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France, after all, has long been defined by a strong egalitarian impulse.
The impulse simply to cut the Gordian knot of debt by defaulting on it is much stronger when creditors are remote and unknown.
That fiscal impulse, coupled with high commodity prices and abundant credit, continues to fuel economic growth today – often at the expense of stability and growth tomorrow.
Citizens’ fury deepened into grim resolve; the government’s repressive impulse was challenged and defeated.
Simply put, it has been a magnificent demonstration of how response to human tragedy can unite rather than divide, reinforcing the impulse to cooperate rather than confront.
Throughout my entire career I have worked with many people whose driving impulse has been to serve Hong Kong.
Several times in recent weeks, cellphone texts (today’s sirens) have informed the public that the faint streak in the sky overhead is an intercontinental ballistic missile launched by a nuclear-armed 33-year-old dictator with impulse control issues.
So it should be no surprise that ideological cacophony has severely diluted the group’s founding impulse of avoiding entanglement in the disputes of the world’s superpowers.
This disposition stays the impulse to try to explain more about the world than we can possibly know with one simple model.
There have already been seven governments since 2011, with social turmoil pushing policymakers into a defensive mode that has stifled any reformist impulse.
When the SARS epidemic broke out in Guangdong in South China, the government's first impulse was, indeed, to be secretive, manipulate statistics, pressure the media into silence, distort the magnitude of the epidemic, and impede the World Health Organization (WHO) from getting involved early.
It was a vote of misery and desertion, an impulse moved by panic as well as anger.
So our task is to offer Europe a new foundation and a new impulse.
Nonetheless, I understand the impulse to limit punishment in order that society heal and rebuild.
Because, alas, if history is any predictor, another eruption of the genocidal impulse will not be long in coming.
If the single currency prospers, the EU will be strengthened and the process of European integration will receive a large new political impulse.
If a similar impulse could be implanted into Myanmar, both its people and the world would benefit.
And, with the economic crisis becoming ever more global in nature, the next challenge for policymakers will be to try to mitigate its effects at home – and to contain their constituents’ impulse to reduce engagement with the rest of the world.
The protectionist impulse has been absent from the response to the current crisis so far, but that could change.
A recent announcement by the provincial government in Hainan, China, which has responsibility for the South China Sea territories claimed by China, has probably reinforced that impulse.
Even if one is skeptical about the feasibility of both notions, the impulse behind them is a long way away from the independent security posture for France that de Gaulle cultivated.
The prosecutor and judge on the case have been allowed to do their job, despite the natural impulse of President Dilma Rousseff’s government to quash the investigation.
Could this be because the military and civilian leaders of the US defense establishment have seen first-hand the costs of stunted intellectual growth, hyperactivity, and lack of impulse control?
But this impulse is superfluous as friendly relations with China are a must for Russia, both strategically and economically, irrespective of relations with the West.
The fiscal and monetary impulse supported a rapid recovery.
This self-serving impulse was on display in European Parliament President Martin Schulz’s fiery comments calling for the UK to invoke Article 50 (the withdrawal procedure) immediately – a move surely intended as a shot across the bow of his political rival, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who had called for deliberation and time.
This seems to me to reflect women's all-too-common impulse to accommodate the unbridled male ego rather than any deficiency in their creativity or "independence."
Their first impulse will not be to figure out how to use modern means of direct communication to persuade customers, employees, and other stakeholders to think and do the things that they want them to think and do.
This undoubtedly reflects a widespread impulse to mete out some kind of punishment against those who commit terrorist acts.
We must fight the impulse to obfuscate, deny, or forget.
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