The Inevitability of Chinese Democracy

There is no inevitability about what comes next.

Soviet propaganda actively fostered a myth of the inevitability of communism s triumph.

In our view there is no technological inevitability in the weaponization of space.

Recently, Chinese commentators have provocatively referred to the inevitability of a de Americanized world.

Frequently, governments need to be coaxed into accepting the inevitability of compromise, thanks to pressure from below.

In this work the practice and art of medicine are thoroughly examined, as is the inevitability of any cure.

And there is none of you except he will come to it . This is upon your Lord an inevitability decreed .

And there is none of you except he will come to it . This is upon your Lord an inevitability decreed .

Russia, while never renouncing its imperial dreams and instruments of domination, was nonetheless coming to terms with the inevitability of democracy, at least on its margins.

The expanding range of space applications in the technical, civil and military fields has a potential for conflicting interests about which there is a growing inevitability.

The very same people often believe in other manifestations of inevitability, such as various supposed laws of the market and other invisible hands that direct our lives.

But errors in the midst of a vast and complex report by the IPCC point to the inevitability of human shortcomings, not to any fundamental flaws in climate science.

Despite China s aura of inevitability, it is far from certain that Asia, with its pressing internal challenges, will be able to spearhead global growth and shape a new world order.

The arrest of 17 people in Canada on terrorist charges underscores, across the West, a growing sense of dread and inevitability that is rooted in the homegrown nature of the threat.

In his book The Blue Nile, Alan Moorehead described the expedition thus It proceeds first to last with the decorum and heavy inevitability of a Victorian state banquet, complete with ponderous speeches.

Catholics and Protestants in Ireland were killing each other for a century, but now that they are in the EU, they have recognized the idiocy of their conflict and the inevitability of reconciliation.

So the fact that the Arab world has the lowest scores in regional measurements of democratic practices, civil freedoms and good governance is not some cultural inevitability, but a temporary failure of human will.

Either officials recognize immediately the inevitability of default and waste no resources trying to prevent it, or they believe that a default can be avoided and deploy all the resources at their disposal as fast as possible.

Global climate change, the sustainability of energy resources, the need to meet ever increasing energy needs in order to support economic development and concerns regarding escalating trends in fuel prices point towards the inevitability of nuclear power.

For all the denial of climate change by government leaders, the CIA and the navies of Norway and the U.S. and Canada, whatever are busily thinking about how they will secure their territory in this inevitability from their point of view.

In 2010, Europe and the International Monetary Fund extended loans to the insolvent Greek state equal to 44 of the country s GDP. The very mention of debt restructuring was considered inadmissible and a cause for ridiculing those of us who dared suggest its inevitability.

After failing to moderate Bashir into accepting a secular decentralized or confederate Sudan, Egypt, a key Arab player concerned about the stability of its southern border, has come to accept the inevitability of secession so long as the new state lines up with it on the issue of the Nile s waters.

Latin America has been plagued by corruption for centuries, ever since it emerged from what the Mexican poet Octavio Paz called the patrimonialist nature of Spanish and Portuguese colonial rule. What is different today is the response to it, with societies and institutions refusing to remain complicit in corruption, or resigning themselves to its inevitability.

It also declared that the provisions of article 16, paragraph 14, of the Convention must be applied in such a way as to ensure the inevitability of responsibility for the commission of offences falling within the purview of the Convention, without detriment to the effectiveness of international cooperation in the areas of extradition and legal assistance.