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For the first child, Germany meant certain death; for the second, it offers hope for a better life.
Laws meant to curb hate speech, violence, or “fake news” may be well intentioned, but their implementation has been sloppy, with few mechanisms to ensure accountability, transparency, or reversibility.
By that magnificent phrase, the UN’s founders meant that human rights, development, and security are mutually interdependent.
It is one of the paradoxes of our times that inventions meant to make our lives easier inevitably end up slowing us down.
Of course, America did maintain economic dominance after 1945: the devastation of WWII in so many countries meant that the US produced nearly half of global GDP.
Barack Obama’s election was meant to improve everything – or so it was hoped.
The drift in transatlantic relations during the eight years of George W. Bush’s presidency was meant to be stopped – and even reversed.
As a result, the Russian government’s only option for financing its deficit is to tap its reserve fund, which is meant to cushion the economy against shocks.
Last year, a combination of substitution efforts, inventory drawdowns, reduced usage, and illegal Chinese exports meant that up to 8,000 tons of China’s export quotas were left unused.
Higher rates would have meant lower inflation, so that inflationary expectations would not be the issue they have become.
The general shift from defined-benefit pension plans to defined-contribution plans meant that employees felt the effect of rising share prices directly in their own personal accounts.
Today, the clique that surrounds Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas embodies the bitter deception which the peace process that began with the Oslo agreement has meant for the Palestinians.
But what he meant was "collaborat[ing]constructively with the UN and civil society to define the best way to improve human rights."
Often, their targets had much fewer resources, which meant that a libel suit requiring both sides to spend substantial amounts could be effective in silencing critics even if it did not succeed.
Within the United Kingdom itself, the law meant that many important issues could not be fully debated.
The strategy formulated by the Pope for the Catholic Church, and his ability to mobilize millions of believers in its cause, meant that no one could ever again repeat Stalin's question: "How many divisions does the Pope have?"
The accusation is meant to suggest that the Church cannot live comfortably with a pluralist democracy.
A glimpse of what it meant to be the child of a very top leader can be found in Svetlana Stalin's account of her brother, Vasily.
All of this would raise expectations among financial-market actors that central banks and governments would always step in to smooth out credit bubbles and mitigate their consequences, even if that meant accumulating more debt.
To grasp the importance of the Stones’ performance in front of hundreds of thousands of adoring Cubans, one has to understand what rock and roll meant to people living under Communist dictatorships.
But it showed how much his music had meant to people like Havel, when they had to listen to it secretly, risking arrest.
In all of these cases, Putin acted on the conviction that Russia’s oil wealth meant that rules – even international laws – did not apply to him.
Liu’s harsh prison sentence was meant as an exemplary measure, a stern warning to all other Chinese who might want to follow his path.
The logic was simple: by buying dollars, China could cause the relative value of the dollar to rise, which meant that the value of the renminbi would fall.
Over time, and in a process accentuated by the recent economic crisis, size and economic might meant that Germany began to set the tempo of European affairs.
In the US, that meant that virtually all presidents had either served in Congress or as state governors, with the only modern exception being Dwight Eisenhower, whose background as an Army general stood in for political experience.
The single currency also meant that the exchange rate could not signal differences in fiscal profligacy.
The failure to demobilize and reconcile factions in Lebanon, where Hezbollah remained armed despite its transformation into a political party, meant that belligerency was always bubbling below the surface.
Their society was meant to be puritanical, frugal, non-permissive, with laws against conspicuous consumption and luxuries.
Only by separating the two Jerusalems now, before things get any bloodier, will we maintain the possibility of one day reuniting it once again – as the international beacon of peace it was meant to be.
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