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He wanted American leaders to resemble such sophisticates as Klemens von Metternich and Otto von Bismarck.
The consequences would resemble those of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff, enacted by the US Congress in 1930 and signed by an earlier, disgraced Republican president, Herbert Hoover – a measure that exacerbated the Great Depression.
It changed its lending practices to resemble more closely those of the private sector, with predictable consequences.
This suggests that China’s position in the global economy is starting to resemble that of the United States during the post-war period, when it, along with Europe, was the dominant economic power.
Recent oil-price fluctuations resemble the classic cobweb model of microeconomic theory.
Kim Jong-un, with his 1930s-style pudding-bowl haircut (cultivated, it is claimed, to make him resemble his grandfather, Kim Il-sung, the regime’s founder), his antiquated Mao suit, and his short, plump body, is almost like a cartoon character himself.
Indeed, the splits today resemble those that occurred when Soviet forces withdrew from Afghanistan in 1989, an exit that led to civil war and the Taliban’s eventual capture of the capital, Kabul.
But the current situation does not resemble those cases.
Today’s money managers, by contrast, tend to resemble gamblers or even fraudsters like Charles Ponzi.
In fact, in August, the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force unveiled the helicopter destroyer Izumo, whose structure and capabilities resemble those of an aircraft carrier, with possible offensive applications.
Madison’s answer to the possibility of an “American Mussolini” was a system of institutional checks and balances ensuring that the US would never resemble Italy in 1922 – or Russia, China, or Turkey today.
And the rhetoric – at least from one side – has come to resemble that of Winston Churchill’s 1946 “Iron Curtain” speech, one of the inaugural events of the Cold War.
Given recent developments in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, one could reasonably say that the entire world has come to resemble Europe in 1914.
Liquid assets are assets that resemble cash, because they can easily be converted into cash and used to buy other assets.
If the US compels India to tighten its patent rules substantially, so that they resemble US rules more closely, this outcome could be jeopardized.
(It may even come to resemble Switzerland in shape if Scotland and Northern Ireland, which voted overwhelmingly to remain in the EU, now leave the UK.)Up until now, the UK has played an important role as a counterweight to Germany.
The International Space Station, currently under construction, does not resemble the large, rotating wheels presented by Kubrick, Clarke, and von Braun.
So it is unsettling that policymakers in many Western economies today resemble the second group of pilots.
Instead, a populist-nationalist revolution might resemble the attempt to overthrow Mikhail Gorbachev in August 1991, or a Russian version of Ukraine’s Orange Revolution.
Symbolic political acts resemble theatre.
In other words, China’s growth pattern is coming to resemble that of industrialized economies.
Here is one message from the markets worth pondering, even for non-investors: political confidence may be at a low ebb in Europe; businesses and consumers may be shell-shocked by the last recession and gloomy about the future; but judging by the market's behavior the years ahead are more likely to resemble the stable and prosperous 1950s and 1960s than the crisis-ridden decades from 1973 to 1989.
Rather than view recent polling as referenda on market reforms, or on capitalism versus communism, these votes show how much East European politics now resemble politics in the West: interest groups rule.
Citizenship tests are an integral part of this program; and, in the eyes of critics, they resemble “loyalty oaths” and other intolerant measures traditionally associated with the anti-communist witch-hunts of McCarthyism in 1950’s America.
Thus, the prime minister’s office will more closely resemble the US White House, which he hopes will enable both countries to communicate their intentions continuously and reliably.
In fact, before he was “unveiled” to the North Korean public, Kim Jong-un is rumored to have been forced to undergo plastic surgery so that he would resemble his grandfather more closely.
In a sense, these “ghost cities” resemble the Russian empire’s Potemkin villages, built to create an impressive illusion for the passing Czarina; but China’s ghost cities are real and were presumably meant to do more than flatter the country’s leaders.
The wilder Brexiteers – shaven heads, national flag tattoos – resemble the English football hooligans infesting European stadiums with their particular brand of violence.
For example, pre-modern Europe believed that a woman who had sex before marriage might carry the imprint of her lover within her, so that her child born in wedlock would resemble the earlier lover, rather than the husband.
In terms of physical infrastructure, China’s most dynamic cities – such as Beijing, Shanghai, and Foshan – already resemble Western metropolises like Paris and Chicago.
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