Word: imperialistic
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...added difficulty facing poorer or more developing countries that would bear the brunt of many of the measures to mitigate climate change, from protecting forests to limiting use of fossil fuels. Unfortunately, this tenuous union has led to bold and sweeping gestures that may turn the tables on former imperialist nations, but lack actual productive value...
Last week, 32 young Americans won Rhodes Scholarships. Their tenures at Oxford are funded by the legacy of the British imperialist Cecil Rhodes, a man whose life would not be honored today were it not for his scholarships—and specifically his vision that young people of outstanding intellect, leadership, and ambition could make the world a better place...
...course, it is not entirely fair to characterize Russia as the big, bad imperialist here. Past conflicts between Ukraine and Russia, most recently last January’s quarrel over gas pipelines to the rest of Europe, have been caused by provocations on both sides. However, Russia cannot be allowed to threaten its neighbor simply because Ukraine looks more favorably toward Western Europe than toward Russia...
...rubbing shoulders with celebrities. Lately, he has returned to using his country as a plaything for attention. The United States’s increasing role in Colombia, Venezuela’s neighbor, maddens Chavez. He lacks a real reason for his ire, besides an apparent obsession with United States imperialist tendencies he believes still alive and active. So Chavez mobilizes his armed forces, sends 15,000 troops to the border, and turns to his greatest megalomaniacal outlet, his state television and radio show, “Alo, Presidente.” On the show, Chavez tells his citizens that their...
Levitt makes for an awfully diffident imperialist. When half of this year's economics Nobel went to a political scientist, he wrote that "the prize is moving toward a Nobel in social science, not a Nobel in economics." But his belief in the power of economic methods remains strong. "For me, being anchored in the data is the most important thing," Levitt says. "It's about applying data in an unemotional way to emotional issues...