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Journalist Joseph Warungu describes a “narrow alleyway at the back of the court buildings” teeming with notaries, commissioners for oaths, letter writers, and lawyers offering services from witness statements to contracts, all “processed efficiently and at a pocket-friendly rate.”
This extremism is, slowly but surely, producing its own reaction, as we see from Islamaphobic parties’ electoral gains in Europe, and statements by European leaders that multiculturalism has failed.
It is clear from various recent statements that some of Abe’s closest advisers believe that the apology was not in order, so the committee might well conclude that Japan was never officially involved in prostitution, and that its “sincere remorse” should therefore be withdrawn.
The United States and Europe have issued strong statements condemning the crackdown and calling upon Myanmar’s neighbors, especially India and China, to exert their influence on the regime.
Most US presidents since Woodrow Wilson have made similar statements.
My statements were also motivated by problems with the way capital punishment is imposed in India.
At best, such statements serve as a distraction from important issues; at worst, they distort public policy.
Because the voice of central banks has become so dominant in financial markets, price movements have come to reflect responses to their statements and actions, rather than to changing economic and financial realities.
Syria’s Humanitarian LifelinesNEW YORK – After more than a thousand days of death and misery, two important recent public statements show why policy toward Syria must enter a new phase of intensity and focus.
A solution that will not work is for economists to second-guess how their ideas will be used or misused in public debate and to shade their public statements accordingly.
All economic propositions are “if-then” statements.
The candidates’ statements on Iran do suggest two different philosophies of diplomacy.
An unexpected meeting of the two prime ministers in Ufa, Russia, in July produced little progress, with both sides immediately repudiating each other’s statements about what was discussed and agreed.
US-Pakistan relations have turned poisonous, with blunt statements proliferating from both governments.
Not surprisingly, Pakistan has reacted angrily to such statements; they are also alarmed.
Nonetheless, in an interview on December 14, Obama made three path-breaking statements.
The importance of these statements cannot be overestimated.
Then, in a series of leaks and explicit statements, the new government pointed out the previous policies’ high legal, bureaucratic, and financial costs, and that many more crimes of all types were committed, despite sharply higher spending on law enforcement and security.
In fact, the financial statements of mega-banks are impenetrable works of fiction or wishful thinking.
Not one mentioned the relentless stream of ignorant statements, outright lies, and impetuous actions that have eroded the standing of the US president – and thus of the US – in the world.
Among his most controversial campaign statements were some suggesting that NATO was obsolete, a position that bodes ill for his attitude to other multilateral organizations and alliances.
Such blanket statements and superficial judgments do not belong in the selection of individuals for important positions.
But, two years later, it was discovered that some of the IPCC report’s key claims – for example, that global warming would cause the immense Himalayan glaciers to disappear by 2035, or halve African crop yields by 2020 – were based on statements made in appeals by environmentalist organizations, and were backed by little or no evidence.
When they are negligible, they flatter profit statements, while balance-sheet problems slowly accumulate.
Most American presidents since Woodrow Wilson have made similar statements.
For a long time, economic theory aspired to the elegance of Euclidean geometry, where all true statements can be derived from five apparently incontrovertible axioms, such as the notion that there is only one line that connects two points in space.
As in many other areas, Trump’s promises and statements on economic policy have been inconsistent.
Laws enacted to single out and “persecute” Muslims, and statements that affirm the Islamophobia of our media, buttress the absurd notion that what we are really witnessing is a “war on Islam.”
The statements from Mélenchon and his confederates are unworthy of any party that wishes to be viewed as the opposition in France.
Around mid-August, as Trump’s poll numbers rose even after public statements that would have brought down mere mortal candidates, it dawned on the pundits that he was no summer infatuation.
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