Representative
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By implicating Ishayev (a
representative
of the old and the cautious) into the process, Putin created the appearance of consensus, but in reality demonstrated that there is no valid economic alternative to a liberal course.
For example, a recent article in Nature reports that election pollsters in the United States are struggling to obtain
representative
samples of the population, because they are legally permitted to call only landline telephones, whereas Americans increasingly rely on cellphones.
And while one can find countless political opinions on social media, these aren’t reliably
representative
of voters, either.
With his authoritarian mindset, Ortega instinctively rejects the norms of
representative
democracy.
The task now is to introduce prototype systems in
representative
communities, in order to prove what is possible, discover consumers’ preferences, determine the most attractive business models, and identify and avert unexpected consequences.
The draft also stipulates that the prime minister does not have to be an elected representative, thereby opening the door for a military appointee.
A little over a year ago, Ukraine did not have an elected president or a
representative
and functioning parliament.
As in the former Yugoslavia, the separate entities now emerging may stand a better chance of developing a semblance of
representative
and eventually democratic governance than if Iraq’s warring communities are forced to live together in the prison house that the country has always been for most of its citizens.
In my 2003 book The New Financial Order, I proposed that such units be called “baskets,” since a consumer price index is the price of a
representative
market basket of goods and services.
When objections were raised to Cuba being put on the drafting committee, Harry Dexter White, the American representative, remarked that Cuba’s function was to provide cigars.
Unless British academics are ill informed, they know that Israel, far from being an “apartheid state,” has a large proportion of Arab citizens; that Israeli universities are well integrated, in some cases with considerable numbers of Arab students, as well as a number – admittedly small and insufficiently
representative
– of Arab faculty; that many universities sponsor collaborative projects with Palestinian and Arab colleagues; that they are often sites of dissidence against government policies; and that such dissidence, even in radical forms, is tolerated.
I was determined to show that the extremists were not
representative
of Berliners!
A year ago, President Putin offered negotiations between his
representative
and an envoy of Aslan Maskhadov, the Chechen rebel warlord who won internationally supervised elections as Chechen president in 1997.
Instead, a
representative
of President Putin must oversee everything in Chechnya: economic development, military action, and efforts to alleviate the suffering of the Chechen population.
The Kurds’ main
representative
in that country, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) – which champions a distinctly secular, Marxist brand of nationalism – has been fighting the Turkish government for decades.
Deng Xiaoping, at that time the paramount leader, and Chen Yun, another
representative
of the powerful Old Guard, were furious at this result.
Throughout Europe, America, the entire democratic world,
representative
democracy is mired in a deep malaise.
But many now ask: why should we build our future on the basis of
representative
democracy when the very idea of representation seems increasingly ridiculous in our supposed role models, the democracies of the West?
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall,
representative
democracy seemed to be on a roll in much of the world.
World Cup BluesMEXICO CITY – The conventional wisdom in Latin America is that the combination of economic growth,
representative
democracy, and middle-class expansion has led the region into a trap, with citizens’ expectations rising faster than governments’ ability to fulfill them.
Bush has allowed his
representative
to the six-party talks to meet separately with the North Koreans within the six-party framework, but he failed to provide adequate incentives.
By bringing these subjects into focus, great film directors have gained a larger and more
representative
world of stories from which to work their magic.
But waning interest in the Arab uprisings reflects a deeper shift: hope for new, more
representative
political systems has given way to despair, as expectant revolutions have morphed into counter-revolution, civil war, failed states, and intensifying religious extremism.
Indeed, the major emerging economies all strongly opposed it, with the Brazilian
representative
calling it “a bailout of Greece’s private debt holders, mainly European financial institutions.”
Even the Swiss
representative
condemned the measure.
With no
representative
institutions and the military in control of the country, street mobilization has become the main tool of Egyptian politics.
Then, in February 2005, just as the hardline Ahmadinejad was about to begin his first term as president, Bush formally rejected a nuclear deal that had been painstakingly negotiated by Rouhani (then Khamenei’s
representative
in Iran’s Supreme National Security Council) and signed in late 2004 by France, Germany, and Britain.
For example, Ivanov – whom many viewed ten years ago as a potential successor to Putin – was given a new job: “Special Presidential
Representative
for Environmental Protection, Ecology, and Transport.”
In fact, Kevin Brady, the
representative
who told me most clearly that he was not interested in looking at even moderately inconvenient facts, is now Chair of the House Ways and Means Committee, which plays a key role in what happens with taxes.
The machinery of
representative
government works best when it is used to apportion a growing economic pie.
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