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This impulse strongly affected his choice of a successor when he decided to step down as prime minister.
It is always easier to see a group or nation as a malevolent “Other” when this impulse is fed by an old, and still potent, prejudice.
Translated into British terms, it meant releasing the impulse to wealth creation from the dead hand of socialism, bureaucracy, and trade unions, which in her reading of history had brought about Britain’s decline.
This is strange, because usually when something works the natural impulse is to do it again.
In the mid-1970’s, following the war in Vietnam, America, guided by President Jimmy Carter’s moralizing impulse, opted for “regionalization” of its engagements.
Could this be why men who in the past could take time-delayed steps to conduct affairs behind closed doors now can’t resist the impulse to send a self-incriminating text message?
When a tsunami hits, the first impulse is to bring in First-World experts.
The first impulse is to solve problems in the most established manner.
Or is it within the power of wise people to bring this about by their wills and by joining forces, without the need for any appalling impulse from the outside?
In other areas, such as science and industry, the impulse to impose one’s views on the world encounters the resistance of external reality.
Hence their impulse to believe in unseen forces.
That need not be the case, but the current impulse behind today’s Asian security diplomacy will not change unless China rethinks its attitude towards its neighbors.
Part of our work should be to help build Europe-wide alliances to give voice and effect to such an impulse.
In short, striking a balance between the impulse toward rivalry and incentives encouraging restraint is the most important dynamic in contemporary international affairs.
It was not upon their impulse that their Government acted in entering this war.”
Turkey’s adoption of a road map for full membership in the EU also created a strong impulse to follow through on painful reforms.
The nationalist impulse can be aggressive or defensive, directed against others or inward-looking.
Granted, Stalin's urges were bloody and violent, but the impulse to upset the applecart on a whim remains incredibly familiar to Russians.
They act on impulse; wait to see what happens; hoping that things will turn out right.
Wild about RiskMost people do not feel the same impulse to go out and buy insurance, or diversify their investments, as they do to buy a sofa or new clothes.
This anti-establishmentarian impulse is a time-honored tradition in America, where advocacy of separation of church and state – a radical view in the late eighteenth century – was driven by the experiences of religious minorities such as Quakers, Huguenots, and Puritans, all of whom suffered religious persecution in Britain and France.
In our quest for structure and predictability – a natural impulse in times of rapid change – we are desperate for hints about how the world, and our role in it, will develop.
Price shifts alter incentives, but the less-developed economies of Asia and the Pacific must resist the impulse towards narrow commodity specialization.
The impulse to reject the status quo is so strong among Italian voters that they have not been deterred by M5S’s failure to govern properly in Rome, where it captured the mayoralty in June 2016.
To be sure, Sarkozy seems free of the most powerful negative impulse of French nationalism, anti-Americanism.
At the same time, Madison stressed the importance of avoiding factionalism, which he defined as, “some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community.”
With expectations of immediate success unmet, the romantic impulse wilted.
One impulse behind America's international engagement, and one of the great sources of its global power, has been its enduring impulse to make the world a better place.
But they will have trouble resisting the impulse to spend it.
The impact of this lost European perspective became clear in the autumn of 2008 when, in the aftermath of the sub-prime crisis and the failure of Lehman Brothers, Chancellor Angela Merkel’s first impulse was nationalistic and wholly anti-European.
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