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Similarly, we need to use more comprehensive wealth accounts as a reference point for decision-making.
It treated tradition and history not as a constraint, but as a source of ironic reference.
Some American civil rights lawyers, out of natural deference to the United States Constitution’s First Amendment were, however, reluctant to sign up to this principle unless it was qualified by a reference to the threat of “imminent” violence.
First, government bonds are the reference asset for banks and insurers, because they are easily tradable and ensure liquidity.
Israel was once nicknamed a “one-disc-country” – a reference to the idea that a single software CD-Rom would be bought and then illicitly copied throughout the country.
It is also prone to tax evasion, owing to different definitions of corporate income in the member states and the vast opportunities for cheating offered by ALP (since reference market prices often do not exist), not to mention profit-shifting to low-tax jurisdictions.
Drafted with reference to UN Resolution 181 (which partitioned Palestine in 1947), such a motion would reaffirm the establishment of a Palestinian state and a state for the Jewish people, based on the 1967 borders, with mutually agreed border adjustments and security arrangements.
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.
In April 2008, Evo Morales, the president of poor and increasingly hungry Bolivia, pleaded for “la vida primero, los autos segundos” (life first, cars second), exhorting the wealthy world to stop burning food every time they drive – a reference to Western governments’ policies on bio-fuels.
People are bored; they think it’s immoral that money should become the world’s main reference.
One must hope that the experience of recent decades – including the tension of the last two and a half years – will induce a broad range of Egyptians to seek an answer based on respect for plurality of ideas, frames of reference, and traditions.
As it stands, officials’ salaries are usually set with reference to the overall level of national income.
But, as new economic powerhouses rise, they will increasingly challenge the West, and not just for market share and resources; they will seek to infuse the global order with their own cultural understandings and frames of reference.
Invocatio Dei and the European ConstitutionIn progressive liberal circles, the demand that the Preamble to the Constitution of the European Union include a reference to God and/or the "Christian Roots" of Europe has been met with derision, even contempt.
Such a reference, it is said, would run afoul of the common European constitutional tradition of state neutrality in matters of religion.
But the opposite is true: a reference to God is both constitutionally permissible and politically imperative.
In between are states like Germany, whose constitutional preamble makes an explicit reference to God, or Ireland, where the preamble refers to the Holy Trinity.
All in all, about half the population of the EU lives in states whose constitutions make an explicit reference to God and/or Christianity.
The refusal to make a reference to God is based on the false argument that confuses secularism with neutrality or impartiality.
Why is excluding a reference to God any more neutral than including God?
Central and Eastern Europe after 1989, though a very interesting reference point for analysts of the Arab revolutions, is not an appropriate reference point, because the region’s new domestic and foreign order resulted from the change in external conditions stemming from the collapse of Soviet power.
We should keep this in mind as we assess the current US presidential debates, with their constant reference to American decline.
The major terms of reference overshadowing the Sino-British negotiations which led to the 1984 handover agreement were the conditions set down in the 19th century lease through which Britain acquired most of the territory of the colony of Hong Kong (of which, the major portion of the land was actually on mainland China), having gained the initial imperial foothold on Hong Kong island itself through sheer force in two Opium Wars.
To Google’s credit, if you Google that sentence, you can find reference to a debate on that claim that I took part in recently.
And it would surely be fitting if the preamble to that Charter made explicit reference to the ideals of the central European revolutions of 1989.
Owing to the name dispute, Greece has blocked the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (a provisional reference used since 1993) from joining the EU and NATO.
Certainly, political union and a common market require a uniform frame of reference to prevent major distortions in competition.
But reference to “talks” makes the West uncomfortable.
To understand the complexities of the race and Sarkozy’s recent (but still relative) surge, sports might be a better reference point than philosophy.
As Vice President Dick Cheney put it in reference to North Korea – another member of that fanciful “axis” – Americans “don’t negotiate with evil; we defeat it.”
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