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Consider Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s controversial visit last December to the Yasukuni Shrine, which honors those who died in the service of Imperial Japan from the Meiji Restoration until 1951 – including 14 Class A war criminals from the Pacific War.Contrary to the prevailing interpretation, Abe’s visit was not intended to celebrate the brutal aspects of Japan’s history or justify its cause in WWII;Abe was driven by the sincere desire to honor those who sacrificed their lives for his country.
Students are especially keen to study issues like inequality, the role of ethics and fairness in economics (as opposed to the prevailing focus on profit maximization), and the economic consequences of climate change.
For example, in Egypt, which is highly representative of the prevailing political situation in the Middle East, the status quo is the result of the regime’s absolute lack of confidence in its ability to open up and reform.
Yet accession negotiations between Turkey and the EU have been deadlocked, owing to prevailing political attitudes in some EU member states.
The best way to make one would be for Merkel’s next government to appoint an independent expert commission to evaluate the alternatives, without regard to the prevailing taboos.
Under prevailing social norms in both developed and developing countries, women are still expected to bear the primary responsibilities of caring for children, the elderly, and other family dependents.
Although Chinese GDP is large and growing, its per capita income is still low, and its economic policies differ sharply from those prevailing in the region’s OECD countries.
Under prevailing conditions, Argentina cannot compete globally.
Certainly, this seems to be the prevailing bet in the spin on global warming.
In poverty-stricken Bolivia, Francis criticized “the mentality of profit at any price, with no concern for social exclusion or the destruction of nature,” along with “a crude and naive trust in the goodness of those wielding economic power and in the sacralized workings of the prevailing economic system.”
Worse, the prevailing attitude toward defense overlooks the vital deterrent purpose of armed forces.
Simply put, now that Israel’s leaders have renounced their commitment to a negotiated peace with Palestine, the international community can no longer justify the prevailing approach.
But the ownership structure prevailing in a country depends largely on factors other than the legal regime of investor protection: it may be endogenous to the country's industrial structure.
The principles enshrined in the International Accounting Standards-to be adopted by all EU listed companies by 2005-being more general, with substance prevailing over form, are more easily adaptable to financial innovation than US accounting standards.
SPZs will be attractive to those who are hungry for constructive alternatives to the prevailing political stagnation and the inexorable, demography-driven drift toward Israeli apartheid.
The prevailing narrative in Italy holds the euro responsible for the country’s economic malaise.
History could be profitably subdivided into eras defined by the prevailing prime movers.
In Poland, for example, the prevailing mix of Catholicism and nationalism made society particularly resistant to communism (certainly in comparison with the egalitarian, social-democratic ethos of pre-war Czechoslovakia).
But a lethal combination of self-fulfilling expectations and policy errors could cause economic reality to bend to the dismal mood prevailing in financial markets.
After they overthrew communism in 1989, the peoples of Central Europe gravitated to democracy because that was the prevailing form of government in the countries of Western Europe, with which they strongly identified.
The conclusions are equally simple: in all sectors, average productivity is only at 19% of levels prevailing in the United States.
Many firms would have to close shop if they purchased the oil and electricity and gas they use at prevailing market prices.
If only one change in the prevailing mindset could be made, it should be to realize that, in the case of fish like cod, big is beautiful.
During the crisis, prevailing macroeconomic theory counseled massive fiscal stimulus, thereby aggravating the public-debt crisis.
The prevailing explanation for Brazil’s failure to achieve high-income status lumps the country together with other middle-income economies, all of which transferred unskilled workers from labor-intensive occupations to more modern manufacturing or service industries.
And it was answered during that long night in Brussels, with German Europe prevailing over European Germany.
The prevailing response in the 1960's to Israel's triumph was that the Arabs should adapt the guerilla strategies pursued by the Vietnamese, Chinese, and Cubans.
The prevailing interpretation is simple: our bodies, like the foods that we eat, are chemical compositions.
But even moderate critics of the mosque (actually an Islamic cultural center with a prayer room called Park 51) betray in their arguments two assumptions that are as questionable as they are ingrained in the prevailing public discourse in the US.
For nearly a decade, any attempt to recast the debate about the events of September 11, 2001, away from the prevailing theological narrative has been depicted as subversive and unpatriotic.
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