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Conservatives who wanted to cut public spending for ideological reasons found the bond vigilante/confidence fairy story to be ideally suited to their purpose.
Cautious initial moves by the US to modify its nuclear doctrine – toward accepting that nuclear weapons’ “sole purpose” is to respond to nuclear threats, and not any other kind – have gone nowhere.
If America’s purpose is to deliver a message to Iran – “Beware, you could be the next target” – many will question its sincerity about restraining Israel.
Congress, at its core, pursues a form of dynastic democracy with the characteristics of a “Sultanistic regime” – a regime with no purpose or function apart from maintaining the “leader’s personal authority.”
The brain, the computer, and the economy: all three are devices whose purpose is to solve fundamental information problems in coordinating the activities of individual units – the neurons, the transistors, or individual people.
Nuclear weapons can serve no conceivable human purpose.
The cornerstone of law is social harmony, and its ultimate purpose can be defined as promoting social happiness, a higher standard than mere harmony.
For our movement is a triumph, not of mobs but of joyous crowds; of protests, not of looting; of clear purpose, not confusion.
A number of fiscal, social-security, and tax reforms should be a priority for this purpose.
In contemporary societies, finance must serve a public purpose beyond the logic of financial market profitability.
That official EDI was to be an auxiliary to NATO not a competitor, its purpose to provide European forces for less demanding peace-keeping operations that did not require the participation of American combat forces.
In the US scheme, the volume of emissions would be subject to permits or quotas, which could be traded in a market established for that purpose.
The purpose was to make Wal-Mart a “better employer, neighbor, and corporate citizen,” and Wal-Mart eventually capitulated on some of the SEIU’s specific demands as well.
The draft of the respective bill expressly states that it shall "not be interpreted as an authorization for deployment of US forces in the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina for any purpose, including training, support, or delivery of military equipment".
Economics are the means, politics the purpose.
The fact that he advocated the pursuit of truth as a means to achieve that purpose demonstrates that he understands the significance that such efforts have had in countries where the state itself has committed major crimes.
The Chinese believed that the entire purpose was to confront and contain their country’s geopolitical rise.
If the US were to impose new sanctions for any purpose at any time, it would likely find itself alone.
NATO’s essential post-communist purpose, after all, was to protect Eastern Europe against Russian revanchism.
For all of these reasons, excessive austerity and deflation could defeat its own purpose and make the “reforms” to improve the southern European countries’ competitiveness impossible to implement.
In the colonial era, it was the official purpose of imperial power to extract wealth from the administered territories.
Decree power, however, has sometimes also been used to good purpose.
Of course, the move’s true purpose will be to allow the army to rally around the next compliant “civilian leader.”
The purpose of such policies is to address well-known limitations in markets – for example, the important learning externalities, as skills relevant to one industry benefit nearby industries.
In other words, the League’s main purpose is to marginalize Russia and China in world affairs.
The only purpose of the League of Democracies seems to be to legitimize war-making by democracies – in order to spread democracy!
As he put it, the US was built for a purpose – to serve “eternal and universal principles.”
But if that is the League’s purpose – and I see no other – then it is a danger to peace.
No longer able to define itself in terms of a Communist menace, the Western alliance seems to have lost its sense of purpose.
Web sites emerged for the sole purpose of analyzing the race.
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