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But so far, Pakistanis have tended to view the violence as an unnecessary and avoidable result of Pakistan’s involvement in the US-led “war on terror.”
Célian Macé, reporting for the French newspaper Libération, encountered similar problems when attempting to access Bana and Sourkoudingan.On the outskirts of the villages – still well within the range of the mosquito release – people tended to be more comfortable being interviewed.
On the outskirts of the villages – still well within the range of the mosquito release – people tended to be more comfortable being interviewed.
We concluded that advanced economies’ fiscal policies tended to be either independent of the business cycle (acyclical) or to lean in the opposite direction (countercyclical).
Ever since Alan Greenspan’s chairmanship of the US Federal Reserve Board, both markets and the media have tended to lionize and personalize institutions like central banks.
Even in countries like Tunisia and Egypt, where the transition to democracy is more advanced, political uncertainty has tended to plague economic achievements.
Western analysts have tended either to dismiss Turkmenistan as a human rights pariah, or to approach the country simply as a source of natural gas in the ongoing pipeline competition involving Western Europe and Russia.
Once a country eliminated convertibility into gold, it was free to pursue monetary expansion, and deflation tended to end.
There were recoveries in 1995-1996 and again in 2000 and 2010; but they tended to be cut short by the failure to write down bad debt (the so-called zombie loans), several premature policy reversals, and an increasingly unsustainable accumulation of government debt.
Unfortunately, across Africa, national borders have tended to be chokepoints rather than enablers of intra-continental cooperation on trade, security, labor, and environmental issues.
Municipalities tended to have more entrepreneurs if they had a high proportion of pensioners who were members of the Church of Sweden (the official state church until 2000) and a high proportion of right-wing voters.
Lamont found that people in both Paris and Clermont-Ferrand tended to express contempt for “money-grubbing.”
While European societies have developed social welfare states with universal access to public health and education services, elites throughout the Americas have tended to favor private-sector provision of health and education, in part reflecting white populations’ unwillingness to pay for social services for other ethnic and racial groups.
But, while SIT remains unregulated in most places, the regulatory reviews of genetically engineered living organisms have tended to be drawn out and excessive worldwide, with politics delaying – and sometimes even preventing – approvals.
In recent years, the tail has tended to wag the dog in the UK, with Cameron kowtowing to the fanatically anti-European wing of his Conservative Party, if only to hold the pro-withdrawal UK Independence Party at bay.
They then show evidence from the United States that jobs involving both routine manual work and routine cognitive work have become much less plentiful in recent decades, and that these jobs have indeed tended to be replaced by computers.
But these trends tended to persist within occupations, industries, and educational attainment levels, thus providing little guidance concerning what occupation to choose or how much education to pursue.
Ideas drawn from trade theory – such as specialization and comparative advantage – were used to explain why in the developed world men tended to work outside of the home and women within it.
On the contrary, they have tended to make matters worse.
This model suggested that a market economy should be left alone as much as possible, so that is what governments tended to do.
They then tended to collapse more quickly than anyone could believe.
Those that had not, particularly middle-income countries in Central Europe and the continent’s periphery, tended to be hit the hardest.
Yet the Asian countries’ economies have tended to grow much faster over the past generation.
Above all, the West’s effective crackdown on domestic extremism has tended to drive would-be terrorists – now often based in remote parts of the world, where they hope to operate with impunity – to higher levels of technical sophistication.
The Maoist ideological mindset grew out of Lenin's theory of imperialism, which, aided by endless barrages of propaganda against capitalism, colonialism, and foreign hegemony, tended to reinforce the sense of national humiliation.
Finally, as Gyourko, Mayer, and Sinai themselves note, even these small long-term differences in home price across cities have tended to be offset by lower rent-price ratios in the superstar cities.
Discussions about the influx of migrants into Europe have tended to focus on logistics, such as how to provide enough beds for the 1.1 million asylum-seekers who arrived in Germany last year, or the more than 160,000 who arrived in Sweden.
Estimates of the number of extinctions have tended to vary wildly, owing to differences in the assumed total number of species, which range from the one million species that have scientific names to an implausibly high estimate of 100 million species.
France’s citizens have tended to expect too much from their state, and now they may be expecting too little from politics and politicians at a time when deep divisions on fundamental economic and social issues run not only between the traditional right and left, but also within both camps.
According to Kiyosaki, his poor but scholarly dad tended to be pessimistic about one’s ability to achieve anything in the real world, so he discouraged his son from even trying.
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