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A decade after the euro’s introduction, we must follow the example of its founders and turn crisis into opportunity by uniting in a
spirit
of cooperation and ambition – and thereby reinforce the EMU’s foundations.
“Reform” suggested a loosening of central controls on economic life, undertaken in a
spirit
of pragmatism and gradualism, as an antidote to Mao Zedong’s ideology of “revolution.”
Indeed, in pursuing rapid industrialization, megacities have often been less successful than smaller cities – which have largely evaded such constraints – in accumulating productive capital, attracting foreign direct investment (FDI), and demonstrating entrepreneurial
spirit.
They are here to demonstrate a strong
spirit
of unity in the transatlantic community, a determination to look forward and take action together.
They will need to adopt a fighting
spirit
and signal confidence in their cause, rather than succumbing to complacency or resigning themselves to a long-drawn-out retreat.
But, while Suharto’s approach supported economic progress, critics charged that it betrayed the
spirit
of the 1945 constitution, which calls for Indonesia to play an active role in fostering world peace.
Given that
spirit
– and appropriate foreign assistance – I am confident that it will all work out for Burma, too.
The benefits of such inter-community
spirit
are evident in one of the world’s most diverse cities, London.
What Edmund Burke defined as a group’s attachment to “the inns and resting places of the human spirit” – that is, ethnic, religious, and community ties – would have been a much more powerful mobilizing force for an independence movement.
Yet an identity-based campaign could have resorted to the heritage of the Scottish Renaissance of the mid-twentieth century or to the Celtic Revival and Celtic Twilight movements, which awakened a
spirit
of cultural nationalism among Scots in the late nineteenth century.
Campaign contributions were not just a matter of public spirit, but an investment.
Together, Europeans must find what connects them, and derive new enthusiasm, new
spirit
from what they find - a
spirit
sorely needed to tackle the great issues of today.
“The tears of this century laid the ground for a new spring of the human spirit," the Pope declared in his last visit to the UN.
Brazil's victory in the World Cup may have no connection with these reforms, but the creativity of that winning team does say a great deal about the
spirit
of the country.
Education was purged of all militaristic and “feudal” elements, including favorable references to the samurai
spirit.
Sacrifice used to involve ransoming the body – its pleasures, basic needs, and even vitality – for the sake of the
spirit.
We could recite by heart the last words of his 1964 Rivonia Trial speech, one of the most thrilling affirmations of the human
spirit
ever uttered: “a free society…is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve.
There, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s government has proposed a law enshrining the collective primacy of the country’s Jews – legislation that destroys in
spirit
and form what little is left of Israel’s founding commitment to equality under the law.
The launch of the Dragon spacecraft was in fact a US achievement, in a traditionally American
spirit.
Lurking behind China’s ambition in space is the
spirit
of the Cold War, which continues to permeate the inner circles of the military high command, whose adversary is unmistakably the United States.
With an enlightened and supranational spirit, the EU has achieved a sustained peace that would have seemed impossible a century ago.
At first, the Lehman crisis did trigger a revival of the post-war multilateral spirit; but it proved fleeting.
In this
spirit
of cooperation, the major multilateral development institutions – the African Development Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the Islamic Development Bank, the United Nations, and the World Bank – have already begun to strengthen their joint efforts in producing and sharing development data.
The hopeful
spirit
at Ramlila Grounds this August was reminiscent of Barack Obama’s campaign for the American presidency in 2008.
The US, however, regards Abe’s worries about Japan’s
spirit
as peripheral to its efforts to forge a lasting relationship with China and overhaul its strategic presence in the Pacific.
In the
spirit
of that notorious nineteenth-century czarist forgery, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, anti-Semites think “the Jews" run the US government, Wall Street, and the media.
If that is to change, the region will need to rediscover the
spirit
of the 1994 Summit of the Americas, where US President Bill Clinton and his Latin American counterparts set out a grand vision for the hemisphere.
One way to revive that
spirit
of cooperation and common purpose would be to create a new Trans-American Partnership.
And there was the
spirit
of France: young and old, the French president and two of his predecessors, the novelists Philippe Labro and Daniel Rondeau, celebrities, artists, fans from 50 years ago wearing Apache fringe, a remembrance of the striking miners of Lorraine, the words of Jacques Prévert, tears shed by ordinary people.
This would be in the
spirit
of the Glasnost policy that was by then already established in the Soviet Union.
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