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In the Budapest Memorandum of 1994, the US, together with the United Kingdom and Russia, guaranteed Ukraine’s territorial integrity in exchange for its surrender of the large nuclear arsenal it inherited from the Soviet Union.
What is dividing the Church is the return, thanks to the apparently final global triumph of democracy, of an ancient Catholic debate, with inherited moral teachings pitted against a faith supported by reason, the individual's conscience, and the personal pursuit of truth.
And Trump and congressional Republicans have been presiding over a relatively strong economy, which they inherited from former President Barack Obama, but are happy to claim as their own.
One reason is that there is no reliable way to render an instant judgment about economic effectiveness, and the legacy that Obama inherited – coming to office in the middle of a major economic and financial catastrophe – clearly matters.
The law of entropy reminds us that we will leave to future generations a degraded natural patrimony, probably less adequate to their needs than what we inherited.
Italy cannot build on an export-driven growth model, and it is staggering under the massive debt burden inherited from Berlusconi.
The field of molecular genetics, which began in 1944, when DNA was proven to be the mechanism by which inherited characteristics are passed on, brought microbes to the center of many biological investigations.
For many people, inherited wealth evokes moral repugnance.
US President Dwight Eisenhower expressed this thought succinctly in his State of the Union message in 1960: generating a surplus to pay back debt was a necessary “reduction on our children’s inherited mortgage.”
We also know that even if our DNA is somewhat responsible for increased risks for common diseases, and in some cases is fully responsible for inherited diseases, the environment in which this DNA functions can be as important as the composition of the DNA itself.
But it is Kazakhstan’s strong secular tradition, inherited from its Soviet past, and a very large European Christian minority (approximately 40% of its 15.2 million people) that make it a society that the West needs to encourage, given the Islamic arc of instability upon which it sits.
We can begin by avoiding any new strain in relations between Iran and the United States and, at the same time, endeavoring to eliminate inherited tensions that continue to mar relations between our countries.
Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century emphasizes what he sees as a very long-term trend arising from a high return to capital, which causes inherited wealth to accumulate at a faster rate than earned income grows.
But until Congress forges an attractive political program, and acquires charisma beyond that inherited from the Nehru family, it seems condemned to opposition.
The head of the Reserve Bank of India (the central bank) will continue to be Raghuram Rajan, a distinguished economist who has already shown his desire to reduce India’s near-double-digit annual inflation rate, and to reform some of the inherited counterproductive restrictions on the country’s financial sector.
What has followed is the hijacking of Islam by radical angry men raised on Wahhabi dogma but disillusioned with the world they inherited.
This is what most observers expected to see when George W. Bush took office in 2001: a folksy cheerleader who would follow the lead of the wise advisers he had inherited from his father.
The $230 billion surplus inherited from Clinton had turned into a $450 billion deficit.
But the report’s fundamental legacy remains: we have inherited a tendency to obsess over misguided remedies for largely trivial problems, while often ignoring big problems and sensible remedies.
Obama inherited a fraught foreign policy agenda: a global economic crisis, twodifficult wars, erosion of the nuclear non-proliferation regime by North Korea and Iran, and deterioration of the Middle East peace process.
This is because societies in which opportunities and inequality are inherited are considered to be less fair than societies in which family background is less important.
At independence, national leaders in both countries inherited similar sets of laws and administrative practices.
The latter point, which no doubt reflects the Obama administration’s attempts to reform the dysfunctional system it inherited, is particularly important, as the sharpest declines in investment intentions were among those who had lost confidence in the government’s ability to regulate.
Moreover, post-communists have at their disposal (sometimes hidden) wealth inherited from the old regime.
High taxes make it hard to pass on inherited wealth.
And yet a survey of women in three rural Indian states by the international land-rights NGO Landesa found that two-thirds did not know of any woman who had inherited land from her parents.
More than half of the world’s billionaires either inherited their wealth, or accumulated it in industries prone to corruption and cronyism.
East Europeans, struggling to fulfill the social welfare obligations they inherited from the communist era, cannot pay.
When China initiated its economic reforms in 1979, it inherited a centrally planned economy that lacked the institutional infrastructure for markets.
Alas, this is not the environment that the new French President has inherited.
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