Nor, in the end, is politically motivated lending likely to be good for banks.

Then, when real change does occur, no one can claim that the people are not ready for it.

Nobody ever said that the road to stronger global governance would be straight or simple to navigate.

Obama, he said, believes in liberation theology, which means that he must be a socialist, thus un American.

The economists Kenneth Rogoff and Carmen Reinhart argue that recovery after a financial crisis is almost always slow.

When Tony Blair says that the most important liberty is security from terrorist attacks, he has forgotten the first principles of his party and his country.

Some argue that Greece s real GDP would be much lower in an exit scenario than it would be during the hard slog of deflation.

Some argue that Japan is an example of a nation state.

European officials will argue that their problem is more difficult.

Opponents argue that carbon pricing would hurt economic growth.

Some of the project s adversaries claim that it must be stopped because it will be a tribute to the perpetrators of a despicable deed.

Russia cannot want a nuclear Iran.

Not all conflicts between religion and the state are easy to resolve.

Nobody would argue that US states have an abundance of sovereignty.

Critics argue that Mayawati s promotion of Dalit welfare seems to start with herself.

Some argue that taking drugs is against the spirit of sport.

Some argue that little has changed as a result of the test.

Indeed, each side says that the other struck first.

Ahmadinejad claims he wishes to investigate the conditions of prisoners.

All of these factors place deep stresses on the social fabric which, so the skeptics argue, will ultimately play out in the political arena.

Tsipras might be impetuous, as his mainstream adversaries from the center left Pasok and the center right New Democracy would say, but he is not irrational.

Advocates of the EU s policy often argue that we should pursue such policies nonetheless, because there is a risk that global warming will be much more severe than currently expected.

Of course, not all things are less bad than we thought.

Blair was the first to argue that security is the first freedom.

One can argue that this trend bodes ill for China.

Many people would say that this is exactly the point.

Experts argue that well designed systems are like stage directions in a play.

American conservatives argue that a large public sector is subject to inefficiency and mismanagement, corruption, and bureaucratic abuse, while the taxation needed to support it blunts economic efficiency.

Not all football games are fraught with negative feeling and violence.

While Sarkozy claims that Europe is his priority, his methods seem to contradict his intentions.

It may be, as President Mubarak s critics argue, that the faltering progress of democratization reflects the attempt to block all potential challengers to Gamal.

Gas is arguably more vulnerable than oil to unforeseen supply interruptions.

Indeed, it can be argued that the political dominos are already falling.

That is why critics argue that Bush's policy in Iraq was a mistake.

YAROSLAVL Russia is said by many to lack a civil society.

Today s gold bugs argue that the price could top 2,000.

The counter argument is that the threat of indictment will deter rulers from wicked behavior.

Some people argue that nuclear proliferation will actually reduce risks.

Asteroid strikes get all the coverage, but Medea Hypothesis author Peter Ward argues that most of Earth's mass extinctions were caused by lowly bacteria. The culprit, a poison called hydrogen sulfide, may have an interesting application in medicine.

Casting further doubt on the report's accuracy, Kouamouo assumes that the current Ivorian regime must have provided the UN appointed experts with the mobile phone messages exchanged between exiled FPI politicians and Islamists

Obviously, neither the US nor Britain has reached that point.

The ADB argues that other agencies are responsible for social development.

Some officials claim that Cristina will bring in a new era of higher institutional quality.

He argued that QE is not nearly as unconventional as its critics claim.

There is no magic bullet for today s crisis.