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Reintegration and reconciliation, which are meant to offer incentives to insurgents to switch sides and perhaps join Afghan security institutions or nominally pro-government militias, are seen as being driven by military logic, rather than representing an honest dialogue between the state, the insurgents, and ordinary Afghans.
This hierarchical approach, in which spectatorship trumps participation among the rank and file, is a major reason for indifference among ordinary Catholics today.
So do many ordinary Catholics.
Furthermore, if the ceasefire held, it would facilitate economic reconstruction, while enabling moderate political actors and civil society to win back some power from the extremists – a shift that ordinary Syrians would welcome.
It will try to erode our support by infiltrating our protests with loyalists who will carry the virus of defeatism, and it will seek to outflank us by appealing to ordinary, hard-working Ukrainians, worried about feeding and clothing their children, that a tottering economy needs stability to be saved.
Gains from trade would undoubtedly take time to materialize, and restoring access to the Israeli labor market would more quickly boost incomes for a large number of ordinary Palestinians than any effort to promote the export of goods.
And the rules of the global economy, administered through international arrangements such as the World Trade Organization (WTO) or the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), are widely perceived as being rigged against ordinary workers.
They have better uniforms and higher pay than ordinary soldiers - and officers too close to the intrigues of Iraq's palace politics to remain blindly devoted to Saddam.
But Zhou is no ordinary tiger.
What it does have is the capacity to influence ordinary Chinese – making them a valuable addition to a pro-reform coalition.
One important reason for these countries’ vulnerability is the consistent lack of investment in their populations, which has prevented ordinary citizens from reaping the benefits of economic growth.
Most ordinary goods – from shoe leather to software – are rationed, which means that they are available only by waiting in line or going to the black market.
CAMBRIDGE – Why were democratic political systems not responsive early enough to the grievances that autocratic populists have successfully exploited – inequality and economic anxiety, decline of perceived social status, the chasm between elites and ordinary citizens?
Contrary to the implications of the Meltzer-Richard framework, ordinary American voters do not seem to be very interested in raising top marginal tax rates or in greater social transfers.
But, in choosing restraint over intervention, he has disappointed ordinary Africans and international activists alike.
Policy design has been driven by technocratic considerations that ignored or was simply uninterested in ordinary people’s priorities.
But the result was a discussion that was far removed from the issues that are most important to ordinary people.
As we develop a better understanding of ordinary people’s needs and priorities, those negotiating a global agreement at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris later this year would be wise to take note.
His managed judiciary provides no comfort to ordinary people; and the country’s military installations, submarines, oilrigs, mining shafts, hospitals, and retirement homes regularly blow up, collapse, or sink, owing to neglect and zero liability.
Economic development must be accompanied by respect for ordinary citizens.
An ordinary Chinese citizen’s role in political life is largely limited to participation in local elections.
While it has created opportunities for ordinary people, it has created even more opportunities for the wealthiest and most powerful.
Clinton and her advisors hope, instead, to tax capital gains at ordinary rates for stock held for up to two years, after which the rate would decline by four percentage points per year until, after several years, it reached the current long-term rate, which tops out for wealthy investors at 20%.
Ordinary Ukrainians know who they are because their bosses are telling them, even ordering them, to vote for these people.
These gifts were bought with money taken unjustly from ordinary Ukrainians, so ordinary citizens have a right to them.
So far, Suu Kyi has circumvented this booby trap with the verbal evasiveness that one would expect of an ordinary politician, rather than someone of her courage and standing.
The US became the envy of the world not least because it was the first country where ordinary people owned cars, and because it is still the land where people drive really big cars.
As bad as anti-Christian violence and intimidation is, indifference to the plight of Christian groups under threat is widespread among governments, the media, and even ordinary citizens.
At the heart of Shell's oil reserves scandal is the desire for profit and the elaborate mechanisms that it nurtured in collaboration with corrupt military dictators over the years to ensure that its operations yield enormous dividends at the expense of ordinary Nigerians.
Above all, it was encouraging the fear of eternal damnation that enabled ecclesiastics and their political allies to control the hearts and minds of ordinary people.
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