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He meant it to refer to Europe's divisions, but in May, ten additional states joined the European Union.
Likewise, the Jerusalem decision was meant to appease the messianic dreams of his massive evangelical constituency.
What was meant to be a voluntary association of equal states that sacrificed part of their sovereignty for the common good – the embodiment of the principles of an open society – has now been transformed by the euro crisis into a relationship between creditor and debtor countries that is neither voluntary nor equal.
That has meant subordinating meritocracy to kinship and loyalty, which has inevitably weakened the regime’s capacity to respond effectively to regional developments.
The phrase was meant to describe a social trend in which behavioral standards declined over time to the point that what was once intolerable became broadly acceptable.
The sacrifices of the participating countries would alleviate the CO2 problem only if their restraint meant that some of the fossil resources they do not consume remain underground.
Perhaps Ferguson meant that it was Labour’s past association with Keynes that had damned them – “their disastrous stewardship before and during the financial crisis,” as he puts it.
This meant that the Balkans, too, had to be introduced to Euro-Atlantic structures first and then integrated into NATO and the EU, because only a new European order could overcome the region’s recurring tragedies and guarantee lasting security.
According to “rational expectations,” bubbles simply did not exist – which meant that actual bubbles were allowed to grow.
He conducted exploratory conversations with other eurozone governments in the autumn of 2011, and had sought an agreement with Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou, who proposed a referendum that effectively would have meant choosing between strict austerity and exiting the eurozone.
He is widely credited for setting the country’s agenda, and for being the motor behind the liberal economic reforms that since 2004 have meant a qualitative leap in the Egyptian economy.
For much of the post-World War II period, until the 2000s, strong GDP and employment growth in the advanced economies meant that almost all households experienced rising incomes, both before and after taxes and transfers.
And generous net transfers meant that disposable incomes increased for almost all households.
Keeping those loans on the books would have meant that a bank would have had to incur a large capital adequacy provision and monitor the loans’ performance, at a cost to itself.
That is what the Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns meant when he said that the United States was “awash with liquidity” in 1971, a period when the concern was general inflation.
Political union in Europe (even assuming that we understand what is meant by it) will not take place within a matter of weeks or months.
The court – with its improbable blend of Cambodian and foreign judges and attorneys as well as laws – is meant to be a model for judicial reform and independent justice in a country where impunity has long been the rule.
When Bush said that he liked what he saw in Putin’s eyes, he meant it.
Economic differences between the industrial north and the agricultural south meant that discussions over states’ rights were about livelihoods as well as lives.
It would threaten the role of London as a financial center, some complained, as if the proposal was meant to apply just in London and not globally.
A speculator who sold the Thai baht short could at worst lose commissions and interest on his capital since if the baht was not devalued, the peg meant that he could cover his short at the same price at which he sold it.
For Tigar, deleveraging has meant that banks that had pursued its business only a couple of years ago have suddenly cut lending – even though the company never missed a debt payment.
It is a cruel irony that the US-Russia agreement on eliminating Syria’s chemical weapons meant that inspectors could gain access to precisely the locations where aid workers carrying food and medical supplies have been repeatedly barred.
Since 2010, tepid average annual GDP growth of 2.1% has meant weak job creation.
But the loss of jobs in the most recent recession was more than twice as large as in previous recessions, so a slow recovery has meant a much higher unemployment rate for a much longer period.
But when he declared that the film would “hurt the whole community,” what he really meant was that it would hurt the BJP and its allies.
National governments are meant to look out for national interests, and rightly so.
While the European Central Bank has also been buying government bonds since last spring, the amount is relatively small (€70 billion, compared to the Fed’s $600 billion program), and is meant only to support troubled eurozone members, with particular care taken to avoid any impact on money supply.
On the contrary, his reinterpretation of the constitution is meant to help the US in its military policing of East Asia.
For once, a cocktail-party conversation meant something.
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