Ethos
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Reduced to a highly technical and bureaucratic process, enlargement became almost totally devoid of any moral and political
ethos.
Germans – for once not so ironically – often present themselves as world champions at “coming to terms with the past”; and their new capital’s architecture – derided by some as “antiquarian masochism” – literally gives this
ethos
concrete expression.
By treating people as suspicious purely because of who they are, how they look, or where they pray, rather than what they do or have done, ethnic profiling threatens the very
ethos
of the EU, a union firmly rooted in values of liberty, democracy, and respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms.
Seen from a distance of centuries, perhaps all European history will appear as a lone day of vigor, of great discoveries of the mind and the
ethos
of expansion.
It is based on a strong, legally entrenched (though never perfect)
ethos
of gender equality that has typified Zionism from its start.
Americans, with their
ethos
of self-help, initiative, ambition, and competition, think it breeds risk-averse Peter Pans unwilling to strike out on their own.
And, most challenging of all, a new investigative
ethos
is needed to reduce the risk of departmental bias, especially if evidence points toward official or government entities, as some suggest it might.
Civic Platform came to power in 2007 with a strongly pro-business and free-market
ethos.
This
ethos
will also help us maximize the potential benefits of such flux.
Catchwords like “exile,” “diaspora,” “Holocaust,” “return,” and “genocide” are now an inextricable component of the Palestinian national
ethos.
Indeed, an
ethos
of perpetual vigilance is central to sustaining President Vladimir Putin’s high popular-approval ratings.
Of course, the parallels end at some point, because batteries and engines aren’t quite the equivalent of PCs, but the
ethos
is much the same.
As Greenspan tells it, the “rougher edges” of creative destruction were legislated away by Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal, but after the wave of de-regulation of the 1970’s, America recovered much of its entrepreneurial, risk-taking
ethos.
Some observers, like the political scientist Stefano Bartolini, oppose the use of political parties to narrow the deficit, arguing that politicizing European integration would undermine the consociational decision-making
ethos
that has underpinned the EU’s success.
One answer has to do with input rather than outcomes--that is, with the quality and
ethos
of those running our public services and working in them.
The old French administrative training for public services taught both relevant skills and an
ethos
of civic commitment.
Even if serious dialogue with Uzbekistan is taking place behind closed doors – and the Pentagon’s new initiatives suggest that it is – its low, almost undetectable, profile sends mixed signals that fly in the face of the open, transparent, and collective
ethos
of America’s big OSCE push.
Such remains America’s democratic
ethos.
This
ethos
produced some of the twentieth century’s most important discoveries in science and technology, including the foundations of radio astronomy in 1932 and the invention of the transistor in 1947.
For Israel, recovering Shalit was its way to uphold an
ethos
of unity in times of war, and to fulfill the army’s promise to its conscripts (and their families) that no soldier, dead or alive, would ever be left behind.
But the true significance of his demand lies in that it’s being pronounced at a time when Prime Minister Salam Fayaad’s policies are posing a genuine challenge to the Palestinian national movement to choose between an
ethos
of vindication and one of state building.
But the situation was reversed in the case of the Palestinians: the
ethos
of the diaspora, with the plight of the refugees at its center, has been the beating heart of the Palestinian cause and the focus of decision making for the national movement.
It imbues the Palestinian cause with a positive
ethos
of nation- and state-building by superseding Palestinian nationalism’s diaspora-centered preoccupations – and thereby transcending the paralyzing obsession with a never-fulfilled vindication of rights and justice.
Indeed, despite of the rise of Fayaadism, the Palestinian national movement will be careful not to betray its real sources of legitimacy: the
ethos
of dispossession and the refugee.
Neither the multicultural
ethos
(respect for “cultural diversity in an atmosphere of mutual tolerance,” as British Labor Minister Roy Jenkins put it in 1966), nor official indifference to religious identities (as in France, where the state, as the nineteenth-century historian Jules Michelet put it, “takes the place of God”) has worked as planned.
Such coverage also tends to individualize and psychologize social pathologies – another deep-seated American trait, and one reinforced by the lone-cowboy frontier
ethos
that is central to US mythology (and to gun mythology).
For many centuries the character of its civilization and its inner
ethos
equipped it to exert a major influence on other regions and eventually to determine disproportionately the current shape of our entire global order.
In considering Europe’s future, Havel often dwelled on the search for an
ethos
to drive integration.
The current refugee crisis could be the seed from which such a European
ethos
grows and spreads.
For the government, the imperative is to create more regulatory space and provide a facilitating
ethos
for the private sector.
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