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Arab intellectuals, activists, and youth leaders of different political inclinations have taken a keen interest in what some describe as the “Turkish model.”
Likewise, running a foundation may well require studying social problems or the arts and sciences – activities that may not accord with former capitalists’ inclinations and talents.
Libya’s popular uprising, for example, left Turkey’s government caught between the country’s economic interests and its unilateralist regional inclinations, on the one hand, and its traditional alliances, on the other.
Good leaders today are often caught between their cosmopolitan inclinations and their more traditional obligations to the people who elect them – as German Chancellor Angela Merkel has discovered in the wake of her brave leadership on the refugee crisis last summer.
To understand humans’ social nature, it is crucial to understand how culture has driven our genetic evolution in ways that shape not only our physiology and anatomy, but also our social psychology, motivations, inclinations, and perceptions.
While our innate motivations do play a role, they are harnessed, extended, and suppressed by social norms, which form the institutional skeleton that allows our innate inclinations to operate.
A vibrant civil society will mobilize when the rule of law is violated, and it can also check the illiberal inclinations of democratic majorities.
The worst possible outcome would be to pick someone who shares Greenspan’s inclinations – holding data tightly, monopolizing decision-making, and attempting to overawe colleagues.
Of course, regimes with different ideological inclinations might have had different spending habits, potentially cushioning the blow from the commodity-price collapse.
Today, Americans are only too happy to rely on the military competence and interventionist inclinations of some (in fact, very few) of their European friends.
An analysis of their influence, inclinations, and biases indicates that the Nobel committee kept up an appearance of fairness through a rigid balance between right and left, formalists and empiricists, Chicago School and Keynesian.
The loss of parents and family resources has boosted child labor, homelessness, and inclinations towards violence and rebellion.
But good leaders today are often caught between their personal cosmopolitan inclinations and their more traditional obligations to the citizens who elected them.
Moreover, an influential part of Tunisia’s ruling party, Ennahda, developed democratic inclinations during its members’ long European exile.
Yet political structures and inclinations are blocking change precisely because voters have been unwilling to grant either government or opposition a clear mandate.
A central-bank version of the Vatican’s papal conclave would have a hard time deciding whether to send up the fumata bianca for Yellen or for Summers – or perhaps for someone else (another former Fed vice chair, Donald Kohn, now appears to be in the mix) with similar inclinations.
While the military chiefs’ inclinations have been with Bangkok’s elites, they are being careful to keep their options open.
China’s leaders will also be interested in her thinking on Japan, particularly given the inclinations of her father, who served as an officer in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II.
Morsi’s autocratic inclinations may have damaged democracy; taking him out in a coup deals it a mortal blow.
All too often, it is forced development, imposed against people's natural inclinations and will.
Richard Holton, a professor of philosophy at MIT and the author of Willing, Wanting, Waiting, points out that a resolution is an attempt to overcome the problem of maintaining an intention when we expect that, at some future time, we will face inclinations contrary to our intention.
The problem is that French identity has always been made up of contradictory and sometimes adversarial elements, such as France’s Catholic and secular traditions, its revolutionary ideology and conservative inclinations, and the cultural outlooks of its rural and working-class citizens.
International financial institutions and the WTO may yet emerge as formidable counterweights to protectionist inclinations.
True, strong conflicts of interest can potentially arise when the Bank calculates the index, whether because of its staff’s ideological inclinations or the need to placate big, financially important countries.
How China Loses Friends and Alienates PeopleCLAREMONT – The Chinese folk saying “lift a rock only to drop it on one’s own feet,” or its English equivalent – “to shoot oneself in the foot” – perfectly describes the self-defeating inclinations of dictatorship.
And nothing exemplifies such inclinations so much as China’s recent effort to bully America’s National Basketball Association (NBA).
Trump, Bolsonaro, and AMLO – who, despite their differences, share nationalist views, populist tactics, and anti-democratic inclinations – have hardly limited themselves to rhetorical attacks.
"I cease to importune you to do what is against your inclinations."
I assured him I never suspected him; that if I had I should not so easily have yielded to the freedom which brought it on, but that it was all a surprise, and was owing to the accident of our having yielded too far to our mutual inclinations that night; and indeed I have often observed since, and leave it as a caution to the readers of this story, that we ought to be cautious of gratifying our inclinations in loose and lewd freedoms, lest we find our resolutions of virtue fail us in the junction when their assistance should be most necessary.
He would often make just reflections also upon the crime itself, and upon the particular circumstances of it with respect to himself; how wine introduced the inclinations how the devil led him to the place, and found out an object to tempt him, and he made the moral always himself.
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