Europeans are recognizing how interdependent they are.

He understood the distinction between US objectives and Australia s national interests.

Koizumi decided that a primary budget balance should be restored in 10 years.

Keynes understood early on the fallacy of applying such mechanical rules.

Like the Clintons, the Kirchners knew from early on in their marriage that they wanted to reach the top, and the best way to do it, they concluded, was together.

Understanding the importance of the situation, the representative of the Secretary General initiated a comprehensive review of the Fund's investment practices.

Those of us covering Eastern Europe knew that Solidarity would win.

Israelis understand that the only reality in politics is the reality on the ground.

The joy of opposition is its simplicity Ukrainians understood what we opposed and stood side by side with us.

Perceive

The farmer may neglect the crop or refuse to invest in saving a failing crop if he knows that a payout is forthcoming.

Given India s religious, caste, and linguistic divides, politicians saw how easily they could leverage even a small following into votes.

That makes her akin to Hillary Clinton. Like the Clintons, the Kirchners knew from early on in their marriage that they wanted to reach the top, and the best way to do it, they concluded, was together.

The dreams from his father were at an end, and he was left, as he only slowly realized, with the themeless pragmatism that has become the hallmark of his administration.

But something else happened society became more demanding, recognizing its own interests and knowing how to express them.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown recognized the problem and placed it on the G 20 s agenda. But, in the course of preparations, profound attitudinal differences have surfaced, particularly between the US and Germany.

But I'm also aware of the danger of fetishizing them.

Yeltsin understood this.

He reacted to moral shabbiness with revulsion, but also with fear. He saw it as a source of disposable masses, a human reservoir for totalitarian movements.

He understood that much of the dangerous tension stemmed from each side s hardliners, who acted as if peace were impossible.

At last, the big players are taking the issues seriously.

The EU has realized that dream.

Second, the electorate grasped the importance of re electing a modest but wise and determined leader who understood the direction India needed to take.

To be sure, Deng recognized some of the pathologies of the party state. With leadership positions allocated often for life on the basis of personal connections, rather than merit, he understood that the system suffered from gross inefficiency, risk aversion, and a lack of technical expertise.

I am fully aware of the boldness of what I propose.

I know this is a crappy topic to most people.

I know that I needed Tunisia.

I threw that away too. But it was the beginning of an onslaught.

The woman commented, Now when people scorn me in the street, it affects me less.

As a result, those Chinese who use the Internet as a source for news awakened to the fact that no account Chinese or Western is flawless.

Europeans and Americans alike recognized the need to limit and manage their differences in order to conserve their ability to deter and, if necessary, to defeat the Soviet Union.

Western entrepreneurs and investors have increasingly come to view Europe s east as a part of a (now broader) domestic market and have behaved with a longer term view.

It knew that the rest of Russia s colonies the so called Soviet republics would want to follow the ungrateful Baltic countries into freedom.

In a perfect world, one would add in the state banking regulators, but I recognize that at this point I have begun to trample on cherished features of the US Constitution!

And so the senior citizens realized that they needed to have an emergency meeting.

Duisenberg recognized this linkage and held firm.

The Kremlin must know this already.

He knew that dictatorships lead to moral shabbiness.

Both understood the dangers of political reform.

My body? I am not sure whether I love it or not.

The framers of the Charter saw this very clearly.

I understand the reality of the fascist threat, but I also understand what the government wants us to take from it.

Once it became clear that his gambit would fail, Obasanjo found a compromise he named a man he trusted, Yar Adua, a little known northern governor and devout Muslim, as his preferred successor.

I can certainly see the wisdom in Brzezinski s approach.

But he could not, and he knew it.