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It would provide a practical demonstration of the spirit that ought to infuse the entire EU.
In the spirit of scientific cooperation, Folta offered to collaborate with Ayyadurai on university-based testing of genetically engineered corn and soy samples (along with appropriate controls), with analysis by an independent lab.
But a remark by one mining company executive from a developing country caught the spirit of change.
The EU’s spirit of “grubby compromise” will have won out again.
It is in this spirit that I call on people around the world to pressure their governments to implement policies that protect and shelter Syrian war refugees.
The issue, then, is whether the reformers who carry the real spirit of the 1949 revolution will win the battle for equitable and inclusive growth.
If Asia focuses on its trans-cultural ethical core, an entirely new spirit of unity can be developed that uses soft power instead of military force and does not know enemies, but only partners and competitors.
But the MIP, even if it is in the spirit of Keynes’s proposal for an International Clearing Union, lacks two essential mechanisms.
One hopes that the spirit of cooperation fostered by the cooperative movement, and ingrained in so much of Costa Rican culture, will make it work.
DiEM25 is imbued with this spirit of defiance: we will not be forced by the prospect of the EU’s disintegration to acquiesce to an EU of the establishment’s choosing.
The first makes the human spirit soar and brings out the best in people.
A large majority of Turkey’s citizens share such generosity of spirit.
We are seeing the birth of a more democratic spirit among the region’s peoples, but a corresponding sense of democratic responsibility remains underdeveloped.
All this is significant, but I cannot rid myself of the idea that this is a train ride begun in a different time and context, rolling on out of momentum, not out of a new energy or spirit.
Donald Trump grasped the spirit of the time: things weren’t going well, and many voters wanted change.
“My” Mandela is the prisoner, the Mandela of Robben Island, who endured 27 years behind bars (18 of them on a rock in the South Atlantic) and yet emerged with his spirit intact, brimming with a vision of a tolerant South Africa, a country liberated even for apartheid’s architects and beneficiaries.
Of course, behind Mandela’s generous spirit was a character of steel.
In keeping with the spirit of the times, governments introduce business criteria for measuring the efficiency--and the "success," more generally--of public services.
So, here – in a spirit of supreme, but perhaps not totally naive, optimism – are the 2015 New Year’s resolutions that I would most like each of East Asia’s leaders to make.
“Also in that spirit, I will welcome the Dalai Lama to Beijing and negotiate with his leadership team a package of cultural autonomy and limited self-government, satisfying once and for all the reasonable aspirations of the Tibetan people.”
Is patriotism really the key to this kind of spirit for national teams, as the German critics of their team believe?
On the rare occasion that England wins a big match these days, victory is attributed to a “typically” English fighting spirit, coupled with “fair play.”
Football magnifies the cult of the individual and the glorification of the hero, but it is also a celebration of the cooperative team spirit.
But sport can also become a kind of gigantic, distracting screen behind which nasty regimes do outrageous things – the very opposite of the Olympic and World Cup spirit.
In a place where government control had forced all cultural creativity underground, the demotic spirit and imagination that America seemed to embody seemed like a dream.
Those of us who have prospered are now so pleased with our new money and new toys that we explain away poverty and exclusion by saying that the excluded lack an entrepreneurial spirit.
In building the means to secure Europe’s energy future, we will also renew the spirit of European integration and give new strength to the EU as a global actor.
Pooling the innovative and entrepreneurial spirit found in countries and businesses will enable us to fight climate change, strengthen our economies and societies, and leave our children and grandchildren a healthier planet.
Indeed, the US retains an edge, owing to its capacity for innovation, its technological advances, its entrepreneurial spirit, and its indefatigable optimism.
Ring-fencing is not exactly Glass-Steagall-style separation – Glass-Steagall forbade commercial banks from even affiliating with investment banks – but it is in the same spirit.
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