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The good news is that both the private and public sectors – motivated by soaring demand for food, especially in Africa’s rapidly growing cities, and rising global food prices – seem ready to propel this shift.
The risk of passing to 1.7% in the year ahead motivated the ECB's recent 50 basis point hike.
The decision was motivated by cost concerns.
For more than four decades, these values have motivated my work to advance sustainable development at both the national and international levels.
Indeed, it took a motivated Germany four to five years to do it.
To a large extent, this is because military campaigns are usually motivated by geostrategic concerns, not financial logic.
Some on the left, motivated in part by revulsion against financial types who are thought to reap unjustified incomes, have joined forces with conventional economists, whose almost religious belief in their models has blinded them to the harm their dubious economic theory can do to the real economy and the interests of ordinary people.
This question has long divided economists along a right-left axis, at least since University of Chicago economists George Stigler and Milton Friedman argued that many, if not most, regulations were motivated by rent-seeking among bureaucrats and business incumbents.
The US Chamber of Commerce opposes all such proposed rules as “politically motivated,” because the pressure to require disclosure of election-related corporate spending does not come from institutional investors, but from government pension funds controlled by elected officials.
Neuroscientific studies have shown that humans can be motivated by care and systems of affiliation just as easily as they can be by power and achievement or consumption and desire.
Germany and South Korea, however, will gain little, and risk much, if they downgrade their alliance ties in favor of commercially motivated, if unofficial, neutrality.
With no escape route, soldiers were highly motivated to win.
In the past, only a few highly motivated people engaged in political activism; the masses took almost no initiative.
Today, highly motivated people can lower the threshold for action so that people with less passion join their efforts.
Whereas that stance reflects the vision of an “ever-closer union” that motivated the EU’s founders, Germany’s narrower, economic understanding of European integration cannot inspire ordinary citizens to support the compromises necessary to keep the EU together.
They are longstanding, well organized, deep rooted in communities, and, above all, highly motivated – a winning combination anywhere.
If the US Congress deals with Obama’s proposal responsibly, and does not yield to those motivated by a partisan desire to embarrass him at every turn, it will enhance its own claim to recapture the constitutional power to authorize military conflict – a power that has been disregarded more often than not in the past half-century.
They walked, bussed, traveled in carts, telephoned and tweeted with compatriots, motivated in part by social demands – above all for their own empowerment.
True, such political infighting makes the EU appear as if it is no longer motivated by great and noble ambitions.
World leaders need a success story to get them motivated.
Rather, they are motivated by the promise of opportunities for genuine self-improvement and the freedom to decide who to be and how to live.
“Humanitarian” intervention – action that is motivated by our concern for the fate of fellow human beings – is often described as reflecting “moral concern.”
Better macroeconomic policy led to faster GDP growth, which required financing and motivated some insiders to forego pernicious maneuvering that would scare away new outside investors.
To be sure, the first part of the move was probably motivated largely by the desire to strengthen markets’ role in setting the exchange rate, which promises to boost long-term stability and improve the renminbi’s chances of becoming a global reserve currency.
Besides, thanks to governmental control of public broadcasters and generous public subsidies to private media outlets, both sides can deploy a reliable army of fiercely motivated journalists and intellectuals whose incendiary comments are contributing to the conflict’s escalation.
Likewise, they insist that mergers and acquisitions, which make big companies bigger, should not be motivated by salary considerations, and that “golden parachutes” should not be granted to failed managers.
More recently Taiwan is threatened with military maneuvers across the straights, even the firing of test missiles in its direction, whenever independence is suggestedParadoxically, nationalist chest pounding is motivated not by the strength and confidence that Chinese leaders wish to project, but by deep-seated fear of weakness.
The government’s reluctance to use such a process might have been motivated by AIG’s major role in insurance markets around the world.
The government might also have been motivated by concerns that losses to the derivative counterparties would deplete the capital of some significant financial institutions at a difficult time.
That fits with the commonsense idea that if people only do good in public, they may be motivated by a desire to gain a reputation for generosity.
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