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To protect the right of expression is the central part of an artist's activity... In China many essential rights are lacking, and I wanted to remind people of this.
What if people could use the Internet to create a new kind of money, one that didn't involve governments and central banks and could be used anonymously, like cash?
In the first moments, the members of the Presidium who were with me at the Secretariat were taken to the Party Central Committee under the control of Soviet forces.
There will always be crazy things that happen in our lives, but love is the central connector. If we commit to love and partnership, the other stuff doesn't matter.
No matter what name we give it or how we judge it, a candidate's character is central to political reporting because it is central to a citizen's decision in voting.
Only two countries in this hemisphere are not democratic, but many countries in both Central and South America, and in the Caribbean, are really fragile democracies.
The solution is to first create an integrated economic development and recreation plan that addresses the needs of the people who live and recreate in central Idaho.
I have found Delhi so much more beautiful than Mumbai. South and central Delhi, especially, are just so beautiful - the roads, the trees, the buildings, the history.
We have seen a central government taking more and more control over public education, over communications, over transportation, over every detail of our daily lives.
Seeing family is what brings me peace. If I'm not traveling home on my day off, I love going to Central Park to be around trees and throw a Frisbee with my boyfriend.
The first intifada, I was then commander of Central Command, commanding the West Bank, basically. And I know to what extent the first intifada was a popular uprising.
The doctrine that everything is fine as long as the population is quiet, that applies in the Middle East, applies in Central America, it applies in the United States.
The central pillar of our justice system is due process. You have got to be charged with a crime. Then you can challenge those charges in a court of law with a trial.
I think we do need to try to not just rely on the central bank to, in its wisdom, adjust interest rates, but allow for people to avoid being exposed to inflation risk.
Like my colleague, I represent a large Assyrian community in central California, one of the largest concentrations of Assyrian Americans anywhere in the United States.
Reagan was the most important American political figure of the latter half of the 20th century. No one was more central to his emergence and success than Bill Buckley.
Iran is central to our foreign policy in the Middle East, a major player in global energy markets, and a key country in terms of our interaction with the Muslim world.
My first district was Northwest Iowa. In 2002, it became North Central Iowa hooking around Des Moines down to the south, clear up to the northeast corner of the state.
When I did 'Boyz N The Hood', I never thought how we grew up in South Central was interesting enough for a movie.
My imam at the Central Mosque said there was no problem with making music. In fact, he encouraged me - he said if the songs are moral, not offensive, then go ahead.
Negative interest rates have been employed by many, many central banks.
GMOs play a central role in meeting the challenge of providing affordable and nutritious food to consumers all over the world.
When I was a kid, my dad was in construction and used to move the family back and forth between central Florida's east and west coasts.
Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.
Most of the policies that support robust economic growth in the long run are outside the province of the central bank.
There is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a whole - women and men alike - than the one which involves women as central players.
Free trade will go a long way toward alleviating poverty in Central America. Yet trade alone is not enough.
What government has been doing, we've got major programmes now, of billions of pounds, which are directed by central government into these areas of deprivation.
It's the ultimate pinnacle of stand-up to have an hour on HBO, but way more people see Comedy Central, and they've been good to me.
Since the pandemic began, COVID-19 has posed significant and often disproportionate risks to Central Virginia seniors and their families.
A digital currency issued by a central bank would be a global target for cyber attacks, cyber counterfeiting, and cyber theft.
This Bitcoin currency is a voluntary decentralized currency, anonymous. It can't be shut down by anyone; there are no central servers.
I'm just opposed to a pure inflation-only mandate in which the only thing a central bank cares about is inflation and not employment.
Geologists are rapidly becoming convinced that the mammals spread from their central Asian point of origin largely because of great variations in climate.
I'm not actually from Compton - I'm from South Central Los Angeles, and my father still lives in the same house I grew up in, so I'm there all the time.
When you start writing about the stuff that is the central experience of your own life, you can talk about whatever you want, in whatever way you want.
The benefit of appointing a hawkish central banker is the increased inflation-fighting credibility that such an appointment brings.
The absence of significant development aid has only increased the importance of trade for Central America's future.
For Central Virginia small business owners, their business is more than a building, a sign out front, or an income - it's their lifelong dream.
Below-target inflation increases the real value of debts owed by households and businesses and reduces the ability of central banks to respond to downturns.
A crucial responsibility of any central bank is to control inflation, the average rate of increase in the prices of a broad group of goods and services.
There's a lot of potential that goes unused in places like South Central L.A., a lot of brilliant, smart people who just don't have that chance to show it.
The one thing people don't appreciate, I think, is that central banking is not a new development. It's been around for a very long time.
Latin America has not achieved the development that it deserves... I'm not optimistic for all of Latin America, not only for Central America.
Since World War II, inflation - the apparently inexorable rise in the prices of goods and services - has been the bane of central bankers.
If there is no peace in Central America, it will not be because Costa Rica, and myself as president, have not done what is necessary to obtain peace.
Central bankers got it right in the United States in 1987 when they avoided deflationary pressures as well as serious trouble in the banking system.
The Central American isthmus is a region of great contrasts, but also of heartening unison. Millions of men and women share dreams of freedom and progress.
History proves... that a smart central bank can protect the economy and the financial sector from the nastier side effects of a stock market collapse.
At the most basic level, a central bank must be clear and open about its actions and operations, particularly when they involve the deployment of public funds.