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But a growing body of evidence suggests that these views are misplaced.
And misplaced regulation – for example, in the service sector – remains a barrier to healthy competition in many countries.
But such criticism is largely misplaced.
But this optimism is misplaced.
I believe this confidence is misplaced.
Indeed, the hope that Netanyahu’s opponents could achieve a breakthrough is misplaced.
Second, the liberals’ priorities were misplaced.
The wartime symbols were not misplaced at all.
With blinkered analysis and misplaced concern, the academics essentially say that to reduce global warming slightly, we should end growth that can lift hundreds of millions out of poverty, avoid millions of air pollution deaths, and give billions the opportunity of a better life through improved health care, shelter, education, and income.
The focus on currencies as a cause of the West’s economic woes, while not entirely misplaced, has been excessive.
In order to tap the vast benefits of an open labor market, policymakers must work to allay the public’s fears, many of which are misplaced or exaggerated.
The feeling is displaced – indeed, misplaced.
The manageable, honorable American Dream of the 1950’s – a decent, affordable college education; a small house of one’s own; hope that one’s children will be better off than oneself – was misplaced in the last decade and a half.
But a series of missteps – misguided civilian policies and misplaced priorities on the part of the government and its donors – have boosted recruitment for the very groups the US is supposed to be quelling, including al-Qaeda, the Afghan Taliban, and, more recently, the Islamic State.
But the accusation against the US is especially misplaced.
Indeed, the German government is slowly coming to realize that its pessimism about the economy has been misplaced, which is reflected in continuous “upward revisions” of growth forecasts throughout 2006.
Trump’s anger is thus misplaced and unfair: he forced the company’s hand.
However, these concerns were misplaced.
Either it is like lightning, striking some unlucky woman who was in the wrong place at the wrong time (an isolated, mysterious event, caused by some individual man’s sudden psychopathology), or it is “explained” by some seductive transgression by the victim (the wrong dress, a misplaced smile).
Likewise, concern that an increase in the fiscal deficit would undesirably stimulate aggregate demand is misplaced.
Analysis of the images also reveals that up to one-third of civilian structures in Abyei have been burned, and corroborates reports that tens of thousands of civilians have been misplaced.
While some of this criticism may be over-stated or misplaced, it nonetheless underscores the need to reform financial institutions and practices.
Krugman’s presentation at the IMF conference was as surprising as the others: concerns about US fiscal deficits and debt are misplaced even in the longer term.
But pessimism is misplaced.
The fears were misplaced, because the world benefited from cheaper and more readily available products.
I doubt, however, that celebrities like Miss Bardot will ever recognize the absurdity of their misplaced priorities – to come to a country where millions live in despair and dire conditions, and show concern for only the wild dogs.
It is only relatively recently that the bets have started being misplaced.
History and economic theory, however, suggest that anxieties about technological unemployment, a term coined by John Maynard Keynes nearly a century ago, are misplaced.
But the harsh reactions to the BIS’s analysis seem misplaced and unfair.
A handful of national leaders could veto the inclusion of migration, owing to misplaced fears of its domestic political consequences.
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