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Yet China rejects the very notion of water sharing or institutionalized cooperation with downriver countries.
In the West, the counterpoint to the notion of woman as property has been a highly individualistic demand for personal autonomy – decision-making based primarily on a woman’s own wishes, rather than as wife, mother, community member, or worshipper.
This version of feminism – the notion that women can claim equality and still have a valued role in the home, prize family above all, and view rights in the context of community and spirituality – seems like a much-needed corrective to some of Western feminism’s shortcomings.
The once-popular notion, built into growth forecasts, that exports would provide an escape route from the crisis was never credible.
That notion has now been turned on its head: as economic growth has stalled, falling import demand from trade partners has caused economic woes to spread and deepen.
Developing nations also need to enshrine the notion of “policy space” in the World Trade Organization.
Of course, this notion provokes angst: What happens to poor but worthy people?
The shift in the debate from just a year ago seems dramatic: no one even mentions the notion of trickle-down economics anymore, and few are willing to argue that there is a close congruence between social contributions and private rewards.
The “Draghi put” – the notion that the European Central Bank, with its deep pockets, would and could do whatever necessary to save the euro and each of the crisis countries – seemed to have worked, at least for a while.
While the threat of a trade war with China and the notion of the US abrogating existing trade deals hurts other countries’ short-term growth prospects more than those of the US, a rising dollar is bad news for Trump.
Jean Monnet, one of the EU’s founding fathers, repeatedly returned to the notion that the urgency of emergency would propel integration.
They were surprised by evidence that babies grow in the same way worldwide, as long as they receive the same care and are not constrained by environmental factors – evidence that challenged the widely held notion that ethnicity and gender are major determinants of a child’s development.
Farewell to Development’s Old DividesNEW YORK -- The notion of a divide between the rich north and the poor and developing south has long been a central concept among economists and policymakers.
The notion that Russia could become a bridge between Europe and Asia is also vanishing because transport costs between the country's western and eastern half are too high to attract outside commerce.
One such idea is the notion that cities, regions, and countries should specialize.
Historically, ASEAN has played a pivotal role in facilitating regional relationships, giving rise to the notion of “ASEAN centrality” in Asia.
Psychedelic and psycholytic treatments – popular in the 1960’s and 1970’s, before research was severely restricted and interest in the clinical use of psychedelics faded – were based on the notion that the drug-induced psychological experience was essential to facilitating the psychotherapeutic process.
Trump’s team has been consistent about little except its insistence on the notion that being powerful is equivalent to being right.
If it is suggested that QE or lower interest rates are unlikely to benefit their economies much, they shift the focus of the discussion, railing against the notion that raising interest rates would stimulate the economy – an ostensibly airtight argument.
And, like America then, India is not naturally at ease with the notion of exercising global power.
But it has become burdened with another, more pernicious notion: as departures from the Arrow-Debreu model become more realistic, and thus more complex, they become less suitable for the classroom.
For an NWFZ to be possible, however, South Korea would have to agree to be outside the US nuclear umbrella – not a particularly popular notion in the country.
With the rise of non-traditional threats, Europeans are increasingly overlooking classical security risks like inter-state warfare, believing that they are no longer relevant – a notion that is reflected in the ESS.
Disturbingly, however, the notion has morphed into a global movement, fueled by self-destructive, anti-Western sentiments.
It is even more ludicrous to extend the sovereignty notion to viruses that, like flu, can be carried across international borders by migratory birds.
In fact, the entire scientific method is based on the notion that discovering what does not work is vital to learning what does.
That trip further cemented the notion that the Hatoyama government was at root anti-American in the mindless way that former South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun was.
The notion that a dictator can claim the sovereign right to abuse his people has become unacceptable.
It would be tempting to use a formula coined during the Cold War to describe the comparative evolution of the United States and the Soviet Union and to apply the notion of “competitive decline” to the relationship between the US and Europe.
For example, both political parties in the US now accept the notion that when a country is in a recession, it is not only permissible, but even desirable , to run deficits.
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