Perceived
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Sadism means finding pleasure in inflicting pain or humiliating others, especially those who represent a
perceived
threat or a reminder of one’s weaknesses.
But, more fundamentally, it seems to reflect a shift in the way current and developing technologies are being
perceived.
The unifying factor behind this rising “anger” is rejection of both real and
perceived
inequality – inequality in both treatment and economic conditions.
Unfortunately, the moves against Golden Dawn are mostly identified with the government’s interests, rather than being
perceived
as the result of careful, independent judgment.
Above all, the Fund must change how it is
perceived
from outside.
But their xenophobia is directed against poor Mexican immigrants, blacks, or Middle Eastern refugees, who are
perceived
as freeloaders depriving honest (read white) Americans of their rightful place in the social pecking order.
For example, while microfinance, a darling of many development organizations, gets much publicity and attracts numerous donors, critical issues, such as the need to build a regulatory and institutional framework that ensures legal security and allows microenterprises to flourish, are
perceived
as less attractive.
There were welfare-spending cuts along the road, yet the country still ranks at or near the top of most development indicators and continues to be
perceived
as a social-democratic role model.
A eurozone collapse in the immediate future would be widely
perceived
as a catastrophe, which should at least serve as a source of hope for the future.
On other occasions the incongruity is real, and the standards developed by the Euro-American world are
perceived
in all sincerity as alien creations that can be respected, not inwardly embraced.
But a willingness only to negotiate is
perceived
in Vladimir Putin's Russia as the sign of weakness that it is.
It would have been very dangerous to expose the federal government to this danger, given that the operation was rightly
perceived
at the outset as extremely risky.
Moreover, campus turmoil is often
perceived
as a sign of societal disorder.
In a certain ideological mind-set, Israel is
perceived
not as a political entity, susceptible to prevailing standards of judgment, but as an almost allegorical force, the symbolic center and source of the globe’s evils and ailments.
Saudi Arabia’s behavior has changed even more dramatically in response to its
perceived
abandonment by the US.
To freeze a fragile status quo, to consolidate one’s position, or to remain separate from others
perceived
as temptations or threats (or both) – such have always been the goals of politicians who build walls.
Taming Hamas is in Egypt’s interest, but it refuses to pay the price of a direct confrontation because that might lead Egyptian forces to be
perceived
as Israel’s protectors.
In recent weeks, Saudi Arabia’s young, ambitious crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman (known as MBS), has been politically, socially, diplomatically, and militarily hyperactive, perhaps in response to
perceived
interference from Iran.
This distortion is
perceived
to be one of the main causes of the 2008 financial crisis.
My fear is that politicians want to be
perceived
as tough on bankers, but have no interest in really fixing the problem.
It tends to be
perceived
globally as supercilious, petulant, and prim.
What if it is again
perceived
as a failure?
“The same girl whom prosecutors depicted as a she-devil starved for sex and orgies was, in inverse proportion,
perceived
in American public opinion as a chaste diva who fell into a hornets’ nest of inept, evil men.”
In his disastrous 1982 invasion of Lebanon, Begin
perceived
himself as a God-sent vindicator of the legacy of the Holocaust.
The falling yields at the Italian government’s last bond auctions in 2011 suggested a significant reduction in the
perceived
sovereign-default risk.
Moreover, Obama’s approach to issues involving race has been fettered by his fear, expressed in his early memoir Dreams From My Father, of being
perceived
(even by his white mother) as an “angry black.”
It is
perceived
as a motor of economic growth, but also as a threat to our security and beliefs.
Indeed, the reason there is a
perceived
fiscal crisis in the US today – along with spending cuts that will further hurt many people – is simple: the banks blew themselves up at great cost to the American people, with major negative global implications.
The Algerian secularists’ strategy of exclusion, fraud, cheating, and gerrymandering backfired badly: Islamists were
perceived
as victims, while secularists – with some exceptions – were cast as unprincipled opportunists.
But every variation has provoked others in the region, by signaling China’s willingness to encroach on
perceived
fishing rights (as with Indonesia), rights to exploit resources (as with Vietnam), or their own rights to the land-features in questionThe PCA’s decision punctures any notion that international law now recognizes “traditional” or “historic” maritime claims not directly associated with recognized sovereign ownership of relevant types of land.
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