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Equally important, if the West’s response to Russian aggression toward Ukraine is effectively limited to economic sanctions, Putin will more easily be able to blame the West and its alleged hostility toward Russia for the collapse in ordinary Russians’ living standards, thus enabling him to double down on aggressive nationalism.
And it has made it more difficult for elites to bridge the gap separating them from ordinary people who feel deserted by the establishment.
Yet he is nowhere near as vulnerable, thanks to his widespread grassroots support among ordinary Russians.
But after the disasters of the last two decades, including the military debacle in Afghanistan and the ruinous barbarity of the Chechen war which has blown back its violence into Russia's cities, ordinary Russians are less enamored of military might.
Ordinary Vietnamese, taking matters into their own hands, reacted even more vigorously, by rioting and targeting Chinese industrial investments for attack.
Ordinary political analysis – and even psychology – may be incapable of providing an answer.
Ordinary Catalans have begun to realize that it is they who would foot the bill for independence, while any benefits would accrue to an increasingly powerful intellectual elite.
Of the 40,000 survivors, perhaps 500 are still alive;I tracked down and interviewed 40 of them – ordinary people who were left behind or managed to reach the end, but with stories that are highly instructive.
While academics and journalists rightly debate the extent to which ordinary people exercise real power in the Indian parliamentary system, dominated as it is by various political and economic power structures, a look back over the 50 years of Indian independence does provide some evidence that it works for the poor and the commonweal as well as for the better off and privileged.
The Fed has given ordinary banks direct access to its credit facilities, and the ECB no longer rations the supply of base money, instead providing as much liquidity as banks demand.
For inevitably, the ordinary men and women who have built modern China will demand to live in a freedom commensurate to their material achievements.
Proponents of referenda hold them up as the epitome of democracy, giving ordinary citizens a direct say over specific policy decisions.
The problem is that the European Commission and the European Parliament have consistently failed to generate a compelling narrative, leaving ordinary Europeans unconvinced of the EU’s value.
But the truth is that the severe economic hardships suffered by ordinary Iranians mainly reflect the regime’s economic mismanagement, and the widespread fear that the threat of war from both Israel and the United States, sometimes abetted by Iran’s own war rhetoric, has unleashed.
Democracy will be decisive because it generates investments in education, health, and economic empowerment that reward ordinary voters.
Anti-Semites, and others with a blood-and-soil view of society, invariably see “cold-hearted bankers” (Le Pen’s term for her opponent in the presidential debate) as the enemy of “the real people…the ordinary, decent people” (Nigel Farage’s words at a campaign rally for Donald Trump in Mississippi).
The United States is experiencing a mortgage loss-driven financial meltdown that would, with an ordinary monetary policy, send it into a severe recession or a depression.
Ordinary secular Muslims who turn to atheism are more vulnerable to charges of apostasy and, worse, blasphemy.
But both ordinary AKP supporters and disillusioned secularists are now suspicious of America’s actions and motives in the region.
But, to ordinary Indians, this political gamesmanship appeared to be merely a farce – the blind pretending to lead the unsighted.
In Massachusetts, Elizabeth Warren, a Harvard law professor and tireless warrior for reforms to protect ordinary citizens from banks’ abusive practices, won a seat in the Senate.
The sense among ordinary Burmese that the Chinese were looting the country’s resources has led to an anti-China backlash, including problems with a copper mine in Monywa and the cancellation last year of the Myitsone hydroelectric dam.
Here, it is critical that ordinary citizens stand up and hold their governments accountable.
Intimidation and suppression can only breed hostility among ordinary Taiwanese.
In ordinary language, rational behavior is that which is reasonable under the circumstances.
On the contrary, they have come to be identified with the powerful – part of a media-business-political elite divorced from the concerns of ordinary people.
While one can understand the resistance of ordinary American citizens to competition from foreign immigrants during a period of high unemployment, it would be ironic if the current debate were to lead to policies that cut the US off from one of it unique sources of strength.
But China is no ordinary trading partner.
This will do nothing to endear experts to ordinary people.
This incident revealed the extent to which the police cooperated in turning ordinary Chinese into slaves.
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