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While Japan's government lobbies hard to get a permanent seat on the UN Security Council, its Prime Minister regularly flouts Asian opinion by paying his respects to war criminals at the Yasukuni Shrine.
Apart from the immorality of such public behavior (imagine a German chancellor paying his respects at Goebbels' grave!), the fact that both China and the US have veto power at the UN suggests that it is stupid even from the standpoint of Realpolitik .
Unless Arab and Muslim societies rediscover, revitalize, and in some respects create their homegrown contemporary intellectual tradition, the result will be cultural drift or, far worse, the continuation of bloody civil strife.
Part of our compulsory tourist program was to pay our respects at his monument – a giant statue of him – in the center of Pyongyang.
But regional cooperation to find creative solutions to a crisis that is in many respects interrelated remains absent.
Although the Higgs discovery may help us to understand the source of elementary particles’ mass (including its own), nature has surprised us in two further respects.
Because Putin respects strength, and wants to be treated by the US on equal terms, he could well be convinced to become part of the solution.
In these respects, the G-20 was clearly a step forward.
In some respects, those hopes have been realized.
Americans will need to find ways to assert their narrative of democracy, freedom, and rights in a manner that respects diversity and the views of others.
Girls who adopt the headscarf in French and German schools are closer in many respects (namely youth culture, fashion consciousness, and language) to their classmates than to their homebound, uneducated mothers.
Admittedly, the pope’s characterization was alarmingly accurate in some respects.
As in so many other respects, universities not only in Europe, but also in Japan, South Korea, and developing parts of the world, including China and India, need to loosen rigid structures and habits to avoid decay and nurture a renaissance.
They hoped that establishing a monetary union would generate irresistible pressure for the creation of an EU that functioned in all respects as a cohesive economic and political bloc.
It must be seen as an institution that respects each country’s sovereignty but works for the global good.
Up to now, paying their respects to him as a revolutionary leader, and catering to his megalomania, has been more important to them than alleviating the suffering of Zimbabwe’s people.
In certain respects, he has been a success.
These two countries are very dissimilar in many respects, but not in their carbon profiles: each accounts for between 22% and 24% of all human-generated greenhouse gases in the world.
However, in terms of non-income indicators of poverty – for example, child mortality, malnutrition, and school dropouts – India’s performance has been dismal (in some respects worse even than in sub-Saharan Africa).
Moreover, it is essential that the state respects national minorities’ linguistic and cultural rights and promotes social inclusion.
There are three respects in which Europe can no longer claim to be a special seat of wisdom and responsibility.
When I published The Skeptical Environmentalist in 2001, I pointed out that the world was getting better in many respects.
They are upholding the belief that at the heart of a healthy, functioning democracy must be a civic conversation that respects knowledge, truth, disagreement, and nuance.
The kneeling act was also followed, just three days later, by Russian officials going out of their way to help investigate the air crash in Russia that killed Polish President Lech Kaczynski and scores of Polish dignitaries, and to pay respects to the victims.
Indeed, in crucial respects – namely, on the issues of immigration and trade – Trump’s rhetoric appears to be out of step with most voters’ sentiments.
Indeed, in many respects, contemporary conditions look strikingly similar to those confronting Otto von Bismarck’s Germany.
Asian governments will sometimes need to set strict limits on resource use – and have the tools to ensure that society respects these limits.
In some respects, this perception is accurate, but it cannot be applied to the broad Saudi public.
This depends largely on the new Hamas government and its transformation into a democratic force that respects the rule of law, democracy, and international legality.
The UK’s position in 2010 was exceptionally bad in at least four respects, and certainly much worse than that of the US.
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