Shoulders
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In classical Westerns, the true American hero is the rugged gunslinger, the outlaw who knows right from wrong in his gut, the freedom-loving rambler who rides into the sunset on his trusted horse, a rifle slung across his
shoulders.
After weeks of swirling wrath, primary responsibility eventually landed on BP’s
shoulders.
Further progress will become increasingly important as European responsibilities are placed on more shoulders: Iran, climate change, and the ESDP are all examples of shared decision-making.
Too many Italians shrugged their
shoulders
at Berlusconi’s lies and failings, figuring that he would soon go away, having done little harm.
India: No Longer Handcuffed to HistoryNEW DELHI – A recent court ruling has revealed India’s strengths and limitations as it grapples with its transformation from a land handcuffed to history–ever since the Partition of 1947, which carved Pakistan out of its stooped
shoulders
– into a modern global giant.
Almost the entire weight of the European project rests on the
shoulders
of French President Emmanuel Macron.
Pakistan was hacked off the stooped
shoulders
of India by the departing British in 1947 as a homeland for India’s Muslims; but, until recently (as Pakistan’s population continues to grow at a higher rate than India’s), more Muslims remained in India than lived in Pakistan.
As I entered that intimidating building, I felt as if it, together with my new responsibilities, rested on my
shoulders.
By raising the double-freeze solution, China put the ball in America’s court, and placed the onus for resolving the crisis squarely on Trump’s
shoulders.
On the international side, his national-security strategy holds that “the burdens of a young century cannot fall on American
shoulders
alone.”
While there is plenty of blame to go around, the largest share of the guilt belongs squarely on the
shoulders
of the major drug companies – Big Pharma.
Now that the presidential term limits introduced by Deng Xiaoping to insulate the country against another one-man dictatorship have been eliminated, the future of the Communist dynasty rests on the
shoulders
of one supreme leader.
Europeans and Americans, Israelis and Iranians, Egyptians and Turks, Palestinians and Tunisians rubbed
shoulders.
Trump
shoulders
no small share of the blame for these casualties, not to mention the destruction of America’s traditional role as a mediator of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
In almost all countries, the state still
shoulders
the brunt of the burden of education funding.
If one looks at multilateral trade imbalances, the US stands head and
shoulders
above all others.
So the future of the world’s climate rests not just on their
shoulders
individually, but on their ability to work together.
The proliferation of security lapses means that people are more likely to shrug their
shoulders
than to cast the first stone at a company that is breached.
Is it a system in which market discipline again dominates, or will regulators sit on the
shoulders
of management for the foreseeable future?
Above all else, the honest politician willingly
shoulders
this burden.
This time, whatever the challenges, we should put our
shoulders
to the wheel and be part of the collective effort to make Europe strong and effective once more.
Quite simply, the historic responsibility for the planet’s future rests on the
shoulders
of us all.
So why – my second worry – does he take quite so much on his own
shoulders?
Trichet compromised Ireland’s sovereignty to facilitate German bankers’ free ride on the
shoulders
of Ireland’s taxpayers.
Despite his insistence on rubbing
shoulders
with world leaders and portraying himself as a modernizer, Putin, like his predecessors, is in fact a ruler who believes that only authoritarian rule can protect his country from anarchy and disintegration.
That ambivalence might explain the shrugged
shoulders
at news that DRC electoral registers had allegedly become swollen with hundreds of thousands of fake names.
The threat of irrelevance is understood by leading statesmen, who have committed themselves to putting their
shoulders
to the wheel.
The guerrillas are led to the wall, and, just as the soldiers are raising their guns to their shoulders, one insurgent shouts, “Down with liberty!”
Right now, the latest “this time is different” folly is that, because governments are taking all the debt on their shoulders, the rest of us don’t have to worry.
In fact, history’s great entrepreneurial figures have frequently stood on the
shoulders
of the entrepreneurial state.
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