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The humming of tweets and Facebook forums became the hunger cries of a carnivorous chorus, motivated by one obsession: Devour Macron.
First, the share of government debt that can be pooled must be strictly limited, leaving each country responsible for a significant portion of its national debt, and therefore motivated to maintain sound public finances.
Since he is an agnostic, his gift is not motivated by any belief that it will benefit him in an afterlife.
Perhaps it motivated Harris to bomb German cities over and over again, even when there was no longer any conceivable military purpose.
Reversible bonds would act as an insurance mechanism for both sides, shielding destination countries from the expense of fiscally motivated immigration and protecting source countries from the costs associated with the loss of talented workers.
The biggest stumbling block is immigration, which motivated so many Leave voters.
Such an approach should seek to protect economies from the destabilizing impacts of politically motivated policy changes, without impeding governments’ ability to correct dangerous imbalances.
Corporatism (which should be distinguished from the tripartite bargaining structures that emerged in many countries in the 1970’s under the name “neo-corporatism”)became the most influential ethically motivated intervention into economics in modern history.
Business is motivated by profit; it is not designed to safeguard universal principles.
Potential mentors may be motivated not by money or even generosity, but by pride: they want to be recognized for the wisdom that they can share.
The risk of passing to 1.7% in the year ahead motivated the ECB’s recent 50 basis point hike.
Cynics say the new measures are motivated by political considerations alone: the next general election is due by May 2014.
In my country, France, most supporters were clearly motivated more by post-colonial references than by European allegiance.
Both activities, after all, are financed by investors looking for returns on their capital and motivated more by profit than compassion.
In this context, it is important to note that, while Kim’s peace overtures are motivated by a desire to rebuild North Korea’s sanctions-battered economy, sanctions alone did not change the behavior of a country long used to enduring extreme hardship.
Community leaders, politicians, government ministries, the scientific community, leading nongovernmental organizations, religious groups, international organizations, donor organizations, and foundations are all motivated to come together for a common purpose.
It is in this unflattering sense that Islam, the dominant religion of an economically backward part of the world, was said to have motivated the attacks of September 11, 2001.
Specifically, the aggressor in many international conflicts in this period has been motivated by perceived injury to national dignity.
China is now also motivated by nationalism, and it will rise as high as a motivated population of 1.3 billion people can.
But China is not motivated purely by strategic considerations.
But, motivated by rapidly worsening climate conditions – global carbon dioxide emissions rose in 2017 for the first time in four years – negotiators ultimately managed to secure a last-minute deal.
The Americans do recognize the importance of courting those Taliban leaders they believe to be motivated by tribal loyalties rather than religious ideology, but they oppose the latest Afghan policy of negotiating directly and officially with the Taliban.
Indeed, increasing imports is the ultimate reason for a country to boost its exports, whereas a company is motivated to outperform its competitors so that it never needs to buy anything from them.
That may be motivated by the Trump administration’s attack on affirmative action for African-American and Hispanic students, but it would be possible to admit more students from those disadvantaged minorities without making it harder for Asian-Americans to be admitted than it is for white Americans.
Harvard’s president at the time, Derek Bok, said that the university’s decision “was motivated by a desire not to be associated as a shareholder with companies engaged in significant sales of products that create a substantial and unjustified risk of harm to other human beings.”
Renowned columnists have been fired, and media companies have received high tax fines that many consider to be politically motivated.
In truth, many trade enthusiasts are no less motivated by their own narrow, selfish agendas.
Most told the researchers that they were motivated by a desire to pay off their debts, but six years later, three-quarters of them were still in debt, and regretted having sold their kidney.
We can also grant that Mbeki was not motivated by malice against those suffering from AIDS.
And even they – often self-radicalized online – were not necessarily motivated by religion so much as by grievances over economic marginalization and stalled social mobility.
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