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With selective reporting, we would end up with a long list of all the false discoveries made across all research teams, with only a few true findings buried among this pile of non-replicated waste.
Selective migration policies and talent-friendly environments supported at the European level could significantly improve the net skill migration balance, which is currently negative or zero in all EU countries.
How about conditioning EU support to national researchers on the adoption of selective migration policies?
The symptoms of the disease of selective modernization are clearly discernible in both countries in the form of ubiquitous corruption.
Without functioning democratic institutions, Russia’s second attempt at selective modernization will fail just as certainly as its previous, Soviet incarnation did.
In the globalized world of the twenty-first century, in which crises in one part of the world spread like wildfire to others, selective modernization, based on suppression of the conflicts and tensions that modernization generates, is likely to be even more dangerous.
The US should not be selective in its support for freedom and democracy.
Researchers are tempted by persuasive results that can attract the interest of policymakers, who are tempted by a selective reading of the evidence that can provide them with ammunition in domestic and international debate.
Think of the eurozone as a selective club.
To prevent that, some selective bailouts will likely be needed, not to support the market but to deal with injustices.
But perhaps the most important shift made in the Paris agreement is from selective coercion to collectively supported competition.
Old models of economic growth, however, such as export orientation and selective use of import restrictions that worked well for East Asia in the last century, are less feasible under today's global trade rules.
While any central bank must be able to conduct open-market operations to manage liquidity in financial markets, selective purchases of individual country bonds that bear high interest rates because of current and past fiscal profligacy is both unnecessary and dangerous.
Even if selective limitations on sovereignty may enhance democratic performance, there is no guarantee that all limitations implied by market integration would do so.
What could explain generalized divergence in one period and selective convergence in another?
Selective memory is a defense mechanism with which we are all familiar.
This includes the selective application of law by the International Criminal Court.
Because the selective tariffs threatened by the Commission will affect finished products, not inputs like steel, the damage inflicted on EU consumers by European countermeasures will be smaller than the damage inflicted on the US economy by Trump’s steel tariffs.
In the long run, selective repudiation of odious debts will benefit both borrowers and creditors by promoting more responsible lending practices.
Neither Trump’s hyperbole nor Obama’s selective memory comes as a surprise.
Selective tariffs can be useful for protecting defense-related industries or to prevent other countries from stealing cutting-edge technologies.
As a result, drugs must be selective enough to work on the fungal cells, without damaging human cells.
What we need is selective, well-targeted reforms, not a laundry list.
Neither patients nor their therapists consider the available options – including benzodiazepines like Valium and selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors like Prozac or Zoloft – as adequate treatments for anxiety.
The anti-corruption effort, while so far popular, risks being tarnished by selective prosecution of offenders (which suggests that it is more about power than reform) and reports about the crown prince’s own lifestyle.
Despite some setbacks, the process has raised hope of a permanent end to the 50-year conflict, which has displaced at least five million people and led to more than 200,000 deaths (an estimated 85% of them civilians), with 23,161 selective killings, 25,007 forced disappearances, 27,023 kidnappings, and 1,982 massacres.
The heavy-handed closures of NTV and TV-6 are merely two of the best examples of this country's halting leap toward normality, and both closures reveal Putin's selective approach to restructuring Russia.
Virtually every successful Asian economy was built on selective trade barriers – and in China and India, the world’s two fastest growing economies, such barriers remain in place.
And selective protectionism is of course no panacea for Africa, even when such policies effectively aid local producers.
The fight for democracy cannot be selective.
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