Spirit
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The result is that a xenophobic, racist party, one hostile to everything essential to the
spirit
and greatness of France, was defeated in all of the contests that it was supposed to win.
On the contrary, they are ignited by it: your mind is set free from mundane concerns to ponder the inestimable and your place within it – a freedom of
spirit
that is a truly unexpected gift this Christmas season.
Openness and other good policies that contribute to economic stability worldwide rely on self-interest, not on global
spirit.
Those who remember the power of the awakening of 1989 realize the fundamental importance of keeping such a
spirit
alive if China is to pass through its current transition peacefully.
Tiananmen and its
spirit
belong to the world.
Today, we can see the force of this ideology, but it would be a mistake to assume that the
spirit
of the original Muslim reformists has vanished.
The Mass seeks to sustain the future of an illusion, in Freud’s famous phrase, while “The Magic Flute” is a triumphant demonstration of the spiritual grandeur of the modern
spirit.
While militant liberals may no longer wish literally to “ecraser l’infame,” they may hope to seduce her devotees by an ongoing celebration of the glories of the humanist
spirit.
Once we reach the point at which it is no longer news to have a woman or a non-Japanese serving as a CEO, Japan will have reinvented itself and recovered its true
spirit
of risk-taking and innovation.
Protesters ideally should dedicate themselves to disciplined, nonviolent disruption in this
spirit
– especially disruption of traffic.
As in the US, however, lingering divisiveness may be a price worth paying for a tool with which to renew the principles and practice of the democratic
spirit.
If so, in what
spirit
should they conduct their work?
The protesters probably think that they are acting in the
spirit
of the 1789 French Revolution, a
spirit
that the French periodically revive in their country’s politics.
Some were romantics in search of an essential racial or national
spirit.
But, over the last year, the
spirit
of optimism that energized these developments has, sadly, gone missing.
If we distill the
spirit
that we have infused into international law over the ages and reformulate it as three principles, the rule of law at sea becomes a matter of common sense.
Rather than attempting to consolidate changes to the status quo by piling one fait accompli upon another, the region’s governments should make a firm pledge to return to the
spirit
and provisions of the 2002 Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea, to which all parties concerned previously agreed.
Yet I also saw, once again, the power of community
spirit
to overcome it – the same sense of solidarity and determination that launched Korea’s rural modernization five decades ago.
Regardless of who comes to power, the West should channel a larger portion of the billions of dollars in development aid each year, including the newly approved $535 million for the country from the UN’s Millennium Challenge Account, to foster a local
spirit
of natural capitalism instead of providing charity.
The states known collectively as “Eastern Europe,” including my native Poland, have revealed themselves to be intolerant, illiberal, xenophobic, and incapable of remembering the
spirit
of solidarity that carried them to freedom a quarter-century ago.
The Paris climate agreement may be a harbinger of the
spirit
and mindset needed to sustain genuine global cooperation.
But, like any sharp negotiator, the US claimed that at worst it had violated the spirit, not the letter, of the agreement.
We will be guided, and bound, by the rule of law – and the
spirit
of ordered liberty that animates it.
In that spirit, the continent took considerable pride in the successful execution of the 2010 election and in Ivorian voters’ courageous and disciplined behavior.
But Moon has made it clear that his government will not be seduced by the Olympic
spirit.
From Iran’s perspective, accepting an American hand extended in a
spirit
of conciliation could turn it into a fist.
It was a story of the liberating
spirit
of freedom and individualistic fulfillment.
Unfortunately, that
spirit
did not end well, with both stock prices and corporate earnings crashing catastrophically at the end of the decade.
A Senegalese friend told me of his illiterate mother who takes a bus to Dakar every month to watch a Bollywood film – she doesn’t understand the Hindi dialogue and can’t read the French subtitles, but she can still catch the
spirit
of the films and understand the story, and people like her look at India with stars in their eyes as a result.
May that example, similar to her father’s appeal 53 years ago for the defense of freedom, also call forth the best in the American
spirit.
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