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These two mistakes compounded each other: If the negative impact of austerity on economic growth is greater than was originally assumed, and the positive impact of quantitative easing is weaker, then the policy mix favored by practically all European governments has been hugely wrong.
Muslims are convinced of the absolute superiority of Islam, which is reflected in the constant invocation and desperate desire to revive past glory, as well as a positive duty to convert followers of other religions.
While the expected revisions to Japan’s defense framework are a positive development, many Japanese still resent the lack of symmetry in the alliance obligations.
While polls suggest that Western European electorates are coming back around to supporting European integration and pro-European reformers, this positive mood has not yet reached Central and Eastern Europe, where suspicion toward the EU remains strong.
Khrushchev had placed enormous hope in the Soviet Union’s ability to build more positive relations with Europe, particularly after the U-2 spy plane incident in 1960 (when the American pilot Gary Francis Powers was shot down over Soviet territory) had poisoned relations with the US.
Indeed, closer Franco-British cooperation should be viewed as a positive development, for it pulls the United Kingdom once more towards Europe.
If markets are confused or pessimistic about China’s longer-term agenda, but if the direction of structural change and reform is positive, there may be investment opportunities that were absent in the more exuberant recent past.
PBMs and consumer genomic companies can be a positive force by facilitating or advancing the use of such data.
The idea is that even if very short-term interest rates are zero, longer-term rates are still positive.
Though Trump’s election has impelled the EU to agree to a permanent structure for defense cooperation, the incoming US administration’s overall effect on European security will not be positive.
Positive results will persuade only those who have learned well the lessons of the 1930’s – and then failed to forget them.
The second factor is the classic French Republican rejection of, and legal norms against, any form of “affirmative action,” or positive discrimination, even of the most inoffensive kind.
Like the prohibition of fine-tuned data – without which positive discrimination is in any case impossible – affirmative action is seen as damaging to the Republican model because it is based on recognition of ethnic differences.
Football can also be the occasion of positive gestures.
Merkel has played a much more positive role in the refugee crisis.
Although Turkey saw these developments as positive and auspicious, it had to improvise its policy while trying not to veer from its principles.
It may contain positive news for India, and for the world.
They are only slightly positive in China, Taiwan, and Malaysia.
The lessons of earlier battles against inflation are clear on one fundamental point: inflationary pressures cannot be contained by negative, or slightly positive, real short-term interest rates.
These may look like negative reasons for the EU to engage with the SCO, but there are also ample positive reasons for encouraging cooperation.
There are limits to what Russia can accomplish in the world in any positive sense, although its capacity to be a spoiler or create problems is considerable.
The market for “clean meat” is nascent but burgeoning, and the public response has been overwhelmingly positive to some of the more advanced products on the market.
Or can producers engage as a positive force in the transition away from meat?
So in some odd way, this sabbatical in Russia is my alternative to a double mastectomy – a positive one, to be sure, but the same kind of reset-button experience.
Slovakia offers a positive example of such a rupture.
Above all, Havel used his international prestige to give the Czech Republic a positive image, one which the country- plagued by many post-communist ills- perhaps did not fully deserve.
To achieve this, he must rally the positive energies that brought him to power, without inflaming the negative energies that will gather to resist change.
But, in order to ensure that such changes have the maximum positive impact, without hurting younger generations, they must be designed fundamentally differently.
At the first positive sign from Belarus, the EU forgives and forgets.
Indeed, even without a positive signal from Ukraine, the European Parliament has recommended that negotiations on the Association Agreement begin.
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