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A Fresh Start for EuropeAs Europe’s leaders gather in Portugal to put the finishing touches on the new, slimmed down, Reform Treaty, it might be helpful if they all pretended that the last 50 years of European integration had never taken place.
Still, looking beyond the 2012 elections might be worthwhile, because the economic, political, and social contexts have changed since 2004, when Putin re-elected himself, and since 2008, when he pretended to be a democrat by promoting Medvedev.
This cost-benefit calculation is probably why successive US administrations were happy to run trade deficits with China, even if they pretended otherwise.
Instead, for four years they pretended that budget deficits were of little concern.
On these occasions existing members pretended that they need not fundamentally change the EU's institutional arrangements.
The West has supported in a variety of ways democratic movements in the post-Soviet region, hardly hiding its enthusiasm for the various “color” revolutions that have replaced long-standing dictators with more responsive leaders – though not all have turned out to be the committed democrats they pretended to be.
Republicans pretended that the tax cuts were aimed at the middle class, though they mostly helped the wealthy and business.
Everyone pretended to be shocked at the failure of internationalism.
Central banks never pretended that they could steer inflation directly.
Alan Greenspan, the former US Federal Reserve chairman, was a master of manipulation with his Delphic utterances, but instead of acknowledging what he was doing, he pretended that he was merely a passive observer.
The United States has plenty of incentive to put pressure on Pakistan, a country that has long pretended to be an ally, even as it continues to aid the militant groups fighting and killing US soldiers in neighboring Afghanistan.
At the Stockholm summit the leaders pretended that the solution to Europe’s ageing problem will be found in better job mobility, more flexibility, and further economic reform.
But Putin remains unprepared to act; in fact, so far, he has pretended that there is no crisis at all.
Time, Chinese negotiators seemed (or pretended) to believe, was on their side, so they could always wait out their opponents.
When it didn’t, either the official representatives left in protest at our presence, or we left hurriedly, or we all pretended not to notice each other, or – albeit on rare occasions – we started to converse with each other, which frequently were the only moments of dialogue between the regime and the opposition (not counting our courthouse encounters).
Ordinarily, such pronouncements would provoke outcries of dismay, and of real or pretended indignation.
Democrats, for their part, pretended that the tax cuts had already harmed the economy, when they ought to know that the greatest damage is still to come.
Political leaders in countries that produce coal, oil, and gas – like the US, Australia, and Canada – have pretended that climate change is a mere hypothesis.
Europe’s Ukrainian BlunderBERLIN – The European Union has probably never experienced anything like it before: Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych’s government pretended to negotiate an association agreement, only to back out at the last minute.
Hitherto EU governments have largely pretended that enlargement is a small-scale serial process, with individual new members coming in one after another.
They pretended that they could postpone the question until after Eastern enlargement was well under way, but nobody should be fooled.
The Germans and French pretended that Greece was solvent and lent to it at punitive interest rates, which made the situation worse.
Some also argue that the global elite has only pretended to pursue socioeconomic change, while actually maintaining a status quo that has benefited them.
The government pretended that this was just a “precautionary” program: Argentina would keep the money in its back pocket to reassure private investors.
Cambodia’s 2001 Land Law only pretended to solve the problem, and offered the Boeung Kak residents no protection.
They pretended to understand completely the significance and meaning of the situation, to countenance and even approve of it, but to consider it out of place and unnecessary to explain all this.
With the tact they both possessed, and by avoiding Russian ladies abroad, the two never placed themselves in a false position and always met people who pretended to understand their mutual relations much better than they themselves understood them.
Vronsky and Anna, according to Mikhaylov's conception, were in all probability distinguished wealthy Russians, who like all these wealthy Russians comprehended nothing of art but pretended to be amateurs and critics.
He wanted to speak but was too agitated, and pretended to cough instead.
And have you had any shooting this year?'Levin asked, gazing intently at this leg but with that pretended politeness of his which Kitty knew so well, and which suited him so ill.
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