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This, too, has its roots in domestic politics – financial and business elites’ grip on the policymaking process and the narratives they have spun about the limits of redistributive policies.
The Muslim reformist tradition - the search for an authentic path that links Islam's traditions to the modern world - has deep roots, stretching back to the middle of the 19th century.
Has the Left strayed so far from its socialist roots that there is nothing left of them?
Although influenced over the centuries by Christianity and Islam, the Yezidi religion has ancient pagan roots that go back at least to the late Bronze Age.
For example, despite their common historical and cultural roots, North and South Korea are very different societies.
The Greece of the CaribbeanNEW YORK – There was a time when it might have been said that Puerto Rico, in the midst of a wrenching debt crisis, was returning to its Latin roots.
Addressing the complex roots of current economic and social challenges – the UK and France, for example, suffer substantially from hereditary privilege and frozen class systems – is a lot harder than decrying the EU as a villainous behemoth.
Chairman Mao wanted a hundred flowers to bloom, but only so that he could cut them all off at their roots.
Overhauling Europe’s shaky supply-side foundations is the key challenge facing the euro revolution, and it is a challenge that needs to be addressed at its national-level roots.
Meanwhile, in Turkey, the Justice and Development Party, which has strong roots in the country’s Islamic tradition, is now seeking to limit the military’s role.
In Germany, which largely owes its reunification to its firm roots in the EU and NATO, Europe-weariness is palpable.
Embracing such policies will give institutions and the democratic process the time and space they need to plant firm roots.
But, while their antipathy to big business appears to honor their intellectual roots, progressives have lost the plot when it comes to competition.
But my real mission was to reconnect with my ethnic Sindhi roots, as I had never visited the country where my parents were born.
The roots of China’s problems lie in its attempt to shift from exports and investment in infrastructure to a growth model based on higher domestic consumption.
To survive, many North Koreans forage for edible roots and leaves and make soups from cabbage stalks and vegetable waste.
The systemic crises in food, fuel, and finance that came to a head in 2008 – and that are ongoing in many countries – have their roots in an economic paradigm that has not accounted for the value of nature and its array of life-supporting services.
The Israeli right’s current political dominance is fed by a widespread yearning for Jewish roots, a deep-seated fear of Arabs, and an uncompromising mistrust of a “world,” the so-called international community, with which Jews have a centuries-old dispute.
And in Italy, both center-right and center-left forces have been marginalized by two new anti-system parties with roots in the far right and the far left.
In a speech in June, he set himself the task of taking the party back to its Christian roots.
Scientists have given a name to our era, the Anthropocene, a term built on ancient Greek roots to mean “the Human-dominated epoch” – a new period of earth’s history in which humanity has become the cause of global-scale environmental change.
A country that is “unstable at the grass roots, dejected in the middle strata and out of control at the top,” as a group of Chinese scholars recently put it, may see adventurism abroad as the best means of maintaining unity at home.
The roots of the Apple deal are older than the ECB.
As former US Ambassador to China Gary F. Locke reported in a speech early this year, the concept of equality before the law has deep historical roots.
But democracy is not the only instrument for a transformation that addresses the roots of terrorism.
That would strengthen Russia’s position in Ukraine, where the Kremlin constantly encourages a return to Slavic roots and warns against flirting with a West that doesn’t want it.
One reason why the crisis in Ukraine has proved so difficult to overcome is that its roots stretch far outside the country’s borders.
A related topic also has its roots in the Lisbon summit: the alliance’s attempt to find a new consensus on the role of nuclear weapons.
Free of roots or tradition, they take refuge in superficiality from the conflicts that surround them, seeking fulfillment in consumerism, careers, and lifestyles.
In Egypt and Saudi Arabia, indeed throughout the Middle East, the resurgence of veiling has many roots: some argue that it arose out of the Arab defeat in the 1967 war with Israel; others say it began with the disintegration of the dream of Arab unity.
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