Such a "preventive check", operating through the birth rather than the death rate, could provide a way to counter the otherwise inexorable logic of too many mouths chasing too little food.
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Its overriding instinct is to be counter-instinctual; otherwise, we could put consciousness to sleep at an early age.
So much so, discerning visitors to Japan now decry the increasingly popular practice of tacking on little sushi counters to otherwise traditional restaurants, where you can order raw fish as ceviche or carpaccio, rather than time-honoured sashimi.
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Never mind that the economy needs the spending to counter what would otherwise be a devastating slump in consumer demand — and more joblessness as a result.
Mr Obama, for his part, was right to press for more funds to counter what would otherwise have been a contractionary cutting-off of unemployment benefits and tax breaks for the poorest.
These brief flickers of an idealism that ran counter to an otherwise totalitarian age — crushed between the rock of Communism and the hard place of fascism — would continue to inspire Kohr's writing and thinking.
