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The only way to reconcile our aspirations to opportunity for all with the reality of drudgery for some is through immigration.
Observers often blame Turkey’s deepening plight on its inability to reconcile traditional Islam and modernizing Western tendencies, as well as on external events, such as the conflict in Syria.
It is impossible to reconcile these views.
With the Germans helping to reconcile conflicting national interests by putting a little extra on the table, the process of European integration reached its apogee with the Maastricht Treaty and the introduction of the euro.
This bizarre brew appears to have been concocted in an effort to reconcile the irreconcilable: the current yearning for democracy with Russia’s despotic past.
So neighbors who have a quarrelsome or violent past are not always well advised to reconcile by marrying.
Depending on the course the nation takes, Chileans may in time reconcile themselves to their past.
It will require years of hard work to reconcile America’s resources and requirements, and to ensure that its initiatives can once again be seen as designed not to serve narrow US ideologies, but to advance a fair international order.
And the latter-day Leninists who regarded Brexit as a way to complete the policy agenda initiated by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher will find it hard to reconcile their vision of a deregulated Britain with the continued alignment of Northern Ireland’s regulatory regime with that of the EU.
To reconcile taxation with an overall economic strategy that seeks to maximize all citizens’ wellbeing, the tax system should adhere to three central principles: tax bad things (like pollution), rather than good things (like work); design taxes to cause the least possible distortion in the economy; and maintain a progressive rate structure, with richer individuals paying a larger share of their income.
The so-called “theory of everything” would reconcile the inconceivably small with the unimaginably large, providing a comprehensive understanding of the universe’s physical properties.
This key development helps to reconcile two of the three major global developments: faster growth and lower inflation.
It would therefore be sensible for both sides to try, together with the Ukrainians, to reconcile their interests.
How, I sometimes wonder, can theists reconcile the world they observe with the belief that the world has been created by a being who is omniscient – and therefore saw that all this would happen – and yet is also good and worthy of being worshipped?
Similar exceptions will probably be made for other countries that cannot reconcile aspects of the new pact with their national circumstances.
They are the only way to reconcile China’s continued need for industrialization with the world economy’s requirement of lower current-account imbalances.
Israel has simply stopped seeking to reconcile its Jewish identity with its commitment to democracy, for it has stopped addressing the contradiction that the Israeli-Palestinian question represents.
Lately, however, as the G-20 has tried to reconcile divergent national economic interests and recovery strategies, it has been far less successful relative to its initial meetings in Washington and London in 2009.
For many elected officials, migration poses a complex political dilemma: how to reconcile their citizens’ demands with the interests of migrants.
The risk is that the phenomenon leads to widespread disruptions, as increasingly difficult national policy challenges stoke regional tensions and the multilateral system proves unable to reconcile imbalances safely.
Meanwhile, Japan’s political system, like many others around the world, must reconcile domestic demands with diplomatic relationship-building – no easy feat, as rising nationalism raises suspicions among the country’s neighbors.
If the EU is to lift its gaze from its navel to the horizon, it must reconcile the very different views that exist across Europe of its place in the world and its own best interests.
Clearly, government has a large role to play here, but we know too little about how to devise policies and institutions that would reconcile the seemingly contradictory objectives of encouraging entrepreneurship and providing incentives for innovation, while assuring marginal-cost pricing and the cumulative process of scientific research.
In 1989, Jacques Delors, the eighth president of the European Commission, described it as a way to reconcile the need for “a European power capable of tackling the problems of our age” with “the absolute necessity to preserve our roots in the shape of our nations and regions.”
The EU must also reconcile differences among its members about whether its responsibility includes permanent residence or citizenship for some or all of the refugees.
But even he might find it daunting to reconcile the conflicting demands of the ECB to accelerate the interest-rate normalization process and those of the French political establishment to maintain the status quo.
Thus, US Secretary of State John Kerry will require great deal of creativity to reconcile Netanyahu’s position and the Palestinian precondition, recently reiterated by Abbas’s close associate Nabil Shaath, that Israel must agree to negotiate on the basis of the 1967 borders.
Central banks now have to reconcile the need to maintain price stability with the responsibility – regardless of whether it is legally mandated – to reduce financial vulnerability.
The Armenians came to believe that Turkey would find a way to reconcile Azerbaijan’s interests with the Turkish opening to Armenia, and would open the border with Armenia regardless of progress on resolving the Nagorno-Karabakh issue.
Attempts to reconcile the parties began in Gaza, before moving to Cairo, Damascus, and finally Mecca under the supervision of Saudi King Abdullah, whose country has been a financial backer of the Palestinians for decades.
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