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And this is greeted on both sides of the aisle with a shrug, as if intentionally drowning out one’s colleagues with shouted slogans were just another parliamentary maneuver, as valid as a filibuster or an adjournment motion.

There are valid arguments to made for either course.

But the realization in 2007 that some of the system’s fundamental assumptions were no longer valid triggered a crisis with huge economic and social costs.

However, given current European and American law, these claims require a novel legal underpinning in order to be valid and enforceable.

All of these reasons for failure remain valid today.

But some of the simplest and most important precepts, formulated well before these micro-foundations were well established--such as the fact that temporary income tax cuts are unlikely to be effective, while temporary investment tax credits can be extremely powerful--are as valid today as ever.

China’s rulers have denied that the secret arms deals were valid, and insist that the government did not authorize them.

Opponents of genetic engineering in food and agriculture have several arguments, none of which appears to be valid.

There are definitely valid concerns about how China conducts trade, including what Pascal Lamy, a former WTO director-general, calls “opaque, trade-distorting subsidization of high-tech products.”

Russia has valid concerns regarding the huge Russian-speaking minorities in both countries, and these concerns are best dealt within the framework of the MAP process, where the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe’s very strict rules on treatment of minorities provide the benchmark.

The law that is valid for all other companies should apply to banks as well.

The counter-argument – that any sell-off or failure by China to continue to buy US government securities would hurt China as much as America – is not valid.

The irony is that US intellectual-property concerns are valid.

This sequencing and reckless use of the tariff instrument encourage observers to dismiss even valid concerns as fake news.

But it should also show a willingness to address valid US concerns when the US takes a WTO-based approach to pursuing them – for example, by relaxing its joint-venture rules and strengthening its intellectual-property protections.

These are all valid and important considerations, but they are not overwhelming.

We have put in place a single tourist visa valid in all three countries.

The argument seems valid, except that the Europeans would willingly suspend their scheme if a global, effective, and non-discriminatory solution were agreed upon.

I think these critics have a valid point, and the IMF should mend its ways.

It is, of course, valid to require Boris Berezovsky to obey the law but, as so often in Russian history, the cost has become higher than the aim.

Both lines of argument are valid, but the fact is that countries that have restructured their debt have not found themselves worse off as a result.

But a return to technocratic decision-making is not a valid way to reduce 169 targets to the 19 he thinks will have the most impact.

But defending personal privacy is still a valid objective, and maintaining secrecy in some domains, such as national security, diplomacy, and human rights, is essential.

But, as the US and Russia reduce their nuclear stockpiles, this excuse is becoming less valid, and China’s exclusion from negotiations is becoming an increasingly significant hindrance to disarmament.

In fact, they are often given strong incentives to stay: permanent-visa status and a valid license to practice medicine.

Second, the principle of the indivisibility of European and US security, so fundamental during the Cold War, remains valid.

Finally, though the Arab Spring has been stifled everywhere (with the sole exception of Tunisia), the expectations, yearnings, and concerns of the region’s people remain alive and valid.

Are all interpretations equally valid?

That critique was valid for socialist societies, too.

Too many valid choices are ignored or skirted through the routine of short-cuts.

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