Favor
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But in today's Europe, an successful electoral platform includes shutting out immigrants (especially poor or black ones), abandoning multiculturalism in
favor
of "cultural integration," limiting access to social welfare, halting or reversing the progress of European unification, and pouring police onto the streets.
While tackling climate change effectively will be virtually impossible without civil-society organizations’ participation, their impact has often been undermined by the political considerations of their governments, which may, for example,
favor
incumbent energy suppliers over green alternatives in order to preserve existing jobs.
This is true even in the US: according to a poll released by the Arab American Institute, only 20% of Americans (including American Arabs and American Jews)
favor
moving the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
But the EU must be ready to respond to the perceptible momentum in Belarus in
favor
of domestic reform, greater openness, and respect for fundamental democratic rights.
Amartya Sen, in his magisterial The Idea of Justice, concluded that true social equity requires not equal treatment for all, but rather unequal treatment in
favor
of the poor and most disadvantaged.
If communities can replant rather than deforest, they can create carbon-dioxide sinks, improve the water balance, and protect the micro-climate – all of which would
favor
agriculture, food security, and efforts to mitigate global climate change in a sustainable way.
Other former communist countries in Eastern Europe – namely, Lithuania, Ukraine, and Hungary – have also come to
favor
a nationalist narrative of victimhood and resistance.
The argument in
favor
is that failure to do so would raise fears about how increased public debt would ever be repaid, or about how the ECB would “exit” from a swollen balance sheet, in turn undermining the stimulative impact of fiscal and monetary coordination.
Only then can any credence be given to its stated position – not unattractive in principle – in
favor
of resource-sharing arrangements for disputed territory pending final resolution of competing claims.
Some
favor
stimulating growth through investment projects, while others emphasize structural reform.
But the government must overcome the spoilers, such as senior civil servants and the Remain majority in the House of Commons, who
favor
a Brexit in name only – a “false” version that could never deliver the benefits of the real thing.
We must also aid, encourage, and ideologically arm Muslims who reject the Islam of hate in
favor
of an Islam respectful of women, their faces, and their rights, as well as of human rights in general.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is the kingmaker whose timely military intervention saved Assad’s regime from defeat and turned the war’s tide in his
favor.
Shujaat, only half-jokingly, returned the
favor
by calling her a terrorist.
Unless they abandon asymmetric adjustment (recessionary deflation), which concentrates all of the pain in the periphery, in
favor
of a more symmetrical approach (austerity and structural reforms on the periphery, combined with eurozone-wide reflation), the monetary union's slow-developing train wreck will accelerate as peripheral countries default and exit.
If both war and diplomacy fail, these regional powers believe they will be better positioned than the West to shift the Afghan Great Game in their
favor.
Chinese elites are convinced that time is working in their favor, and that it is only natural that China should regain its rank amongst the world leading powers, perhaps even emerging on top one day.
Beyond the Great Recession and the migration crisis, both of which created fertile ground for populist parties, the aging of the West’s population will continue to alter political power dynamics in populists’
favor.
Older Britons voted disproportionately in
favor
of leaving the European Union, and older Americans delivered the US presidency to Donald Trump.
Young people, frustrated with socioeconomic systems that are clearly tilted in
favor
of retirees, are increasingly calling for fairer intergenerational redistribution of scarce resources.
For Remainers not to make the case for EEA membership, when they had previously been in
favor
of remaining in the EU, is an astonishing abdication of responsibility.
Overwhelmingly, non-US citizens
favor
Barack Obama’s re-election over a victory for his challenger, Mitt Romney.
If you want America to lead by the power of example, you
favor
Barack Obama; if you want to be reassured by the continuation of America’s power in a traditional security sense, you probably prefer John McCain.
For example, Japanese elites tend to
favor
continuity over change.
Why
favor
change, when continuity works so well for you?
The Fund is doing Europe’s people no
favor
by failing to push aggressively for a more realistic solution, including dramatic debt write-downs for peripheral eurozone countries and re-allocating core-country guarantees elsewhere.
Paradoxically, the early stages of the financial crisis appeared to
favor
conservative and pro-market leaders – who seemed to be in a better position to save the economy – more than socialists.
Small wonder that, in Germany, the coming disappearance of the D-mark in
favor
of euro notes is causing deep disquiet.
Europe’s “single digital market,” they argue, currently amounts “to a jumble of outdated, corporatist, counterproductive industrial policies that
favor
producers over consumers, big companies over small, traditional incumbents over digital startups, and EU firms over foreign ones.”
Elections in Greece – where the recession is turning into a depression – may give 40-50% of the popular vote to parties that
favor
immediate default and exit from the eurozone.
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