Europe s Non Rhetorical Values

Environmentalist Dong Liangjie posed a rhetorical question

It s a rhetorical question, don't you think?

Good rhetorical skills help to generate soft power.

This rhetorical heroism is enough to leave the world speechless.

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Governor Sarah Palin strode onto the national stage, rhetorical guns blazing.

People who live in glass houses should not throw even rhetorical stones.

Redefining Business Competence

These rhetorical strategies made the philosophical elements of the novel more palatable to the public.

What this means is not just competence in setting interest rates, but also competence in regulatory policy.

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Instead, they are resorting to diversionary tactics by engaging in overblown rhetorical battles about minor controversies.

What European leaders may want most from the Fund are easy loans and strong rhetorical support.

They are readily understandable by citizens and elected officials and serve as a powerful rhetorical symbol.

Two obvious (and rhetorical) questions Can we really not stop harassment? And does veiling really protect you?

(b) Enhancing staff competence and motivation

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We need a Europe that is more concrete, less rhetorical, and better suited to the current global economy.

Speaking directly to citizens seeing a country s people, as well as its government is not just a rhetorical device.

The latter clearly falls within the EU s competence.

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Strategies have been found to be of critical importance, so much so that strategic competence has been suggested as a major component of communicative competence.

(a) The Assessment of Assessments is not intended to alter the competence of any other organization to undertake marine assessments within its field of competence.

With regard to the issue of mixed competence, he pointed out that the term competence had a specific meaning in the context of the EU.

Such a practical, effective EU may not reach the lofty rhetorical aspirations beloved by politicians, but it will not be moribund.

A limited Turkish strike into northern Iraq would probably elicit little reaction beyond public condemnation and rhetorical assertions of Iraqi sovereignty.

It is a question of balance, competence, and respect.

The scope and exercise of Community competence were subject to continuous development and any relevant modification of the extent of the competence would be notified accordingly.

Candidates to lead their countries should not be allowed to get away with speaking in generalities or engaging in vague rhetorical flourishes.

This belief still features prominently in the rhetorical arsenal of US conservatives, notably in the inflamed proclamations of the Tea Party movement.

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Although the Chinese have offered rhetorical support for international forces anti terror efforts in Afghanistan, they have refused even the smallest military role.

The Commission delivered its report on 14 January 2005, recommending that policing in Bosnia and Herzegovina should be an exclusive competence of the State, including legislative and budgetary competence.

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More recently, they have shown growing levels of professionalism and competence.

The regional economic integration organization shall promptly notify the depositary of any changes to the distribution of competence, including new transfers of competence, specified in the declaration under this paragraph.

It would be problematic if an organization that was a party thereto had competence for only a portion of the draft convention, while its member States had competence for other provisions.

Yet, despite their rhetorical commitments to completing the Doha round, neither the US nor any other economic power has done much to move it forward.

Let s hope for their sake and for the world s that they see through the rhetorical flourishes and personal foibles to the larger issues at stake.