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Those who feel comfortable with the status quo would do well to heed the conclusion Representative Abraham Lincoln reached at the end of the Mexican-American War: “Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose, and you allow him to make war at pleasure.”
Killing “enemies” was not the sole purpose.
On the contrary, the outcome represents a significant victory for the Tea Party’s minions, whose purpose seems to be to reduce government obligations and expenditures to a bare minimum (some object even to having a central bank), and to maintain President George W. Bush’s outrageous tax breaks for the wealthy.
Once the potential “military threat” posed by the Soviet Union had vanished into thin air, successive waves of NATO enlargement served neither a military nor an ideological purpose.
The purpose of the visit was not to meet politicians or decision makers, but to get a glimpse, albeit brief, of how people there live.
Its main purpose would be to monitor and punish fiscally lax states for the purpose of reducing further the European Commission’s budgetary oversight responsibilities.
Achieving the SDGs will require deep reform of the global financial system, the key purpose of July’s Conference on Financing for Development.
It would have the same purpose as that infamous wall that once divided Berlin, and the wall that Israel is building to cut itself off from the Palestinian territories: to isolate people.
In 1933, through the Tennessee Valley Authority Act, the United States established an agency whose purpose was to build hydroelectric dams on the Tennessee River.
This capital does not finance investments or fuel economic growth; its sole purpose is to reap enormous but unpredictable profits for a select few.
In particular, leaders must display three key qualities to win the trust needed to lead effectively: purpose, impartiality, and competence.
Purpose, in his view, meant putting the greater good ahead of one’s own interests.
Leading with purpose, rather than personality, is closely related to the impartiality that Marshall thought essential.
Voters need to see candidates who show purpose, impartiality, and competence.
It means engaging in costly behavior that is sufficiently extreme that a conventional politician would never want to emulate it, yet not so extreme that it would turn the reformer into a populist and defeat the purpose.
The purpose of the gifts is to “encourage parents and children to develop the saving habit and engage with financial institutions.”
Indeed, any reasonable reading of the resolution – especially in the context of the conflict-ridden Balkans over the past two decades – would acknowledge that independence would satisfy the resolution’s intent and the purpose of sustaining UN supervision of the province for the past eight years.
US foreign policy is littered with absurd, tragic, and hugely destructive foreign wars that served no real purpose except the pursuit of some misguided strand of official propaganda.
That is a thin legal basis for establishing a pan-European supervisor with direct responsibility for individual institutions, and it was clearly not intended for that purpose.
But both schemes will need adequate resources and firmness of purpose if they are to make a genuine impact.
Unless it is overcome, the Aachen mindset will continue to serve a similar purpose for nationalist campaigners in other member states.
America’s purpose, however, remains unclear.
The purpose of the entire package is to avoid a full-scale default and allow the country to complete its financial adjustments without overly unsettling financial markets.
Its people have acted with purpose and thoughtfulness in setting up an interim government, as Tunisians of talent and achievement have, on a moment’s notice, volunteered to serve their country at this critical juncture.
A contest for global leadership might serve that purpose as well.
Today, by insisting on Presidential rotation and the equality of member states, whatever their size, the small countries are effectively adopting an inter-governmentalist position, because they fear that the real purpose of the Franco-German proposal is to ensure that the Council will remain under the leadership of a big member.
The sole purpose of the capital controls imposed on Greece last summer was to force the country’s rebellious government to capitulate to the eurozone’s failed policies.
After independence in the early 1960’s, during the Cold War, they played the West against the Soviet bloc for the same purpose.
Given rapid change in the skill sets required for many occupations, business must redirect investment to on-the-job training and lifelong learning, particularly as millennials enter the workforce, seeking purpose and diversity of experience where their predecessors sought remuneration and stability.
With nationalism on the rise across Asia, leaders have strong incentives to craft a version of history that advances their cause, and few historical memories are as effective for this purpose as those of traumatic humiliation.
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