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If this respite and refuge is gradually narrowed and invaded by the same kind of “products” as those that dominate the mass market, we are condemned to be perpetual captives of the same stunted universe of “practicalities,” the ordinary agglomeration of clichés packaged in advertisements.
Amid such uncertainty, our future depends on a UN that brings together the countries of the world not only to talk and debate, but also to agree and to act; that mobilizes civil society, business, philanthropists, and ordinary citizens to help the world’s governments solve current problems; and that delivers peace, development, human rights, and global public goods – in a word, hope – to people around the world every day.
Until Trump came along, US presidents were held to stricter norms of behavior and speech than ordinary people.
After all, the passion that the Palestinians’ plight evokes among ordinary Egyptians is a dangerous source of instability.
They regard economists and other experts as isolated from and indifferent to the concerns of ordinary people; driven by an agenda that does not coincide with that of citizens; often blatantly wrong, and therefore incompetent; biased in favor of, or simply captured by, big business and the financial industry; and naive – failing to see that politicians select analyses that suit their ends and disregard the rest.
Loyal chief executives of Russia’s big state companies enjoy long tenures, regardless of whether they meet ordinary standards of efficiency, profit, or innovation.
Ordinary Russians’ efforts to protect their private property are similar to the protests of the early 2010s.
Instead, enlargement was turned into a dull exercise, in which the ultimate benefits of EU membership became blurred in the minds of ordinary people by the complex process of adopting the acquis communautaire (the body of EU law).
Hwang and his colleagues claimed to have replaced the nucleus of an unfertilized human egg with the nucleus of an ordinary cell taken from another person, developing stem-cell lines from the resulting embryo that matched the DNA of the person who supplied the ordinary cell.
Proving the possibility of cloning from the nucleus of an ordinary human cell would transform the debate about the value of potential human life, for we would find that “potential human life” was all around us, in every cell of our bodies.
Redistributing some of the profits from high energy prices enabled the regime to improve living standards and make itself popular with ordinary Russians.
Now that happy union between the Kremlin and ordinary Russians is ending.
But the problem extends beyond Swaraj’s communication with ordinary citizens.
Back then, we lived under a system that denied ordinary people any right whatsoever to know about even essential facts and events.
Because only fragments of reliable information reached ordinary Ukrainians at the time, my memories of Chernobyl are necessarily sketchy.
This disconnect has created the sense, among ordinary citizens, that democracy – the people’s will – has been undermined.
Whereas that stance reflects the vision of an “ever-closer union” that motivated the EU’s founders, Germany’s narrower, economic understanding of European integration cannot inspire ordinary citizens to support the compromises necessary to keep the EU together.
These were ordinary women, some of them “babushkas” wearing headscarves.
The internal recession that followed the bailout was deep and long and left the ordinary Mexican citizen with a sharply reduced income facing higher prices for goods and services.
Yet science and smart policy have the potential in today’s world to transform an ordinary household object into a revolutionary innovation.
A breakthrough like this highlights one of the many ways in which ordinary people and businesses can reduce energy use and cut greenhouse gases.
Although labor shortages have helped push up ordinary workers’ wages, the existing, highly unequal income distribution cannot be altered spontaneously.
The blurriness of the law creates a no-man’s land of ambiguity in which the authorities thrive: legal predictability is aspirational, while daily life for ordinary people requires navigating the shallow, shifting waters of what the powerful will tolerate.
Obama didn’t need focus groups to tell him that ordinary Americans were struggling to pay their medical bills and being denied treatment for preexisting conditions.
Now that the guerrillas are boxed in, what can Rajapaksa reasonably offer to them and ordinary Tamils?
Decades ago, the supposed guardians of India’s public morals decided that those with the education and good taste to read a newspaper can handle its contents, but ordinary people seeking diversion must be protected from the pernicious effects of the “wrong” kinds of entertainment.
A comprehensive approach must recognize the speed of internal change, especially in the minds of ordinary North Koreans.
The lives of ordinary North Koreans matter as much as the security of North Korea’s neighbors.
How Trump Could Rebuild AmericaBERKELEY – In the United States today, with partisan polarization at record levels, there is still at least one policy goal on which there is broad consensus, not only among Republicans and Democrats, but also among business and labor leaders, states and cities, and ordinary citizens: infrastructure.
Currently, ordinary Chinese still believe that their country’s economic growth remains high, and China’s leaders continue to enjoy high approval ratings because of widespread belief in their abilities and dedication.
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