Esteem
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Whether America is able to strengthen its global influence in the future will depend not so much on its moral esteem, but on the extent to which it succeeds in revamping its economy and forging new alliances.
The other factors - equipment, coaching, and nutrition - contribute to an athlete's success but don't evoke the same awe or
esteem.
Russia has been vying for the West’s
esteem
for centuries, with approval by the French – a sought-after prize since the time of Peter the Great – coveted the most.
TheSun or Bild lack the
esteem
of the Financial Times or the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and evangelical colleges in rural parts of the US cannot compete in terms of cachet with Harvard or Yale.
Part of the explanation for the higher
esteem
in which the IMF is now held is its recent display of intellectual flexibility – a rare virtue for a big, lumbering bureaucracy.
After all, no group cares more about a university’s prestige than its alumni, who gain or lose
esteem
as their alma mater’s ranking rises or falls.
In short, if the EU presents itself as a functioning political system in its own right, with solid democratic structures and processes, it will gain the attention and
esteem
of its citizens and the rest of the world, leading to increased popular participation at home and greater soft power abroad.
It has been a while since any national figure won such high
esteem.
While China’s achievement is worthy of genuine esteem, its efforts to gain a full measure of international respect and real “great power” status will not succeed until it matches its new economic and military power with a certain essential moral force.
The ABACC – the only agency of its kind recognized by the IAEA – played a particularly important role, because it legitimized intrusive bilateral inspections, reinforced the right to civilian nuclear development, generated mutual trust, won popular approval in both countries, and earned international
esteem.
In societies in which individualism and competitiveness enjoy high esteem, there should theoretically be acceptance of the consequences of this individualism on the capacities of any individual to care for himself - either in the framework of the family or within other small communities.
In the words of one of the French novelist Anatole France's characters in a novel written at the time,
esteem
for the army "is all that is left of our glorious past.
Poorly paid, slowly promoted, and often drearily garrisoned in Siberian towns, the army's sole recompense nowadays is prestige: the honors, immunities and cachet of a caste; in short, the
esteem
in which it is held because of the victories over Napoleon and Hitler.
If handled correctly, however, the crisis may yet raise the
esteem
of the European Union and its institutions.
Technocrats endowed with the knowledge needed to make complex policy decisions will rise in social importance but fall in public
esteem.
Against this backdrop, Netanyahu has portrayed himself as Israel’s protector, appropriating the
esteem
afforded to the defense establishment.
His courage as a prisoner of war for five years in Vietnam seems to be doubted only by Trump, and the dignified way he is battling brain cancer today has only heightened the
esteem
in which most Americans hold him.
This is largely the result of incentives that encourage academics to specialize in ever-narrower areas, so that they can produce the publications that will lead to promotion and professional
esteem.
Using a model of human behavior proposed by George Akerlof and Rachel Kranton, Collier argues persuasively that the satisfaction conferred by one identity relative to another – say, the profession over the nation – depends on the
esteem
with which others regard that identity.
The alternative to populism is an arrangement whereby experts demonstrate authentic public spiritedness in exchange for society’s esteem, as often happens with military leaders, academics, and doctors.
His
esteem
for Russian President Vladimir Putin was never in doubt.
Central bankers were held in high esteem, and their utterances, though often elliptical or even incomprehensible, were treated with deep reverence.
And she kept her
esteem
for him because he did not get drunk, and regularly paid his forty-five francs for board and lodging.
People may have different ideas and
esteem
each other all the same."
I've left Deneulin's dirty shop, and to-morrow I'm going down to the Voreux with a dozen Belgians, who have been given me to lead because I'm held in esteem; and if any one doesn't like that, he can just say so, and we'll talk it over."
To shut himself up every evening in the dirty public room, to push about on marble tables the small sheep bones with black dots, seemed to him a fine proof of his freedom, which raised him in his own
esteem.
Charles finished by rising in his own
esteem
for possessing such a wife.
The disappointment of her failure increased the indignation of her outraged modesty; it seemed to her that Providence pursued her implacably, and, strengthening herself in her pride, she had never felt so much
esteem
for herself nor so much contempt for others.
To win popular
esteem
at Verrieres, the essential thing is not to adopt (while still building plenty of walls) any plan of construction brought from Italy by those masons who in spring pass through the gorges of the Jura on their way to Paris.
Can it be that in their hearts they
esteem
it at its true value; judge of it as I do?
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