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But the historic five-day trial dispelled any
notion
that Bo would go quietly to his cell in Beijing’s infamous Qincheng Prison, where China’s fallen top leaders are incarcerated.
Of course, the guards know that their job is to ensure that everyone is safe and comfortable, but the Gulag-type
notion
of what a guard does is too embedded to be removed.
The Unites States must think long-term and gently support the process, instead of toying with the misconceived
notion
of Turkey as part of a new "greater Middle East."
We cannot allow a misconceived
notion
of “discipline” to cause lasting damage to our economies and inflict a terrible human toll on our societies.
Jumpstarting Europe’s EconomyPARIS – Not so long ago, the
notion
of the European Central Bank handing out money to governments or directly to citizens – so-called “helicopter money” drops – would have seemed outlandish.
And such an approach would cement the
notion
that central bank policy is “the only game in town,” relieving elected government leaders of their responsibility for pro-growth policies and the fiscal decisions they control.
Rethinking SovereigntyFor 350 years, sovereignty – the
notion
that states are the central actors on the world stage and that governments are essentially free to do what they want within their own territory but not within the territory of other states – has provided the organizing principle of international relations.
The time has come to rethink this
notion.
Our
notion
of sovereignty must therefore be conditional, even contractual, rather than absolute.
Abandoning the freedom agenda would reaffirm the still-popular
notion
that all the US really cares about in the Middle East is oil and Israeli security, at the expense of everything else, including regional development and the well-being of the Arab and Muslim peoples.
But what was once a theoretical
notion
now seems to be a concrete possibility.
Other people in the play scoff at this notion, treating musical subversion as trivial.
Brazil’s ambassador to the WTO, Roberto Azevedo, said recently that his country “rejects the
notion
that this organization’s credibility and legitimacy are in a death embrace with the Round.
One enduring political myth that went down with Bo, the former Communist Party boss of Chongqing municipality, is the
notion
that the Party’s rule is based on meritocracy.
Soon after, I started casually discussing the
notion
of becoming a backup cosmonaut with the Space Adventures team.
This includes the
notion
that social justice can be achieved only by abandoning the path of reform and rejecting “bourgeois” democratic forms in favor of “real” democracy, born of revolutionary purity and the leader’s millenarian dreams.
WASHINGTON, DC – Just when the
notion
that Western economies are settling into a “new normal” of low growth gained mainstream acceptance, doubts about its continued relevance have begun to emerge.
This
notion
of risk underpins economic interactions.
America’s dalliances with Islamist-leaning political forces – and governments – have been guided by the
notion
that the cloak of Islam helps to protect the credibility of leaders who might otherwise be seen as foreign puppets.
But in fact, sexy as the technology is, I was more impressed by the overall
notion
of practical courseware – and not just in plumbing – that could give millions of people marketable skills at a fraction of the cost of conventional vocational training, ultimately in many other fields, such as welding, carpentry, painting, and the like.
Since the West has lost any clear territorial basis since then, the phrase “the West” has become a universal not a local
notion.
But this
notion
has been contentious in the West for centuries.
To be sure, despite the United Kingdom’s Brexit vote and America’s unilateral diplomacy and trade tariffs under President Donald Trump, the West has not abandoned the
notion
of shared values.
Never again can we afford to live with the narrow
notion
of two Europes, of haves and have-nots, of insiders and outsiders.
Not only did accounts conflict; none offered a clear
notion
of who had allegedly done what, let alone why or how.
Croatia's economy and traditional access to Europe could have placed it among the first candidates for European integrations had its political and social elite any
notion
that this was advantageous.
Not surprisingly, the
notion
of independence for central banks that visibly aided specific financial institutions – and this at a time when society as a whole was under unprecedented economic stress – quickly became politically toxic.
Against this background, the
notion
that reclaiming territory from ISIS will amount to freeing the region of extremist groups is clearly naive.
He has become increasingly reliant on the facile
notion
that state-sponsored patriotism and nationalism can hold China’s disparate groups together.
I detest the implicit
notion
behind so much of our commentary that the Arabs or, even worse, the people of Islam, are unable to understand what a free society looks like, that they cannot be trusted with something so modern as a polity where religion is in its proper place.
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