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Peculiar in sentence

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What is peculiar about populist politicians is that they can do so openly and with a clean conscience.
The question is peculiar, even mildly offensive.
Speaking to the Far RightNEW YORK – Something many right-wing populists have in common is a peculiar form of self-pity: the feeling of being victimized by the liberal media, academics, intellectuals, “experts” – in short, by the so-called elites.
Guarantees have a peculiar feature: the more comprehensive and convincing they are, the less likely they are to be invoked and to result in losses.
Trump’s most peculiar recent personnel move – part of an ever-growing list of dismissals – was to fire David Shulkin as head of the Veterans Administration, a Leviathan of an agency, and nominate his personal physician for the job.
Israel’s Wrong FriendsJERUSALEM – Israel has been welcoming some rather peculiar visitors of late.
And, in the US, a peculiar alliance of Jewish hardliners and evangelical Christians, who believe that all Jews must eventually return to the Holy Land and convert to Christianity, has become the main base of support for Israel.
The 1929 panic has dominated all analysis of the depression for two rather peculiar reasons.
Guarantees of this kind have a peculiar feature: the more convincing they are, the less likely they are to be invoked; the reinsurance is likely to turn out to be largely costless.
So we develop peculiar misperceptions, especially the idea that a preponderance of things are going wrong.
The advantages of this approach are that it contains the damage from one country’s peculiar behavior.
Policymakers must recognize that the Chinese model includes features peculiar to its gradual introduction of market mechanisms – which, compared to IP’s new converts, represents a move in the opposite ideological direction.
NEW YORK – Bishop Richard Williamson has some very peculiar, and frankly odious, views: that no Jews were murdered in gas chambers during World War II; that the Twin Towers were brought down by American explosives, not by airplanes, on September 11, 2001; and that Jews are fighting to dominate the world “to prepare the anti-Christ’s throne in Jerusalem.”
Of course, we could argue that disasters like this are one-offs, and even believe that they may be peculiar to Italy – a country where infrastructure projects are often fertile ground for corruption.
Opponents of quantitative easing worry that it augurs inflation – a peculiar position, given the European economy’s current slack.
This too, is a peculiar fear, given that financial markets are now subject to much more stringent regulation.
But this is a peculiar arrangement: a relatively poor country is helping to finance America’s War on Iraq, as well as a massive tax cut for the richest people in the world’s richest country, while huge needs at home imply ample room for expansion of both consumption and investment.
It is important to recall that the peculiar arrangements prevailing today were designed to overcome the financial sector’s opposition to the establishment of a central bank when the Federal Reserve Act was passed in 1913.
These different perspectives have caused peculiar tensions between the US and its democratic allies.
The concentration of share ownership in the hands of a few individuals plays some role, but the peculiar position occupied by the IT giants is even more important.
Nigeria’s role in providing a safe haven for Taylor is peculiar.
Why should emerging-market countries’ central banks undertake this peculiar financial intermediation, which represents a major cost, as the yield of private funds is higher than that of reserves?
In 1904, US President Theodore Roosevelt argued that, “there are occasional crimes committed on so vast a scale and of such peculiar horror” that we should intervene by force of arms.
What a peculiar meeting it was.
BERLIN – Germany’s position in Europe looks increasingly peculiar and vulnerable.
Modern industrial war is, as the computer in the 1982 movie War Games put it, a very peculiar game: "The only way to win is not to play."
Now that the floodwaters are receding, a peculiar debate has emerged over whether India should accept foreign aid to support reconstruction.
Modi’s government has given voice to a peculiar kind of Hindu chauvinism, one that embraces activist assertion of a narrowly constructed version of the faith.
To many, both in and outside of Greece, this stance was peculiar: billions had been spent saving big banks, but evidently saving a country of eleven million people was taboo!
In today’s globalized world, this is not only peculiar; it also reduces the country’s global relevance.
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