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Experts and policymaking elites must avoid repeating in relation to climate change the mistakes that distorted their approach to globalization.
But the eurozone is not only replicating other unions’ mistakes; it is repeating its own.
Although the shifting structure of the global economy is best described as a journey taken only once, growth in developing countries does exhibit repeating patterns.
The challenge now is to prevent the continent’s sad history of exploitation from repeating itself during the coming era of massive resource extraction.
The right is simply repeating its old trick of drawing upon the righteous anger and frustrated aspirations of the victims to advance its own repugnant agenda.
During a recent hearing before a Polish parliamentary investigative committee, a state functionary responded to the simplest questions of fact by repeating the phrase, “I don’t remember.”
Throughout the day, the airwaves were filled with songs repeating the Father of the Nation’s message, and reminding Kenyans to follow in his footsteps.
Of course, it is critical to avoid repeating the mistake that was made in 2009, when EU leaders embraced rapid fiscal consolidation before the recovery had gained its legs.
President George W. Bush seems hell-bent on repeating Nixon's misbegotten policy.
If that sounds familiar, its is because the Chinese Communist Party never forgets its history – and is determined to prevent history from repeating itself.
We must stop repeating ad nauseam that these aberrant Muslims have “nothing to do with Islam.”
Trump does not just want to avoid repeating the failed policies of the past, as he puts it.
False information on Twitter is retweeted by many more people and far more rapidly than true information, and repeating it, even in a fact-checking context, may increase an individual’s likelihood of accepting it as true.
Unfortunately for all of us, the explanation bears repeating nowadays.
If co-workers are repeating fake-news headlines or ignorant, prejudiced claims, challenge them on it.
Luckily, the other half of that saying also appears to be true, for Moscow’s most recent bout of anti-Semitism is a case of history repeating itself, not as tragedy, but as farce.
May’s government had resisted the vote precisely because it feared that it would have to provide more details about its aims, either repeating disingenuously the Brexiteers’ pledges, which the EU would quickly declare unacceptable, or owning up to the Brexiteers’ (and its own) deception.
Ironically, a major reason why today’s politics increasingly rhyme with twentieth-century developments is the fear of repeating the Great Depression – a fear that emerged after the 2008 financial crisis seemed to rhyme with the 1929 stock-market crash.
In the months preceding the election, the mainstream media, pundits, and pollsters kept repeating that Trump had an extremely narrow path to victory.
Of course, a key motive for Obama’s reticence about engaging in the Middle East is fear of repeating the mistakes that left the US enmeshed in Afghanistan and Iraq – the result of what Obama called the US government’s unthinking “drift toward war in Muslim countries.”
By repeating the altered comments, it was hoped, mass opinion would shift in favor of the war.
Not only have policymakers in the eurozone insisted on repeating the blunders of the 1930s; they are poised to repeat them in a more brutal, more exaggerated, and more extended fashion.
One would have thought we were capable of learning from the past, and that the Great Depression was important enough in European history that policymakers there would not be repeating its mistakes.
Without grasping what has gone wrong in either area, it will be difficult to avoid repeating the same mistakes.
Instead of repeating like a broken record that “this has nothing to do with Islam,” it is time to admit that the US has become yet another theater in the battle between the Islam of the radicals and the Islam of enlightenment and the rule of law.
In Thailand’s current crisis, history is repeating itself, for the PPP under Somchai was the same Thai Rak Thai (Thais Love Thais) Party formed by the ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, a figure much-hated by the country’s Bangkok-based elite.
After all, as the EFSF shows, their orientation can be more short term and irrational than the market’s, repeating the same mistakes because they seem not to have learned from them.
Without realizing it, Germany is repeating the tragic error of the French after World War I. Prime Minister Aristide Briand’s insistence on reparations led to the rise of Hitler;Angela Merkel’s policies are giving rise to extremist movements in the rest of Europe.
Lines will need to be drawn, but wise leaders will focus on cooperative diplomatic solutions, playing military cards to the minimum extent possible – and perhaps repeating to themselves the AA serenity prayer before creating expectations that they cannot meet.
To name one British example, the Murdoch-owned Sunday Times recently published a column by an Irish Holocaust denier repeating the old racist calumny that Jews love only money, while belittling women who work at the BBC for receiving lower pay – supposedly a result of their failure to assert themselves.
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