How could we govern others when we cannot govern ourselves?

Can Energy Be Governed?

We judge economics by what it can produce.

Interesting to see that we, Bangladeshis, judge situation by heart not by brain.

He even tried to profane the temple, and we arrested him.

Who also hath gone about to profane the temple whom we took, and would have judged according to our law.

This is the background against which to judge the reality of today s inflation threat.

Financial reform could still go belly up. But it is premature to write it off as a failure.

It is difficult to judge who is right, and there are important experts on both sides of the debate.

To pass judgment on redistributive outcomes, we need to know about the circumstances that cause them.

Indeed, the denial that men may be arbitrary is the higher law by which we must govern.

Many people object to comparing the quality of the life spared and the life taken.

The flipside of this is that constantly being told that you are gifted, chosen and born to rule has distinct societal downsides.

I describe the project in detail in my book Expert Political Judgment How good is it? How can we know?

We need to govern globalization with democratically agreed legal norms and bodies that, through their inherent legitimacy, would have the authority to ensure compliance with their regulations.

We judge leaders not only by the effectiveness of their actions, but also by the meanings that they create and teach.

Nor are the other peace tracks Lebanon, Syria, and maybe also Iran doomed to permanent failure.

I do not believe it is right to make a change of such magnitude without specifically consulting the people on whose behalf we govern.

So, perhaps we can judge moral progress by asking how well we have done in combating racism and sexism.

Don t judge the outcome of the Seoul G 20 meeting by what appears in the media.

Perhaps no one's achievement should be judged by comparison with that of Wallenberg a titan of strength, courage, and perseverance.

Unless we start discussing economics in a Keynesian framework, we are doomed to a succession of crises and recessions.

While it is entirely premature to judge the style and direction that China s new leaders will take, three early hints are worth noting.

Ruling in the national interest, rather than for the benefit of favored sections or clans, we will apply the law equally to our supporters and our opponents.

After treatment, about every week, we run the child on a battery of simple visual tests in order to see how their visual skills are coming on line.

And even in adulthood, differences in this brain region can explain differences among adults in how we think about and judge other people.

Finally, Israel is still a democracy, so it should not be judged by the same standards as dictatorships.

PRINCETON Mahatma Gandhi acutely observed that the greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

The history books are not yet written, nor the victor declared. Financial reform could still go belly up.

Middle World is the narrow range of reality which we judge to be normal, as opposed to the queerness of the very small, the very large and the very fast.

Immanuel Kant teaches us that the circumstances in which we find ourselves must always be judged against the circumstances in which, but for chance, we might have found ourselves.

How should Ahmedinejad s denial that Iran intends to pursue nuclear arms be judged in light of his Holocaust denial? Journalists ask, but Ahmedinejad won t answer.

But suppose we judge this Marxist hero by his own criteria did he actually transform the world? The answer is yes but for the worse.

If we succeed, the behavior we judge to be better will become habitual and thus no longer require a conscious act of will to keep acting in that way.

While it is still too early in his presidency to judge the outcome, it is clear that he is attempting to change processes and adapt leadership to a more networked world.

Germany s economic development will have to be observed well into the next full decade in order to judge the potential for a structural trend reversal.

To dismiss the FMLN s historical achievement as simply an act of justice or a foreseeable event in a tiny backwater would be reckless.

But 30 years of hindsight enable us to judge which elements of the Thatcher revolution should be preserved, and which should be amended in the light of today s global economic downturn.

But mass atrocity crimes did happen in Sri Lanka, there was moral default all around, and if we do not learn from this past, we will indeed be condemned to repeat it.

It is difficult to judge who is right, and there are important experts on both sides of the debate. But there do seem to be an uncomfortable number of similarities between the political economy of cyberspace regulation and of financial regulation.

While a decade may be too soon to render a definitive verdict on the long term consequences of the Iraq War, it is not too soon to judge the process by which the Bush administration made its decisions.

Ruling in the national interest, rather than for the benefit of favored sections or clans, we will apply the law equally to our supporters and our opponents. We will be guided, and bound, by the rule of law and the spirit of ordered liberty that animates it.

In judging candidates for high office, we are encouraged to eschew personality politics, and to disregard such aspects of politicians identities as their spiritual lives, their private behavior (unless obvious transgressions are committed), and their appearance and aesthetic tastes.

We can carry out this mandate by implementing all the commitments we have made since the year 2000, or we can ignore them and condemn many millions more to live in misery or die in pain.

We need to be aware for example, that population growth and rising consumption levels have intergenerational consequences, and that how we conduct ourselves will affect the lifestyles and opportunities of our children and grandchildren.