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The return of geopolitics means that the fundamental choice facing Europe in the twenty-first century will be between self-determination and external domination.
Education can also have a fundamental effect on forming values.
Post-Brexit forecasts of doom and gloom for Africa’s export-driven economies miss a fundamental fact: these economies will soon be relying far less on commodity exports.
Aside from costing billions of taxpayer dollars, Paulson’s plan violates the fundamental capitalist principle that whoever reaps the gains also bears the losses.
For anyone who believes in free markets, the most serious risk of the current situation is that the interest of a few financiers will undermine the capitalist system’s fundamental workings.
Such largesse betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of the causes of today’s discontent, because it assumes that these causes are purely material.
This may be the right response if the inflows and upward pressure on the exchange rate are driven by fundamental factors (a current-account surplus, an undervalued currency, a large and persistent growth differential).
There should be equality before the law, together with adequate protection of fundamental human rights.
Like the Everest disaster, the calamity at Rana Plaza raises fundamental issues about our global economy – namely, the way wealthy consumers ignore the fate of the impoverished workers who provide their cheap goods and services.
The more fundamental problem with the euro is that its adoption has not pushed countries to address these underlying deficiencies.
Yet according to Human Rights Watch, “Thailand’s military junta tightened its grip on power and severely repressed fundamental rights” last year.
What is truly wonderful is how much of nature, including the fundamental features of life, has already proven to be explainable.
At the end of my narrative, I invite readers to consider fundamental strategies of resisting and challenging unwanted social influences, and I introduce the notion of “the banality of heroism.”
Hong Kong’s success partly reflects a fundamental moderation within the culture, a competency and rationality that enables the city – an autonomous Chinese territory – to thrive in a complex context.
The international community must therefore accept the need for a fundamental link between such military action and the UN.
Augmenting US and British troops with other "Western" forces would not, particularly at this late stage, change the fundamental perception of that intervention, both in the Arab world and beyond it.
In the field of diet and nutrition, there is a fundamental debate between calorie counters and proponents of specific diets, whether low-fat, low-carbohydrate, or buy-my-line-of-expensive-formulated-products.
All of this raises a fundamental question: Does the US even need an overarching design for its foreign policy?
In considering China’s role in such a world, it is worth noting a fundamental shift in Chinese thinking since the late 2000s, away from concern with international status and toward a narrower focus on national rejuvenation, or the “Chinese Dream.”
Indeed, it would help to address a number of the most fundamental challenges facing China, from debt and overcapacity to lack of competitiveness.
Russia’s fundamental post-Soviet shortcoming has been its failure to modernize its economy.
Regardless of what today's corporate profit reports and stock indices may show, a country cannot achieve inclusive, sustainable success – in economic or human terms – if these fundamental social issues are not adequately addressed.
This shift is fundamental to the survival of state ownership, and it requires that sovereign investors rethink their traditional governance paradigm.
But disasters and economic crises can have a silver lining if they spur fundamental innovation by forcing us to think about how to manage risks in the future.
Van Rompuy’s report raises a fundamental question: What factors are preventing the eurozone from functioning as everyone would wish?
Specifically, the report highlights the need for the eurozone to make two fundamental commitments.
BUCHAREST: Romania is facing a fundamental question that many thought buried alongside Nicolae Ceausescu: Is it right to achieve just political ends by suspect or outright undemocratic means?
Doing so would controvert the most fundamental rule of a flexible exchange-rate regime: that each economy can set – and pursue – its own monetary-policy goals.
The less willing we are to ask harsh questions about humanitarianism and human rights, peace and justice, truth and reconciliation, the longer we take refuge in self-flattering fantasies about the fundamental reconcilability of all good efforts, the higher the cost will be when the moment of reckoning comes.
Here, three fundamental and longer-term challenges are worth bearing in mind.
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