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An alternative tradition, going back to Saint Thomas Aquinas, held that prices should be “just.”
He tried to brow-beat investors at a board meeting in the Kremlin where – in good Soviet
tradition
– everyone was expected to vote unanimously to split the company into small pieces so as to sell them at low prices to cronies, political allies, and friendly oligarchs.
But it broke with
tradition
in September 2015.
So perhaps the 102-year-old Fed is returning to its original
tradition.
Wilders, while lacking Voet’s scholarly credentials, represents no less of a threat to the Dutch
tradition
of openness, freedom, and toleration.
In order to win support, they have often appealed to the Confucian
tradition.
Meritocracy, which is central to the Chinese political tradition, will almost certainly serve as a reference point from which to assess the country’s development.
Later, economists in the Austrian
tradition
noted that imbalances affecting the real side of the economy (“malinvestments”) were of equal concern.
In rural Iraq the
tradition
is that a person preferably should die at home with his or her family around.
In this tradition, trade liberalization is a microeconomic “shock” that affects the composition of employment, but not its overall level.
From the very beginning, these countries have represented the different aspects of Europe’s identity: Belgium, as an industrial country, continentally oriented, bilingual, and an intermediary with southern Europe, and the Netherlands with its strong agricultural and trading
tradition
and its Anglo-Saxon and Atlantic orientation.
The French have a long
tradition
of respecting the privacy of their politicians’ personal lives, and French public opinion is more broad-minded than in the United States, where an unwed mother of four would have no chance of being nominated for the presidency by a major party.
But will the new generation of Republicans continue this
tradition?
Will its recent presidential election continue that
tradition?
In Islamic tradition, reform of Sharia results from an Ijtijad, a creative and intellectual effort to apply Islamic law to new circumstances.
Indeed, in certain key fields, Europe possesses a globally recognized
tradition
of excellence linked to a very deep culture of quality.
Of course, when it comes to immigration and human rights, the internationalist ideological
tradition
of socialism prevents extreme nationalist and racist discourse on the far left.
Iran has a
tradition
of architectural design that has revealed key insights to cognitive scientists.
The core values of China’s government are not informed by the humane civility of Tang or Song poets, but by the twisted dialectics of Marxism-Leninism and the amoral militaristic
tradition
of a party that still cherishes its often brutish and violent habits of governance.
On a recent visit organized by the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), the coexistence of entrenched
tradition
and rapid transformation was starkly apparent.
Martin Luther King, Jr. benefited from growing up in an African-American church
tradition
rich in the rhythms of the spoken word.
Despite these countries’ lack of a
tradition
of open dissent, globalization has made it plain to all that economic development requires regime change.
But the grim reality for the Islamic world is that, in times of widespread uncertainty, the forces of
tradition
tend to speak more loudly and clearly than those of change.
In the
tradition
of that era, Red Square was filled with the army’s latest equipment, including the new T-14 “Armata” tank.
And, also in the
tradition
of that era, ordinary people were quick to joke when the tank stalled during the parade rehearsal: “The Armata truly has unprecedented destructive power; a battalion can destroy the entire Russian budget!”
Thomas Aquinas, still an influential figure in the Catholic tradition, thought that we have a duty not to end our own life because to do so is a sin against God.
In a 1995 essay for The New York Review of Books, the novelist Umberto Eco, who was born during Italian fascism in 1932, defines fascism expansively as a “cult of tradition” based in “selective populism.”
In order to break this tradition, and to underscore the critical importance of putting a development leader in charge of the Bank, I entered the campaign myself, and I was deeply honored by the public support that I received from a dozen countries, and by the private support of many more.
Dissidents are routinely dubbed deviants, fifth columnists, and traitors, as the regime leads a drive for national unity based on religion, tradition, and paranoid rhetoric.
Beginning a well-planned war (including cyber-warfare) as the Olympics were opening also violates the ancient
tradition
of a truce to conflict during the Games.
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