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Such attacks on immigration might offer some instant political gratification, but their net result is to cleave societies whose cohesion is already seriously challenged by the economic crisis.
In an instant, my view of female circumcision changed forever.
While it may seem hard to imagine that the speculative tide might ever turn against China, exchange-rate pressures can turn in an instant.
The TPP’s origins, pre-dating Amari’s involvement, go back to a 2006 trade agreement among only Singapore, New Zealand, Chile, and Brunei – the so-called “Pacific 4.”The United States, Australia, Peru, and Vietnam, seeing the prospect of a rules-based international order in Asia, joined the talks in March 2010, and in an instant the P-4’s small boat became a great ocean liner.
Trump, a malignant narcissist, is seeking instant gratification and a political “win.”
I felt an instant sense of loyalty to him, maybe partly because I sensed that he would be loyal, too.
As consumers they are used to instant gratification.
Though these values cannot be imposed by force or manufactured like instant coffee, the world is likely to be more peaceful, stable, and prosperous the more that countries treat their own citizens decently.
Traditional parties and processes are finding it harder and harder to satisfy the demand for instant gratification.
It made an instant impact, but not in the way we hoped.
Bin Laden Made News, Not HistoryLONDON – Ten years after 9/11, the instant history is being written.
When the book based on his dissertation, Social Choice and Individual Values, was published in 1951, it became an instant classic.
Just as augmented-reality technologies make our experience of the world richer (imagine a sports match today without instant replay), putting the development experience of the world at the fingertips of those engaged in promoting development is now perfectly feasible.
Instead, he posted on Twitter a video of his granddaughter reciting a poem in Mandarin – an instant hit in China.
Spring a referendum on people without such preparation and you get an instant reaction.
Likewise, societies that defer instant consumption in order to save and invest for the future will enjoy higher future incomes and greater retirement security.
Evidence exists that this type of program makes a difference, and that the near instant growth of a new entrepreneurial class altered the Czech political landscape.
As Stanford biologist Robert Sapolsky has argued, behavioral dichotomies that might seem inevitable and crucial one minute can, under the right circumstances, “evaporate in an instant.”
The article was a promotional piece for Chua’s book, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, which has become an instant bestseller.
Today we are fighting the first war in the era of e-mail, blogs, blackberries, instant messaging, digital cameras, the Internet, mobile phones, talk radio, and 24-hour news.
The formal trappings of a real court always seem better than instant justice, even if the end result is also death.
Back then, the world was, for an instant, shocked by the folly of nuclear technology.
Californian voters' first mistake is thus what may be called "the lure of the immediate"--none too surprising in a state where instant gratification is supposedly a core value.
In a media culture that can deliver instant stardom and fickle trends, our attention shifts too rapidly to see the forest for the trees.
The most obvious reasons for the sudden upturn is the devaluation, which caused an instant halving of imports and made exports cheaper, and rising oil prices.
The transactional understanding of international relations, with its demand for instant gratification, threatens to undermine such efforts.
Communication may be instant, but, with no coherent animating ideology, the revolution proceeds in slow motion.
In a globalized world where instant communications drives economic success, Ghana a nation of 19 million people has only 250,000 fixed phone lines.
Above all, we need to show patience with the new governments of the countries we hope to see evolving toward democracy, and avoid the tendency to expect instant gratification.
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.
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