Legacy
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Nevertheless, de Gaulle’s insights left a
legacy
that still causes some mistrust and dissent within NATO.
Unlike Europe, where Germany overcame World War II’s
legacy
through its integration into the European Union, Northeast Asia remains burdened by history.
In a highly competitive market, in which
legacy
media companies are under pressure from Internet news sites and social media platforms, news programs quickly realized that they could leverage Trump’s outlandish behavior to attract larger audiences and strengthen their bottom lines.
If he does that, he could turn his presidency around, confound his critics, and leave a positive
legacy.
A shameful
legacy
of President Menem's government in the 1990s was that it prevented the investigation and prosecution of serious improprieties, corruption, illegal arms sales, and major terrorist acts.
The enduring
legacy
of the Berlin Wall is not the inspiring notion that freedom and the will of the people can knock down any barrier.
China’s
legacy
is different.
Were this to happen, the dismemberment of the UK would make Cameron’s
legacy
the worst of any prime minister in British history.
The Internet enables startups to scale up rapidly and at a low cost, unburdened by
legacy
systems and traditional methods of doing business, while blurring the lines between sectors.
That
legacy
has not yet been overcome, but the election of President Barack Obama shows how far those protests moved America.
And presenting the tax as a one-off levy to address the
legacy
of bad policy in the twentieth century would ensure that it did not deter future economic activity.
Bashar Assad remains essentially loyal to his father’s
legacy.
Politics aside, property bubbles leave in their wake a
legacy
of debt and excess capacity in real estate that is not easily rectified – especially when politically connected banks resist restructuring mortgages.
Serious medium-term budget reforms are needed to deal with the
legacy
of repeated congressional failures.
They also view Russia in terms of a tradition whereby every new tsar partly repudiates the
legacy
of his predecessor, creating a political thaw at the beginning of a new reign.
These measures build on a
legacy
of reforms that have spread across the country over the last few election cycles.
Every president inherits a
legacy.
The lasting
legacy
is a massive bill, and lots of inefficient solar technology sitting on rooftops throughout a fairly cloudy country, delivering a trivial 0.1% of its total energy supply.
This muddied
legacy
remains at the heart of Croatia's current problems and its relations with the Hague Tribunal.
One-by-one, the choices they make today will create a
legacy
-- deadly or peaceful -- for the future.
The casual reader, viewer, and listener has become acquainted with a region of landlocked and poor countries – Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan – that share a
legacy
of isolation, squandered natural resources, environmental degradation, and Soviet-era political systems.
In this sense, the
legacy
of China's humiliation at the hands of the West and Japan in the 19th and early 20th centuries still exerts a powerful influence, despite the emergence of a globalized "New China" over the last two decades.
Yet America’s
legacy
of global leadership over the past six decades, warts and all, is unprecedented in its relative benevolence and positive impact.
To the extent that there is a new German patriotism, it is ironic; if there is pride, it is pride in how thoroughly the country has dealt with the double
legacy
of Nazism and East German state socialism (in addition to pride in the economy and the constitution).
But there is a difficult
legacy
to overcome.
Malaysia had a shorter downturn, and emerged from the crisis with a smaller
legacy
of debt.
On the positive side, a tragic
legacy
of American history has been transcended.
Its leaders believed that there was little to be contributed or gained by getting involved in the region’s problems, and that Turkey’s Ottoman
legacy
would leave its Arab neighbors suspicious.
The Ottoman
legacy
of a working state structure, tolerant of religion, has begun to be viewed in a more favorable light, and the contemporary Turkish model, with its ability to nurture a democracy-friendly Islam, is suddenly in demand.
It is obvious that while many Africans have benefited from political emancipation – the
legacy
of Nyerere’s generation – poverty remains a significant obstacle.
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