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Obviously, China wants to cultivate a pleasant atmosphere for Hu’s state visit.
And our cities will be cleaner, quieter, and more pleasant places to live as a result.
That neighborhood now has earned a reputation for being safer and more pleasant, even though its residents are no more affluent than before.
But history suggests that fixing a central bank’s balance sheet is never pleasant.
This is not a pleasant way of putting it, but many Americans remember how on two occasions in the former Yugoslavia - a pre-eminently European theatre - Europe was helpless until American warplanes showed up;3. making clear that Europe and the US are on the same side, not only in the war on terror generally but also in dealing with Saddam.
So punishment through gossip is both cheap and pleasant – and A’s fear of becoming the subject of gossip by C may be enough to deter bad behavior toward B.This opens an important avenue for the control of evil.
This is not pleasant to say.
That might not be the worst scenario a country could face, but it is not the most pleasant prospect for Russians, given their deeply ingrained sense of their status as a great power.
Seen in this light, the TPP that has emerged is a pleasant surprise.
By contrast, African countries often see the worst sides of multinationals: energy, mineral, and precious metal companies go where resources are, not where it’s pleasant to work.
That sounded like a pleasant experience – maybe a learning experience – for young men who would otherwise be idle and unemployed.
Swift and determined action to make buildings more energy-efficient, design automobiles that require little or no fossil fuels, and increase the share of renewable energy in the electricity supply could ensure that the substantially hotter and less pleasant world of 2050 that the IPCC warns against does not materialize.
And being rich is how some people get the chance to do more pleasant work.
While factory jobs never became pleasant, blue-collar occupations now enabled a middle-class standard of living, with all its consumption possibilities and lifestyle opportunities.
Work became more pleasant for some, but not for all.
And the more pleasant our thoughts about individuals or groups are, the more we tend to sympathize with them.
This is not a pleasant message, but what happened in New York and Washington on September 11 th and what is happening in the Middle East is not pleasant either: Europe should realize that change is needed and act accordingly.
But they have had similar experiences in recent weeks – and neither has been a pleasant one.
In Buddhism: “A state that is not pleasant or delightful to me must also be so to him; and a state that is not pleasing or delightful to me, how could I inflict that upon another?”
If a being is capable of having subjective experiences, then there is something that it is like to be that being, and this “something” could include having pleasant or painful experiences.
But our chattering classes now find life so pleasant that we forgot to discuss - or omited on purpose - the problem of those who were left behind by the train called freedom, democracy and the free market.
Most people are aware that high-fat diets, too much alcohol, smoking, promiscuous sex, and recreational drugs, while pleasant, can ruin one's health.
A Comeback Strategy for EuropeSTOCKHOLM/MADRID – When Pope Francis addressed the European Parliament last November, he compared the European Union to a grandmother – pleasant and rich with experience, but lacking the vitality and energy of the past.
Not only is life in the jihadist camps far less pleasant than portrayed, but it is also becoming clear that the self-proclaimed caliphate – centered on mass killings, decapitations, and other atrocities – has nothing to do with Islam.
I was born in St. Mary’s hospital near the city center, was raised in a pleasant suburb in South Manchester, and attended a normal primary and junior school in a nearby, tougher neighborhood, before attending Burnage for secondary school.
So it was a pleasant surprise to see that the last exhibit on display was a wall of items acknowledging Japan’s aid and investment in China in recent decades.
Dear Australia: We apologize for Trump’s January 28, 2017, phone call with your prime minister, in which he insulted immigrants, willfully misunderstood facts regarding an American commitment, and concluded that he found talking to Putin more pleasant.
But if this arrangement collapses, and increasing material prosperity can no longer be taken for granted, many things could happen – few of them pleasant.
Divorce proceedings are rarely pleasant.
The experience wasn’t pleasant, but thanks to cheap, effective malaria drugs I was never in very much danger.
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