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There was a certain amount of political bluster among rock stars, to be sure, but this was widely regarded as frivolous posturing.
While his presidency has been widely criticized, it also had significant achievements: legalizing gay marriage, making France a party to the Paris climate agreement, and restoring some balance to social-welfare spending.
Hong Kong’s first chief executive, Tung Chee-hwa, was widely viewed as a wise choice.
Indoor spraying remains the most widely used method of household insect control worldwide.
It is widely suspected, for example, that the reason for the European Central Bank’s otherwise puzzling decision to raise interest rates in July 2008, as the world was sliding into the worst recession since the 1930’s, was that oil prices were just then reaching an all-time high.
But, beyond this overwhelming opposition to austerity, countries’ experiences vary widely.
In the US, upward mobility is more myth than reality, whereas downward mobility and vulnerability is a widely shared experience.
After all, World War II is widely thought to have helped lift the global economy out of the Great Depression.
Instead, negotiators must aim to spread the benefits of trade more widely, by taking better advantage of the opportunities for cooperation stemming from geographical proximity, complementary labor markets, demographic dynamics, and economic integration.
The UK’s “Leave” campaign channeled a widely felt desire to restore past certainties, not to establish new rights.
By the time I left the Bank, these ideas were widely accepted, and I was pleased that Wolfowitz supported continuing the Bank’s efforts.
Whenever the “severity effect” outweighs the “prevalence effect,” the increasing overall prevalence of the NCD will be accompanied by a decreasing health impact, not an increasing disease “footprint,” as is widely assumed.
The Enlightenment idea that our System-II rationality can always point to an optimal choice about which every reasonable individual would agree clashes with the widely accepted modern idea that there is a plurality of reasonable choices.
After years of turmoil, lower-ranking officers headed by Captain Moussa Dadis Camara took power in December 2008 in what was a widely supported and peaceful takeover.
The outcome of the race between technology and education will determine whether the opportunities presented by major innovations are seized, and whether the benefits of progress are widely shared.
This includes ensuring that teachers have the tools they need to take full advantage of information and communication technology (ICT), which is not being used widely, despite its potential to ensure broad access to lifelong learning through formal and informal channels.
If it can renew the European model at home, it will be able to project that success much more widely, particularly in southern Europe, in turn reinforcing confidence and belief in the EU, particularly among the young generation.
Iraq will suffer the most, but the consequences will almost certainly be felt widely.
Widely viewed as a capable technocrat, Mousavi has often been able to navigate Iran's complicated economic and political maze.
Instead, US banks, widely blamed for the international lending boom that preceded the bust, were so intimidated and weakened that the flow of American credit stopped.
The reality is that infectious diseases – immediate, life-threatening, and capable of spreading widely thanks to modern transportation – are compelling targets.
That much was understood widely by entrenched Arab dictators, who saw to it that their intelligence and security corps extinguished any flame before it could spread.
He is widely seen to have exerted considerable influence on the setting of inter-governmental agendas during his time in Brussels.
Most French citizens are now so frightened of Islamist attacks that such measures are widely supported.
For a US economy that is widely presumed to be nearing the hallowed ground of full employment, this comes as a rude awakening – particularly for the Federal Reserve, which has pulled out all the stops to get inflation back to its 2% target.
The bonds issued by Fannie and Freddie were widely thought to carry an implicit US government guarantee.
With Israel’s international standing determined largely by its close relationship with the US, its failure to support the US at such a sensitive moment is highly meaningful – and widely noticed.
Both have been used more widely – indeed, taken to extreme levels – to supplement the unconventional expansion of balance sheets in the context of liquidity traps.
Since nearly all schools are dependent on government subsidies, the grant of flexibility is widely perceived to be a tactical delay.
But no one was more dumbfounded than those on the losing side, which in both cases had been widely expected to come out on top.
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