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Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck are heirs to a long line of preachers and politicians who made their fortunes by stirring up anxious crowds, promising them Heaven on Earth, or at least a place in Heaven.
Macron’s most promising idea is to “give Europe back to its citizens.”
China, meanwhile, drew plaudits just before the Copenhagen summit by promising to cut its carbon intensity (the amount of CO2 emitted for each dollar of GDP) over the next ten years to just 40-45% of its level in 2005.
Free Trade BreakdownCOPENHAGEN – Last month, the Doha negotiations, promising freer trade, broke down, ostensibly over a small technicality in safeguard rules.
Ordinary Russians, by contrast, are willing to pin their hopes on a single charismatic figure, not only because they have fewer promising alternatives, but also because they face fewer constraints in doing so.
Even promising discoveries like bacteria or moths that can dissolve or digest plastics can provide only auxiliary support.
Fortunately, promising new models for making education more coherent and capacious are emerging.
Bush’s most promising initiative, promoting democracy across the Middle East, was already dealt a crippling blow by US intervention in Iraq and the ensuing civil war there.
Wouldn't prospects for economic development in Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia be much more promising if European governments would let EU citizens buy more North African oranges?
Yet mini-grids can – and increasingly do –take the form of solar PV and hybrid systems, with hybrid systems being particularly promising.
Thanks to the generous support of the Global Changemakers initiative in Switzerland, this project is off to a promising start.
We called for more investments in targeted interventions that reach children in their first 1,000 days; and in a promising development, our research factored into Bangladesh’s Second National Plan of Action for Nutrition.
As a result, there needs to be far greater support from the international community for promising initiatives.
Even an Epstein-Barr virus vaccine, which would protect against some kinds of lymphoma, is achieving promising results.
In Europe, the Internet of Everything is emerging as the single most promising way to revive a moribund economy and tackle the continent's stubborn unemployment problem, with companies, cities, and even countries positioning themselves as leaders in innovation, growth, and the creation of jobs.
Nonetheless, Iran has certainly made a promising new show of cooperation that, despite the risks, is worth pursuing.
Nirupama Rao, India’s ambassador to the US, has called such defense transactions “the new frontier” in US-India relations and “a very promising one at that.”
For decades, vying for the world’s low-cost manufacturing business seemed to be the most promising way for low-income countries to climb the development ladder.
It is worth remembering that at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in January 2016, more than 80 companies signed a declaration promising to work toward solutions.
And in the United States, Republican presidential candidates are promising more.
Japan considers Vietnam a particularly promising security partner, precisely because of the countries’ shared maritime security interests.
Shell and other oil companies are now promising to work as “advisers” to national governments on how to deal with climate change.
A German filmmaker, Alexander Kluge, is promising to turn Das Kapital into a movie.
Nor are the peasants so ignorant to be easily conned by a crafty politician promising much delivering little or none.
Under its stewardship, one of Asia’s more promising economies has instead become a borderline failed state, enervated by 17 coups since World War II.
Some people argue that the US could enhance security in northeast Asia by compromising with the North Koreans – specifically, by promising not to attack or attempt to topple the Kim regime.
Public programs work less well when the best route to the goal – in this case, the most promising post-carbon energy technologies – is uncertain.
Medical professionals know how often seemingly promising new therapies turn out, after careful study, not to work, or even to be harmful.
Indeed, in the industries and regions hit hardest by import competition, years of simmering discontent have now boiled over, fueling support for populists promising to roll back globalization.
In Europe, promising young researchers struggle and have to supplement teaching and research with outside jobs, while established professors earn good salaries.
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