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If the economy was foolproof, and if so many good policy options existed to deal with crisis and distress, there was less need to avoid mistakes.
What little public support once existed for the FARC and the ELN is evaporating, and both groups know it.
Had business schools existed before the American Civil War, one can conceive of at least a lecture, if not a full course, on the subject.
This dualism of human spirit and physical body implied that brain-based explanations for problems affecting motor movement and language were possible, but that personality, feelings, and beliefs existed in the realm of the spirit.
No flexibility existed within either bloc for smaller groups of members to deploy alliance assets.
When this happens, real efforts to enforce laws that previously existed only on paper to please foreigners, starts to take place.
The obstacles to growth are well known, and have existed for a long time without being removed.
JERUSALEM – Israelis and Palestinians are preparing for a showdown at the United Nations in September, when the Palestinian leadership will ask for recognition of a Palestinian state within the borders that existed before the Six Day War in 1967 (when Israel seized control of Jordanian-occupied territory).
But ornithologists already knew that black swans existed in Australia, having discovered them in 1697.
We have never observed live dinosaurs, either, but we know they existed - and quite a lot about how they worked - from the fossil record.
No such association existed during the 2000’s or any sub-period within this decade.
Similarly, as recently as two decades ago, instantaneous global communication existed, but was economically out of reach for most people.
There were “two great parties” in England, he wrote, which manifested a “distinction” that “had always existed, and always must exist.”
This is revealed in the tensions that have existed between Poland, which fears domination by the EU’s steering group, and Germany, which is reluctant to shoulder the financial burden for a union in which it is under-represented.
North Korea has been pressing for a declaration of the end of war, an aspirational statement that would signal a common desire to replace the armistice that has existed since the Korean War ended 65 years ago with a formal peace treaty.
Great achievements - material progress, dizzying new technologies such as the automobile, the telephone, the typewriter - existed back then, but also protests against a world that seemed out of the control of traditional political institutions.
Three types of exchange rate regimes are possible and have existed at various times in various countries:(a) A truly fixed exchange rate or unified currency.
Not long ago, international links existed primarily among major trading hubs in Europe and North America; now, the web is intricate and sprawling.
Indeed, faced with emerging concerns about migration, establishment politicians and academic economists responded either by dismissing the concerns as closet racism, or by denying that adverse consequences even existed; either way, millions of citizens were apparently suffering from false consciousness.
But the EU has created a political society in Europe such as has never existed before: a continuous process among Europe’s nations that enables adaptation of policies and institutions to tackle problems as they arise – and to tackle them together.
After all, the tax preference for debt has existed for a long time, and nothing heightened it before the crisis hit.
In some countries - say, Nicaragua and El Salvador - economies had so worsened that nearly all business people joined in opposition to the status quo, though disagreements existed about future goals.
The nostalgia on which these leaders successfully campaign cannot serve as a basis for policy, because the world they describe never existed.
Among ten countries in the New Democracies Barometer organized by Professor Richard Rose of the University of Strathclyde in Great Britain, for example, the Czechs are the most approving of the new economic system and political regime, and are most antagonistic to the economic and political environment that existed prior to 1989.
In the West, occultism emerged in response to the Enlightenment's faith in science, helped by a number of medical professionals who claimed that vampires actually existed.
What is also becoming apparent is the collapse of the region’s old order, which had existed more or less unchanged since the end of World War I, and with it, the decline of the region’s traditional stabilizing powers.
But a presidential regime runs the risk of a stalemate between the executive and the legislature, and a pure parliamentary regime, such as existed in the Third Republic, has a track of failure in France.
Their borders were arbitrary and artificial, and none had ever existed in such form.
While the death penalty for drugs has existed in Bangladesh for decades, it has rarely been used.
But the world that the populists and their constituents hope to recreate – a world of self-sufficient, egalitarian states insulated from developments around them – never existed.
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