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There is something of a consensus, for example, emerging around the
notion
that the US should remain in Iraq for some time to come, albeit with a reduced level of military forces.
To the disappointment of many, Hu ended up giving a lackluster oration that, instead of extolling political reform, re-emphasized the dreary
notion
of the Three Represents--the banal theory advanced by former Party chief Jiang Zemin, which allowed businessmen to be included in the Party.
Even as the Bush administration was spinning the
notion
that the torture of prisoners was the work of “a few bad apples” low in the military hierarchy, I knew that we were seeing evidence of a systemic policy set at the top.
In evolutionary studies, because heritable non-genetic variations are often induced by the environment, we have to expand our
notion
of heredity and variation to include the inheritance of acquired variations, the once disparaged idea that was part of Lamarck’s theory.
But, however sincere his words may sound, reality is moving in the opposite direction, and the ugly verbal exchanges surrounding the act of execution itself will certainly do little to dispel the
notion
that this was “victors’ justice” – the victors being not the United States, but the Shi’a.
Capturing the most media attention has been Europe’s eroding credibility, with its paralyzed institutional response to the ongoing financial crisis making ever more fanciful the
notion
of a “G-3” world, in which the European Union could compete as a political and economic equal with the United States and China.
As a result, clean air, renewable energy, and green spaces have all too often been sacrificed to the
notion
that environmentally friendly legislation increases costs and red tape for businesses and ultimately hurts the economy.
Francis has now come down decisively against the mainstream view, saying that Christians “have at times incorrectly interpreted the Scriptures,” and insisting that “we must forcefully reject the
notion
that our being created in God’s image and given dominion over the earth justifies absolute domination over other creatures.”
Most Irish citizens would also reject the
notion
that their country has been austerity’s model patient.
The
notion
that EU countries merely want Germany’s money – the French, for example, have openly advocated the creation of a “transfer union” – is on its way toward becoming a majority view.
That is a peculiar
notion
of accountability.
Indeed, Abe has succeeded so well in returning Japan to the world stage that his US and Asian critics act as if the only problem now is to moderate Japanese self-confidence – a
notion
that would have been laughable just two years ago.
The
notion
promoted by Romney and his boosters that only US military power can preserve world order is deeply reactionary.
In fact, near-zero interest rates undermine the very
notion
of a “debt overhang” in countries like Greece, Ireland, Portugal, and Spain.
By claiming to be the leader of all Jewish people, wherever they live, Netanyahu has only strengthened that
notion.
Bellicisme – the
notion
that war is noble, and can be purifying and cleansing – is dead beyond redemption.
The fear that demagogues exploit is rooted in more than a shared taste for hunting, or a
notion
of self-defense.
For a long time, economic theory aspired to the elegance of Euclidean geometry, where all true statements can be derived from five apparently incontrovertible axioms, such as the
notion
that there is only one line that connects two points in space.
Indeed, the West accepted the view that globalization would result (as with trade) in mutual gain, embracing what I called in 1997 the
notion
of “benign neglect.”
Laws enacted to single out and “persecute” Muslims, and statements that affirm the Islamophobia of our media, buttress the absurd
notion
that what we are really witnessing is a “war on Islam.”
This
notion
of the elitist appeaser is not confined to the Netherlands.
There exists today a basic, even on an occasion a ritualistic, consensus regarding the
notion
that democracy and human rights are the points of departure for political organization with some form of free market with varying degrees of social responsibility based on private entrepreneurship as the basis for economic activity.
The Nazis and Communists represented the zenith of man's hubris in the
notion
that by political means a human utopia could be created.
“The
notion
that you can somehow selectively resolve the Al Qaeda problem while ignoring the larger jihadist sea in which [Al Qaeda] swims has failed in the past and will fail in the future,” Riedel argues.
They hang on to the outdated
notion
that their national parliaments make all key decisions, when in reality some four-fifths of the policies that determine Europe’s future are taken in Brussels and then rubber-stamped by national parliamentarians.
In the aftermath of the various bailouts associated with the eurozone financial crisis that began in 2009, the
notion
that German taxpayers should foot the bill for regional support does not sit well with the country’s politicians or public.
But this is a dangerous notion, one that entails not just massive risks, but also unacceptably high interim human costs.
And from that remnant of the Biblical story of creation sprung the
notion
of a tree of life, alongside major concepts such as gradualism (the view that speciation does not occur abruptly) and the idea that minor selection pressures can, over time, have a profound effect on improved fitness.
The structuralist perspective on macroeconomic behavior led to the concept that came to be called the “natural” rate of unemployment, borrowing from the notion, which arose in Europe during the interwar years, of a “natural” interest rate.
That
notion
can work in opposition, but it never works in government: even in Italy, you cannot demonstrate in the streets against yourself.
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