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What's at issue is the policy conclusion to be drawn from this empirical observation.
Chinese officials’ reluctance to eliminate hukou quickly reflects their observation of the social consequences of rapid or unbalanced urbanization elsewhere, though problems caused by internal migration in other countries typically reflect the absence of opportunity in rural areas, not the attraction of opportunities in urban areas.
That observation shows no sign of losing its validity in the twenty-first century.
At home and abroad, Trump continued throughout the year to violate political and social norms and undermine democratic institutions, confirming Balzac’s observation that one who needs to prove one’s power to oneself must abuse it to succeed.
As the late American astronomer Harlow Shapley once said, “No one trusts a model except the man who wrote it; everyone trusts an observation, except the man who made it.”
And this observation casts grave doubt on the future of democracy.
The implication of Brown’s observation is that such restrictions will not ensure that there is not another crisis; but King is right to demand that banks that are too big to fail be reined in.
The phrase reminds me of my mother’s frequent observation that “somebody,” unnamed, had not tidied his bedroom (I was an only child).
In other words, we can learn a lot about people’s behavior just from the observation that there are no ten-dollar bills lying around on public sidewalks.
Perhaps the fiscal observation is a coincidence.
But Trump is right, for once, in his observation that Bush is a “low-energy” person.
The difference is that scientists have struggled to institutionalize a process that involves extensive observation, experimentation, and independent review that, in the long run, provides a firmer purchase on the world than intuition and political posturing.
This observation represents an important codicil to Smith’s vision.
That observation extends to the rule of law and constitutionalism.
The election was a credit to the country's democratic yearnings – and I say that as the chairman of the European Parliament's short-term election observation mission to Bangladesh.
One Chinese Internet hacker group, called "Hacktivismo," is researching the development of a technology called "Six-Four" (named after the date of the 1989 Tiananmen massacre) that would allow Chinese netizen s to use the Internet to communicate free from government observation and thus visit banned Web sites safely.
Liu’s observation that households are becoming increasingly confident in the housing market also seems to be correct.
Hansen’s Great Depression-era theory of secular stagnation was based on an observation about the US birth rate, which was unusually low in the 1930s, after having already declined dramatically by the late 1920s.
In a 2016 commencement address at the California Institute of Technology, the surgeon and writer Atul Gawande described science as “a commitment to a systematic way of thinking, an allegiance to a way of building knowledge and explaining the universe through testing and factual observation.”
As vernacular languages--particularly French--displaced Latin, religious discourse gave way to observation and analysis, with unlimited faith in reason and scientific progress.
Close observation and rapid treatment, or prophylactic surgery, can reduce the risk of these inherited forms of cancer.
For generations, political leaders have been lending credence to that observation, as they have attempted to shape their legacies, taking credit for what worked and blaming predecessors or political opponents for what failed.
As a result, they tend to be employed mainly in very specialized contexts, such as efforts to explain the so-called “equity premium puzzle” (the empirical observation that over long periods, equities yield a higher return than bonds).
It is based on the observation that the country's political system has long performed in a predictable way, consistently producing governments that promise more than they can deliver.
But if this observation provides the rationale for reform, it does not provide a firm enough basis for drawing up effective economic-revival plans.
This particular prediction cannot be tested (no observation could establish that the universe isat rest, even if it were), but it is impossible to change the equations of general relativity arbitrarily.
For example, the introduction of standards and codes, reports on their observation (ROSC’s), Financial Sector Assessment Programs (FSAP’s), and the resulting increase in the Fund’s transparency might contribute to an improvement of bilateral, regional, and multilateral surveillance.
In a recent blog post on how to reform the United Kingdom’s civil service, Dominic Cummings, an adviser to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, cited Qian’s observation that social systems engineering must be deeply integrated into Chinese national planning.
And when it comes to the chaos and mess of human history, we should recall Heraclitus’s observation that “a thunderbolt steers the course of all things.”
His observation that globalization has not been kind to Western middle classes is hardly original.
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