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Nonetheless, it would be difficult to deem them inferior, given their medium-to-long-term advantages.
For a given economy, does acting alone yield distinctly inferior growth paths – say, by damaging the competitiveness of its tradable sector?
Now, private property will no longer be inferior to state property – at least officially.
One case concerns 18 Roma children from the northeastern city of Ostrava in the Czech Republic who were placed in “special” schools for those deemed mentally deficient, where they receive a markedly inferior education.
Hence the taboo on certain words, phrases, and arguments that imply that certain individuals, groups, or practices are superior or inferior, normal or abnormal; hence the search for ever more neutral ways to label social phenomena, thereby draining language of its vigor and interest.
So far, China’s reaction to all of this new activity has been to dig in its heels and insist on addressing its territorial disputes with ASEAN’s militarily inferior members on a bilateral basis.
In terms of raw power, Russia is clearly inferior to the former Soviet Union.
It is clear that the outcome would have been different if the Dutch Battalion, regardless of its legalistic mandate and inferior power, would have threatened the Serbs with resisting the separation of Muslim men from Muslim women.
The small proportion of students from poorer backgrounds who manage to gain admission and secure scholarships to top institutions often have lower grades, especially toward the beginning of their university education, owing to their inferior preparation.
While inferior to the open alternation of power between two or more political parties, the evolution of United Russia into something resembling the LDP would still leave Russia in a much better shape than a personal regime confined to the Kremlin.
South Korea was formerly a Japanese colony (1910-1945), and the natives were treated like an inferior race.
Moreover, the schools most Roma children attend are separate, segregated, and inferior.
Most of the children I grew up with received an inferior education that did not train them for university or skilled jobs.
Here, the Chinese, hampered by a vastly inferior legal system, will not be able to compete easily.
The threat to America’s international standing is real; but, blinded by it, Americans believe that they are still in a position to condescend to China as they would to an inferior power.
That was, at best, an unfortunate choice of words, for it echoes the nineteenth-century idea that France and other imperial powers have a “civilizing mission” in Africa and other places inhabited by people who at the time were regarded as being of an inferior race.
After all, it took 7,000 years for agriculture to arrive in England from the Near East, and nobody would argue that the cognitive abilities of Mesolithic hunter-gatherers from England were inferior to those of early agriculturalists.
Many students who are in class are stuck in inferior segregated schools.
It was the “culture” of apartheid South Africa that blacks should live apart from whites and have separate, and inferior, educational opportunities.
Although they were hard workers, their products were both inferior in quality and more expensive than what was being manufactured in the new factories.
First, US and European agricultural products in this new regime were not fundamentally worthless, as handmade, technically inferior cloth was during the Industrial Revolution.
That threat was hardly grave, and whiteboard markers are inferior to chalk in myriad ways.
And it is here where China’s reliance on a civilizational discourse of mutual respect and shared history stands in stark contrast to the West’s colonial, post-colonial, and neocolonial discourse, which tends to frame local cultures as backwards or inferior.
The computers gradually improved, but they still seemed far inferior to the top humans.
For their middle-class counterparts, it is the satisfaction that arises not from material wealth, but from pointing to someone who is perceived as inferior, from refugees to depraved elites to cliquish judges.
It follows that pulling back from any territorial dispute with smaller and inferior states would be seen as a humiliating defeat, rather than a step toward ensuring long-term regional stability.
The Orange Revolution of 2004, which overturned a rigged presidential election, proved that Ukraine was no longer a Malorossiya (a small Russia), an inferior and subordinate Slavic brother.
The trade in inferior drugs also undermines fragile public-health systems in poor countries.
The technical expertise and equipment needed to detect inferior products is usually beyond the financial reach of many developing countries.
On the contrary, not only are many of the scary-sounding ingredients perfectly safe, but manufacturers, in their haste to meet consumer demand, sometimes substitute inferior – or even harmful – ingredients or processes.
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