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But if its first occupant is not a household name, the presidency will be doomed as just another of the European Union’s confusing plethora of
worthy
senior positions that are neither valued nor understood outside Brussels.
Among non-democracies, China had the Bo Xilai scandal, which was
worthy
of a spy novel, with illicit affairs, rampant corruption, murder, and a senior police official’s dramatic quest for asylum in a US consulate.
None of this is to deny that transparency in government is a
worthy
goal.
It should have to accept, however, that no Arab democracy
worthy
of the name could refuse to open the electoral gates to political Islam.
Not long ago, Russian President Vladimir Putin was one of the only leaders
worthy
of the label.
Reducing barriers to democratic participation for the poorest citizens is a
worthy
goal.
“The credit belongs to the man in the arena,” Roosevelt continued, “who spends himself in a
worthy
cause, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
Differences in how these cultures define what it means to be a
worthy
person, and how worthiness is signaled, probably explain much of the variation in levels of entrepreneurship.
Both are serious potential risks that are
worthy
of precautionary hedges.
This is a
worthy
project.
But other forms of nationalism that better balance the local and the global are beneficial and
worthy
of affirmation.
Brazil has acquired an international stature
worthy
of its size and success, though perhaps not of its ambitions.
Around the world, many women are targeted because of their sexuality: they are genitally mutilated, married off as children, raped with impunity, stoned for “fornication” and other sexual offenses, and told that their desire makes them sinful and
worthy
of abuse.
But economic self-reliance is a
worthy
goal for most African countries, and Uganda’s experience suggests the potential of an approach long denigrated by the international community.
“It was left to other parties with less
worthy
overall agendas – Hitler, for example – to step in and say that if the rules of the game led to prolonged spells of mass unemployment, then the rules of the game had to be changed.”
All along Trump’s march to becoming the Republican Party’s presidential nominee, partisan commentators spun and re-spun his countless outrageous statements, sometimes with just a tut-tut of disapproval, while other on-air pundits all too often treated his malignant demagoguery as
worthy
of serious analysis.
Learning that a wealthy American had found a traditional African skirt
worthy
of a place in his home triggered the same feeling.
Whether India needs more institutions to control deficits and monitor the quality of its budgets is a question
worthy
of discussion.
In doing so, he may even create a circus
worthy
of a Roman emperor.
For that to happen, the education of Middle Eastern youth must be regarded as a strategic issue,
worthy
of just as much global foreign-policy attention as the fight against extremist groups.
The proposals have been disparaged as the “nationalization of private assets,” a “pension swindle,” and “an asset grab
worthy
of Lenin or Stalin.”
While these are
worthy
goals, there are good reasons to believe that the tax would not achieve most of them.
All of these are
worthy
goals, to be sure, but they belong intrinsically to the sphere of national political decisions.
Many of the agitators’ bugbears are indeed
worthy
of criticism: the European Union’s opacity, the duplicitousness and greed of Wall Street bankers, the reluctance to tackle problems caused by mass immigration, the lack of concern for those hurt by economic globalization.
Advances in treating gonorrhea, a common sexually transmitted infection that has become increasingly resistant to antibiotics, are also
worthy
of mention.
How a single EU supervisor would address the problem of imbalances is not explained, but it is surely a
worthy
aim.
From the 17 th century on, American graduates were cultivated as "alumni" who regard their university experience as a life-defining process to be shared, and thus
worthy
of receiving financial support from them.
To be sure, in many parts of the world, HIV is now considered a chronic disease manageable with medication and lifestyle changes; that fact alone is
worthy
of celebration.
Blather about Federal Reserve currency manipulation and excessive risk-taking is not
worthy
of an answer.
Truth and reconciliation, peace and justice, even justice and truth: these are only some of the
worthy
ambitions for human society that are routinely presented as totally reconcilable.
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