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That is why it is increasingly being rejected in
favor
of an agro-ecological model based on the principle of “food sovereignty.”
Simply put, the Chinese financial sector’s bias in
favor
of SOEs is contributing to some of the biggest risks faced by China’s economy.
The unfortunate paradox in Georgia – and elsewhere in the post-Soviet world – is that self-serving pro-Western rhetoric has often led democratic values to be sacrificed in
favor
of a new dictatorship.
He rejected what he described as the European style of very large government and high tax rates and the American style of lower tax rates but large fiscal deficits, in
favor
of low budget deficits and a tax system that would promote “opportunities” for individuals and private enterprises.
Lacking any evidence for his allegation, Trump has called for an investigation, much like he demanded an investigation into widespread voter fraud (in
favor
of his opponent, Hillary Clinton) that never actually took place.
In 1978, an overwhelming 90.5% of Catalans (three points higher than the national average) voted in
favor
of the Spanish constitution, which grants individual regions self-rule over major areas such as police, education, health, and broadcasting.
A third option for limiting debt accumulation is to reconsider tax rules that
favor
debt.
But the party system and the FA’s internal balance of power do not
favor
any turn abrupt toward radical left or populism.
When I examine these issues, I see no evidence in
favor
of the first theory.
Nor do I see any evidence at all in
favor
of the third explanation.
Russians, for example, rejected Vladimir Zhirinovsky, a clownish Donald Trump-like nationalist and anti-Semite, in
favor
of Boris Yeltsin, who had stared down tanks during the failed 1991 coup and recognized that his country’s future lay with democracy and the West.
Over the years, opinion polls have consistently shown that about 60% of Israelis
favor
withdrawing from the West Bank in exchange for permanent peace.
The policies that
favor
mortgage debt are extremely popular.
The balance of power between the two countries has shifted decidedly in the US’s
favor.
The traditional redistributive logic will be abandoned in
favor
of a pre-distributive approach.
In May 2010, the community board, which is made up of area residents, voted 29-to-1 in
favor
of a plan to build a 13-story mosque and community center just two blocks from Ground Zero.
A majority of UN member states are in
favor
of creating a new Council with an expanded roster of both permanent and non-permanent members.
As a result, the government has not hesitated to try to curry
favor
with the Islamists by using legislation that prohibits “hurting religious sentiments” to harass and arrest atheists and liberals.
That means resisting the trend, which has lately gained momentum, toward bypassing these institutions in
favor
of bilateral or regional arrangements.
Even if America were to reverse its current policies and reduce its domestic agricultural subsidies--just one reason that Latin Americans view the FTAA as rank hypocrisy--a focus on export-oriented agriculture in Ecuador tends to
favor
large landowners over small farmers, shifting income from the poor to the rich.
The effects will likely reverberate through each country’s domestic politics, strengthening forces that
favor
disintegration.
Remember how the Argentines were able to thumb their noses at the pro-market “Washington Consensus” in
favor
of an interventionist “Buenos Aires consensus”?
The threat of chaos, evident now in Libya, Syria, and Yemen, also weighed in the royal family’s
favor.
After all, British public opinion first began to turn in
favor
of EU membership after the failed Suez invasion of 1956, which taught the country that, bereft of empire, it could no longer execute an effective foreign policy on its own.
In other words, the traditional securities available to investors make it easier to bet in
favor
of a company than against it, causing prices to be affected more by irrational exuberance than by panics.
While European societies have developed social welfare states with universal access to public health and education services, elites throughout the Americas have tended to
favor
private-sector provision of health and education, in part reflecting white populations’ unwillingness to pay for social services for other ethnic and racial groups.
Many observers believe that the US is doing the rest of the world a huge
favor
by running chronic current-account deficits – namely, supporting the large surplus countries, which tend to suffer from a shortfall of domestic demand.
The government doesn’t just spend it, but seems always to
favor
tangible things like skyscrapers, fancy government buildings, highways, and big industrial projects.
Due to the lack of public oversight on government budgeting, China’s political system is especially biased to
favor
big physical projects, and, through taxation and state ownership, the government maintains almost full control over much national income and wealth, maximizing the impact of this bias.
Joseph Stalin rejected Mendelian genetics (the fundamental laws of heredity) and even Darwin’s theory of evolution in
favor
of the bogus theories of Trofim Lysenko, the Soviet biologist who believed that human traits were acquired, not inherited.
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