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One of the official reasons was that widespread rape of Chinese women by Japanese soldiers was provoking too much resistance among the local population.
The key to the effectiveness of these bilateral relationships is that they enjoy widespread support (and thus legitimacy) in the region as stabilizing arrangements.
The phenomenon is far more widespread, complex, and varied – but it is useful to focus on the more extreme cases.
Democracy remains a worthy and widespread goal, which should be distinguished from the means chosen to attain it.
When some of the more reasonable members of the Bush administration are asked today how they could have taken the positions that they did in 2002, they cite the anthrax attacks that followed 9/11, the intelligence reports of an impending attack with nuclear materials, and widespread public fear of a second attack.
Not surprisingly, this aberration of democracy incites widespread cynicism.
Francis still faces widespread apathy among believers, especially in the advanced industrial societies, where disaffected Catholics are increasingly questioning their commitment or simply opting out.
This time, too, it may take a while for the new technologies to become widespread and lead to measured increases in productivity growth.
There is also widespread acknowledgement that the US must do more both at home and diplomatically to address global climate change; that the US must work with its European allies to prevent Afghanistan from slipping back into anarchy; and that the US must take the strongest possible stand against terrorism and those who would support it in any way.
On other occasions, protests such as May Day marches were transformed into widespread social mobilization, as happened in France on May 1, 1968.
That said, the analyses conducted so far have not yet generated widespread awareness of the threat that non-inclusive growth poses to productivity and economic performance as conventionally measured.
To put it bluntly, insightful analysis has its uses, but change will not happen without a widespread social and political convergence around shared values and objectives – something that is sorely missing in many countries today.
Add to this the rise in income and wealth inequality in most countries, and it is no wonder that the perception of a winner-take-all economy that benefits only elites and distorts the political system has become widespread.
The Arab Spring – triggered by slow growth, high youth unemployment, and widespread economic desperation – has given way to a long winter in Egypt and Libya, where the alternatives are a return to authoritarian strongmen and political chaos.
Sarkozy surprised everyone by offering the position to a French Socialist, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, a man with real competence who enjoys widespread respect.
But the figure also shows that the 2010-2016 period is not the first episode of widespread negative real returns on bonds.
The movement’s rapid growth was fueled by widespread opposition to what many regard as official efforts to regiment lifestyles, as well as by frustration over perceived economic inequities.
Even more widespread than indirect repression is the corrupting pressure of government money.
There is also a widespread sense of economic insecurity.
False gods have always profited from a widespread sense of insecurity.
In our increasingly interconnected world, there are new risks whose consequences could be widespread – and perhaps global.
And given the power and widespread use of modern surveillance technology, one also makes oneself identifiable to the government.
Because runs on banks can trigger widespread distress, governments explicitly guarantee insured deposits and implicitly guarantee all the other debts of mega-banks.
Widespread human rights violations, either caused or tolerated by a national government, can give rise to what is sometimes called a remedial right to secession for a region’s inhabitants.
All states have an interest in stability, so it is hard to imagine that, in the absence of widespread, grave, and undeniable human rights violations, other states would recognize a region that, after being part of a state for many centuries, declared itself independent without the acquiescence of the country from which it secedes.
Second, there is a widespread belief that advanced economies’ urban elites – in government, the media, and business – are either uninterested or unable to address their societies’ most serious problems: economic inequality, banking crises, aging populations and overburdened social-security systems, terrorism, porous borders, rapidly changing community identities, and much else.
Despite these underlying tensions, there is widespread agreement on the most pressing Arctic issues.
Add to that the widespread view that the bombs accelerated the end of the war, thereby saving lives, and few Americans would make the case that Japan is owed any apology.
In short, emerging economies have been challenged by externally generated macroeconomic shifts, unconventional monetary policies, widespread volatility, and slow growth in developed markets.
Widespread coverage has been achieved through UNITAID’s influence on the price of life-saving drugs: it guarantees a market through long-term commitments to purchase high volumes of medicines and diagnostics – a commitment made possible by the sustainable and predictable funding of the “air tax.”
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