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She will strive to enter the Oval Office – the theater of her inner, outer, and planetary misery – on her own terms.
Because our societies have no sense of limits, they strive to eliminate death from our consciousness.
His circle is packed with yes-men (and some token yes-women), who strive to satisfy his sense of omniscience and magnificence.
As the international community strives to end the chaos and conflict wracking the Middle East and establish a regional order than can sustain peace and stability, its leaders should strive to work within the existing framework.
But they can strive to shape a more cooperative future.
In the process, we may understand that we vote because that is what citizens ought to do, and we excel at our jobs because we strive for respect and self-realization, not just a raise.
Yet the two leaders and their administrations must overcome monumental challenges as their countries strive to reach the next stage of their development.
This would augment the diplomatic and moral capital available to diplomats as they strive to restrain nuclear proliferation in a world where more countries than ever have the wherewithal to construct a nuclear bomb.
It may be more natural for the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovakia to strive for closer regional cooperation with Austria and Slovenia, the contours of which can already be seen in some existing regional groupings.
This is where the super-managers come in: they strive to pocket part of the value created by the team.
Of course, we should strive to ensure that money is spent as productively as possible, but humans, and human institutions, are fallible, and there are costs to ensuring that money is well spent.
To that end, as the deans of the Harvard Kennedy School and the Harvard Business School, respectively, we strive to impart the values of effective leadership to our students.
Yet, unlike Islamic Jihad and Al Qaeda, Hamas is susceptible to change; and this is precisely what Israeli diplomacy should strive to achieve.
In his second inaugural address, following a period of extreme division and civil war, Abraham Lincoln declared, “let us strive on” and “bind up the nation’s wounds.”
It is in recognition of this fact that German conservatives strive, for example, to strike a balance between economy and ecology.
That is why the EU should strive to create a fiscal framework that has the sole objective of ensuring that its members’ debts are sustainable.
Mousavi ran as a reformist who said he would strive for greater freedom of the press, more rights for women, and fewer restrictions on the private lives of Iranians.
Rightly so: enlargement of NATO is not an "expansion" that threatens Russia or other countries which strive for democratic political reforms.
For the time being, Israel should strive for the safest truce it can accomplish, provided that Hamas stops shooting out of its own crowded living room.
The goal of reaching 90-90-90 by the year 2020 and 95-95-95 by 2030 is realistic, if countries strive for success.
Beyond the additional troops, President Obama must strive for an inclusive settlement in Afghanistan.
Similar measures can be expected elsewhere as governments strive to meet the targets pledged under the Paris climate agreement.
“People will always favor their own families and communities,” Goodhart argues, and “it is the task of a realistic liberalism to strive for a definition of community that is wide enough to include people from many different backgrounds, without being so wide as to become meaningless.”
And if we want democracy along with globalization, we must shove the nation-state aside and strive for greater international governance.
This underpins levels of resilience and longevity that economic systems should strive to emulate.
That is why I believe more must be done to support poor countries as they strive to integrate into the digital economy.
As graduation nears for the first class to complete their Master of Business Administration since the onset of the global financial crisis, students are circulating an oath that commits them to pursue their work “in an ethical manner”; “to strive to create sustainable economic, social, and environmental prosperity worldwide”; and to manage their enterprises “in good faith, guarding against decisions and behavior that advance my own narrow ambitions but harm the enterprise and the societies it serves.”
For the true believers in this creed, the suggestion that the manager of a business should strive for anything except maximizing value for shareholders is heresy.
According to early Confucian thinkers, a key task for rulers is to strive to improve a peoples’ happiness, which is itself grounded in a moral way of life.
Indeed, Ireland has made itself a shining example to those who strive to catch up with the rest of Europe.
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