Spirit
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To argue, as some in America do, that Iran is not complying with the
spirit
of the JCPOA is meaningless: “spirit” is a phrase without legal standing.
New Labour's Peter Mandelson voiced the
spirit
of the past 30 years when he remarked that he felt intensely “relaxed” about people getting “filthy” rich.
We Europeans must favor stability, create a real
spirit
of co-ownership, and promote political responsibility.In this new framework, the EU should avoid excessive conditionality, especially during the transition period.
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and The Future Society at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government are already spearheading work in this participatory
spirit.
By cooperating with regional players in a
spirit
of true partnership, foreign powers can provide support without neocolonial connotations.
(The Taliban's strictures against women make the Nuremberg Laws look almost mild, though in
spirit
the two sets of decrees are one.)
With American protesters citing Egyptians and Spaniards as direct inspiration, online communities from Syria to Europe cross-pollinating, and continuing strong turnout for rallies like those on May Day 2012 in the US, it is clear that the
spirit
of community is here to stay.
During Soviet times, it was easy to understand how the communist ideal could seduce those of generous spirit, even if its promise of a just and free society ultimately turned out to be a lie.
While the recovery is far from complete, the love and compassion reflected in the world’s response touched us deeply, as has the survivors’
spirit
of perseverance and mutual aid to overcome hardship.
It is in the same
spirit
that Japan is now set to contribute even more positively to world peace and development.
Civil Society Against TerrorismPARIS – After the terror attacks in Paris last November – a carefully coordinated series of assaults carried out by multiple attackers, resulting in 130 deaths – there was intense pain and fear, but also a
spirit
of unity and resilience.
And in
spirit
I am a member of a very old people, the Jewish people – like the Kurds, one of the oldest on the planet, a people that founded one of the youngest states, Israel.
They are nations of citizens united by their history and spirit, rather than ethnicity, a sense of superiority, or an arrogant identity.
For two centuries, it has been the animating
spirit
of so many battles for freedom, and has inspired so much courage, resistance, sacrifice, and nobility, and so many beautiful writings.
(Indeed, the inclusion metaphor is essentially global in spirit; had Obama used it in the past, his economic policies might have been less protectionist.)
Kim might find in Trump – the first US president to meet with a North Korean leader (a gift to Kim before talks even begin) – a kindred spirit, at least compared to previous US presidents.
While most countries in the world are disgusted with North Korea’s behavior, Iran appears to consider the country a trading partner and a kindred
spirit.
“People first” has been my longstanding political philosophy as well, and it is a vision in line with the
spirit
of Korea’s “candlelight revolution” that lit and heated up the winter in Korea a year ago.
I know that there are too many populists on the left (notably the bitter Mélenchon) and on the right (the pathetic Nicolas Dupont-Aignan skittering away from the cameras Friday night after leaving the cathedral in Reims, where France’s kings were crowned), who, under a fig leaf of scorn for finance, betray the true
spirit
of France.
But, in my opinion, the reason for different – and frequently contradictory – interpretations is an incompetent and incomplete approach that detaches individual texts from their context and construes them without a thorough understanding of the true
spirit
of the Koran.
Cory Aquino motivated ordinary Filipinos to peaks of daring and selflessness at a time when their
spirit
had almost been broken by a 14-year dictatorship.
Edmund Phelps of Columbia University says that these slow-growing countries lack "dynamism," which he defines as a combination of entrepreneurial
spirit
and the financial institutions to channel it.
Both
spirit
and the necessary financial institutions must be present to enable "creative destruction" - the force Joseph Schumpeter argued sixty years was the engine of capitalist prosperity - to be unleashed.
Wherever this
spirit
takes root, financial sectors--and dynamic growth--will follow.
For Schumpeter, there was something both noble and tragic about the
spirit
of capitalism.
In a global refugee crisis, President Barack Obama argued, the US should, in the
spirit
of Emma Lazarus’s words inscribed on the Statue of Liberty, do its fair share in providing a new home for the “huddled masses yearning to breathe free.”
To save Pakistan, Jinnah’s spirit, his moth-eaten ideals, must be renewed, and Pakistanis must ask themselves what Pakistan really means.
A new generation in France, born after the war, broke the public silence with a torrent of books and films on French collaboration in the Holocaust, as well as the collaborationist Vichy regime, sometimes in an almost inquisitorial
spirit.
If May can convince Trump that security is more important than a gamble on leveraged debt, she will have undermined a key part of his domestic strategy, while rescuing some of the old
spirit
of mutual defense.
The only way to reverse the trend is to recapture the
spirit
of solidarity that animated the European project from the start.
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