Can greater transparency the new political mantra of civic activists and an increasing number of democratic governments reverse this trend?

After monetarism was discredited at great cost to those countries that succumbed to it the quest began for a new mantra.

International competitiveness became the mantra of German economic policymaking.

This new model moves beyond the mantra of public private partnership. It genuinely leverages multiple sources of money and expertise in broad coalitions pursuing the same big goal.

The right s deregulation mantra was simply wrong, and we are now paying the price.

So, my mantra here, my fourth slogan is 10,000 households or bust.

Ethiopia's growth mantra is much of hype than facts on the ground would depict.

PRINCETON In the aftermath of the global financial crisis, world leaders repeated a soothing mantra.

MADRID It is a mantra increasingly heard around the world US power is in decline.

BERLIN Confront, then compromise could well become Germany s mantra for successful European Union negotiations.

MOSCOW Western leaders and observers persistently repeat, like a mantra, that Russia is weak.

This must be an exception, they kept repeating, like a mantra or a prayer.

We have repeated the mantra dozens of times in various settings, as any fair observer would confirm.

The mantra of opportunity found in crisis has been uttered endlessly over the course of the Deepwater Horizon disaster.

Few in Hong Kong are buying the political elite s mantra that the national education program is the right thing to do.

For all the world s pious proclamations about never again, a mantra arising from the Holocaust, mass murder almost never motivates foreign intervention.

This has not yet happened, as central banks have been careful to repeat their mantra of low long term inflation.

Many governments quickly subscribed to Ronald Reagan s mantra of deregulated markets policies that eventually brought about the worst global recession since the 1930 s.

Are we so sure that it will be different in this century? Or will artificial intelligence replace the mantra of outsourcing and manufacturing migration?

If I had to pick the one thing that we must do above all else, I now offer a two word mantra educate girls.

And I said, Oh yeah, I'll try to write a mantra that she can sing to herself to help herself go to sleep.

WASHINGTON, DC Since the start of his first administration, US President Barack Obama has repeated a simple mantra concerning other countries With power comes responsibility.

BRUSSELS Europe s leaders never tire of reminding their constituencies, almost like a mantra, that the major emerging market countries are overturning the existing global economic order.

So 1907 became a comforting mantra in times of financial stress a crisis cannot happen as long as the central bank understands the problem of liquidity.

How does that happen? We want Dylan to be able to do that, and using this mantra of motion, Dylan actually can do that.

Her mantra, You can t buck the market, did contribute to a mindset that led governments and central banks to be reluctant to question unsustainable market trends.

The electric car mantra diverts attention from what really matters a cost effective transition from fossil fuels to cheaper green energy, which requires research and innovation.

At the same time, the right wing mantra victory failed to offer a credible way to replace the Iranian and Syrian governments, or to destroy Hamas and Hezbollah.

At the recently concluded 11th People s National Congress, the word heard most often in policy discussions was happiness, which had suddenly replaced economic growth as the official mantra.

With democracy in most of the region still a long way off indeed, perhaps a more distant prospect now than five years ago US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice repeats her mantra that the dead civilians of Beirut, Sidon, Tyre, and Gaza represent the birth pangs of a new Middle East.

In addition, senior management and IT experts within the system confirmed this can be done overturning middle management's mantra that it cannot be done and we are different .

European leaders must move beyond the increasingly implausible mantra of belt tightening today full bellies tomorrow, and recognize that, at its core, the euro crisis is a political crisis.

Nowadays, the mantra of President Umar Yar Adua, who took power in June 2007, following controversial elections, is to transform the country into one of the world s 20 largest economies by 2020.

Recent American leaders, for their part, find it nearly impossible to deploy military force without first employing such rhetoric as both mantra and crutch. The most famous example came in 1917.

For the past 25 years, the mantra of inflation targeting (introduced in my 1985 paper) has served as a mechanism for containing inflation expectations by reassuring the public of the central bank s intentions.

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Having witnessed Mexico s slow growth over the past 15 years, we can no longer repeat the old mantra that the neo liberal road of NAFTA and associated reforms is clearly and obviously the right one.

But can Hamas find a basis for negotiations with Israel? To be sure, Hamas has not abandoned its resistance mantra even so, it has moderated its stance on the Palestinian Israeli conflict over time.

Nevertheless, all US Treasury secretaries, going back at least to Robert Rubin in the Clinton administration, have repeated the mantra that a strong dollar is good for America whenever they were asked about the dollar s value.

MOSCOW Western leaders and observers persistently repeat, like a mantra, that Russia is weak. This judgment is based on a flawed comparison between Russia and the Soviet Union though one that is also popular in Russia itself.

Financial leaders, from finance ministers to leaders of private financial institutions, reiterated the current mantra the crisis countries have to get their houses in order, reduce their deficits, bring down their national debts, undertake structural reforms, and promote growth.

For a long time, it was much easier to repeat the soothing mantra that the world community had collectively learned how to avoid a 1929 style collapse, and that the world s central banks clearly showed this in 1987 or 2001.

This has not yet happened, as central banks have been careful to repeat their mantra of low long term inflation. That has been sufficient to convince markets that any stimulus will be withdrawn before significant inflationary forces gather.

Then I learned to cast caution to the wind and venture an answer to this most impossible of questions. If I had to pick the one thing that we must do above all else, I now offer a two word mantra educate girls.

Ever since Bill Clinton nearly succeeded in brokering a comprehensive settlement in 2000, the mantra among supporters of the Israeli Palestinian peace process has been that, while a solution exists, Israeli and Palestinian leaders who are willing to reach it do not.