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Families in rural and semi-rural areas often have no choice but to exploit what they perceive as a "free" energy source.
But there is an even more politically divisive question facing NATO’s leaders in Warsaw: its eastern members continue to perceive Russia as the biggest threat facing the Alliance, and thus demand that more attention and resources be devoted to their protection.
It is time, I believe, for people in this region to perceive the state as a tool for the defense of their homes, and thus of a part of themselves.
In the absence of the rule of law and functioning state services, we Russians generally perceive ourselves as subordinate to the state rather than as citizens acting out our lives in a functioning, vibrant, and independent civil society.
New public opinion polls will provide a strong indication of how the French perceive the newly resurfaced Sarkozy.
Education influences the way people perceive the world around them, understand issues, and find solutions to their problems.
Of course, contrary to China, India still finds it difficult to fully perceive itself as a world power, though it is well aware that it has become a regional giant.
The quake gave them an opportunity to be seen, and an unprecedented number of people had a chance to perceive this nascent civil society as a positive force that serves their own interests.
From the start of the crisis, Russia's president shrewdly saw the difference in the way Americans perceive France and Germany, on the one hand, and Russia, on the other.
Meltdown fears, even if remote, directly raise the premium that savers are willing to pay for bonds that they perceive as the most reliable, much as the premium for gold rises.
Second, IAAs would empower employees, especially the least skilled, who often perceive themselves as being in a state of subjection.
But, as George Price showed long ago, Darwinian evolution may have made us altruistic, at least toward people we perceive as members of the group we call “us.”
In all countries with comparable data, adults with lower literacy skills are far more likely to report poor health, have less trust in their fellow citizens, and perceive themselves as objects – rather than actors – in the political process.
Both the far left and the far right find their core constituency among the vast number of French who feel economically insecure and politically disenfranchised – in essence, all those who perceive themselves as having no opportunity in an open society.
The nature of illusion is that we mistake what we perceive for reality.
As these old democracies increasingly turn inward, they will become less helpful partners internationally – less willing to sustain the multilateral trading system and more ready to respond unilaterally to economic policies elsewhere that they perceive as damaging to their interests.
Worse still, Russia's bureaucracy would likely perceive such activity as a threat, and so spare no effort to hinder Russia's businessmen from civilizing themselves.
Russian leaders continue to perceive the West as a phantom enemy in opposition to which all the traditional mythologies of Russian foreign policy are being resurrected.
Confronted with what many of them perceive as the equivalent of an “economic war,” women are playing an increasingly important role in maintaining their families’ financial security.
Even non-economically-minded voters perceive the striking difference with the US, where productivity growth has skyrocketed since the mid-1990s and unemployment is far lower.
Koreans perceive in their dispute with Japan an echo of their country’s long and bitter occupation by Imperial Japan.
Clearly, economic success vitally depends on how people perceive their social affiliations.
As Americans and other Westerners increasingly perceive China as a country unable to address its political problems and addicted to growth at all costs, the Chinese government appears to be reverting to a national narrative of victimization that has poisonous roots in China’s perception of historical events such as the 1899-1901 Boxer rebellion.
Such a single-factor situation is easier to deal with than the double-factor situation of 2004, and because the high investment demand has been mainly stimulus-related this time, policymakers can handle it in a more timely fashion if they perceive a problem.
In addition, international financial markets perceive Colombia’s economy as being fundamentally sound.
Despite the success and popularity of programs like ERASMUS, citizens don’t perceive the EU’s contribution to superior education or training.
The diverse paths followed by Russia and China may be explained in part by how the two peoples perceive themselves.
Even from afar, people perceive the forthcoming US election as a contest between two contending world views, two opposite visions, two ways of viewing reality and dealing with it.
South of the US border, many countries perceive that Kerry embraces multilateralism, while Bush rejects it.
Although Kerry may not fill them with enthusiasm, Latin Americans perceive him as a necessary replacement.
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