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At the end of my narrative, I invite readers to consider fundamental strategies of resisting and challenging unwanted social influences, and I introduce the notion of “the banality of heroism.”
Based on the notion of “multi-stakeholderism,” the meeting produced a 12-page “outcomes” document.
Each of these differences casts doubt on the notion that the euro will go the way of the gold standard.
Moreover, any notion of party discipline and loyalty collapsed years ago, as the number of committed Conservative supporters dwindled.
As China’s economic deceleration exposes its structural vulnerabilities and flawed policies, the much-hyped notion of “Chinese exceptionalism” – that China can continue to grow without the rule of law and the other essential institutions that a modern market economy presupposes – is proving to be nothing but a delusion.
The repeal of the tax break on overtime reflects another economic fallacy to which French Socialist politicians are deeply attached: the “lump of labor” notion that underlay the most disastrous of their economic policies – the 35-hour workweek, introduced in 2000.
The member states’ common arsenal of interventionist tools – deposit guarantees, re-capitalization of banks, guarantees for inter-bank loans, and purchases of toxic assets – seemed to give credence to the notion of European unity.
Instead, proponents of withdrawal from the EU tend to fall back on nostalgia-infused reinventions of Britain’s imperial past – most notably the nebulous notion of the “Anglosphere,” a concept based on Winston Churchill’s idea of unity among the “English-speaking peoples.”
In any case, the notion is clearly impractical.
He extolled the notion of an “African renaissance” in which Africans are committed to find African solutions for African problems.
The Emotional Clash of CivilizationsThroughout the so-called “war on terror,” the notion of a “clash of civilization” between Islam and the West has usually been dismissed as politically incorrect and intellectually wrongheaded.
Populist parties, which had already gained a foothold by playing on people’s fears of and frustrations with globalization, seized on this notion.
The notion that democracies can fend off such forces, with their well-resourced and media-savvy ideological apparatuses, with guns alone is a sure loser.
The notion of a Fourth Republic incites heated opposition.
And that is because we have overcome the notion that certain reforms could never be carried out.
We Japanese have a deeply ingrained stoicism, reflecting the Confucian notion that people do not lament poverty when others lament it equally.
The notion that some workers will not go the way of the draft animal is irrational.
At that time, financial-reform efforts were driven by the notion that building up financial buffers would make the world safe.
But the notion that Africa cannot take responsibility for holding accountable Africans who have committed atrocities is patronizing, at best.
Nothing but the thinnest membrane of denial separates the notion of scientific immortality through priority of discovery from this deeper, older, and wholly non-scientific dream of escaping one’s own inevitable death.
Perotti concludes that “the notion of ‘expansionary fiscal austerity’ in the short run is probably an illusion: a trade-off does seem to exist between fiscal austerity and short-run growth.”
It rejects the notion that there is a single civilizational ideal to which all countries should conform.
Piketty with Chinese CharacteristicsHONG KONG – In his bestselling book Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Thomas Piketty argues that capitalism aggravates inequality through several mechanisms, all of which are based on the notion that r (the return on capital) falls less quickly than g (growth in income).
In this sense, the notion of “us versus them” has been fundamental to human evolution, and it continues to shape our interactions.
Self-help has replaced the discredited notion that foreign countries will come to Russia's rescue.
But, though that notion may win some applause, implementing it would be shortsighted, impractical, and economically dubious.
Certainly the advent of an all-volunteer French army appears to thwart the General's notion of inculcating national esprit and grandeur.
Why Free Trade Helps Social Welfare ProgramsSAN FRANCISCO: Nowadays, most discussions about social policy are muddled by the notion that free trade hurts society.
But if the general public is forced to choose between popular social causes and the seemingly arcane, often misunderstood, and now mud-splattered notion of free trade, the outcome will likely not be a happy one for Adam Smith’s followers.
But, in view of America’s long history of neglect of energy security and resilience, the notion that Barack Obama’s administration is responsible for rising gas prices makes little sense.
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