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Still, if trendsetting Westerners are increasingly bicycling, walking, and riding trains, perhaps wealthy Asians will follow suit, and perhaps their governments will begin to doubt that cars are the way of the future.
The global economy looks to be riding a roller coaster.
When May called a snap election in April, she was riding so high in the polls that she and the Tories had expected to win in a landslide.
Riding the Subway often brings unpleasant surprises, while JFK Airport is hardly a favorite among travelers (and there remains no fast rail link to it).
Meanwhile, with some exceptions – most notably Finland – Europe has slipped into riding in the peloton.
Many of NATO’s key partners, such as Finland and Sweden, already qualify for membership, but have chosen to remain outside of the Alliance for domestic political reasons – a position that has not resulted in free riding by member states.
For decades, Americans believed that they were riding a magic carpet of economic growth, owing to advances in science and, later, to the rise of Silicon Valley.
While riding the crest of the last oil boom in the late 1970’s, Nigeria’s military leaders nationalized the assets of British Petroleum and became champions of pan-African co-operation, financing several African liberation movements.
Duterte is riding high right now, but there are instruments available to hold him accountable, such as the International Criminal Court, to which the Philippines became a party in 2011.
European economies – including Germany – were riding a giant global economic and financial bubble.
The world has a lot riding on America’s election.
But such a policy diminishes, and may even eliminate, financiers’ ability to take the easy route by riding the duration yield curve for profits.
Yet America was great before Trump, and his behavior – riding roughshod over international agreements, trashing allies, and pursuing protectionist trade measures – will only undermine that greatness by, among other things, depleting the country’s formidable stock of soft power.
Managers, workers, consumers, investors, and governments in every corner of the world, many reeling from their own economic problems, have a lot riding on China’s new leadership navigating reform sensibly, now and in years to come.
There is one certainty that Europeans can take home from the US election campaign even today: with a more multilaterally oriented US foreign policy, Europe won’t be riding comfortably in the US world-political slipstream much longer.
Riding the populist wave, several politicians have proposed a ban on CDSs.
The solution is to judge certain skills displayed in riding a wave.
It would be highly regrettable if the competitive sport’s narrow focus on point-scoring were to limit our appreciation of the beauty and harmony we can experience riding a wave without fitting as many turns as possible into our time on it.
The US has shifted rapidly from global leadership to that kind of free riding, seeming to bypass the stage of global cooperation.
Riding on record-high energy prices and raw material exports, in January 2007 Russia became the world’s tenth-largest economy.
But while the consensus view that Trump has effectively ceded East Asia to China is not necessarily wrong, it overlooks a fundamental geopolitical fact: American preeminence has created a powerful incentive for free riding in East Asia.
A lot is riding on whether countries like Egypt embrace durable economic, financial, institutional, political, and social reforms – and whether they do so in the context of progress toward greater democratization, social justice, and respect for human rights.
Both Germany’s habit of free riding and France’s tendency toward trigger-happy postcolonial forays will have to be debated.
They are a homegrown challenge to an entrenched political order, and they are riding a powerful historical current.
HAVANA: A man riding the Chinese-made Forever brand bicycle under the Caribbean sun after eating a single slice of bread, washed down with very bad coffee, finds it difficult to ponder America's trade embargo against Cuba.
With so much riding on Padmavati’s image as a symbol of female honor and purity, Sanjay Leela Bhansali, the Bollywood filmmaker who set out to make a film of her story, unwittingly became a target of historical passions.
For example, the state may require us to wear a seatbelt when driving, or a helmet when riding a motorcycle.
If I were a proponent of legal moralism, I would argue that it is, after all, a moral judgment – if a widely shared one – that the value of riding my motorbike with my hair flowing free is outweighed by the risk of head injuries if I crash.
Knowing this, larger and richer countries may be reluctant to take precautionary measures, as this would reward and thus encourage “free riding.”
Likewise, I will never forget the eerie feeling of riding my bike through the Brandenburg Gate from West Berlin into the East, and seeing the contrast between people who were free and those who were trapped behind the Iron Curtain.
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