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But if voters are now jettisoning the left and its supposedly “pro-people” policies, it is not because they now prefer the “class enemy.”
Not surprisingly, the League is calling for new elections in the spring, whereas Berlusconi would prefer to widen the government’s majority by bringing back Casini – a path beset with hurdles and hazards.
These two great academic cultures also prefer to study humanity without having to mingle with flesh-and-blood human beings.
While it will presumably lack the public option many of us prefer, this is still a real achievement.
And the specialists, the financiers themselves, prefer a status quo that rewards them lavishly.
But animal advocates regard that term as demeaning, and prefer “companion animal.”
It may surprise non-Muslims, but some Nigerian Christians prefer to file their cases in Sharia courts because of their speed, fairness, and relative unconcern with legal technicalities.
And why do they prefer a much larger new loan package than necessary?
Of course, some may prefer the paternalism of old.
But we should be able to make that choice, letting doctors know if we would prefer to be well informed or minimally informed.
Ordinary Europeans long trusted elites with the business of democracy – and often even seemed to prefer unelected elites.
But few people are willing to devote the time and effort that such a therapeutic plan demands; they would prefer an injection, operation, or medication.
Fischer appears to prefer to rely on the resolution powers of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, which is empowered to takeover failing financial institutions, with the expectation that it will impose losses on creditors in such a way that will not cause global panic.
Sufficiently high rates will induce commercial banks to prefer the Fed’s combination of liquidity, safety, and yield to expanding the quantity of private lending.
At first glance, this vision seems entirely reasonable; after all, most countries prefer to manage domestic and regional affairs without the meddling of outside powers.
Should a new, federal Nepal be divided into states along a north-south axis, as the ruling parties prefer, even though this would give the dominant hill castes of the north a majority everywhere?
As a result, postcommunists prefer to place their offspring in lucrative commercial jobs where they can pile up foreign-currency fortunes.
Americans, like everyone else, prefer portrayals of business people who are truly evil and in the end receive their just deserts.
To be sure, most East Asian countries prefer not to choose a side outright.
Although some eccentrics favor a return to gold as the monetary anchor, most would prefer to leave this relic of another age to its peaceful retirement.
But some Europeans prefer Hillary Clinton or even John McCain, because they are apprehensive about the consequences for America’s European partners of a more restrained and less experienced president.
But, as usual in politics, governments prefer not to be disturbed by prealotions until they come true.
The second is the growing tendency among Palestinians, other Arabs, and many Europeans to prefer a bi-national Israeli-Palestinian state to the original two-state solution.
Some will prefer to avoid any strengthening of economic, social, and cultural rights and will seek to maintain the status quo.
If offered nothing better than the political humiliation and economic constraints of second-class EU membership, perhaps they would prefer to stay out.
Although full pricing of carbon would be a far better way to address climate change, most governments apparently prefer to rely on subsidies and regulations that increase the profitability of investments in renewable energy.
The first question is which outcome Europeans would and should prefer.
The problem is that most companies prefer not to raise this issue; they would rather let sleeping dogs lie.
But, beyond the question of the proper role of custodian governments lies the indecisiveness of the NTC’s leaders, who simply prefer to defer to others.
Scientists prefer exact thresholds for climate stabilization, and policymakers like powerful symbols.
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