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The current manifestation of that approach is so-called New Keynesian Economics, which Summers himself has rightly rejected because it is inconsistent with secular stagnation.
Governments could also create appeals boards with the power to accelerate rulings on rejected projects.
But while Turkish Cypriots embraced the so-called Annan Plan, Greek Cypriots rejected it in a referendum one week before the Republic of Cyprus entered the European Union.
And terrorist attacks, by their very nature, are intended to provoke irrational backlashes (as evidenced by a recent referendum in Denmark, in which voters unexpectedly rejected a proposal to modify the country’s opt-outs from certain EU home-affairs regulations).
A promising financial instrument, capable of improving the efficiency of credit markets, is rejected; or the agency's investigative and review procedures become stultified.
With a single financial regulator, where can a rejected financial innovator turn?
German voters have rejected the longstanding CDU/CSU-SPD “grand coalition.”
Hungarians and Poles rejected international isolation in 1989.
But, despite the large protests in Moscow, Saint Petersburg, and other cities, the authorities rejected demonstrators’ demands to nullify the election results.
He rejected the prohibition on moral grounds of actions that do not lead to physical harm.
Instead, they have rejected these steps and insist on unrestricted access to international assistance in producing enough fissile material for as many as 50 weapons a year, far exceeding what is believed to be India’s current capacity.
Thus, a universal basic income must be rejected, owing to its “enormous cost and the potential disincentives to work.”
Trump rejected the Republican Party’s traditional pro-business, pro-trade agenda, and, like Bernie Sanders on the left, appealed to Americans who have been harmed by disruptive technologies and “globalist” policies promoting free trade and migration.
Europe’s shift away from diplomacy began more than a decade ago, when the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe was rejected in popular referenda in France and the Netherlands.
That is why ECB President Mario Draghi rejected Hollande’s suggestion almost instantly.
Jacques Chirac -- another of Europe’s great euro and ECB bashers -- also suffered a severe personal reversal at the polls when the French rejected the EU Constitution.
The same is true in the Netherlands where the EU Constitution was also rejected.
If they rejected the IMF agreement, then they would be accused of being anti-market and anti-Brazil.
In November 2008, the Swiss rejected a proposal for Dutch-style decriminalization of cannabis.
Now it appears that President George W. Bush’s closest ally in the hemisphere will not only have its FTA rejected, owing to human rights concerns in the US House and Senate.
And yet the argument that this tax preference for debt played a role in the financial crisis – and that it remains an ongoing risk to financial stability – was quickly rejected.
Indeed, in my view, policymakers, academics, and the media have rejected too resolutely the idea that corporate taxation played no more than a minor role.
By 2013, an Israel that – rightly or wrongly – perceives Iran’s nuclear program to be an existential threat, and/or the US, which has rejected containment of a nuclear Iran, may decide to strike, leading to a war and a massive spike in oil prices.
After all, the victory of the secular Awami National Party (ANP) in Pakistan’s North-West Frontier Province is a strong indication that people there have rejected religious political forces and violence.
Lottery officials in Shaanxi province rejected a winning ticket, calling it a fake and denying its bearer, a 17-year-old security guard named Liu Liang, the grand prize of a $58,000 BMW and 120,000 yuan ($14,510) in cash.
Bush rejected the offer, vowing never to talk with a member of the “axis of evil.”
If what Europe’s leaders decide among themselves is criticized or rejected by those who elect them, it just shows – the elite seems to suggest – how correct it was to ignore them in the first place.
Before the meeting, House Speaker Paul Ryan had adamantly rejected the Democrats’ proposal.
In fact, the US and its European allies are rumored to have rejected several major emerging economies’ quiet offers to provide additional funding, possibly to avoid diluting their own capital.
In particular, concerns have been raised that the interveners rejected ceasefire offers that may have been serious, struck fleeing personnel who posed no immediate risk to civilians, and attacked locations that had no obvious military significance (like the compound in which Qaddafi’s relatives were killed).
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