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But China’s leaders have never been clear about the exact location of the “nine-dotted line,” or about whether their claims refer only to certain land features, or also to more extensive continental shelves and seas.
Here in Australia, they refer to it as the GFC – the global financial crisis.
In modern economies, people distinguish between generic words, which refer to concepts or a set of individual things (a certain kind of fruit, for example), and trademarks, which refer to specific goods or services around which someone has built value.
A rather broad term, resistance could refer to everything from supporting opposition candidates to the life-threatening work of those who went underground to sabotage Nazi occupations during World War II.
It would seem more accurate to refer to these episodes as speculative epidemics.
And these data refer to formal changes in laws and regulations; no data are available on the extent to which unchanged laws and regulations are implemented in a more restrictive manner, increasing informal barriers to the entry and operations of foreign firms.
The term “international system” tends to refer to the first half of this international order: the complex web of multilateral institutions that operate under international treaty law and seek to govern the global commons on the basis of the principle of shared sovereignty.
The panelists agreed on two points: first, they initially detested the wrenching adjustment programs dictated by the terms of the International Monetary Fund’s so-called conditional bailouts (the South Koreans still refer scornfully to the “IMF crisis” of the late 1990’s).
In this broad sense, organization and management refer to leaders’ ability to ensure an accurate inflow and outflow of information for making and implementing decisions.
To me, however, the most interesting aspect of the story was the language that the media used to refer to the animal.
Not all languages make this distinction, but in English, to refer to “the cow that escaped” seems to deny the animal’s agency.
We have little chance of changing the words unless we alter the realities to which they refer.
American Power after Bin LadenOXFORD – When one state is preponderant in power resources, observers often refer to the situation as hegemonic.
But, with the increasing organization of medicine around specific diseases, the term has come to refer to an open-ended set of conditions including cardiovascular disease, cancer, and diabetes, but not infectious diseases, such as tuberculosis and malaria, or mental illness.
Small clinics typically refer their oldest patients to the closest big hospital, which is often many miles away.
But Indian activists often refer to the case of another Bhanwari Devi, a social worker who was gang-raped in 1992, as an early turning point, for it resulted in 1997 in the Indian Supreme Court’s Vishaka judgment, which proposed guidelines to prevent sexual harassment in the workplace.
And, yes, Hamas deliberately chooses to place its military arsenal in highly populated areas under the involuntary protective shield of innocent civilians – or those Israeli officials sometimes refer to, with barely concealed mistrust, as the “uninvolved.”
Building Up the BRICSMANCHESTER – This year’s meeting of the BRICS in India is taking place just a fortnight after the 15th anniversary of the creation of the term “BRICs,” which I coined to refer to the major emerging economies: Brazil, Russia, India, and China (South Africa was added in 2010).
A new High Authority for Transparency in Public Life was given far-reaching powers to audit and publish public officials’ disclosures, issue rulings on misconduct and conflicts of interest, and refer violations to the solicitor general’s office.
But, in my view, “black swan” should refer to something else: an event that is considered virtually impossible by those whose frame of reference is limited in time and geographical area, but not by those who consider other countries and other decades or centuries.
Both sides often refer to this desire to forge closer relations as a “strategic partnership.”
I refer to varying margin requirements and the minimal capital requirements of banks.
Environmentalists opposing the pipeline refer, with equal deftness, to “dirty oil.”
For the first time in 45 years, the ASEAN Ministerial Meeting (AMM) failed to agree to a joint communiqué, ostensibly because ASEAN’s current chair, Cambodia, did not want the communiqué to refer to bilateral disputes in the South China Sea.
I have used the word “prospering” (from the Old Latin prospere, meaning “as hoped, or expected”) to refer to the experience of succeeding in one’s work: a craftsman’s gratification at seeing his skills valued by others, a merchant’s satisfaction at seeing his “ships come in,” or a scholar’s sense of validation from an honorary professorship.
I use the word “flourishing”to refer to the satisfaction from a journey into the unknown – the excitement of the challenges and the appeal of overcoming obstacles.
Indeed, attaining, prospering, and flourishing all refer to experiential rewards, not to money.
He meant it to refer to Europe's divisions, but in May, ten additional states joined the European Union.
They used to refer to Japan’s “lost decade.”
Indeed, British citizens who are convinced that there are alternatives to Europe often refer to 1940 – “England’s finest hour.”
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