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The BRICS’ response is both understandable and disquieting.
This inaction is understandable.
This behavior is understandable.
Their appetite for change – understandable, given the treatment of women in traditional Muslim societies – appears to be one of the main causes underlying the force of the revolutionary impulse in Tunisia and Egypt.
These concerns, while understandable, are misplaced.
It is thus understandable that the Turkish and Iranian governments would object to the KRG’s independence bid: they fear the emergence, if it succeeds, of similar movements among their own oppressed Kurdish populations.
In this context, it is perhaps understandable that the creditor countries are increasingly promoting a “small” EU that includes only those that are willing and able to meet their high standards.
For trade generally, the biggest risk is that the Trump administration could start a lose-lose trade dispute, owing to its understandable eagerness to help American manufacturing workers.
However, it is understandable that plans under current discussion envision focusing first on the youngest and oldest workers.
While Turkey’s lurch into the fray in 2010 may have been unwelcome, its interest in calming a situation involving an immediate neighbor is understandable.
Yet its appeal to some is understandable, given that the country’s economic situation has continued to worsen over the last few months.
The intention was understandable: if everyone in the world exchanged most light bulbs for energy-efficient compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs), we could save 3.5% of all electricity, or 1% of our CO2 emissions.
There is understandable reluctance to allow that to happen again.
That is understandable: the upstarts thoroughly defeated the Democrats at the polls, often with outsize populist promises.
Moreover, Hu has fomented nationalism, not by taking understandable pride in China’s impressive economic growth, but by demonizing Japan.
However understandable the international outcry these additional nuclear explosions are an inescapable price for the big deal - the comprehensive test-ban treaty.
Concern is therefore understandable.
It is fully understandable – and largely supported by empirical evidence – that these CEOs would want good results to occur on their watch, rather than after their successor takes over.
It is perhaps understandable that the original MDGs did not mention either internal or international migration.
A similar resistance to noisome conclusions – and similarly understandable from a psychological viewpoint – informs today’s thinking about terrorists.
The impulse to put things off for a later day is understandable, given current economic and political troubles; but when it comes to public pensions, procrastination comes at a high cost – even more so than in the case of global warming.
Regardless of longstanding disagreements over how cross-border freshwater resources should be allocated and managed, and understandable preferences by governments and water professionals to rely on basin agreements rather than on international legal instruments, that half-century wait can be explained only by a lack of political leadership.
People are skeptical for understandable reasons, and in the case of the credit crisis, angry.
To be sure, it is understandable that academics might question Daoud’s approach; his argument was based on a strain of “essentialism,” in which individual actions are reduced to cultural and religious forces, with no attention to the social, political, and economic conditions that might be at work.
Thus, the BRICS’ dissatisfaction with the status quo is understandable.
Perhaps some of the anxiety over the new global academic enterprise is understandable, particularly in a period of massive economic uncertainty.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been a favorite target of opponents of austerity for some time now, and it is understandable that, after months of being a bystander to the EU’s painful inability to govern, Germany has reluctantly – indeed, insufficiently – taken charge.
It is understandable that he wishes to distinguish himself from his predecessor, Vicente Fox, who was unable to get meaningful reforms through Congress.
The passion in Raidy’s appeal is admirable, and the sentiment is understandable.
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