'End of an era' talk has become a bit of a cliché.

It is enough to make even the cynical shake their heads in disbelief.

The truth is that, daily, Ukrainians are deprived by force of much of our national wealth.

One could of course be quite cynical about both announcements.

This is cynical and cruel moreover, it is dangerously wrong.

That slogan defined, and cynically mocked, the do nothing Brezhnev era of stagnation.

Some Japanese Twitter users had a more cynical perspective on the annual hype surrounding a potential Haruki Murakami Nobel Prize

They would always see and want to grasp the benefits of lower interest rates and a little more demand pressure more production, more employment, higher wages, and higher profits in the short run.

But they would either not see or be cynically indifferent to the problems of stagflation that would inevitably follow.

Rather than slavishly believing policymakers assurances, emerging market researchers have learned to be cynical about official promises.

Western nations cynically claim that Nigeria is a rich country and should therefore be held to its debt service payments.

Some Twitter users are more cynical about how the media in particular has embraced the hashtag

Russia's political class has ample grounds to be slyly and cynically proud of the system they invented it guarantees the result it wants.

Almost nobody, however, understands that today's chaos was made in Washington deliberately, cynically, and steadfastly.

Moreover, while the Munich Agreement cynically blessed Hitler s dismemberment of Czechoslovakia, it was a public document that meant what it said.

The court found Rahman cynically perverted the religious feeling of his Muslim community and silenced his critics with accusations of racism and Islamophobia.

The benefits growing consumption and more jobs were immediate, whereas paying the inevitable bill could be postponed into the future. Cynical as it might seem, easy credit has been used throughout history as a palliative by governments that are unable to address the deeper anxieties of the middle class directly.

Some observers believe that Lukashenko is making cynical overtures to the West in order to elicit more support from Russia, particularly at a time of economic crisis.

Opponents of fiscal stimulus cynically claim that all such efforts are bound to fail, citing as evidence US President George W. Bush s tax cuts!

Cynical as it might seem, easy credit has been used throughout history as a palliative by governments that are unable to address the deeper anxieties of the middle class directly.

Also, with the emergence of a new generation of political leaders, the French who were thought cynical towards politics seem to have regained their unique passion for it.

Also, with the emergence of a new generation of political leaders, the French 45 45 who were thought cynical towards politics 45 45 seem to have regained their unique passion for it.

But like many Crimean and Eastern Ukrainian bloggers of all political stripes, Golovan is skeptical and rather cynical about the mainstream media, both Russian and Ukrainian. Unfortunately, Ukrainian journalism has unfortunately shown its extreme bias from the very start of events in Kyiv and there's no point expecting honest information from them.

A malign example is Philip Morris s donation of money to museums, symphony orchestras, and opera houses, cynically aimed at buying off artists who might otherwise work to ban cigarettes.

(Some might cynically say that keeping MBAs and economists out of real businesses is a blessing, but I doubt that that is really true.)

It would have been very cynical three years ago if we'd said we're going to be a great bank for customers and put those brands out there.

After World War I and the fall of the Ottoman Empire, the victorious Allies promised them a state of their own a promise that was cynically betrayed when British and French imperial interests took precedence.

For example, many people both inside and outside the US had become cynical about the American political system, arguing that it was dominated by money and closed to outsiders.

The timing of this is particularly odd, as this new insularity comes almost immediately after Germany, France, and Great Britain cynically agreed to endow the EU with both a president of the EU Council and a foreign affairs minister.

Astonishingly, Nancy Birdsall of the Center for Global Development, who favors such discrimination, even wrote cynically and approvingly that such a policy would have little impact on US textile producers.

Critics of that argument maintain that sophisticated players understood the systemic risks, didn t care, and cynically played the game that they helped to create in some cases for enormous profit.

Compared to 2008 2009, when policymakers had ample space to act, monetary and fiscal authorities are running out of policy bullets (or, more cynically, policy rabbits to pull out of their hats).

But if we don t have a strategy to accompany our targets, the world s governments might not accept such targets in the first place, or might accept them cynically, without any intention of actually meeting them.