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President Barack Obama’s instincts may be an exception here, but he is fighting powerful hidebound forces in the United States, as well as a demagogic populism, in the form of the Tea Party, that is far worse – and that might defeat him in 2012, seriously damaging America in the process.
In the United States, President Donald Trump seems to be curbing his protectionist instincts, and economic relations with China are stabilizing.
He is a superbly articulate communicator, a past leader of the anti-monarchist republican movement, and as liberal in his political instincts as Abbott was conservative.
Turnbull knows that the great majority of his governing coalition does not share his liberal instincts, and that he will have to tread cautiously and collegially on policy change.
But in other cases, opposition to America's preferences is wrought by public sentiment and goes against the instincts of leaders who know better.
Instead of encouraging the Japanese to think about collective security in a responsible way, Trump's indifference is more likely to play to the worst instincts of panicky Japanese nationalists.
But the current constellation of forces suggests that, barring unforeseen developments, his survival instincts will serve him well for years to come.
The fatal human instincts of greed and hubris can be tamed only with some elementary ethical norms.
Instead, Turnbull has subordinated whatever rational and civilized instincts he was thought to retain to the demands of the small-minded extreme conservatives in his party.
Its natural instincts lie with the Burmese democrats, Suu Kyi, and the former students for whom it has, over the years, shown its support.
Thatcher was most successful when she allowed her instincts to be challenged.
Investors act with herd instincts: rushing in to suddenly popular "emerging markets" and then rushing out.
Part of strong leadership is to trust your gut instincts.
Sarkozy is a man prone to following his instincts.
Such people can also mobilize the worst instincts and passions, make masses fanatical, and lead societies into hell.
During the referendum campaign, nationalism aroused not only racist instincts, but also populist conspiracy theories that derided experts and the institutions that house them.
When Sarkozy, who otherwise has such finely tuned media instincts, protests that he’s no different from any other man, he comes dangerously close to confusing the office and the person of the president.
But to come together effectively in the face of a common threat, Europeans will first have to overcome their nationalist – or, in Germany’s case, anti-militarist – instincts.
Trump’s critics argue that he is playing to the basest instincts of disaffected voters, who hate foreigners (especially Mexicans), distrust bankers (or anyone with a higher education, for that matter), and still can’t get over the election of a president whose father was black.
But, rather than focus on real solutions, today’s populists are often appealing to people’s basest instincts.
It is difficult to invent a more potentially explosive moniker, for the name proudly proclaims a division between “us” and “them” – the most ancient and most destructive of human instincts.
They reflect the instincts of Polish voters.
Although industrial policy is in line with May’s corporatist instincts, the UK’s policy classes have been allergic to the idea since the late 1970s.
In any case, a few years ago, those instincts would not have taken the UK out of the EU.
So far, Park, sensing that the electorate trusts her foreign-policy instincts, has kept her North Korea cards close to her chest.
If football and its culminating moment, the World Cup, has become the universal religion of the global age, this is above all because it fulfills, in a non-spiritual way, contradictory instincts in human nature.
Miller plays to all of Trump’s worst instincts: belligerent chauvinism, vindictive loathing of liberals, and hostility to minorities.
Countless Americans routinely fall victim to social- and cable-media advertising campaigns that play to their worst instincts.
It is crucial that technical objections, tactical considerations, or protectionist instincts not be allowed to eclipse the project’s geopolitical importance.
There can be no doubt that Singh has the right instincts.
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