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But the
legacy
is a more efficient stock of capital equipment.
And, sadly, things have become worse in the past 30 years, as Afghanistan’s particular brand of Islam, combined with its
legacy
of dire poverty and war, compounds an already misogynist pre-Islamic tradition.
His
legacy
– insights into the role of firms, financial institutions, and the state in shaping the market and driving economic development – will prove crucial as China works to achieve high-income status.
The
legacy
assets that one finds in advanced countries – the way cities are configured, for example – don’t have to be replaced to the same extent.
While the division was formally eliminated after the Second Partition of Poland in 1793, its
legacy
has remained.
But the year’s lasting
legacy
will be an even more extensive disaster, with recovery taking years, if not decades: nearly two million newly displaced children, trapped in conflict zones across Iraq, Syria, Gaza, the Central African Republic, and elsewhere.
He failed to do anything about Palestine’s
legacy
of four different and contradictory legal systems.
And the recent “Windrush” scandal over the government’s poor treatment of Caribbean-born legal residents has reprised the illiberal
legacy
of May’s previous tenure at the Home Office.But equally insidious has been the government’s embrace of “Britain First” mercantilism, under which arms sales to Saudi Arabia are not a matter for caution, but rather an opportunity for profit.
And the recent “Windrush” scandal over the government’s poor treatment of Caribbean-born legal residents has reprised the illiberal
legacy
of May’s previous tenure at the Home Office.
Following a
legacy
initiated by Peter the Great, Russian westernizers promote Russia as a European power, albeit backward, but on the road to normalcy.
Costa Ricans show no signs of abandoning their progressive
legacy.
For decades, technological advances have been essentially incremental, and the industry remains largely based on long-haul transport aircraft, with an emerging small jet component and a
legacy
of general aviation markets and products.
France’s other major mainstream party – the center-right Republicans, rooted in Charles de Gaulle’s political
legacy
– does not seem to be doing much better.
And in September, at a time of deepening economic hardship, hurricane Maria dealt the island and its residents an even more devastating blow, the
legacy
of which will be measured in years, if not decades.
Throwing gasoline on the flames of fear and frustration may have won Cameron and his party the 2015 election, but it also produced the conflagration that has gutted his party, his legacy, and his country.
Buildings, fashions, and even regimes (at least in name) may change, but the country’s core, its secret-police-state legacy, is never far from the surface.
Chinese leaders embraced 1989’s most puzzling
legacy.
The
legacy
of 1989 echoes even in Iran, whose leaders seem clearly to have learned from Tiananmen Square and the collapse of the Iron Curtain that a committed government can, indeed, demobilize a public demanding reform.
The
legacy
will be with us for a long time.
Through the unique innovation of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Mandela found the only viable bridge between his country’s racist
legacy
and its multi-racial present and future – a combination of political genius and humane wisdom that only the greatest of leaders possess.
Likewise, the Enlightenment’s scientific and technological
legacy
has not been wholly positive.
He suggested, among other things, that designated-senators, an anti-democratic
legacy
of the military regime, should be abolished, and that Chile's obligatory military draft should come to an end.
Originally proposed by Professor Sam Bowles of the University of Massachusetts to South Africa’s labor market commission 20 years ago, this remains the most compelling market-based option for addressing apartheid’s structural
legacy
of unemployment.
The Nixon administration’s
legacy
is particularly instructive in assessing the Bush record.
By contrast, sub-Saharan Africa’s historical
legacy
of artificial and unmanageable colonial boundaries, ethnic antagonisms, its citizens’ deficit of self-respect, and an appalling record of leadership failures has hampered its quest for economic integration.
An approved settlement would mark the end of a complex and divisive legal fight that for too long has prevented Brazil’s leaders from putting a
legacy
of failed economic initiatives behind them.
The magnitude of this agenda must be seen against the region’s depressing
legacy.
At considerable cost to his
legacy
– and even greater cost to Turkey – he spurned it both times.
In the interests of our common security, we must not forsake that
legacy.
Perhaps Sirleaf’s defining
legacy
will be the improved rights of Liberian women and girls.
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