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The State should not abandon its redistributive role; neither can the State surrender to the market its role in development.
We are left with the certainty, however awkward, that active participation in an open world economy requires some surrender of economic sovereignty.
No one dreamed that a line drawn on the 38th parallel for the tactical purpose of organizing the surrender of Japanese units to Soviet and American forces would become a scar across the Korean peninsula that would create two separate states.
Too much is at stake for surrender.
Unfortunately, Japan moved onto militaristic imperialism in the 1930’s, which eventually led to its surrender and occupation in 1945.
The big question is whether the rich countries that have long ruled the roost at the Fund would actually surrender some of their power.
They have made it clear that when it comes to free expression, their priorities lie on the side of surrender.
If US and Chinese policymakers instead surrender to the temptation of slipping back to the pre-crisis imbalances, the roots of the next crisis will grow like bamboo.
As it stands, the West is relying on increasingly tough sanctions to persuade Russian President Vladimir Putin to back down, leaving the Ukrainian rebels either to surrender or be crushed – and enabling the Ukrainian government to dictate the terms of the country’s future.
Germany will have to loosen its beloved purse strings, and France will have to surrender some of its precious political sovereignty.
This was the great lesson of the 1970's and early 1980's, when rampant inflation forced politicians to surrender this power to independent central banks, which alone could convince markets that price stability would be restored.
Voters surrender freedoms for that promised prosperity, as Russia under Putin illustrates.
Even the atomic bomb, which did force Japan to surrender and ended World War II, depended on Harry Truman’s will to use it.
The Accidental EmpireNEW YORK – It is now clear that the main cause of the euro crisis is the member states’ surrender of their right to print money to the European Central Bank.
They did not understand just what that surrender entailed – and neither did the European authorities.
Pakistan is worth invoking when assessing whether the sanctions now imposed on Iran will force it to surrender its nuclear program.
Iran’s theocratic regime, immersed in a momentous struggle for survival against what it regards as an unholy alliance of Israel, the American “Great Satan,” and a surrounding Arab world that abhors its hegemonic ambitions, will not surrender its nuclear ambitions easily.
Yet, however crippling the effect of sanctions might be, they will not bring the regime to surrender its nuclear program.
Another favorite delusion in the West is to believe that Iran will surrender if pressure is steadily increased.
The student demonstrators in the streets of Paris recently don’t want to become like Chinese and Indians; they reject the logic of globalization and refuse to surrender hard-won social guarantees.
But Shia leaders will lose their constituents’ support if they formally surrender any of the powers denied them for decades under Saddam.
If Nixon could seek agreement with Communist China, and de Gaulle surrender Algeria, it is a relatively small step for Socialists to embrace the free market and support much lower taxes on business.
Scandalously, they still have to surrender 50% of their foreign-exchange reserves to the French Treasury as a guarantee of the CFA franc’s limited convertibility and free transfer to France.
The Iranians say that Nadir Shah stole it fair and square, while the Afghans assert that the Sikhs forced them to surrender it.
Here are a few lines of the kind of poetry that Al Qaeda uses:I do not sell our honor like a pimpthat I should lower my eyes, or surrender.
He does not want to go down in history as the prime minister who had to surrender Italy’s sovereignty to save the country from default.
Interestingly, the surrender document forced upon Greece’s prime minister, and approved by Parliament, was phrased as if it had been written at the request of the Greek authorities.
Hezbollah has refused to disarm in the face of what it has called the Israeli threat, although its definition of this threat has shifted frequently enough to cast doubt on whether it would ever be willing to surrender its weapons.
Colombia’s government has gone as far as it can, in the face of much criticism from its own supporters, in not insisting on immediate disarmament or surrender, but instead offering a cease-fire and the rebels the possibility of reintegration into civil society under international observation.
As a result, one prisoner in exchange for a thousand Palestinian prisoners is neither a humiliation nor a surrender, but an acceptable agreement that acknowledges, even on behalf of the enemy, the military capacity of Israeli soldiers.
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