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And solidarity within NATO – a term all but shunned these days in official German circles – is mutual: left to its own devices, Germany could one day wake up in a very precarious situation.
And insights from behavioral science were inadequately regarded – if not shunned altogether – in favor of analytically elegant microeconomic underpinnings that were model-friendly, but unrealistic and overly simplistic.
Indeed, China had shunned Japan’s 1997 proposal to create an Asian Monetary Fund precisely because it worried that it would play second fiddle.
Indeed, as Vuk Draskovic, the leader of the largest opposition group, tried to hijack last week's massive protest of 100,000 in Belgrade (a rally he had previously shunned), security men from Draskovic's Serbian Renewal Movement and Zoran Djindjic's Democratic Party openly scuffled.
In an age when self-determination is a hallowed principle how is it possible that Taiwan - which has been part of China during only four of the last eleven decades, and has never been under the control of the People's Republic of China - is shunned by every nation when it deigns to wonder aloud why it should not be allowed to go its own way?
He shunned the details of government, for they interfered with his diversions.
When knowhow is shunned, production collapses, as it did in Venezuela and Zimbabwe.
This tendency is to be welcomed, not shunned.
Western culture is shunned and traditional Kikuyu beliefs like female circumcision promoted.
Moreover, governors play a vital role in such key issues as determining whether a region attracts foreign investment or is shunned by international businessmen.
When Southeast Asia's colonial rulers were overthrown four decades ago, ethnic Chinese often shunned the nationalist movements that fought for independence.
Objectives not in line with these aspirations have been criticized and often shunned.
Despite this failure, Iraq continues to be shunned by the region’s Sunni-controlled states.
But this should liberate shunned media outlets.
Having initially been shunned, it has assumed a key role in financing – and, more importantly, implementing – fiscal-stabilization programs for the European Union’s peripheral countries.
Hope for the RomaBRUSSELS – Hated, alienated, and shunned as thieves and worse, the Roma have for too long been easy and defenseless targets for disgruntled racists in Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, and other European countries.
Lula won because he shunned populism's easy answers, and seemed to demonstrate a determination to achieve a strategic, rather than a mere tactical political victory.
It should be emulated by other developing countries, not shunned because of a preventable disaster.
In contrast, we support Syria’s ethnic and religious mosaic, and envision a future of coexistence among Christians, Circassians, and Yazidis – all groups that Turkey has shunned.
The ECB could solve the problem by acting as buyer of last resort for all of the debt shunned by financial markets.
As a result, an ever-growing number of customers have shunned PREPA’s offerings, relying instead on their own diesel-powered generators.
On the contrary, what is rotten in Ukraine is not its constitution, but its president, who is mired in charges of corruption and orchestrating the murder of journalists, and who is shunned by other world leaders.
Risk talking is valued, not shunned.
China has traded much investment in physical infrastructure in places otherwise shunned – Angola, Sudan, and Zimbabwe – for access to natural resources.
Were there a risk to the continued funding of these deficits by the private sector, the ECB and the Bank of Japan would step in to buy all the dollars that their private sectors had shunned.
If so, shouldn't investments in equities be shunned?
Trump, a champion of the white male southern culture, is shunned by his home state (59% disapproval as of September 2018).
The European Central Bank could also help solve the problem by agreeing to buy debt that has been shunned by financial markets.
Perhaps most importantly, the nuclear accident has shed a stark light on the need for safe, renewable energy, which had been shunned in the past.
For those of us who claimed some connection to the Keynesian tradition, this is a moment of triumph, after having been left in the wilderness, almost shunned, for more than three decades.
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