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Ultimately, this – not some lofty debate about Britain’s place in Europe, as is often suggested – was what brought her down.
Global citizens should be wary that their lofty goals do not turn into an excuse for shirking their duties toward their compatriots.
In general, abstract and lofty visions are not good enough to compete with the simple and potent message espoused by nationalists.
Garang fought for a united, secular, and democratic Sudan, a lofty dream that the Islamist regime in Khartoum admittedly has had no intention of implementing.
It took another, far more limited disaster to revive lofty rhetoric about the liberating effects of US military power.
In fact, they are examples of crisis-mode policymaking, which tends to favor impressive-seeming stopgap measures (not to mention lofty declarations that can verge on hollowness or hyperbole), instead of real solutions.
Europe has a long tradition of lofty growth initiatives whose only result is disappointment.
Some observers around the world criticized the Nobel Committee for rewarding only lofty rhetoric by anointing Obama as this year’s peace laureate.
While slightly more than 60% of Americans embraced the importance of the UN and its global mission, only 39% believed that its lofty goals for peace and human development were achievable.
The Toilet RevolutionCOPENHAGEN – Politicians and philanthropists often talk about abstract, lofty ideas such as sustainability and transformation through dialogue.
For all of the Obama administration’s lofty rhetoric, his fiscal-policy proposals make no serious attempt to address these problems.
The real failure was that there was no agreement about how to achieve the lofty goal of saving the planet, no agreement about reductions in carbon emissions, no agreement on how to share the burden, and no agreement on help for developing countries.
If we in the international community are serious about ending torture and abolishing capital punishment, we must do more than make lofty promises.
At the beginning of 2010, US President Barack Obama set the lofty goal of doubling America’s exports by the end of 2014.
But effectiveness requires agnosticism about the policies required to achieve lofty ends.
The Eurozone Island of StabilityBRUSSELS – Market volatility has surged lately, apparently vindicating those who have warned of lofty equity valuations.
The longer energy prices remain at their current lofty levels, the greater the probability that inflationary expectations will increase and that second-round effects will materialize.
For a country like Poland, NATO’s lofty principle of collective defense, while essential to national security, remains, in the absence of appropriate military capabilities and on-the-ground practicability, merely a political commitment.
The liberal elites, the populists proclaim, rule the world and dominate ordinary patriotic people with an air of lofty disdain.
What is missing from the diplomatic discourse is a strong framework to hold governments and development partners accountable for translating lofty ideals like human rights – particularly the right to access basic health and social services – into practical solutions.
Instead of a show of lofty disdain, or official silence, it made a colossal fuss, protesting fiercely about plots to undermine China, and putting dozens of prominent Chinese intellectuals, including Liu’s wife, Liu Xia, under house arrest.
Thus, in their own national broadcasts – often weekly occurrences – populist presidents fulminate against journalists who dare to demand information or criticize public policies, plainly contradicting their own lofty rhetoric about citizen journalism and grassroots power.
The United States gave the world the doctrine of liberal, rule-based multilateralism – a regime whose many blemishes highlight the lofty principles according to which the system has generally functioned.
The problem with the Europeans is that all they have are declarations and speeches--a policy toward the region that is rich in lofty rhetoric, but poor if not starved in the capacity to implement anything concrete.
Despite lofty rhetoric from Paris, all the best intentions on the planet will count for little if it turns out that our climate “solution” was just another policy that cost the planet far more than it gained.
It is a major flaw of the system of international law that the application of the lofty principles of universal justice should be conditioned by the global balance of political power, and that the world’s most notorious abusers, such as Libya and Iran, are allowed to pose as guardians of human rights in UN agencies.
If Europeans merely invoke the lofty mantra of “an ever closer union,” their institutions will atrophy.
After lofty rhetoric and big promises, politicians are starting to play the blame game.
Of course, lofty rhetoric and ambitious intentions will mean little unless Europe’s leaders commit to the sustained implementation of concrete initiatives.
The aims are lofty, but the proposed policies alone will not solve the problem.
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