Ignoring Serbia

Ignoring the Storm

China is right to have ignored America's demands.

Populists dramatise the short term costs of enlargement, while ignoring the long term benefits.

The media, unsurprisingly, have feasted upon the failures of T5 in London, while neglecting the successes of T3 in Beijing.

It is as if the string section of the orchestra suddenly decided to play its own music, disregarding everyone else.

Economists typically describe people s rational, honest side, but ignore their duplicity.

So, is the Commission right that the government should move quickly on reform and disregard the consequences?

A girl's voice desperately cries for help from within a white van in India, where she is presumably being raped, but many walk past nonchalantly, ignoring her pleas.

Israel has invested great financial resources in the settlements, often ignoring important needs in Israel proper.

Indeed, the media shower lavish attention on over claimers while neglecting their humbler colleagues.

According to independent Spanish news site eldiario.es, the institutions have spent days trying to give it a patina of legality without attending to the pact's morality.

Blinded by ideology, however, the Bush administration seems determined to continue its record of dismal failures by ignoring past experience.

That would be a severe setback for the EU for the British, blundering through history, it would be a veritable disaster.

After the Justice Department dropped the case, Pearl Jam continued to boycott Ticketmaster, refusing to play venues that had contracts with the company.

A petition demanding the restaurant group to stop selling shark fin soup explained the rationale behind the protest The company has been resisting calls to drop shark fin soup from their set menus, ignoring the will of many good Hong Kong people who are against this cruel and unsustainable tradition.

Political heavyweights in Guangdong still favor a form of development that relies on speed and quantity while ignoring overall environmental quality.

Yet there are some important signs around the world that people are fed up with governments that cater to the rich while ignoring everyone else.

Here, Europe acts like America, which has long talked the rhetoric of free trade, while its actions have long ignored the principles.

They are effectively stateless, as Myanmar does not grant them citizenship, despite historical evidence linking them to the country's Rakhine state.

Moreover, Malawi has a proven track record of sharply higher food yields when impoverished farmers are helped with inputs. Yet donors continue shipping expensive food aid while ignoring Malawi s desperate need to grow more food.

Yet donors continue shipping expensive food aid while ignoring Malawi s desperate need to grow more food.

This is not the first time that the press and 'Cuba experts' have jumped on a Castro regime announcement while ignoring news that contradicts their optimistic assessment.

Powerful interests will, of course, oppose any low carbon transition, dismissing and often drowning out those who stand to benefit.

Just as citizens in a democracy continuously learn to participate, democratic governments continuously learn how to get their way despite the participation.

You probably hanged a junior staff member out to dry, while conveniently ignoring the fact that such emails have to go out with the approval of the senior management?

But, nearly four decades later, the battle remains focused on highly profitable efforts to develop drugs and technologies to treat the disease while virtually ignoring environmental factors that cause it.

Chirac insisted on absolute parity of votes between France and Germany in the EU Council of Ministers, ignoring their demographic disparity.

In public spaces, street art (or urban art) represents the voice of the community, marginal groups, and young people that strive to be heard, often defying the notion of private property.

Yet focusing mainly on how much banks borrow while ignoring other, more serious recklessness is a bad regulatory bet.

By ignoring tribal affinities, Europeans hoped to create an Africa whose allegiance was to nation first and tribe second (or not at all). Africa's independence leaders of the late 1950s and early 1960s essentially opposed tribal power.

All are united in their rejection of a Pax Americana in the Middle East, and all have so far shown remarkable resilience in ignoring America s pre conditions for a dialogue.

For many years, Japanese governments have taken a let sleeping dogs lie approach to territorial disputes over the islands, ignoring repeated provocations by China (and Taiwan).

By ignoring tribal affinities, Europeans hoped to create an Africa whose allegiance was to nation first and tribe second (or not at all).

A century ago, financial markets priced in a very low probability that a major conflict would occur, blissfully ignoring the risks that led to World War I until late in the summer of 1914.

While markets have judged today s world especially the dollar and securities linked to it to have low risk when viewed in historical perspective, geopolitical risks in fact appear to be large. Wolf, for example, argues that financial markets have adopted a head in the sand focus on the long run of small gains, ignoring the occasional calamity in advance, while losses will be attributed after the fact to unforeseeable bad luck.

In both countries, the Parliaments were hostile to the Presidents, and the Presidents tried to ride roughshod over the Parliaments, ruling by decree and essentially ignoring hostile parliaments.

The fact that errant bombs or missiles kill some civilians does not make their deaths war crimes. The US, having flouted international justice by disregarding the Geneva Conventions at Guantanamo, would make matters worse by reverting to a system in which military victors doff their uniforms and attire themselves in judicial robes.

We ignore failing states at our peril, because anarchy creates an environment conducive to extremist ideologies and can offer a haven for terrorists, criminals, and drug traffickers.

More generally, the Western powers, along with Arab states like Qatar, comprehensively supported the rebel side in what rapidly became a civil war, ignoring an explicit arms embargo in the process.

Wolf, for example, argues that financial markets have adopted a head in the sand focus on the long run of small gains, ignoring the occasional calamity in advance, while losses will be attributed after the fact to unforeseeable bad luck.

The rise in food prices is leading to a land grab, as powerful politicians sell foreign investors massive tracts of farmland, brushing aside the traditional land rights of poor smallholders.

The US, having flouted international justice by disregarding the Geneva Conventions at Guantanamo, would make matters worse by reverting to a system in which military victors doff their uniforms and attire themselves in judicial robes.

We ignore failing states at our peril, because anarchy creates an environment conducive to extremist ideologies and can offer a haven for terrorists, criminals, and drug traffickers. One of our most pressing tasks today is to prevent the implosion of weak states.

Schools use out dated, patriarchal textbooks, mostly authored by men, that only teach about men s role in Kyrgyz history and society and ignore women and their bodies.