Legacy
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In 1989, it looked as if the dark
legacy
of World War II, the enslavement of Eastern Europe, was finally over.
Our "post-democratic" folk do not believe in the spirit of community; they fear it, not without reason, as tainted by the
legacy
of collectivism, and therefore riven with totalitarian tendencies.
For most Israelis, even those who voted for him as the bearer of Sharon’s
legacy
after the Gaza disengagement, Olmert thus remained the accidental prime minister.
In Trump’s case, the goal seems to be systematic deconstruction of President Barack Obama’s legacy, for no other reason than to be true to his electoral campaign (which, in a sense, has never ended).
If Kennedy had completed his presidency, his
legacy
almost certainly would not have lived up to the expectations that he inspired.
It is the effort to build relations of cooperation and exchange to replace a centuries-old
legacy
of conflict; it is the economic growth and political development of an entire region whose potential has been blocked by the last remaining vestiges in Europe of National Communism.
Where there is a
legacy
of violence and suspicion, it is hard for people to feel secure enough to enter into long-term contracts.
But Bush leaves behind a better
legacy
in Asia.
Despite these positive steps, however, the US has not fully escaped the
legacy
of Cold War coercive democracy.
The reds will need to distance themselves from Thaksin’s abuses of power as much as the yellows will have to accept some of Thaksin’s policy legacy, particularly grassroots opportunities for jobs, education, and upward mobility.
And nowhere have the consequences of Trump’s almost willful incapacity to grasp complex problems, and his obsession with reversing the
legacy
of his predecessor, Barack Obama, become more apparent than in the Middle East.
Obama has a few months left in office to repair his broken
legacy.
As the head of the government that carried out these acts, British Prime Minister David Cameron has betrayed his country’s most noble cultural
legacy.
In some critical sense, he must repudiate Blair’s legacy, which, at a minimum, means promising to take Britain out of the Iraq War.Brown has longed to be prime minister ever since May 12, 1994, the fateful day when John Smith, the Labour Party’s leader in opposition, dropped dead of a heart attack.
Reformers, politicians, and international advisors should focus on improved public understanding and on innovative transitional strategies for pension fund reform in order to undo the continuing fiscal
legacy
of the ancien regime.
His
legacy
will include a World Bank that is firmly committed to a world free of poverty.
Imagine further that the “bad bank” helps the financial sector, which was recapitalized generously by strained Greek taxpayers in the midst of the crisis, to shed their
legacy
of non-performing loans and unclog their financial plumbing.
The tragic
legacy
of the Iraqi intervention continues today, however, because it now stands as a cautionary tale against all intervention.
This is, undoubtedly, a difficult demand to make of politicians, particularly given the
legacy
of xenophobic politics in so many member states.
In digital newsrooms, which often have fewer of the inherent inequities of
legacy
media, the number of women in leadership positions appears to be growing faster.
Can multinational companies bring similar benefits to other needy regions, such as sub-Saharan Africa, where a
legacy
of colonialism, apartheid, and economic mismanagement create a fundamentally different business environment?
With their distribution power and detailed knowledge of the market, multinational companies’ influence could surely be leveraged to address many development problems, regardless of a country’s political or economic
legacy.
For China’s “miracle” to truly become miraculous, Party leaders could do worse than study the record of a man whose
legacy
they now seem eager to push into oblivion.
This
legacy
of victimization has shaped the political consciousness of today’s Islamist leaders, instilling in them a wariness of liberal democracy.
Cambodia’s political leaders and donor states should do more to underscore the value of wide-ranging debate about the tribunal and the larger
legacy
of Cambodia’s civil conflict.
As he put it in Sri Lanka, overcoming “the bitter
legacy
of injustices, hostility, and mistrust left by the conflict...can only be done by overcoming evil with good and by cultivating those virtues which foster reconciliation, solidarity, and peace.”
That
legacy
has shaped a deep aversion to the chaos arising from war and civil strife, and drove the CCP under Zhou Enlai to seek growth and stability through the “Four Modernizations” of agriculture, industry, national defense, and science and technology.
All imply that Europe can no longer build on the
legacy
of its glorious postwar decades, that time when its peoples secured both economic growth and high social equality.
To that end, the structure of sovereign wealth is evolving from a
legacy
model of passive state ownership to one that recognizes that SOEs’ survival hinges on their ability to compete internationally.
The weak financial institutions and shady corporate sector that grew from his
legacy
conspired to make the pain of the 1997 financial crisis even worse.
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