The grand pronouncements become a pile of out of date World Bank studies.

Mistrust is compounded by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad s incendiary pronouncements, particularly about Israel.

But few official pronouncements, let alone policies, are addressing Europe s deficit of trust and credibility.

Newspapers and magazines are blandly reproducing official pronouncements and reports from the state run news agency.

A critique of individualism in the name of collective values occurs frequently in the Pope's pronouncements.

The question is whether political leaders are ready to back their lofty pronouncements with decisive action.

Yet talk is cheap, and the open mouth policy of (generally pro trade) pronouncements has not been matched by action.

But this critique is overblown Greenspan is long gone, but the focus on central bank pronouncements is greater than ever.

Central bankers pronouncements are of interest to businesspeople especially in the financial sector and businesspeople are of interest to advertisers.

Despite Pastrana's vigorous pronouncements, the guerillas believed that the President would back down as he had so frequently in the past.

But here, his record is weak, and his pronouncements only exacerbate the problem by increasing Iran s isolation from the global economy.

These other factors have combined to create a bubble around central bank pronouncements and decisions that grossly exaggerates their economic significance.

President elect Bush s pronouncements display an unhealthy bias towards short run macroeconomic meddling, rather than sound emphasis on the long term.

Moreover, a nation s irrational dreamwork often reflects its actual condition more truthfully than its ego its official pronouncements, diplomatic statements, and propaganda.

Of course, Newspeak is alive and well in many places, and there are certainly Orwellian echoes in the authorities pronouncements and actions.

Russians are reverting to the past to the grand pronouncements of Russia as a unique great nation, destined to rule the world.

Covering a country by reporting on the pronouncements of the ruling elite is probably the least interesting or informative kind of journalism.

Arab and Muslim leaders need to make this clear, be it in public pronouncements by politicians, lectures by teachers, or fatwas by leading clerics.

Stiglitz s pronouncements offered formidable support to those who opposed IMF rigor, indeed, and at the very least they confused the public and policymakers alike.

Arab and Muslim leaders need to make this clear, be it in public pronouncements by politicians, lectures by teachers, or fatwas by leading clerics.

Mixed signals from competing power centers don t help nor does the recurring contrast between Iranian officials usually strident public pronouncements and often moderate private discourse.

Some of their actions and pronouncements suggest that in their pursuit of a strong state, they may be willing to sacrifice law to political expediency.

The authorities' response follows a now familiar pattern high profile pronouncements in the wake of workplace disaster give way to neglect of basic safety standards.

Official pronouncements stress friendly relations between India and China, and some trade analysts argue that the two giant, rapidly growing markets will become an economic Chindia.

Clearly, the leading investment banks should become much more serious about training and licensing their analysts to provide knowledge rather than nonsense in their public pronouncements.

This perception reflects not only the contradictory pronouncements and behavior of policymakers, but also the extent to which economic outcomes have consistently fallen short of their expectations.

On the other hand, however, the Court s decision is one of those judicial pronouncements that attempts to give something to everybody and leave everything as it was.

Official pronouncements stress friendly relations between India and China, and some trade analysts argue that, given their rapid growth, the two giant markets will become an economic Chindia.

Official pronouncements stress friendly relations between India and China, and some trade analysts argue that, given their rapid growth, the two giant markets will become an economic Chindia.

Insulting Muslims simply on the basis of their faith is foolish and counterproductive, as is the increasingly popular notion that we must make sweeping pronouncements as to the superiority of our culture.

Moreover, he is a lawyer by training presumably instilling in him at least some respect for the rule of law and his pronouncements and interviews thus far have been largely moderate, even liberal .

Rather than limiting itself to basic human rights, the Charter dilutes them by engaging in detailed regulation of labor standards, social laws, and pronouncements that reflect industrial age experience rather than address the future.

For all the apparent freshness of Medvedev s recent pronouncements, including his now famous article Go Russia! which sounded a clarion call for modernization and liberalism he is borrowing massively from Putin s vocabulary of 2000.

But there are also other reasons having to do with politicians need for scapegoats, the media s struggle to reinvent itself in the Internet age, and central bank pronouncements predictable short term effects on financial markets.

But, even when they are not in danger of losing access to the bond market, most governments in the developed world nowadays anxiously await the pronouncements of the same rating agencies that they were recently vilifying.

Finally, and perhaps least appreciated, is the fact that central bank policy pronouncements are almost unique in having clear and predictable effects on financial markets, at least in the very short run (which can be a day or less).

Clearly, the leading investment banks should become much more serious about training and licensing their analysts to provide knowledge rather than nonsense in their public pronouncements. The responsible media should scrutinize economic trends critically, rather than pandering to mass opinion.

But the rest of the world paid no attention to the vague pronouncements of a possible launch that had been appearing in the Soviet press everybody outside the Soviet Union knew the United States would launch the world s first satellite.

After a massive gas well explosion killed 243 people in southwest China last December, China's State Council and National People's Congress have announced new rules for industrial safety. The authorities' response follows a now familiar pattern high profile pronouncements in the wake of workplace disaster give way to neglect of basic safety standards.

Russians are reverting to the past to the grand pronouncements of Russia as a unique great nation, destined to rule the world. As before the advent of Gorbachev indeed, restoring a centuries old tendency Russians yet again believe that the people should be willing to forfeit their freedoms for the sake of the greatness of the state, which wins wars and launches Sputniks.