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By creating the impression that something beneficial is being done, unconventional monetary policy relieves pressure on politicians.
But her remarks that half of Trump’s supporters belonged to a “basket of deplorables” – that they were racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic – reinforced the impression that she and her party looked down on Trump voters as morally contemptible and even stupid.
The emergence of the nation-state in the eighteenth century, and the extreme level of barbarism reached in the twentieth century, may have created the impression that an ethical politics was an unrealizable dream, or that it was a dream growing ever more distant as it receded into the future.
The reasons for inaction are many, but it is difficult to avoid the impression that they are related to the current state of academic theorizing about exchange rates.
Indeed, “they are mentioned in international political and economic discussions, but one often has the impression that their problems are brought up as an afterthought.”
MONTREAL – Much commentary about the American economy nowadays leaves the impression that economists should fix its problems.
In Brussels and Washington, one gets the impression that the mission of China’s diplomats nowadays is to meet and charm everyone.
Moreover, most national policymakers have a tendency to blame “Brussels” for all of their difficult choices, thus creating the impression at home that the economy would improve if economic affairs could be managed without EU interference.
In the eurozone, the distribution issue is especially complex, given that institutional differences between countries can give the impression of discrimination among them.
Abdel-Jalil does not give the impression that he wants to become Libya’s first post-Qaddafi president.
If Europe conveys the impression that its friendship with America depends on who wins the US presidential elections, it is likely to freeze the transatlantic relationship for years.
One rarely gets a second chance to make a first impression.
Machiavelli addressed the importance of ethics for leaders, but primarily in terms of the impression that visible displays of virtue made upon followers.
One cannot shake the impression that the European soul of this government is devoured by angst.
But, unless he makes it clear that American troops will leave in the near term, he will reinforce the impression of imperial occupation.
At first glance, the results of recent elections in France and England might give the impression that European migration is on the wane as a hot-button issue.
MELBOURNE – With daily headlines focusing on war, terrorism, and the abuses of repressive governments, and religious leaders frequently bemoaning declining standards of public and private behavior, it is easy to get the impression that we are witnessing a moral collapse.
My impression is that German public and political opinion is beginning to recognize the economic devastation for Europe and Germany implied by a euro breakup.
This will give the outside world the impression that serious change is taking place and that the regime should be given the time to see it through.
This impression is no accident.
Many policymakers seem to be under the impression that surging profits are a purely cyclical phenomenon, as economies continue to grow out from the depths of the 2001 recession.
The country gave me the impression of being so civilized that I was utterly convinced that, in a post-Western world, the West would have a lot to learn from the Scandinavian countries.
If Nicolas Sarkozy, whom he defeated, was widely regarded as “too” presidential, Hollande has given the impression of not being presidential “enough.”
It is impossible to advance toward political union while seeming to abandon Europe’s citizens along the way, which is the impression that unremitting austerity has created.
Moreover, Europe too often gives the impression that its citizens can be taken for granted.
For the time being, they rather give the impression to have thrown sandbags in disorder in an attempt to stop a wave.
In the streets of Jerusalem, Israelis and Palestinians give the impression of deliberately trying not to see each other.
Unfortunately, the more that central banks give the impression that that they are on the case, and the more that markets cheer them on, the less pressure there is on politically gridlocked governments to deploy fiscal policy and push through structural reforms.
To be sure, Khrushchev’s uncovering of Stalin’s crimes and cult of personality in 1956 made a huge impression both in the Soviet Union and abroad.
During most of this period, one could get the impression, although it was deceptive, that nuclear testing was actually over.
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