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Its system of governance rests on the belief that an integrated process of bargaining, disagreement, reflection, and compromise – not top-down unchallenged decision-making – is the most effective route to wise, fair, and successful policymaking.
The order they established rests on a set of rules and institutions such as the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (now the World Trade Organization), NATO, and the G20.
It is fitting that strong and courageous women should help defeat a group whose founding myth rests on the violent subjugation of women.
Again as in Chile, they suggest that, while political regimes are transient, the heart and honor of a nation always rests with its Army.
Quite simply, the historic responsibility for the planet’s future rests on the shoulders of us all.
Having dispatched communism, much of the Europe that rests east of the Elbe faces strong growth and a brighter future.
And, in practical terms, it is bound to destroy the social cohesion on which democracy – or, indeed, any type of peaceful, contented society – ultimately rests.
For starters, the risk of Rosneft defaulting – as well as the cost of providing subsidized loans – rests with the bondholders.
Putin’s popularity, which remains high, rests on a social compact requiring the government to deliver financial stability and a slowly but steadily rising standard of living.
This argument rests on the assumption of perfect knowledge.
By contrast, the pressure for “political correctness” rests on the argument that the truth is unknowable.
No doubt, much of the burden for economic improvement rests with Africa itself, working together with the private international markets.
Why, for example, does the world pursue a paradigm of economic growth that rests upon eroding the very basis of earth’s life-support systems?
Rather, it rests on mutual confidence built over years, including by protecting secrets each side acquires through hard and often dangerous work.
Britain’s strategic future rests on this choice.
The fate of any EU agenda – whether Juncker’s or Macron’s – rests with Merkel, who is unlikely to make any significant political moves.
Liberal democracy rests on three distinct sets of rights: property rights, political rights, and civil rights.
Its phenomenal manufacturing prowess rests in large part on public assistance to new industries.
While experts are busy trying to explain the Maoists’ unprecedented triumph, much hope rests on the newly elected members of the 601-seat Constituent Assembly.
A country’s soft power rests upon the attractiveness of its culture, the appeal of its domestic political and social values, and the style and substance of its foreign policies.
Indeed, it rests quite explicitly on the belief that in some circumstances increases in the monetary base per se will be wholly ineffective in stimulating nominal demand because of liquidity-trap effects.
The old style of Anglo-American capitalism was built on manufacturing; but the new style rests on debt – particularly home ownership – to maintain consumption and high standards of living.
Food Security Rests on TradePARIS – From farm to fork, the international community is facing growing challenges in eradicating hunger and malnutrition.
This helps to explain why Putin’s Middle East policy rests on close relations with Syria (that is, with President Bashar al-Assad’s regime), Iran, and Israel.
Philosophically, the debt-forgiveness approach rests on the belief that creditors share culpability for defaults with debtors, since they made the bad loans in the first place.
It is also contrary to one of the fundamental premises on which democracy rests: that voters can make informed choices between contending candidates.
On this foundation of zombie economics and slipshod research rests the case for austerity.
The eurozone now rests on the shaky basis of a confederation of states that are committed both to a monetary union and to retaining their fiscal sovereignty.
The Scandinavian social compact rests on the understanding that citizens must pay high taxes in exchange for public services.
The virtue of such models is that they make explicit the chain of cause and effect, and therefore render transparent the specific assumptions on which a particular prediction rests.
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