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With Israel’s return to a sober peace strategy, and with an honest dialogue between Turkey and its NATO allies, the Turkish bridge between East and West can still be salvaged.
Ensuring stable peace and continued prosperity in the Asia-Pacific region will require both China and the US to replace their self-serving interpretations of the other’s strategic intentions with more sober assessments.
To the more sober minds in China’s foreign policy establishment, it is better to focus on the existing machinery of the global rules-based system, particularly when the US is demonstrating systematic contempt for it.
In this environment, sober, informed voices, like that of the Bank for International Settlements, the central bank of central banks, should also be given a fair hearing.
The understanding between Xi and Trump reflected a sober acknowledgement of the domestic and international risks their countries face.
His is a rather sober reading of reality: the austerity plan has become a highway to social hell for his countrymen, and would likely condemn Greece to long years of ruinous depression within a permanent debt trap, and possibly to a breakdown of democracy.
Is it based on a sober assessment of the complex realities in Iraq and the region?
But that is what it will get unless sober heads prevail.
Paranoia and antagonism must give way to sober politics, with Israeli leaders discussing potential strategic compensation with the US, working with other powers to address Iran’s support for Hamas and Hezbollah, and considering a credible revival of peace negotiations with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
Even so, isn’t it generous of the Americans to make everyone else look so sober and frugal, if only for the moment?
In his many successful years as mayor of Sibiu, Iohannis distinguished himself from the charismatic and shrewd politicians to whom Romanians are accustomed, proving to be a sober, laconic, and pragmatic administrator.
But such adjustments make sense only if guided by sober reasoning – and by leaders who accept the mutually beneficial nature of international trade, allow economic adjustment to occur over time, and reject the illusion that an economy is akin to a large company.
Chinese officials will not be alone in thinking that a system where lies, hatred, and ignorance trump sober deliberation is defective.
In a world of color revolutions, Pakistan’s was clothed in the sober hues of the law.
The only way to do that is to be honest with ourselves and take a sober look at what we can and must do to ensure the most that can be achieved.
This has now given way to a more sober analysis of the crisis and the efficacy of the response.
Yet a sober assessment of the difficulties ahead would have helped to avoid many of the mistakes that have proved to be so costly in terms of American lives and resources – not to mention the suffering of Iraqis.
Israel’s reluctance to invade Gaza stems from a sober analysis of the meaning of such a move.
It is hard to know just how much extra debt Trump’s stimulus program will add, but estimates of $5 trillion over ten years – a 25% increase – seem sober.
Secretary of Defense James Mattis is a sober, experienced, and widely respected former general with an internationalist outlook.
But the UN’s MDG Gap Task Force Report 2011 highlights serious shortfalls in international efforts to achieve the goals, a sober reminder of the need to step up efforts and meet longstanding international commitments, especially in the current global financial crisis.
The Trans-Pacific Free-Trade CharadeNEW YORK – As negotiators and ministers from the United States and 11 other Pacific Rim countries meet in Atlanta in an effort to finalize the details of the sweeping new Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), some sober analysis is warranted.
You can see it in portraits by Frans Hals of seventeenth-century Dutch worthies dressed in sober but expensive black clothes.
No longer were public debates kept sober and rational by traditional gatekeepers.
Far from employing populists’ tactics, endorsing their worldviews, or pandering to their prejudices, Biden built a broad electoral coalition around a promise of positive change, sober moderation, and competent governance.
It is also based on more sober assessments of what robots can do now (though there is disagreement on what they will eventually be able to do).
The villain protagonist of the story, Prime Minister Francis Urquhart (or US President Frank Underwood in the American TV series), seems like a sober and respectable political operator compared to many current UK political leaders.
This military build-up has set off alarms within NATO, even though a sober analysis would find that in most cases, such facilities pose no particular threat to anyone – except, perhaps, polar bears.
With a growing chorus of flimflam artists pushing such “scholarship,” it is incumbent on all sober and cautious commentators to set the historical record straight.
For a year he had laboured there as a good, sober, silent workman, doing day-work one week and night-work the next week, so regularly that the masters referred to him as an example to the others.
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