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When observed carefully, social media can be interpreted like clouds portending storms.
Henderson also observed that the meetings were dominated by anti-technology zealots, the only faction sufficiently organized and inspired about the issue to attend.
He observed that in republics, "Your representative owes you, not only his industry, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serves you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion."
In 1824, the British historian Thomas B. Macaulay observed that “free trade – one of the greatest blessings which government can confer on its people – is in almost every country unpopular.”
“I know your business is now doing very well,” he observed, “and there’s a lot of spirit right now in the country that you weren’t having so much in the last number of months that you have right now.”
These changes are controversial, but a federation whose laws are not observed by some of its constituent members cannot function normally; a federation in which the observance of laws depends on the whim of local administrators simply cannot exist.
Writing in the nineteenth century, Karl Marx famously observed inequality trends in his day and concluded that capitalism could not indefinitely sustain itself politically.
Revisiting the Global OrderMADRID – As many analysts have observed, the Pax Americana of recent decades is on life support.
As Kissinger observed at the time, “the United States has not faced a more diverse and complex array of crises since the end of the Second World War.”
But translating selection pressure into evolutionary change requires another crucial ingredient: the variation observed in the trait should be caused at least in part by genetic differences.
But, as we observed, while our basic checklist provided the targets for improvement and a tool for organizing and reminding people of key steps, more was needed to accelerate change, including financial resources, political will, and the dedication of leaders, providers, and the community to demand progress.
The Financial Times recently observed that in China’s “efforts to build soft power outside its borders,” the country “needs to tread more lightly and take a more reciprocal and less authoritarian approach.”
As the late Yale economist Gustav Ranis observed nearly 20 years ago, the key to successful and sustainable development is “avoiding the encrustation of ideas.”
However, foreign military experts observed that the type of armored vehicles used in Lhasa and shown on film were of the type issued only to elite PLA units, though their PLA markings were obscured.
He hit the nail on the head in his famous 2013 speech, in which he observed that, “People feel that the EU is heading in a direction that they never signed up to.
That phone call violated a protocol – avoidance of direct contact between the US and Taiwan at the presidential level – that American presidents from both parties have carefully observed for four decades.
If deficits are redefined to exclude certain expenditures, the 3% ceiling can be observed.
As the political scientist Lucien Pye once observed, “the Chinese see such an absolute difference between themselves and others that they unconsciously find it natural to refer to those in whose homeland they are living as “foreigners.”
“Reforms, made in time,” the Italian independence leader Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour, once observed, “instead of increasing the strength of the revolutionary spirit, reduce it to impotence.”
That is a pity, because as British Prime Minister Tony Blair recently observed, over the long term, “there is no issue more important than climate change,” and there can be no agreement to reduce it “that doesn’t involve China, America and India.”
Further evidence supporting the use of body-composition analysis, rather than the BMI, comes from the metabolic heterogeneity observed within each BMI category.
That has been the pattern observed in Algeria, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen.
As former US Federal Reserve board chair Paul Volcker has observed, “virtually every post-mortem of the financial crisis cites the convoluted regulatory system [in the US] as a contributory factor in the financial meltdown.”
It has been overwhelmingly observed that the worst-hit people in New Orleans were poor African-Americans living in the city’s low-lying districts.
But, in a typical comment, Indian-American strategist Ashley Tellis observed trenchantly that India had chosen “to invest in a plane, not a relationship.”
But the siege was never intended to starve Gazans; as Dov Weissglass, a former aid to Ariel Sharon, famously observed, the aim was “to put the Palestinians on a diet.”
Similarly, US Trade Representative Michael Froman recently observed that the US would not be interested in negotiating a separate free-trade deal with Britain.
As the economist Herbert Stein famously observed, “If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.”
As Osama bin Laden observed, people like a strong horse.
When he died, the Polish Parliament observed a minute of silence.
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