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The most authoritative reference to an “Asia for Asians” occurred in May, during Chinese President Xi Jinping’s keynote speech at the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia.
The reference to Europe is instructive, because Europe did not just get lucky.
Other Chinese fans brandished placards with the number “300,000” written on it, a reference to the number of Chinese murdered by the Japanese army in 1937.
Today, Germany has clearly become the point of reference for shaping policy on the most important issues facing the EU.
As a point of reference, $700 billion provided to a new bank, leveraged 10 to 1, could have financed $7 trillion of new loans.
He vowed that he would never end up teaching children “how horsey moves” (the reference is to the knight, also called the horse).
Reacting to Snowden’s allegations, US figures, like former CIA and NSA Director Michael Hayden, made no reference at all to America’s obligations under international law, to its interest in protecting diplomacy, or even to the unfairness and bad faith involved in spying on partners with whom one is supposedly negotiating in a transparent way.
The Oxford English Dictionary gives as the earliest reference to its current usage an academic article from 1972.
This obscure left-wing publication is the first known reference to globalization in its contemporary sense.
CHICAGO – It is amazing how the “one percent” epithet, a reference to the top 1% of earners, has caught on in the United States and elsewhere in the developed world.
And, sooner rather than later, it needs to define precisely, and with reference to understood and accepted principles, what its claims actually are.
Abe’s three main economic policies, dubbed “Abenomics” by the global press, are known at home as the “three arrows” approach – a reference to the sixteenth-century daimyo (feudal lord) Mori Motonari, who had three sons.
First, capital requirements should be set as a straightforward ratio of common equity to total assets, thereby abandoning all reference to banks’ own risk-management models.
Whereas there were more than ten references to “cow that” for every reference to “cow who” in 1920, by 2000 the ratio had dropped to less than five to one.
In the next section, there is merely a veiled reference to the szmalcowniks who “regardless of their origin, religion, or worldview – revealed their darkest side.”
The euro's slide is based upon Europe's absolute and relative decline in reference to the American economy.
By developing and disclose to the public a compelling rationale for what will determine the exchange rate when the time comes, the financial markets would then be able to forecast the future reference exchange rate more precisely.
How can “swing states” like Poland achieve liberal democracy now that the Western point of reference has disappeared?
And, of course, one’s prognosis for the global economy depends on one’s own frame of reference.
Today, however, the EU is the last point of reference as far as prosperity is concerned.
Bennett’s decision was also ethical because, as the reference to “the country’s money” suggests, she was not thinking only of herself.
In the past 12 months, the renminbi strengthened by 6% against the dollar, its reference currency.
According to the highly respected medical reference UpToDate, a subscription-financed service used by professionals, the symptoms of dementia include agitation, aggression, delusions, hallucinations, apathy, and disinhibition.
But soon Switzerland became a reference point for German leaders, and then an explicit and dangerous model.
Yet only a few decades ago, some Western professors forbade their students even to make reference to papers by Japanese colleagues!
Ceaseless reference to citizens “with an immigrant background,” or to the “host society,” only serves to nurture the idea that Muslims are not “truly” Europeans or “at home.”
In fact, the Socialists have started distinguishing themselves not by what they are, but by what they are not, touting the line, “neither Macron nor Mélenchon” (a reference to the far-left Jean-Luc Mélenchon).
Even the Catholic Church seems to reflect the new mood: The election of Jorge Mario Bergoglio as Pope Francis is a clear reference to St. Francis of Assisi and the Church’s mission to stand up for the poor.
In a not-so-subtle reference to that last conflict, in which India suffered a disastrous defeat, the Ministry of National Defense spokesperson Colonel Wu Qian has warned India to “learn from historical lessons.”
Because the NBS considers the production approach to be more accurate in China, it seems likely that GDP by expenditure is not calculated independently, but instead uses GDP by production as a reference.
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