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Projects must be judged by whether they contribute to peace and reconciliation, rather than on purely economic grounds.
In the short run, exchange rates are driven by purely financial considerations.
As a result, it will be generally less responsive to Italian economic circumstances than a purely Italian, but equally independent central bank would have been.
In practice, we are unlikely to get purely green industrial policy, which would focus solely on the development and diffusion of green technologies while excluding considerations of competitiveness, commercial gain, and employment growth.
In a world in which people are organized primarily in national communities, a purely cosmopolitan ideal is unrealistic.
Although it is tempting to think of this as a purely domestic problem affecting the United States, nothing could be further from the truth.
A growing number of countries in Europe and Latin America are moving away from a purely repressive model.
Moreover, Obama should resist the urge to approach the bilateral relationship purely in transactional terms, but instead should seek to strengthen India’s long-term capacity to be a productive partner with the US.
It also ensures that the euro is worth less than a purely German currency would be.
What is wrong with the fact that a parliamentary committee passes a political judgment against a Commissioner for purely political reasons?
Using purely digital channels thus makes it feasible to meet the needs of low-income customers.
But Iran has gone far beyond what is necessary for a purely civilian program.
But under no circumstances should these schemes be established as purely donor-driven mechanisms that bypass local budgets and institutions.
In purely military terms, the problem is not of the first order: Frances’ absence from NATO’s command structure has not prevented effective, if sometime complicated, cooperation in coalition operations as in the Gulf, or Bosnia.
The British state began to gain greater statutory authority to intervene in and regulate what was previously considered purely private sexual behavior at a time when grassroots movements, from Chartists to feminists to socialists, were clamoring for enfranchisement and greater influence over the distribution of political power and economic resources.
But neither gender nor racial discrimination arises from purely personal preferences.
The Bank of England has presented QE as a purely monetary policy tool that sustains economic growth in the face of necessary and desirable fiscal consolidation.
But, while people should certainly be punished for acts of violence, going after people purely for what they think – or, worse, what we think they think – has the air of a witch-hunt.
Given its prevalence and seriousness, TB is not purely a medical problem.
By contrast, any debt beyond 60% of GDP would have to be issued as junior “Red Bonds” under purely national responsibility.
Of course, China’s motives are not purely benevolent.
Present-day China, even with its imperfect judiciary, can no longer imprison officials purely on political grounds, as was the case under Mao.
The second, more important problem, is that (for a variety of reasons) Europeans do not set as high a value as the US on purely military capability.
Like many strategic analysts, they worry whether Germany, in pursuit of purely short-term economic interests, might forsake long-term strategic interests and concerns about human rights, environmental problems, press freedoms, and other political and geopolitical issues.
Ulemas (religious scholars) are useless for believers who must search for purely religious criteria that are no longer linked to a given culture.
Outstanding cases of failure - ie, countries that not only do poorly on purely economic criteria, but that are also basket cases in the Human Development Index - should also be closely examined.
Globalization and open societies, even if imperfect and in need of improvement, benefit nations not only in purely economic terms, but in social, political and cultural ones as well.
Indeed, the World Health Organization (WHO) has estimated that about 10% of organ transplants around the world stem from purely commercial transactions.
The growing involvement of private equity groups in M&A activity implies additional controversy, as such transactions are typically regarded as being purely speculative.
And yet there is a risk that the selection process becomes no more than an exercise in political horse-trading, with Council members awarding leadership positions, including seats on the Commission, purely on the basis of national political considerations.
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