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So in addition to promoting those proactive solutions, the other thing we need to do is
upend
the hate in our institutions and our policies that perpetuate dehumanization and difference and otherizing and hate, like systems of sexual harassment and sexual assault in the workplace, or our deeply racially imbalanced and deeply racially biased criminal "justice" system.
The way these children will be able to use their new awareness to improve themselves will
upend
many of the damaging and widespread social stigmas that people who are diagnosed as different are challenged with.
The immediate criticism is that the newcomers
upend
the stability of social welfare and employment in their countries.
Imagine if all of the followers of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders had decided not to
upend
the political status quo and blow apart the frame of the previously possible in American politics.
For a mom's dinner, where you want to
upend
the norms of what women who also happen to be mothers talk about when they gather, if you talk about your kids, you have to take a shot.
And although Western politicians may talk tough in response to the Kremlin’s efforts to
upend
the status quo, their actions often betray a weaker hand.
After the US election, Trump and his advisers appeared to have concluded that the best way to
upend
China’s strategic position was to subject all past conventions, including the “One China” policy, to reexamination.
Not so the UK, which is now in the final stages of negotiations to withdraw from the European Union – a move that will
upend
its relationship with its single largest trade partner.
Keeping SDRs as pure “central-bank money” would eliminate such opposition, enabling them to complement and stabilize the current system, rather than
upend
it.
How America’s Asian Allies Can Survive TrumpWASHINGTON, DC – Judging by US President Donald Trump’s behavior since his election, and by the explicitly isolationist message of his inaugural address, it seems safe to assume that his administration’s foreign policy will
upend
many long-held assumptions about America’s role in the world.
The Vultures’ VictoryNEW YORK – A recent decision by a United States appeals court threatens to
upend
global sovereign-debt markets.
Abe feels let down by Obama’s decision not to take a firm stand on the ADIZ – the latest in a series of aggressive moves by China to
upend
the status quo in the East China Sea.
Moreover, those variables that could
upend
Netanyahu’s re-election – the situation in Gaza and Lebanon, for example, or deteriorating conditions in Sinai and Jordan, any of which could drag Israel into unwanted military operations – now appear unlikely to influence the outcome.
Johnson is a tribune of the people who grew up with the privileges of the 1%; a child of immigrants who campaigned for closed borders; a Conservative who wants to
upend
the political order; an erudite man who mocks expertise; and a cosmopolitan who casually calls black people “piccaninnies.”
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, in a meeting with US National Security Adviser Susan Rice and others, explained that Israel could not antagonize Russia for fear that it would provide Syria with sophisticated weapons systems (primarily S-300 anti-aircraft missiles) – a move that would
upend
the status quo in Israel’s strategic environment.
Such data
upend
the conventional wisdom that migrants are a drain on public services.
This oversight is particularly crippling in view of the impending transformation, which will
upend
the underpinnings of contemporary society.
Far more dangerous are gradual shifts in international global institutions that
upend
expectations about how key players will behave.
The announcement by President Donald Trump’s administration that it is ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which President Barack Obama established by executive order in 2012, threatens to
upend
the lives of an entire generation.
But Chinese leaders’ goal is not explicitly to
upend
that order, which did, after all, prove flexible enough to enable the impoverished China of the 1970s to become what it is today.
Taken together, they will
upend
old business models and institutions, heralding a new era of economic, social, and political history.
Early this year, economists at the International Monetary Fund produced empirical results that seemed to
upend
the old consensus.
This suggests that he could
upend
conventions that have often been damaging to Palestine, transforming the rules of the game.
Russia does not need to
upend
the existing global order; it simply needs to find its place.
India’s Communists had tried to topple the Congress-led government last year in an attempt to scuttle the nuclear deal brokered by the United States, and had vowed to
upend
it.
The country is attempting to
upend
the status quo not only in the South China Sea, but also in the East China Sea and the Himalayas.
Though these parties have very different roots, they all have one thing in common: all are trying to
upend
the foreign-policy consensus that has defined Europe for several decades.
Musk’s unconventional strategy could
upend
entire industries – for the benefit of all.
While disruptive, Internet-enabled politics can
upend
the status quo – the Arab Spring revolutions taught us that – it has not proved particularly effective at creating sustainable alternatives.
China, for its part, uses history to justify its efforts to
upend
the territorial and maritime status quo and emulate the pre-1945 colonial depredations of its rival Japan.
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