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871 examples of Ideal in a sentence

Ukraine would be an ideal candidate for re-profiling.
This accumulation of power in the hands of a completely independent institution is, of course, not ideal from the standpoint of democratic accountability.
The danger is that India could write off Europe as charming but irrelevant, a continent ideal for a summer holiday, not for serious business.
Through Voltaire and Kant the idea of Europe was broadened to mean cosmopolitanism and the ideal of global citizenship.
Ethical behavior involves not only refraining from doing certain things, but also doing certain things to bring about ideal states of affairs.
Of course, for most people, growth without inflation is the ideal combination.
Why Economists Put Health FirstPALO ALTO – In an ideal world, everyone, everywhere, would access the health services they need without having to pay more than they could afford.
At the same time, the policy mix has not been ideal.
Are we perhaps pursuing too mechanical an ideal which confuses the absence of privilege and disadvantage with the absence of diversity?
The Fed blames (rightly) foreign central banks that are keeping interest rates too low to prevent their currencies from appreciating against the dollar; but the Fed cannot set policy assuming others respond with a theoretical ideal.
The situation may not be dire yet, but it is far from ideal – especially at a time when the Chinese authorities are pursuing structural reform.
France’s impoverished suburbs, the notorious banlieues , make the ideal of “fraternité” sound like an insult on top of an injury.
His aim for the Olympic Games was to embody a noble ideal of world peace and brotherhood through athletic competition.
How easily this ideal could be corrupted by distinctly ungentlemanly politics was already clear in 1936, when Coubertin’s doddering speech about peace and fair play was played over the loudspeakers of the Olympic Stadium in Berlin, while Hitler and his henchmen raised their arms to salute the Nazi flag.
Central banks have been forced onto a policy path that is far from ideal – not least because they increasingly risk inciting some of the zero-sum elements of an undeclared currency war.
For, although the US has drawn strength from the ideal of a “melting pot” – and President Barack Obama’s cabinet does represent a new high-water mark for diversity – Americans have often shown a xenophobic distrust of immigrants who have drawn too close to power.
Likewise, as David Autor of MIT has pointed out, the automatic teller machine (ATM) displaced human bank tellers, but so reduced the cost of branches that their number rose, fueling an increase in employees focused on customer relationship management (for which ATMs are less than ideal).
In Dugin’s ideal future, a medieval social order would return, the empire would be restored, and the Orthodox church would assume control over culture and education.
In an ideal world, justice and democracy always go hand in hand.
Even if the reality never looks like the ideal, the pursuit of that ideal serves as a powerful motivator, linking diverse actors through a shared goal – one that would serve everyone’s interests.
For 20 years, sustainable development has been viewed as an ideal toward which to aim.
Mexico’s crisis is the ideal time to consider new variants of presidentialism.
The emerging European “energy union,” which the Council has endorsed, could be the ideal vehicle to facilitate this shift.
These two traits put a great deal of bargaining power in the hands of those who control production and distribution, making them ideal for a market economy based on private property.
Of course, no real-world policy falls cleanly into any one of these ideal types.
This is a fleshed-out version of an ideal traceable to antiquity.
In a message dated February 16, 2011, entitled “The People’s Revolution and the Fall of the Corrupt Arab System: A New Beginning and the Shattering of the Idol of ‘Stability,’” a Libyan who goes by the name Atiyat Allah writes, “It is true that this revolution is not the ideal that we had desired….[W]e
Asia’s New Security TrifectaNEW DELHI – Winter is India’s diplomatic high season, with the cool, sunny weather forming an ideal backdrop for pageantry, photo ops at the Taj Mahal or Delhi’s Red Fort, and bilateral deal-making.
The beliefs and will of the majority of people shape the ideal Islamic state, he says.
The ideal of universal equality and rights does owe something to the history of Western civilization, from Socrates’ “natural justice” to Christianity and France’s Declaration of the Rights of Man.
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