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Then came President George W. Bush, who inherited a legacy of insufficient national-defense spending.
Finally, Obama inherited the financial crisis and the subsequent Great Recession.
As a result, when Trump came to office, he inherited a national debt that had doubled on Obama’s watch, rapidly rising interest rates, and unfunded Social Security and Medicare costs.
Moreover, infighting among the Socialists has dented one of their biggest political advantages: the hard-headed discipline and political professionalism inherited from their Communist days.
True, Franklin D. Roosevelt inherited the Great Depression and Abraham Lincoln took office as the Civil War erupted.
The two wars that Obama inherited were intractable.
Obama inherited a terrible legacy – recession, financial meltdown, Iraq, Afghanistan.
From the moment it inherited global leadership from the United Kingdom – symbolically with the signing of the Atlantic Charter in the summer of 1941 – until Trump was elected 75 years later, few could doubt that the US was the ultimate owner of the international economic regime.
Indeed, Obama inherited an almost impossible legacy.
Once the legacy of confrontation inherited from the twentieth century has been overcome, perhaps deep cuts in the Russia and US nuclear arsenals may become possible, together with coordination of military-strategic policies.
In an increasingly borderless global economy, the nation-state system that we have inherited imposes too many restrictions on the free movement of people, many of which are counterproductive.
After all, inherited political power is the very antithesis of democracy because accountability is no part of it.
Yet they are using this freedom to deepen family and cultural ties to the closed world of their inherited Muslim identity, particularly its politics.
Joseph Stalin rejected Mendelian genetics (the fundamental laws of heredity) and even Darwin’s theory of evolution in favor of the bogus theories of Trofim Lysenko, the Soviet biologist who believed that human traits were acquired, not inherited.
When Chernobyl exploded, it was not Ukraine alone that inherited generations of radioactive effects.
A century ago, the sociologist Max Weber classified the three types of legitimacy that can ground governmental authority: traditional (an inherited system); charismatic (a particular leader’s force of personality); or legal (a set of rational rules, applied fairly).
A New US Agenda for Latin AmericaMEXICO CITY – For the next American president, fixing the international mess inherited from the Bush administration will be no simple task.
When Lagarde took the helm in July 2011, she inherited an institution in crisis.
Sickle-cell anemia is what geneticists call an autosomal recessive disease, which means that an affected individual has inherited a defective hemoglobin gene from both parents, so that every one of his or her sets of chromosomes carries a defective gene.
The center-left coalition that defeated Pinochet (in a 1988 plebiscite and his presidential candidate in the 1989 election) has been wise enough to keep, and in some cases deepen, the sound free-market policies inherited from the military government.
Thus, China, whose culture and achievements are the envy of the world, is today in a war of words – and a few naval vessels as well – with almost all of its southern neighbors over a recently inherited claim on an issue that calls for a respectful process of international negotiation.
True, the economy was slowing when Bush took office, but he also inherited an enormous fiscal surplus, amounting to 2% of GDP, which he transformed into a yawning deficit, equaling 4.5% of GDP.
Are you ready to say, “Okay, kids, I inherited this house, but I neglected to maintain it, so you will have to worry that the roof might collapse at any time”?
They regard the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany as the highest achievement of the state and nation that they inherited from the USSR.
Discussions with the country’s activist groups reveal their rejection of this legacy of failure – an inhibiting, heavy present that they inherited but to which they did not contribute.
Indeed, as the eminent historian Wang Gungwu has pointed out, the first maps to claim the South China Sea were Japanese, and were inherited by Nationalist China.
Rather, it was built on the very solid foundations inherited from Singapore’s British colonial past.
Mikhail Kasyanov, a former prime minister and now an opposition critic, was inherited from Yeltsin.
What, for example, should consumers – and family members who may have inherited similar predispositions – if they test positive for genes linked to incurable conditions?
Andy Haldane, one of the lieutenants Carney inherited at the BoE, has questioned the financial sector’s economic contribution, pointing to “its ability to both invigorate and incapacitate large parts of the non-financial economy.”
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