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Moreover, from a purely practical point of view, Google makes the world more efficient.
Rather, there are two kinds of men: those who can handle the moments described above, and who can, through their own maturity, personal evolution, or fortunate family upbringing, manage to process those moments in a purely professional context, and those who, for whatever reason, simply cannot.
Thus, they can't all be written off as a purely lunatic fringe.
These misunderstandings may seem purely academic, but they are not.
Unfortunately, however, ideas for debt-restructuring mechanisms remain just that: purely theoretical constructs.
By treating people as suspicious purely because of who they are, how they look, or where they pray, rather than what they do or have done, ethnic profiling threatens the very ethos of the EU, a union firmly rooted in values of liberty, democracy, and respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms.
Many policymakers seem to be under the impression that surging profits are a purely cyclical phenomenon, as economies continue to grow out from the depths of the 2001 recession.
Having scored early (establishing a lead in public-opinion polls), he has found himself in the position of an Italian coach practicing the “catenaccio” tactics of 20 years ago – a purely defensive strategy to keep Sarkozy from coming back.
But if a state like North Korea or Iran decides to accept such risks, should that be purely its own choice?
Or it may be an explicit bias: an economist might write a report that is influenced by what a sponsor wants to hear, or give testimony that is purely mercenary.
But, when it comes to the European financial crisis, China’s behavior seems to be determined by purely short-term tactical considerations, even as Chinese investments in Europe tripled in 2011.
At one level, the drama is purely French.
Although some of those tensions appear purely bilateral, the Georgian-Russian conflict demonstrates that there is no such thing anymore in this globalized world, and certainly not in this interconnected region.
The ECB’s defenders would say that such an outcome is purely hypothetical – and irrelevant – for there is no conflict between stabilizing inflation and sustaining the appropriate level of economic activity.
Sanctions, to be credible, must come into play long before a country falls into economic difficulties; therefore, they should not be purely financial in character, but should include other measures as well.
He thus sought to subvert religion by making it purely instrumental.
For example, the inspiration for the EGF, America’s Trade Adjustment Assistance, introduced by the Kennedy administration in 1962, is a purely national scheme.
But does such a calculus make sense, or is it simply wishful thinking, a reassuring and comfortable illusion designed to make French leaders feel good, when in fact they are dealing with Russia on purely commercial grounds?
When credit decisions, public procurement, construction contracts, and price determination reflect only short-term and purely political goals, good economic performance becomes impossible – even in countries with large natural-resource endowments.
Of course, monetary easing is not purely zero-sum.
Should we fear the fact that Europe is no longer a purely Jewish/Christian and white continent?
But in purely Machiavellian terms, his modest success shows he was right.
What was a purely financial crisis has become an economic crisis, spreading across the globe.
Central banks around the world have been enormously successful by choosing technocrats and people with proven knowledge and experience to head their institutions, rather than accepting purely political appointments.
Meanwhile, the already-hazy lines between asylum-seekers, refugees, displaced persons, and purely economic migrants are becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish at all.
In the absence of a favorable global context, any change in economic policy that is purely national, like employment targeting, will have limited benefits (and may discredit the pursuit of a national employment goal).
Deception that is purely self-serving turns from a strategy that may benefit others into selfish manipulation.
And, without idealism, politics becomes a form of accounting, a management of purely material interests.
But these arguments hinge on a number of conditions that are, at the moment, purely aspirational.
Such largesse betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of the causes of today’s discontent, because it assumes that these causes are purely material.
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