Pointing
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622 examples of Pointing in a sentence
Islamism, as Hindu chauvinists never tire of
pointing
out, is a global phenomenon;Hindutva is not.
Americans explain their country’s democratic backsliding by
pointing
to the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
“That’s the Earth now,” Alex says,
pointing
to a dark shape at the bottom.
For all the finger
pointing
at Wilders, just because Breivik professed to admire him, the acts of a deranged killer, others caution, should not be used to discredit what he stands for.
Nobel Prize winners such as Edward Prescott have no business talking about the benefits of tax cuts without
pointing
out that a tax cut accompanied by spending increases is not a tax cut at all, but rather a tax shift onto the future - and a tax shift that raises risk and discourages accumulation.
Initial perception-based data gathered by the Forum is
pointing
toward the importance of leadership ability, transparency, efficiency, and good relationships between public and private-sector stakeholders.
Some observers will blame successive US presidents,
pointing
to a lack of economic support extended to a struggling Russia, and even more to NATO enlargement, which, by treating Russia as a potential adversary, increased the odds it would become one.
Pointing
the finger at the US for the state of affairs in Iraq may have some validity (although the alternative of leaving in place a Ba’athist state under Saddam Hussein was not particularly appealing, either).
Rather, it reflects anger and frustration over my insistence on
pointing
out that drastic carbon cuts make no sense.
The time horizons of development policy are out of line with the time horizons of counter-terrorism, but terrorist groups are often led by well-off deviants who (like Osama bin Laden) recruit followers by
pointing
out the world's injustices.
Government ministers and EU representatives repeatedly cite the example of Iceland in
pointing
out what might have happened to Ireland if it had been outside the EU.
For their middle-class counterparts, it is the satisfaction that arises not from material wealth, but from
pointing
to someone who is perceived as inferior, from refugees to depraved elites to cliquish judges.
And the platform on which he rolled into the presidency of Poland turns out to consist of four pairs of roller skates
pointing
to the West, to the East, to the future, and to the past.
Just last December, fellow economists Martin Feldstein and Nouriel Roubini each penned op-eds bravely questioning bullish market sentiment, sensibly
pointing
out gold’s risks.
Government action in many problem countries ultimately ends in finger pointing: “Europe,” the ECB, and Germany, with its (relatively) responsible policy, have all been scapegoats.
As Oxfam International’s Executive Director, I am not
pointing
this out to be bombastic; rather, new data on global inequality reveal that the world’s poorer half has less wealth than we previously thought.
Indeed, the agreement showed the value of a more inclusive approach – for example, by asking key questions that might be too politically sensitive for some of the larger countries to raise, or by
pointing
out concerns that resonate with the poorest, even if they are less important for the richest.
Some Syrians who oppose President Bashar al-Assad’s regime,
pointing
to Baghdad in 2005, argue that the one thing worse than a cruel dictator is a sectarian civil war.
But it is nonetheless real progress, indicating the growing influence of the Chinese media and
pointing
to China’s becoming a country of “free expression”.
It fuels endless internal and external tensions, encourages finger pointing, and promotes a loud and disruptive blame game.
China’s Painful Structural TransformationSHANGHAI – For more than a year, headlines worldwide have been
pointing
to a Chinese economic slowdown.
It is worth
pointing
out, however, that the NHS covers 100% of the UK population with little or no out-of-pocket expenses, and spends less than half as much as the US, as a share of GDP, on health care.
Everywhere, the signs are
pointing
backwards.
However, with global industrial-production indicators climbing since the second half of 2013,
pointing
especially to improvements in the advanced economies, gloomy forecasts for commodity markets seem off the mark.
These countries’ private sectors have borrowed significantly; but, as the Nobel laureate economist Paul Krugman has been
pointing
out, leverage and dollar debt are lower (as a share of national income) than they were at the outset of the 1990’s Asian crisis – and at the start of the 1980’s Latin American crisis, for that matter.
Piketty deserves credit for
pointing
out the lack of a foundation supporting assertions that capital’s share will necessarily revert to a long-run constant.
As Martin Wolf of the Financial Times never tires of
pointing
out, there is a massive imbalance in Europe, and it is not the one you might think.
The media sometimes ratchets up admiration for Annan by
pointing
out that his wife is Swedish and a close relative of Raoul Wallenberg.
Are bumbling politicians guilty, or grasping oligarches, corrupt apparatchiks, the mafia, or the IMF?Accusations and finger
pointing
abounds, but the facts remain obscure.
Indeed, it is virtually impossible to resolve the current mess without some kind of compass
pointing
to where the future system lies.
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