Existence
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Pinker, a professor of psychology at Harvard University, draws on recent research in history, psychology, cognitive science, economics, and sociology to argue that our era is less violent, less cruel, and more peaceful than any previous period of human
existence.
In the agreement hammered out by Mr. Deng and Mrs. Thatcher in the early 1980s, Britain appears to have gained some guarantees about the continued
existence
of Hong Kong’s freewheeling capitalist economy even under Beijing’s rule (‘one country, two systems’ is the vague, if celebrated, expression coined by Mr. Deng).
By acknowledging the range and intensity of disagreement among states on a right to secede, the Court seems to have hinted that the necessary consent of the world community does not exist to establish firmly the
existence
of any such right.
But the state’s coffers are dangerously depleted, and France now finds itself among the many countries whose debt burden compromises the eurozone’s
existence.
Given their excessive belief in unfettered markets, they turned a blind eye to palpable abuses, including predatory lending, and denied the
existence
of an obvious bubble.
So, to measure happiness defined in that way, one would have to sample moments of people’s
existence
randomly, and try to find out whether they are experiencing positive or negative mental states.
Through such revelations what I call a "moral sentence" may be imposed on the guilty, and it is the
existence
of such a "sentence" which will arouse the type of deep public reflection necessary for the restoration of democracy.
Was the 2003 United States-led invasion of Saddam Hussein’s Iraq illegitimate because it was predicated on a falsehood about the
existence
of weapons of mass destruction?
If Arafat had taken this road - accepting Israel's existence, ending terrorism, and confronting Palestinian extremists - the conflict would have ended long ago.
On a limited stage, within limited time, and with limited figures or props, theatre says something about the world, about history, about human
existence.
Against this backdrop, stressing the
existence
and needs of a global community is necessary not only for economic reasons, but also to help ensure a peaceful world.
I am only a believer who cannot accept that our
existence
is the result of some freak cosmic accident.
It denies the very
existence
of human culture and freedom, launching deadly attacks, killing people at random.
Some even embraced the argument of the US libertarian Ron Paul, blaming the very
existence
of the Federal Reserve as a lender of last resort.
As a 2014 report states, “[the very
existence
of defectors] shatters the image of unity and determination that [the group] seeks to convey.”
In response, “[p]olicymakers explicitly reject the conservative paradigm and ignore the
existence
of any type of constraints on macroeconomic policy,” such that, “[i]dle capacity is seen as providing the leeway for expansion.”
But universities have always been hard-pressed to justify their
existence
in such immediate cost-benefit terms.
But they remain in
existence
three decades later.
The Shia, considered apostates by the Kingdom’s Wahhabi establishment, are viewed as a threat to the Saudi state’s legitimacy and existence, not only because of Iran’s power, but also because of the Kingdom’s large, indigenous Shia population, which is concentrated around the country’s oil fields.
Given how long it has taken to get off the ground – on-again, off-again talks dragged out over nine years – this tribunal’s very
existence
is a cause for celebration.
Given the
existence
of a technologically advanced verification regime that can detect even small underground nuclear tests – what US Secretary of State John Kerry recently called “one of the great accomplishments of the modern world” – this is especially disappointing.
Those who could left the Soviet zone and settled in the West; those who could not faced the sullen
existence
of subjects rather than citizens.
In this case, an embryo is being selected not only to avoid congenital disease and thus directly benefit the resulting child, but also to produce a child whose very
existence
could provide a cure for an older sibling, and with virtually no risk to the donor child.
His assertion that Hitler was a kind of proto-Zionist is less a failed attempt to make a provocative historical point than a deliberate slur to discredit the very
existence
of Israel.
Our global open society lacks the institutions and mechanisms necessary for its preservation, and there is no political will to bring them into
existence.
The
existence
of nuclear weapons also curbed the conventional arms race.
We cannot consistently hold that cartoonists have a right to mock religious figures but that it should be a criminal offense to deny the
existence
of the Holocaust.
The
existence
of the Holocaust should remain a living truth, and those who are skeptical about the enormity of the Nazi atrocities should be confronted with the evidence for it.
We must be free to deny the
existence
of God, and to criticize the teachings of Jesus, Moses, Muhammad, and Buddha, as reported in texts that millions of people regard as sacred.
Adherents of this view point first and foremost to the
existence
of certain vital global public goods, climate being the most obvious example.
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