Grasp
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Both have a strong
grasp
of history, as well as the charisma and will needed to confront recalcitrant vested interests.
Not surprisingly, these economic elites barely
grasp
the extent to which this system has failed large swaths of the population in Europe and the United States, leaving most households’ real incomes stagnant and causing labor’s share of income to decline substantially.
France and Germany fail to
grasp
that the candidate countries' support for the US is not aimed against "old Europe."
While European and American leaders recognize that the world order is undergoing a dramatic change, they cannot quite
grasp
it.
You might call it a matter of “legal empowerment”: of ensuring that laws and policies reside not only in books or courtrooms, but also on the street and in the home, within the
grasp
of every person.
As Venter’s work shows, we do not yet have a sufficient
grasp
of the essentials of basic biology to design and build a cell.
It is difficult for me and many other sight-impaired people to
grasp
that, in this age of personal computing, digital information transfer, 3D printers, and narration software, our access to publications that we can read remains unnecessarily restricted.
Noah Kabbakeh, one of my vision-impaired colleagues in Freetown, Sierra Leone, needed four years to complete a two-year master’s program in the social sciences, not because he is unable to
grasp
the material quickly enough, but because he had to earn money to hire someone to read aloud textbooks and other class materials that any seeing graduate student could have obtained from the university library.
With the core nuclear issue more or less settled, it is now imperative to resolve sanctions and normalization issues and
grasp
the opportunity for regional grand bargains that might then become possible.
The trouble is that we are still in the
grasp
of the myth of the nation-state’s decline.
The failed Times Square attack demonstrates the TTP’s growing transnational ambitions (but also that the group’s reach exceeds its grasp, at least for now).
Apparently, Varoufakis believes that his “sophisticated
grasp
of game theory” gives Greece a crucial advantage in “the complicated dynamics” of the negotiations.
In the accepted classification of sciences, mathematics is thought to be the queen, and the most difficult to grasp, followed by physics, chemistry, and, finally, biology.
The failure of moderate establishment forces to
grasp
and respond to the forces now moving the world, from digitization to globalization, led to a governance vacuum, which has now given way to a moral and intellectual vacuum.
But nuclear weapons, unusable and extremely expensive to maintain, are low-hanging fruit – a risk that we can easily
grasp
and eliminate.
To call these people’s ostentatious displays of extravagance wasteful is to miss the point: a world of glittering dreams that must remain entirely beyond our
grasp
is precisely what many people want to see.
Now that he has determined that the EU “deceived” Poland once, he will
grasp
at that conclusion continually.
To
grasp
the importance of the Stones’ performance in front of hundreds of thousands of adoring Cubans, one has to understand what rock and roll meant to people living under Communist dictatorships.
So here are 12 reasons why America should
grasp
the opportunity for a diplomatic resolution afforded by the Russian-Iranian plan.
Even with a world population that continues to add tens of millions of new mouths every year, given continuing growth in Haber-Bosch fertilizer and a surprising trend toward a worldwide decline in birth rates (if you live about 50 years longer, according to the best estimates, you’ll see humanity reach zero population growth), it might be within humanity’s
grasp
to avoid mass starvation forever.
Perhaps Havel's biggest failure was that he did not
grasp
as quickly as others, including his main political rival, Vaclav Klaus, that Czechoslovakia as a federal state of two nations was doomed after 1989.
An SWP specialist in UK politics analyzes Prime Minister David Cameron’s likely tactics, and shows an impressive
grasp
of the British psyche as well as of political minutiae.
And it is what we do today when we
grasp
that neither Cambodia, nor Darfur, nor the massacres in Syria, nor the need, anywhere on the planet, to drive out the beast that sleeps in man should divert us from the sacred task of saving what we can of memory, meaning, and hope.
The European Union, as I
grasp
it, is primarily a process, leading from worse to better; a process with only one end - the continuous development of European prosperity and peace.
To
grasp
the speed of this global rebalancing, consider that in 1990, more than 95% of R&D was carried out in developed countries; a decade later, the developed countries’ share had dropped to 76%.
Fortunately Russia now seems to
grasp
the value of this political aspect of NATO-enlargement.
To
grasp
the relevance of identity economics, and how it differs from standard economics, consider an otherwise puzzling fact.
The incoming Trump administration should
grasp
the historic opportunity to help bring AIDS to an end through a modest financial commitment by governments and other funders.
But one thing is clear: the more traditional foreign ministries tend to be, the more difficult it is for them and their diplomats to
grasp
change.
Sizing Up the US Election’s Opening RoundWASHINGTON, DC – If you find America’s presidential election campaign puzzling, you probably have a better
grasp
of it than those who are willing to predict an outcome.
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