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The tumult of the Maoist period instilled in a broad cross-section of people a profound appreciation for stability, and a yearning to be left alone.
Not only would this be relatively cheap; it would also provide children with a life-long yearning for learning, boosting their life chances and delivering benefits worth $33 for every dollar invested.
For the US, sympathy for Arab publics yearning for freedom cannot exclude compassion for Palestinians dreaming of lives of dignity, which for them includes ending the occupation.
His yearning for professional achievement – and, especially, his desire to be promoted – motivated his significant contributions to China’s GDP growth.
This yearning for providential men or women in our global age results from at least three factors.
Disillusion with politics and politicians also is a key element of our yearning for providential leaders.
Ronald Reagan understood the mythical yearning of many Americans better than most presidents, perhaps because he had acted in a number of Westerns himself.
Those who underestimated the power of people’s yearning for freedom and a better life were wrong in 1988.
Europe will keep talking about the American house of cards, but with a sense of yearning that its dynamism is a trick an ageing Europe can't master.
They are the incarnation of modernity, animated by a yearning for simple dignity and respect.
Rothberg was killed because “the yearning for peace deafened his ears, and he did not hear the voice of murder waiting in ambush.”
Trump’s yearning for authoritarian rule is clear for all to see.
China’s history has not prepared it to work within such a framework, and its yearning for status – even more pronounced now than when it was impoverished – will make it difficult to gain Chinese acceptance of a multilateral solution.
Sadly, in making this choice, the president has opted to turn away from the classic American vision engraved on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor, expressed in Emma Lazarus’s poem, which begins, “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.”
The new Secretary-General comes to office with the world yearning to solve festering problems.
The irony of this yearning is that, instead of encouraging policies that would get the economy humming, discontent drives many voters back to the tried and failed policies of the past.
Not only is a yearning for the “good old days” – before the EU supposedly impinged on national sovereignty – fueling the rise of nationalist political parties;European leaders continue to try to apply yesterday’s solutions to today’s problems.
If the Internet is no longer a space for freedom of expression, the public will look for other platforms that can guarantee it – a yearning for openness that has been the hallmark of the Arab Spring.
It reflected the yearning of the Jewish state to unleash its creative energies in economic and social matters, as it created space for an independent, imaginative foreign policy that was not linked to, or conditioned by, the paralyzing constraints of the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Politicians everywhere quest for a "third way" around its rigors, yearning for "national champions" in industries like telecoms capable of holding off globalization.
In the dark, congested alleys of Lahore, Karachi, Peshawar, or Quetta, the yearning is not for democratic liberalism, but for the believers to unite behind the one true faith.
Being an “awkward partner” may offer Russia its best hope of reconciling its yearning for independence with the realities of the modern world.
As Donald Trump prepares to succeed Obama, analysts are suggesting that Hillary Clinton lost last month’s election because she lacked empathy with white Americans, particularly Rust Belt voters yearning for the days when the US was a manufacturing powerhouse.
Even the political environment may not be as inauspicious as is often believed: Despite the worrying rise of anti-European sentiment in many countries – especially those hit hardest by the crisis – there is a palpable yearning among Europeans to break out of the continent’s debilitating economic (and political) rut.
To Australians, 28% of whom were born overseas (only a sixth of these in Britain) and a quarter of whom speak a language other than English at home, this all seemed like preposterous yearning for a lost imperial age.
Sadly, in many places in the world, it seems that men and women have not advanced beyond the biblical admonition of “an eye for an eye” in their yearning for retribution.
From trade regulations and nuclear non-proliferation to climate action and maritime boundaries, there is a yearning for the clarity and certainty that only “hard” law can provide.
The meaning was clear to all: Weimar Russia, like Weimar Germany, signified a weak republic attacked from within by nationalists yearning to restore authoritarian ways.
But it would be a mistake to see this public recognition of Stalin as a real yearning for every aspect of the system he created.
After all, there is no reason to believe that Asians share a particular yearning for authoritarianism, or that, say, Chinese pro-democracy movements are insincere stooges for Western interests.
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