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The phenomenon is far more widespread, complex, and varied – but it is useful to focus on the more extreme cases.
It is time to counter the extreme idea, currently popular in Western politics, that coexistence is impossible.
Greece, where growth resumed only in 2017 and unemployment is still close to 20%, is an extreme case.
At the other extreme, Germany’s labor market is in far better shape than in it was 2007.
In the climate of extreme fear that followed the attacks of September 11, 2001, the Bush administration’s tortured legal interpretations of international and domestic law tarnished American democracy and diminished its soft power.
In moments of extreme fear, the pendulum of attitudes swings toward the security end of that spectrum.
Hitler’s extreme nationalism resonated with many audiences, including young people who wanted to restore Germany’s lost territories and military might.
Extreme nationalists exploit the current refugee crisis, in a context of fear and deadly terrorist attacks, to gain large numbers of supporters.
In fact, one should view the Guatemalan study, with its incontrovertible horrors, as an extreme example of the biggest ethical problems in research today.
Even in collective tragedies and extreme situations, the writer is searching, through his own vision, strategy, and style, for the destiny of the individual, for the human specificity of weakness and resilience and dreams, for the ambiguities and limits and surprises of individuality caught in the social deadlock.
They are home to most of the hundreds of millions of Chinese who have been lifted out of extreme poverty in just a few decades.
During Trump’s presidential campaign, Arpaio was a poster child of the divisive immigration debate and a vocal supporter of the candidate’s extreme promises, including the construction of a wall on the border with Mexico.
The blood-soaked politics that have prevailed since September 2000 exposed the extreme vulnerability of this development strategy, making urgent the need to rethink the economic foundations of the Palestinian territories.
In 1820, nine out of ten people lived in extreme poverty.
This $1.90 threshold for extreme poverty is a really tight limit: it is not what a wealthy tourist could buy in a low-cost, developing country.
On average, these Indonesians are 29 cents short of $1.90; so 21 million people need 29 cents more every day – or about $6 million in total – to get out of extreme poverty.
With an estimated 268 million people in extreme poverty in the latest survey from 2011, India is home to the largest absolute number of poor people on the planet.
Each is on average 38 cents a day below the extreme poverty line.
Europe’s policy is to abolish extreme inequality and poverty by lavish unemployment compensation that puts a floor under the willingness of people to accept poor jobs.
The greater the repression that religious parties face in secular police states, the more extreme their politics are likely to become.
When the Cold War was at its height, and the threat from Russia at its most extreme, the West seemed to welcome Turkey's advances.
Even worse, social-media algorithms tend to amplify the most extreme material at the expense of more credible sources.
But efforts to eliminate material viewed as extreme by some will raise the specter of censorship.
Many countries are clearly not benefiting from globalization, and are falling further and further behind into extreme poverty.
Unfortunately, Merkel’s campaign is off to a rocky start, and the recent entry of Oskar Lafontaine’s extreme left-wing party into the fray may necessitate the formation of a grand coalition between the Christian Democrats and the Social Democrats.
Even in the US, the economic insecurity of a vast white underclass that feels threatened by immigration and global trade can be seen in the rising influence of the extreme right and Tea Party factions of the Republican Party.
The cost is yet another generation of Middle Eastern youth who will believe the worst about the US, no matter how far-fetched the rumor or extreme the claim.
Those who work in the field know that once sex abusers control a powerless victim, they will invariably push the boundaries with ever more extreme behavior.
But, taken to its logical extreme, national sovereignty would require the complete physical and social isolation of states from one another.
If extreme poverty is allowed to increase, it will give rise to new problems, including new diseases that will spread from countries that cannot provide adequate health care to those that can.
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