Syria and elsewhere.
With more and more subsistence farmers being driven off their land by pressures far beyond their control, we need to find better ways to balance the needs and rights of rural and urban populations.
Second, breakthroughs are typically driven by pragmatic technical efforts to disrupt the status quo.
But currency values are driven by macroeconomic developments, and therefore FX does offer natural hedging opportunities in liquid and transparent markets.
This spectacular progress has been driven partly by advances in science and technology.
International counter-narcotics policy is currently driven by pressure for rapid and visible results.
This stunning achievement has been driven by huge private-sector investment and cutting-edge innovation.
Perhaps the best way to look at the situation is to recall that three locomotives have driven the world economy over the past 15 years.
The second was investment in buildings, once again centered in the US, driven by the housing boom.
Both economies’ recoveries have been driven largely by a pickup in consumption on the back of stronger household balance sheets, especially in the US.
This discourse has driven some local authorities to build monuments to Stalin and Ivan the Terrible, while the federal authorities have ceremoniously erected a monument to Vladimir the Great, who brought Orthodoxy to Kievan Rus.
Much of the American McCarthyism of the 1940’s and 1950’s was driven by the same burning faith in the righteousness of the mission – a faith that saw fundamental rights abrogated.
When pay is driven by strict adherence to targets set 12 months before, CEOs look back, instead of focusing on the present and on what comes next.
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