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The PiS-led government, elected in 2005, inherited a fast-growing economy, but did nothing to strengthen that legacy.
Determined diplomacy, as much as goodwill, is needed to push ahead against an inherited inertia backed by a legacy of rage.
They believe that Russia has inherited a cultural DNA that transcends revolutions, as if some kind of vicious gene was driving the Kremlin’s current imperialist aggression in Ukraine (and, if Putin’s threats are to be believed, Kazakhstan may soon be next).
But appearances can deceive, for the legacy of Putin's first term is that he is losing his fight with the state apparatus that he inherited.
Leung – who was not China’s first choice for the position – inherited a mess.
The basic problem lies in the fact that the heritage of communism is a much greater burden than the majority of people, including experts, ever imagined, and was much more about the inheritance in people's heads than the inherited economic structure.
The root of Italy’s public-finance problem is that it inherited excessively high debt from the 1980s and has not recorded significant economic growth for two decades.
The reason why France has a significantly lower debt today is that it inherited a better fiscal position and has been growing faster.
The goal of the program, inherited from the previous administration, is a good one: expand knowledge among the young about modern China.
Obama, however, inherited an economy in freefall, and could not possibly have turned things around in the short time since his inauguration.
CAMBRIDGE – With November’s election in the United States fast approaching, the Republican candidates seeking to challenge President Barack Obama claim that his policies have done nothing to support recovery from the recession that he inherited in January 2009.
Thus, although Obama also inherited two ongoing wars, nuclear-proliferation threats from Iran and North Korea, and the continuing problem of Al Qaeda’s terrorism, his early months in office were devoted to addressing the economic crisis at home and abroad.
In my inaugural speech, I said that we needed to "draw a thick line between us and the past, that we were not responsible for what we inherited but only for what we will do ourselves."
The challenges that Ramaphosa has inherited – rising inequality, a growing wage gap, and jobless growth – are not unique, even if they are extreme.
In a recent book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, the economist Thomas Piketty highlights the phenomenon of “meritocratic extremism” – the culmination of a century-long passage from the old inequality, characterized by inherited wealth and discreet lifestyles, to the new inequality, with its outsize bonuses and conspicuous consumption.
If it were true, we would want to abolish all inherited income.
With that in mind, the 19th Congress charted a new roadmap, based on the “two centennial goals” inherited from the 18th Congress.
First, the country has inherited a patriarchal tribal tradition that assumes women’s inferiority.
The more, however, that the rich are seen as idle or crooked – as having simply inherited or, worse, gained their wealth nefariously – the more the median voter should be willing to vote for tough regulations and punitive taxes on them.
Moreover, under conditions of fair competition, the process of creative destruction tends to pull down badly managed inherited wealth, replacing it with new and dynamic wealth.
South Africa risks following in the steps of Zimbabwe, Venezuela, and Algeria, where post-independence or revolutionary governments inherited a stock of knowhow located in the brains of people the new leaders may not have liked.
Since 1991, Ukrainians have sensed that many Europeans see Ukraine as having inherited this sorry title.
Varoufakis had no control over the economic mess that Syriza inherited when it came to power, including an unemployment rate hovering around 25% and youth joblessness that had been running at more than 50% for a considerable period.
The care taken in augmenting and preserving the wealth that current generations inherited from their ancestors is the ultimate reason for economic growth and capitalism’s success.
Massive government interventions during the crisis have undermined this principle, and have probably already destroyed much of the inherited wealth.
As Iraq's new rulers debate what to do about the billions of dollars in foreign debts inherited from Saddam Hussein's regime, voices ranging from the charity Oxfam-International to US defence guru Richard Perle are calling for debt repudiation on the grounds that the debts Iraq now bears were contracted to sustain a corrupt, oppressive regime.
As investigative journalist Jane Mayer has documented, the largest source of dark money is the tandem of David and Charles Koch, who inherited the highly polluting Koch Industries from their father, a man whose business history included building a major oil refinery for Germany’s Nazi regime.
For example, President Ronald Reagan inherited double-digit inflation from Carter.
President George H.W. Bush inherited a Latin American debt crisis and a savings-and-loan disaster that had been brewing for more than a decade.
For his part, President Bill Clinton inherited low inflation and a revived financial system.
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