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Terrorism will prevail if its mentality infects the civilized world, and if state leaders resort to terror to fight terror.
The short-term mentality of some market players may provide some interesting trading opportunities, but it impedes the development of a system in which innovation thrives.
By characterizing these interactions as pure exploitation, rather than as value-creating opportunities, the Open Veins mentality has been a real drain on the possibilities of so many in Latin America and elsewhere.
A new mentality in GCC governance could result in the creation of mechanisms of constructive engagement in the region, while maintaining cooperation with international actors.
American Sniper, loosely based on Kyle's memoir, touts the frontier mentality – a neo-cowboy movie made by a former cowboy-movie star.
The “Greed is good” mentality is a regular feature of financial crises.
While this competitive mentality is not new in science – the seventeenth-century mathematicians Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz spent more than a decade fighting bitterly for credit for the discovery of calculus – it has intensified to the point that it is impeding progress.
A sure sign of a shift in mentality is the growing recognition by financial institutions that loans and investments may be overexposed to the risks of climate change.
Then, set on a course of continued confrontation with the West, Russia might hunker down into a siege mentality, with the risk that the Kremlin might seek to compensate for economic failure with further revisionist behavior.
Relationships were governed not by legal norms, but by informal understandings and a clear distinction between those inside and outside the common mentality.
Unfortunately, Israel today has a prime minister with the mentality of a platoon commander who nonetheless likes to cast himself as a latter day Churchill fighting the forces of evil bent on destroying the Third Jewish Temple.
Since 2001, the Kirchners have ruled with a siege mentality.
In most, if not all, of these cases, we see examples of a broader phenomenon: what might be called governing by inertia – a “can't, won't, and shouldn't" mentality, to paraphrase the economist Mark Blyth, that blocks effective policymaking.
First, the “loss” of the Cold War, and with it imperial and superpower status, has created a deep and so far unresolved crisis in the collective mentality of Russia’s political class.
Ukrainians, on the other hand, are close to us in their culture and mentality.
This will influence Russia's political mentality more than anything else.
This approach to governance has had a profound impact on the mentality of the American people.
Such projects underscore the zero-sum mentality that seemingly characterizes China’s water-policy calculations.
At the center, a civilian-military conflict emerged, the German army having always had a state-within-a-state mentality and status.
Another contributing factor may be a basic difference in mentality: many Europeans tend to over-emphasize risk when assessing opportunities.
Talk about a bubble mentality.
This affected our mentality, for radicalism is a by-product of the provincials' inferiority complexes.
Moreover, more women mean more insight into the mentality of female customers.
As the US opioid crisis shows, a bottom-line mentality inevitably increases the number of people directly harmed by companies’ behavior.
It also stems from an “us” and “them” mentality that similarly permeates research at the top Wall Street investment houses.
In the words of David Brooks of The New York Times: “After decades of affluence, the US has drifted away from the hardheaded practical mentality that built the nation’s wealth in the first place….America’s brightest minds have been abandoning industry and technical enterprise in favor of more prestigious but less productive fields like law, finance, consulting, and nonprofit activism.”
First, it offsets “Americanization” – that is, the influence of the United States over global economic development, and the spread of the American lifestyle and mentality.
Wedded to a “Phillips curve” mentality conditioned by the presumed tradeoff between economic slack and inflation, central bankers remain steadfast in their view that an accommodative policy bias is appropriate as long as inflation falls short of their targets.
Given this, one might wonder whether Chinese or Russian leaders are making time in their busy schedules to watch series such as “House of Cards” or “Games of Thrones,” in order to understand their rivals’ mentality.
This arrangement – a legacy of the post-war US-led occupation, which was underpinned by a victor-loser mentality – must be changed to make the alliance sustainable.
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