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It's a lazy, disjointed fairy tale, a film so shallow that it never resembles what the story is meant to be about: young outcasts finding their voices and their freedom through music.
Today, German governance resembles an 18 th century liberal system, with veto rights embedded throughout the decision-making process.
Anxiety over China’s conventional military superiority probably motivated, at least partly, Russia’s 2009 announcement of a new military doctrine explicitly reserving the right to first use of nuclear weapons – a stance that resembles America’s Cold War force posture, aimed at deterring superior conventional Soviet forces in Europe.
Just as individual innovators must challenge conventional wisdom, companies must replace the established approach to the innovation supply chain with one that more closely resembles how they create and maintain a manufacturing supply chain.
Power in a global information age is distributed among countries in a pattern that resembles a complex three-dimensional chess game.
Such an approach resembles what I previously described as “two Europes in one.”
The second scenario resembles Argentina’s experience: a severe socioeconomic crisis triggers unrest and ultimately prompts reform.
Likewise, the killing of 13 Chinese boat crewmen on the Mekong River in October serves as a stark reminder that China’s presumably peaceful southern land border, which has been untroubled for nearly 20 years, today resembles the most hostile sort of neighborhood.
In this sense, the fight against infectious diseases closely resembles the fight against climate change.
In this sense, Sarkozy resembles US presidential candidate Donald Trump, who has won the support of a swath of angry voters by portraying himself as the savior of a once-great country in decline.
In terms of age and profile, he resembles a French version of Hillary Clinton, more practiced in the exercise than the conquest of power.
In this sense, the Taksim “sit-in” resembles protests elsewhere, particularly in the advanced democracies, from the “Occupy Wall Street” movement to the protests in Spain and Italy.
Indeed, Putin’s rationale for annexing Crimea closely resembles Brezhnev’s reasoning for invading Afghanistan: to confound enemies seeking to surround the country.
Clinton’s proposed risk fee resembles one advanced by President Barack Obama’s administration in 2010 in order to discourage risky activity by the largest banks, while helping to recoup some revenue from bailouts.
Confronted with Russia’s revisionism, the West resembles the proverbial drunkard searching for his lost keys under a streetlight, because that is where the light is.
Power always depends on context, and in today’s world, it is distributed in a pattern that resembles a complex three-dimensional chess game.
Here, he resembles former US President Reagan, whose popularity was rooted in an ability to feel the pulse of the public more accurately than his opponents.
The Al Saud resembles a family business, established in 1932.
Rather, it resembles a rhizome – an underground stem that sends out roots and shoots that develop into new plants.
Policymakers thus feel justified in using all available macroeconomic levers to achieve a recovery that resembles those of the past.
For US President Barack Obama, the breakthrough is a chance to cement his legacy as a transformative president, like his models Abraham Lincoln and Franklin D. Roosevelt – even if, in ending nearly six decades of failed policy, he more closely resembles Richard Nixon, who presided over the opening to China.
The region’s emerging democracies urgently need an Arab initiative that resembles the Marshall Plan – a program to attract large-scale investment in infrastructure, industry, and agriculture (and in the region’s wealth of untapped technical skills), thereby boosting employment.
The fighting in eastern Ukraine now resembles a gang war, lawless and unconstrained.
On the other hand, when I contemplate the US economy, I conclude that recovery from the Great Depression, and not 1924-1927 or 2003-2005, is the episode that most closely resembles current circumstances.
In fact, secularism in Senegal resembles that in India more than anywhere else.
The current scandal’s impact on Obama’s image increasingly resembles the impact of the Watergate scandal on President Richard Nixon’s standing in the 1970’s – only now the events are playing themselves out on a global stage.
The process resembles the selection of a standard in, say, consumer electronics.
It is a fraught proposal, as it resembles Australia’s problematic approach to immigration, whereby migrants are held – out of sight and largely out of mind, often for years – on nearby Nauru and Papua New Guinea.
Between now and then, the politics of extreme ideology, like the bad cholesterol it resembles, can do a great deal of damage.
But in a crisis, China's diplomatic influence usually resembles that of some peripheral backwater.
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