But when politicians say growth, they mean borrowing.

When they spoke of creating a new system of collective security they meant it in the traditional military sense.

When the Chinese leaders mention democracy in official declarations, they mean organized democracy, from the top down.

By quantity of money, experts normally mean M3, a broad measure that includes bank deposits.

When people started talking about the natural limits to growth in the 1970 s, they meant the impending exhaustion of food and non renewable natural resources.

'What about this guy, this guy, this guy, and this guy? Maybe they meant the first elected female leader of a Muslim state ?' he writes.

Although in ruins, Christian pilgrims continued to visit the stone monastery, which had a chapel and a sanctuary, as well as a neighbouring reservoir and natural mineral water springs.

For them, to say Russia is back means that the humiliating Yeltsin years are over, and that they now must be treated as equals, particularly by the United States.

Politicians who seek scapegoats might argue that they mean no harm to their targets, and that they are helping their societies to avoid worse possibilities.

But existing criminal laws are more than adequate to allow willing justice systems to mete out appropriate sanctions against people who intend harm.

Just as there is much talk about Mexican migrants who go to the U.S. in search of opportunities and to escape violence, the U.S. also goes to Mexico, but to make war.

When the Chinese leaders mention democracy in official declarations, they mean organized democracy, from the top down. Any attempt at democratization by civil society will thus be crushed in its infancy.

Although there was support for the principle of contemporaneity (that is, that only provisions contemporaneous to the treaty under interpretation should be taken account of), it could not be excluded a priori that the parties might intend the interpretation and application of a treaty to follow subsequent developments.

The Impact Illusion in Science

The BRICS Fallacy

Us and them

They have a point.

They are right.

The Debt Delusion

They are correct.

The IMF authors are not saying that governments should do this with recession insurance, so perhaps they mean that governments would auction off the policies, which would create a market price.

The overwhelming majority had been killed while sleeping in their homes, playing in the street or sitting in their classrooms.

And they actually did get a fine for that.

They are the same. Okay?

The Illusion of a Chinese Bubble

They are represented by counsel.

The Thamud and ' Ad denied the consequential calamity .

The tribes of Thamud and A ad denied the event of great dismay . ( The Day of Resurrection )

Thamood and Ad cried lies to the Clatterer .

The tribes of Thamud and ' Aad belied the Striking Day .

Thamud and ' Ad people denied the Qari 'ah the striking Hour ( of Judgement ) !

Thamood and Aad denied the Catastrophe .

The Thamud and the Ad denied the ( possibility of a ) sudden calamity , calling it false .

( The tribes of ) Thamud and A 'ad disbelieved in the judgment to come .

Thamudand Ad denied the Cataclysm .

Thamood and Aad belied the Clatterer .

Thamud and ' Aad denied the Striking Calamity .

The people of Thamud and Ad denied the Day of Judgment .

Samood and Ad called the striking calamity a lie .

The tribes of Thamud and ' Ad denied that disaster would strike them

The Thamud and the ' Ad People ( branded ) as false the Stunning Calamity !

Europe s Sovereignty Illusion

They are contemptuous of the establishment.

And they are right.

The Mirage of Youth Unemployment