The Inevitability of Chinese Democracy

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

Sense

It does not make political sense it does not make economic sense it does not make ethical sense.

Common sense, a rare idea in the law, but here it was. Common sense Revolts at the idea. Common sense.

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.

In other words, Europe displays a strong sense of survival, but not a strong sense of common purpose.

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.

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.

Nothing seems to make sense now. But one thing does make sense.

Is there a sense of wonder?

Tom lost his sense of smell.

They have a sense of humor.

The Iraqis sense all of this.

Making Sense of the Climate Impasse

It was sort of, in a certain sense, in a McLuhan sense, an external stomach, in the sense that it was cooking food that we could not eat otherwise.

Elizabeth has realized, and she's coming face to face with her own sense of jealousy, her own sense of mortality.

It makes good political sense it could make good business sense as well.

That's common sense.

This makes sense.

This has spread a sense of unfairness.

Making sense of these asymmetries is difficult.

Consider, for example, the sense of smell.

You have a good sense of humor.

This entails a sense of being different which can be experienced as problematic and creates a sense of insecurity and conflicts of loyalty.

8. Don t ask the impossible. Recommending measures that the public cannot implement creates a sense of futility, not a sense of control.

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.

Do they make sense?

This makes no sense.

This makes no sense.

Islam is common sense.

That makes some sense.