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Sustainability begins at the grass roots.
The episode shows that India’s much-touted economic development has shallow roots, as it has failed to deliver caste equality and social justice to the underclasses.
Admittedly, David will be cut off from his cultural roots.
Without any deep national roots among the people, the fascist structures being built can be easily dismantled.
I say that to all those who proclaim that the Jewish state has no roots in our region, and that it will soon disappear.”
If the Constitution is to guide Europeans through periods of change and yet unknown threats, its roots must reach the foundations of European history and identity as they are embodied in the shared culture that Europe's citizens freely acknowledge as their own.
The roots of Greece’s problems stretch far deeper than the austerity of recent years.
The roots of US strategy in Syria lie in a strange– and unsuccessful – union of two sources of American foreign policy.
The best America for Europe and the world is a confident America – an America that sheds its culture of fear and rediscovers the roots of its culture of hope.
Both ideas have their roots in the Democratic administrations of Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama; but they attracted congressional Republican support because they empower state and local governments, rely on public-private partnerships, and encourage rigorous impact assessments.
A conservative ruling party with deep religious roots is content to leave religion to private observance, with no direct influence on public policy.
Our organization may have humble roots, but our plans are grand.
Both have the same poisoned roots, so it is not surprising that they go hand in hand.
In other words, culture plays a much larger role in shaping interpretations of human rights than many realize, which implies that human-rights practitioners should be wary of passing judgment on any practice with deep cultural or religious roots.
On the day Nasheed was overthrown, Islamists ransacked the Maldives’ main museum, smashing priceless Buddhist and Hindu statues and erasing all evidence of the country’s pre-Islamic roots.
Today’s financial crisis has its immediate roots in 2001, amid the end of the Internet boom and the shock of the September 11 terrorist attacks.
Admittedly, violent Islamic fundamentalism has deeper roots in the fading promise of Arab nationalism.
Both explanations have merit, but both ignore the specifically British roots of Brexit.
But, in the absence of serious political reform, income inequality will widen as crony capitalism sinks its roots more deeply.
Democratic institutions in industrial countries are stronger, and have deeper roots, than was the case in the 1930s.
That President Bachelet comes from socialist roots does not change the nature of her government, which will follow the parameters of its predecessors, and will preside over the most open economy in the region, one integrated into the global market by free-trade agreements that extend from the United States to China.
China’s hierarchical conception of world order has deep roots, which Yan Xuetong, perhaps the country’s leading contemporary strategic thinker, explores in his books The Transition of World Power and Ancient Chinese Thought, Modern Chinese Power.
I, too, come from an Abrahamic religion, Judaism, which shares strong roots with Islam.
Indeed, the failed Greek “fiscal consolidation and reform program,” and the way the EU’s leaders have clung to it despite five years of evidence that the program cannot possibly succeed, is symptomatic of a broader European governance failure, one with deep historical roots.
In Robert Gordon's estimation-and in mine-the roots of an economy-wide high-tech productivity boom like the one seen in the US are so delicate that they flourish in American but not in continental European soil.
Last May, Higgins told economics students at the University of Chicago that they were studying a deformed discipline, torn from its ethical and philosophical roots.
The roots of Western malaise can be traced back to the end of the Cold War, when a bipolar world order gave way to economic globalization, allowing for the emergence of new powers such as China.
Furthermore, Gul’s case, and others like it, should be studied in order to understand the roots of such crimes.
The goal today must be to modernize each tradition, while remaining faithful to its roots.
The practice has its roots in anti-colonialism; when the Nation was founded in 1960, it joined other pan-African publications like the New African and Drum to oppose colonial rule.
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