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The massive tax claims against Yukos used for this purpose were precisely that – the means rather than the end.
On the upside, the US could have a “Sputnik moment”: a sense of national unity, common purpose, and shared sacrifice leads to structural reforms that focus on re-aligning balance sheets over the medium term, enhancing job creation, and improving competitiveness.
Many films would have glorified a scientist seeking such a goal, and treated the use of animals for that purpose as obviously justified.
The G-20 seems more representative than the Security Council – and more imbued with common purpose.
It continues to serve a vital purpose, and its history suggests that it can be revitalized to meet the needs of the twenty-first century.
With Europe staggering under the blows of investors intent on profiting from a catastrophe largely of their own making, it is time to reflect on the public purpose of global capital markets.
Financial markets’ public purpose is defined by their wider impact – their externalities, which can be negative.
Positive action is being taken around the world to assert capital’s public purpose.
But that point merely underscores the need to address the faults in global governance that constitute a major barrier to securing the public purpose of capital markets.
While the judge would not allow photos of all this magnificence to be shown in the courtroom – noting, with some justification, that the purpose of stressing it was to embarrass the defendant – the point about Manafort’s greed and ostentatiousness was made.
An injection of renewed purpose from the EU's political leaders is undoubtedly needed.
ASEAN’s failure to act on the South China Sea issue is leading member-state governments and citizens to question the organization’s ability “to maintain and enhance peace” – the first purpose listed in its Charter.
Officers and soldiers are asking, What is the purpose of the current campaign?
The “bad bank” that was established for this purpose, Securum, needed an enormous injection of capital from the owner, the Swedish government.
Thus, today’s NAM finds itself as a group in search of purpose and principle.
But the purpose of ending this Western privilege is to make the leadership selection process one that is based on merit, not political considerations.
For example, local authorities have long had a perverse incentive to improve their own standing by allocating resources to image-building projects that serve no genuine economic need or purpose.
The idea here is to demonstrate to the electorate that the government can combine capitulation to the troika with its own agenda of reforms, comprising efficiency gains and an assault on the oligarchy that may liberate funds for the purpose of lessening austerity’s impact on weaker Greeks.
Though PPP can serve some purpose in comparing welfare across countries, it is affected significantly by population size.
He insisted from the beginning that his games would be above politics, because politics is divisive, whereas the purpose of the games would be to bring people together.
What purpose do trade agreements really serve?
But both the “rational expectations” and the “behavioral” models are fundamentally flawed for the purpose of assessing policy interventions.
While automated high-speed trading does not, in my view, serve a useful social purpose, it is destabilizing only if it is programmed to be.
Lo and behold, political leaders, especially tough and terrible ones like Assad, tend not to embrace a process whose stated purpose is to eliminate them.
To convert annual incomes to real incomes, the CBO used the price deflator for consumer expenditures, which many believe is better for this purpose than the consumer price index.
The true purpose of the government’s propaganda campaign is to stoke fear and hatred in the Hungarian people and render them indifferent to the suffering of others.
Of course, Plato’s purpose in the dialogue is not to define piety: if Socrates knows of a better definition than the unacceptable ones offered by Euthyphro, he does not reveal it.
Nonetheless, the case highlights a broader trend: the wooing of China’s princelings by prestigious Western educational institutions and businesses for the purpose of advancing their parochial interests in the burgeoning Chinese market.
Moreover, because Putin’s “contextual” history subordinates Soviet-era suffering to the purpose of fighting the Great Patriotic War, his number mixes those who died in battle fighting for the USSR with those whom the Soviets killed through mass murder, deportation, and forced labor.
How member states respond now – especially those who believe in the purpose and value of the UN - may help shape the outcomes of other, wider ongoing regional conflicts, notably with Iran and Syria, both of which support Hezbollah.
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