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As a result, clean air, renewable energy, and green spaces have all too often been sacrificed to the notion that environmentally friendly legislation increases costs and red tape for businesses and ultimately hurts the economy.
To Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, US President Barack Obama betrayed Israel when he sacrificed Egypt’s former president, Hosni Mubarak, and paved the way for the Muslim Brotherhood’s rise to power.
Instead, both long-term objectives and sustainable public finances have been sacrificed for the short-term promise of electoral success.
Japanese workplaces sacrificed some formality – allowing workers to wear short sleeves and no ties or jackets to the office – to enable office and retail buildings to minimize their use of air conditioning.
Too much has already been sacrificed on the altar of GDP fetishism.
But the Polish people struggled and sacrificed to bring about their nation’s rebirth – and in the process ushered in a new era for Europe and the world.
Such ambitions must now be sacrificed for the sake of the French public’s well-being.
Both objectives were sacrificed in the interest of restoring the fortunes of the super-rich, perhaps with a distant hope that the wealth would “trickle down” someday.
He argues that democracy, national sovereignty, and global economic integration are mutually incompatible; at least one must be sacrificed.
The unfortunate paradox in Georgia – and elsewhere in the post-Soviet world – is that self-serving pro-Western rhetoric has often led democratic values to be sacrificed in favor of a new dictatorship.
But a modest political opening and economic diversification away from state-owned industry have been sacrificed.
To expunge the original sin, millions of workers’ jobs and incomes had to be sacrificed.
Hosni Mubarak has been sacrificed to save the military regime.
Social objectives and the deepening of democracy in these countries – with the probable exception of Chile – have been sacrificed for higher levels of security.
And if a believer freely submits, this does not mean that he has sacrificed freedom.
Greece remains the litmus test of the European establishment’s capacity to rationalize the eurozone, and its people have been sacrificed on the altar of an impasse whose repercussions have long since spilled over to the fragmenting political scenery of Central Europe.
Upholding that right should not be sacrificed in the name of largely bogus calculations about the effects of slowing down automation on US global leadership.
This was certainly true of my parents, who sacrificed a lot to raise their nine children.
While we have responded to emergencies in this period, we have not sacrificed our ability to push through more reforms in the future.
The little worker bees that sacrificed themselves to protect their hives – the ultimate example of animal goodness – kept Darwin up at night.
Determining exactly how much efficiency should be sacrificed, and in which cases, is never easy.
Lakhani points to the bitter irony that Pakistan's 143 million people have sacrificed much in demanding democratic rights and self-determination for Kashmir's 13 million people, while enjoying precious few of those same rights at home for the past 55 years.
More generally, voters are not impressed by Modi’s transformation from the chai-wallah (tea-seller) of the election campaign, who had sacrificed domestic bliss to serve the nation, into an omnipresent, gaudily attired celebrity hobnobbing with other bold-face names.
In short, the productive sector is being sacrificed for the sake of controlling inflation and the fiscal deficit.
As the state plunges into chronic weakness, a growing number of people yearn for it to be made stronger, even if our new liberties need to be sacrificed here and there.
If all this leads people to conclude that social justice is being sacrificed to profits, cuts in public expenditure harden that conclusion even more.
Structural reforms, in which certain interests are sacrificed for the greater good, will always be controversial and difficult to execute.
Whereas Boris Yeltsin has sacrificed his status of "Father of the Nation" to maintain an uncompromising conflict with the opposition, the new president within the same model will have to take into account new trends and to become an excessively caring "Father of the Nation" through clenching both supporters and opponents in one firm fist.
Disregarding the immense potential of such linkages would be an affront to the Libyans who sacrificed their lives to create a new, more open, and prosperous Libya.
This is why at the UN Security Council China opposed any military action or sanctions against North Korea, a country for which it sacrificed almost one million troops during the Korean War in 1950-53.
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