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Sitov was correct to the extent that the Arizona shootings were likely facilitated by a uniquely American interaction between legal protection of individual privacy and freedom, lack of strong community bonds and resources, and easy access to handguns.
Sensing that the door has been slammed shut against their country's future, they work diligently merely for their individual good.
This defect could have been corrected by replacing individual countries’ bonds with Eurobonds.
Many believe that aggregate CO2 emissions are the result of independent decisions in individual countries.
Immediately afterward, I sent out a short questionnaire to 175 institutional investors and 125 individual investors in the United States.
This type of gene modification is not currently legal in the UK, although “somatic” genome editing – performed on the non-heritable genes of individual patients – is permitted.
The second principle – that editing “should not produce or exacerbate social division, or marginalize or disadvantage groups in society” – does, in fairness, move the debate beyond the choice of individual parents.
International actors must respect individual countries’ sovereignty.
The International Olympic Committee’s decision not to ban all Russian participation, instead leaving it up to individual sports’ governing federations to review each athlete’s record and decide who can compete, has been met with dismay from some and relief from others.
The current process is more like what happened in Central and Eastern Europe in 1989 and the USSR in 1991, with protesters’ enthusiasm giving way to disappointment as individual members of the old regime retained economic and quasi-political power.
The European Union must put an end to the negative feedback loop between individual member states and their national banking systems.
Individual investors are equally complacent.
As Rand Waltzman, formerly of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, recently noted, any individual or group can now communicate with – and thereby influence – large numbers of others online.
The third element of today’s information landscape is atomization – the divorce of individual news stories from brand or source.
Asians, according to this theory, have their own values, which include thrift, deference to authority, the sacrifice of individual to collective interests, and the belief that countries should not stick their noses into others’ affairs.
But another, more sympathetic response would be to show that individual rights and notions of freedom are by no means alien to non-Western civilizations.
The solitude of the individual facing his faith alone, without collective illusions, and forced to do something with himself in the arid, noisy world tells us something important about the exiled world of modernity and its complex and contradictory problems.
Given that such redistribution in Europe occurs fundamentally at the level of individual countries – which have the needed fiscal authority – it is difficult to view it as a suitable project for Europe as a whole.
Given that a wealth tax would be used primarily to pay down high levels of existing public debt, it would be applied in the context of the individual member states.
Instead, they need to be part of a convincing overall plan that combines responsible state intervention with relief of the financial burdens of individual citizens, as well as savings in public budgets.
Moreover, individual habits such as diet, exercise, the quality and quantity of sleep, and substance abuse also play a major role, as do early life experiences that set life-long patterns of behavior and physiological reactivity.
But there are moments when an individual leader’s choices can change the course of history.
The other source is universal, leading to an open society guided by universal human rights that protects and promotes the freedom of the individual.
The PC seemed at first to promise a restoration of the balance in favor of the individual.
The idea was that an individual could buy a computer and the software needed for a specific (and increasingly complicated) purpose, and immediately generate a productive result.
But this initial triumph of the PC (and very substantial sales in the 1980’s) did not immediately fulfill all the initial hopes for individual empowerment and social transformation.
It was these interactions, rather than the individual on his or her own, that created value and set in motion a dynamic process.
But all of us, and in particular the peoples of Hungary and Poland, must remember that NATO, like the EU, was founded on the fundamental principles of democracy, individual liberty, and the rule of law.
But there is also something more fundamental at play, a flaw that lies deeper than the responsibility of individual decision-makers.
Strategy forms a different axis of action, accounting for the structure of global interdependence and thus how individual changes may affect the entire system.
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