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The “passionate intensity” of the populists conveys a simple, easily grasped, and now resonant message: the elites are selfish, corrupt, and often criminal.
Italy has grasped crucially important reforms in areas like pensions.
With industrial tariffs already dramatically reduced most potential benefits of trade liberalization have already been grasped.
In fact, the gravity of the banking crisis was quickly grasped.
Donald Trump grasped the spirit of the time: things weren’t going well, and many voters wanted change.
Keynes’s Cambridge disciple, Joan Robinson, was particularly worried because Hitler seemed to have grasped this point more quickly than democratic governments had.
Second, the electorate grasped the importance of re-electing a modest but wise and determined leader who understood the direction India needed to take.
But opportunities to pursue the necessary policies have not been grasped.
The dynamic sectors of the American economy are in services, though US President Donald Trump, with his fixation on old manufacturing industries, doesn’t seem to have grasped that.
When the US cut off trade with Iran, even close allies were only too ready to intensify theirs; when Germany recalled its ambassador from Tehran because Iran’s leaders had been implicated in a murder plot, some European partners grasped this opportunity to promote their business ties with Iran at Germany’s expense.
The Chinese have grasped the hidden key to Japan's success in the 1970s and 1980s.
The IMF has not, however, fully grasped that the conditions were often dangerously misguided, and often dealt with political issues that were beyond its mission.
It never fully grasped the political and economic issues underlying the design of bankruptcy laws.
Dramatic progress in renewable electricity is a hugely positive development; but the benefits are most easily grasped in developed, relatively sparsely populated countries.
In fact, new models to square the circle of economic growth, social cohesion, and political liberty may be emerging in some of the countries that have grasped the mantle of globalization.
But it was not until I began working in Rwanda in 2011 that I fully grasped the power of the tools at my disposal, by witnessing the impact of their absence.
It needs to accept that globalization is above all an opportunity, one that must be grasped by confident, innovative, and entrepreneurial people.
What has not been grasped is that this suffering is largely avoidable.
I fear that business and government elites gathering in Davos do not seem to have grasped this fully.
In the past, concern for the environment was viewed as a luxury; today, it is a necessity – a point grasped by some, but by no means all, economic architects yet.
Many, particularly in Germany, who recall those extraordinary months of late 1989 and early 1990, when Soviet control over Eastern Europe slipped away, still seem surprised that this supposedly provincial and boringly normal man could have grasped the chance to unite his divided country and deftly outmaneuvered opponents.
One wonders, though, if even he could have grasped, much less managed, the contradictions of communist capitalism.
Great Britain in 1931 already grasped this logic.
And yet some of the business leaders at Davos this year, especially those from Europe, seemed to have grasped the urgency of responding to climate change and the scope of what is needed.
This he had grasped, but he could not make out why that look of fear and shame appeared on her face...
The expectation of finding snipe was so strong that the smacking sound of his heel as he drew it out of the rusty mud sounded to Levin like the cry of a bird, and he grasped the butt end of his gun firmly.
'I can't give you an explanation,' said Levin softly and slowly, trying to control the trembling of his jaw, 'and it is better for you not to ask.'As the splinters were now all broken off, Levin grasped the thick ends in his fingers and split the stick, carefully catching a piece as it fell.
He quickly grasped Levin's outstretched hand and pressed it.
Vronsky grasped the hand warmly.
Their muscular hands grasped the strung handle; their entire bodies were bent forward, as though to slay an ox.
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