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If the open society is to serve as an ideal worth striving for, it can no longer be defined in terms of the Communist menace.
Such collaboration is already happening in places like the Philippines, where a National eHealth Steering Committee oversees a suite of digital-health initiatives, thus creating an ideal environment for digital innovation.
Nuclear deterrence and “mutually assured destruction” would be passé only if we assumed that we – people, countries, and humankind at large – had become so ideal and humane that we no longer needed self-deterrence.
Is this an ideal that we should take seriously?
Open government is, within limits, an ideal that we all share.
Openness is in this respect like pacifism: just as we cannot embrace complete disarmament while others stand ready to use their weapons, so Woodrow Wilson’s world of open diplomacy is a noble ideal that cannot be fully realized in the world in which we live.
We could, however, try to get closer to that ideal.
During Soviet times, it was easy to understand how the communist ideal could seduce those of generous spirit, even if its promise of a just and free society ultimately turned out to be a lie.
This change of top EU personnel represents an ideal opportunity to debate what Europe stands for, and how to create a more stable, integrated, and prosperous union – one based on solidarity, interdependence, and enlightened self-interest.
In an ideal world, Europe would deal with its excessive debt burdens through a restructuring of Greek, Irish, and Portuguese liabilities, as well as municipal and bank debt in Spain.
Though, in an ideal world, people would simply be able to quit using nicotine altogether, experience suggests that many smokers cannot – or do not want to – give it up, and will continue to smoke if there is no safe and acceptable alternative.
That makes PNVs the ideal solution.
It rejects the notion that there is a single civilizational ideal to which all countries should conform.
So why, in these seemingly ideal circumstances, can’t the right find a plausible political story to tell – one which reconciles liberal government with liberal economics?
He would probably love the idea of the information cloud – so abstract, so Platonic – and find Google to be the ideal tool to catch up on the vast scientific and technical advances of the last couple of millennia.
A group of farsighted statesmen, inspired by the vision of a United States of Europe, recognized that this ideal could be approached only gradually, by setting limited objectives, mobilizing the political will needed to achieve them, and concluding treaties that required states to surrender only as much sovereignty as they could bear politically.
For more than 200 years, Britain represented a certain ideal of liberty and tolerance (at least for many Europeans;Indians might have taken a somewhat different view).
Shia Iran, with which the Kingdom is competing for regional hegemony, is the ideal foil.
Still, if intra-eurozone mobility were anything like Mundell’s ideal, today we would not be seeing 25% unemployment in Spain while Germany’s unemployment rate is below 7%.
In an ideal world, these choices would be the focus of electoral debates and parliamentary work.
As it turns out, Foshan may well be the ideal example to test Coase’s views.
In order to keep prices in this ideal range, Saudi Arabia may even increase production again.
Similarly, delays in upstream investment, especially megaprojects, could push prices above the ideal level in the medium and long term.
The participants in Chicago will have major differences over these issues, and the results may not be ideal.
Such research could provide compelling evidence to support compulsory universal education as the ideal mechanism not just for ending educational exclusion, but also for bringing an end to child labor and trafficking, early marriage, and discrimination against girls.
Viable units will emerge that are less than ideal but at least capable of creating legitimate government - meaning a government that is both effective and acceptable.
It is obviously not ideal that the US has the Volcker rule and [the UK has] Vickers…”He was surely right, but “too big to fail” is another area in which the initial post-crisis enthusiasm for global solutions has failed.
The ideal is corporatism, which does not separate people into parties, but unites their interests.”
Moreover, pigs and poultry are ideal food-waste processors, and their effluents can serve again as nutrient and energy sources, turning future food chains into interconnected production cycles.
These cramped cities are ideal incubators for outbreaks of emerging infectious diseases like Ebola.
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