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In recent years, spontaneous demonstrations like the one just completed have not delivered the reforms participants have sought.
Most ominous for Myanmar’s future, given that all genocides are linked to official action, this racial and religious antagonism is in no way spontaneous.
It was also known to Galileo, who noted that Renaissance engineers who followed successful methods of building ships and moving obelisks were often surprised by the spontaneous failures when tried with larger ships and obelisks.
America's subsequent patronage of Israel had less to do with evangelical passion for the Holy Land, or a spontaneous love for the Jewish people, than with the Cold War.
It will not involve the harnessing of power on a deliberate basis, but rather the harnessing on a spontaneous basis of the exploding scientific abilities to improve, to transform, to create the human person.
In 1911, Francis Peyton Rous found – through research, not “tinkering” – that supposedly spontaneous malignant tumors in chickens were actually caused and transmitted by a retrovirus.
The love for liberal democratic institutions is not spontaneous; it must be nurtured.
Just as Brexit was a negative surprise, the spontaneous response to it is a positive one.
The massive development of spontaneous trade after the liberalization of the prices and trade made an important contribution to welfare, but many saw it as big waste.
He sought to expose the bankruptcy of ascendant ideological nostrums: laissez-faire, spontaneous order, collective cooperation, central planning.
So-called "spontaneous privatizations" allowed insiders and well placed officials to plunder them.
In his groundbreaking General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money, John Maynard Keynes referred to “animal spirits” as “the characteristic of human nature that a large proportion of our positive activities depend on spontaneous optimism, rather than mathematical expectations, whether moral or hedonistic or economic.”
Yet something funny happened between these movements’ origins as spontaneous, inclusive street protests and their later success at the ballot box.
China’s senior leaders always closely monitor spontaneous public expressions of nationalist fervor, fearful that shifting winds might blow an unwelcome storm in their direction.
But there is more behind the spontaneous protests that have choked the great central vistas of Delhi (to such an extent that the government was forced to change the venue for meetings with visiting Russian President Vladimir Putin).
Keynes’s rival, Friedrich Hayek, went further, asserting that a successful, enduring order could not be negotiated at all; it had to be spontaneous.
They all exhibit the same, unchanging pattern: the government, whether in Beijing or the localities, tolerates the low-decibel, smaller-scale, relatively non-disruptive marches and sit-ins by demonstrators bearing petitions and posters, especially if they appear to be spontaneous, un-organized, localized and leaderless.
There was no way to prove whether the Russian government, a spontaneous nationalist response, or both aided this transnational attack.
It is much better to rely on the spontaneous creativity of businessmen, workers and markets.
The rage, it seems, is not spontaneous; rather, it is an artifact of local or regional politics.
But so were many Western communitarians and few people in the West realized that their counterparts in Eastern Europe read Hayek's "spontaneous order" and communitarian ideas of membership in local communities in ways that did not sit well with the model of democratic revolution envisaged by the West.
But it might also have been one of those natural turning points, a collective and spontaneous decision to say: “Enough of depression, let’s move on.”
It should be remembered that former General Secretary Hu Yaobang, who had been forced to step down two years earlier by Deng Xiaoping because of his liberal stance, died in April 1989, triggering spontaneous and peaceful student demonstrations in Beijing, which spread across the country.
Moreover, the way ordinary Chinese rallied to help victims of the earthquake in Sichuan has been quite remarkable, as have been the spontaneous efforts of people in Burma to assist their fellow citizens, even as the military did very little.
Because the remodeling of neurons by stress is reversible, researchers now believe that chronic anxiety disorders and depression represent a lack of resilience, or spontaneous recovery, in susceptible individuals.
The demonstrations have been spontaneous, disorganized, and chaotic, but also impassioned and remarkably peaceful.
For years human rights activists and scholars suspected the obvious: the emergence of an enormous, vicious, well-armed, and well-trained parallel army to fight the guerillas was not some spontaneous act.
But the seemingly spontaneous resolve of some Crimean Russians to rejoin Mother Russia is allowing Putin to wipe some of the egg off his face.
It might be some sort of “democratic nationalist revolution” – spontaneous, and not made by any one political party but by a popular mass movement.
Thus the government has no appropriate means of dealing with the recent increases in spontaneous demonstrations by laid-off urban workers or impoverished farmers, let alone dissatisfied religious sects.
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