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Xi carries a huge burden on his
shoulders.
One Europe that
shoulders
its global responsibility for managing international crises, for avoiding new iron curtains in Europe, and for spreading the benefits of globalization.
And, by mortgaging his entire Middle East policy to the concept of an “ideological confrontation” against the forces of evil, Bush is putting his entire strategy on the weary
shoulders
of a defeated Palestinian president without really providing him with the necessary tools.
The weight of one of the world’s longest-running conflicts is resting on their thin shoulders, crushing their childhood and inflicting psychological scars that may never heal.
There is an understandable desire to want to cut through the verbiage and shake people by the
shoulders.
Reading, Writing, and RefugeesLONDON – Just days ago, Abdul al-Kader, his four-year-old daughter, Abdelillah, draped over his shoulders, was photographed standing at a dangerous intersection in Beirut, trying to sell biro pens to feed his family.
We can either shrug our shoulders, or we can use the opportunity to revive our old values, rethink how we live, and change that projection.
That means ensuring not only that the country’s young people have jobs, but also that they are educated and productive enough to carry the weight of the economy on their
shoulders.
The Western-oriented liberals do not have any real power and stand, as we are seeing now, on the army’s
shoulders.
And yet a grave responsibility rests upon their
shoulders.
After all, many argue, China continues to buy US treasury bonds and now
shoulders
the largest amount of US debt, thus financing whatever the Americans are doing, from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to health-care reform at home.
Unfortunately, most European governments merely shrug their
shoulders
when the issue is raised.
And now that France, reeling from the Paris attacks, has declared war on the Islamic State, other European countries are shrugging their shoulders, mumbling condolences, and silently hoping that the conflict will spare them.
Still, liberals ignored the undeniable fact that the gigantic losses incurred by the quasi-criminal financial sector were cynically transferred onto the
shoulders
of a working class they thought no longer mattered.
If the outcome of the first challenge rests solely on Uribe’s shoulders, two others are tied to the FARC’s reaction to these latest developments – whether it chooses to negotiate or to continue its armed struggle.
The intellectual’s ethic is both exhilarating and harsh, for it places responsibility for thinking squarely on the thinker’s
shoulders.
Whenever someone proposes turning the eurozone into a transfer union, as France’s economy minister, Emmanuel Macron, recently did, the presumption is that Germany will carry everyone else on its
shoulders.
Under all the confident-sounding dismissals of US power, there is still some yearning to return to a more reassuring time, when the democratic world could lay its collective head on Uncle Sam’s broad
shoulders.
First, the new loans did not represent a bailout for Greece so much as a cynical transfer of private losses from the banks’ books onto the
shoulders
of Greece’s most vulnerable citizens.
With his puerile call to shift the burden of his own errors and his reluctance to reform onto the
shoulders
of Greece’s fellow Europeans, Tsipras is leaning toward the latter manifestation – and promoting the worst version of Greek politics.
At that point, when Putin is at his most vulnerable, his allies will have to act carefully – and keep looking over their
shoulders.
Beyond the vital work of organizations such as the United Nations, the Forum has created a space on the world stage where business leaders can rub
shoulders
with labor activists, and world leaders can talk – but, more important, listen.
Nor can EU officials continue to shrug their
shoulders
and blame national politicians for failing to implement proposed EU-wide measures.
All research relies on access to existing knowledge; we all stand on the
shoulders
of the giants (and even average-size figures) who came before us.
Germany cannot carry the euro on its
shoulders
alone indefinitely.
Just as Isaac Newton revolutionized astronomy and physics by “standing on the shoulders” of his predecessors, Freud built on Darwin’s evolutionary insights in order to understand psychological symptoms, dreams, myths, art, anthropology, and much more.
They fought to change the world and they willingly carried the burdens of legions of people on their
shoulders.
Like Evita and Ché, he bore the people's burden of expectation on his
shoulders.
But the more probable market reaction will be a collective shrug of the shoulders, accepting permanent monetization as the only possible safe way to alleviate an otherwise intractable debt burden.
A shrug of the
shoulders
is well justified.
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