Legacy
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The consequences of burst bubbles in Japan in the 1980’s and in the United States last year are powerful reasons why China’s government has acted with such determination, while the
legacy
of a functioning centralized system may explain why it has proven capable of doing so decisively.
Russia stumbles over Stalin and his
legacy
of evil.
It is time we recognized that, and demanded that our leaders work to create a sustainable future for ourselves and a
legacy
that our children will admire.
The US model of political identity, shaped by a
legacy
of immigration and voluntary cultural integration, cannot be simply transposed to Europe, where distinct traditions, cultures, and attitudes are so deeply entrenched.
This is difficult, given that a skewed income distribution is usually a
legacy
of a country’s history.
Officials would liquidate the low-return investments that form the
legacy
of the late-1980s asset-price bubble and then clear away the wreckage left behind in the financial system.
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.
The geopolitical
legacy
of the USSR as a great power has been squandered over the years of "reform."
Our modernity is probably a part of their
legacy
as well.
Employment patterns also reflect the
legacy
of central planning, with industrial employment higher than in the EMU.
The restitution of lands occupied in 1967 will obviously continue to be indispensable to resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but it is the
legacy
of the 1948 war that both parties to the conflict have now put at the center of the debate.
The
legacy
of their success, copyright law, continues to impede attempts to render cyberspace a free marketplace of ideas.
The French left, not surprisingly, rejects Sarkozy’s Atlanticist impulses and frequently charge him with betraying General de Gaulle’s
legacy.
The constitutional changes that Renzi’s Yes campaign is asking voters to approve would undo some of his predecessor Silvio Berlusconi’s
legacy
– a
legacy
that serves as a prime example of the damage right-wing populism can do to a country.
For this reason, and despite all their deleveraging efforts, the
legacy
of past failings still weighs heavily on these countries’ economies.
The colonial
legacy
also helps account for the relatively docile nature of Muslims in sub-Saharan Africa.
The Kurds form another unstable component of the Ottoman
legacy.
By contrast, for Britain, the
legacy
of its heroic defiance of Europe has been much bleaker.
But if she succeeds, she will have overcome a far longer
legacy
of discrimination.
And if Iran’s leaders stop promoting terror, another important foreign policy achievement will be added to Obama’s
legacy.
Although socialist economic policies in both countries inhibited initiative and enterprise, a positive
legacy
of that period cannot be denied.
Moreover, a major part of the socialist
legacy
in both countries is the cumulative effect of the state’s active role in technological development.
Harper leaves a better
legacy
on the trade front, where he provided committed leadership in pursuing ambitious accords with both the European Union (the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, CETA) and Asia (the Trans-Pacific Partnership, TPP).
This is partly a
legacy
of former President Hamid Karzai.
In that case, Senegal’s slide towards authoritarianism would be reversed, and its
legacy
of democracy redeemed.
It is too late for her to alter her legacy, which will always be dominated by her controversial decision in 2015 to throw open Germany’s borders to more than a million asylum-seekers from Syria and other Middle Eastern countries.
Ghosn, by contrast, can now affect his
legacy
only through what his lawyers can prove in whatever trial eventually takes place.
In his disastrous 1982 invasion of Lebanon, Begin perceived himself as a God-sent vindicator of the
legacy
of the Holocaust.
Did he not care about his
legacy?
For a long time, blasphemy laws were considered an unfortunate
legacy
of efforts in England during the religious struggles of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to suppress deviant interpretations of scripture among Christians.
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