Sentence examples for given the openness from inspiring English sources

But a further answer is that to the outside world America is a strangely puzzling country—strangely, given the openness of its society and the abundance of information about it and at times the puzzlement turns to worry.

But given the openness of the web, rise of social media, and the expectation of the democratization of society and economy through the web, it's surprising that we find ourselves in the situation that we do.

However, there was no evidence of this given the openness of respondents, and preparatory discussions with local experts indicated this would not be a systematic problem.

But if their confidence is misplaced, heaping more trouble on Canadian exporters already struggling to cope with the recession, the bilateral relationship is likely to sour.Some Canadians understand that their southern neighbour has real concerns about security, given the relative openness of its northern border.

Under the, given the financial openness of both the US and Switzerland not entirely unrealistic, assumption of complete markets, investors should anyway be indifferent about where to invest.

But, given the wide-openness of the Republican field, with no clear favorite, I don't see why five G.O.P. candidates couldn't be persuaded to participate.

Given the lack of openness in the Arab world, assessing the broader public mood is difficult.

Given the stress on openness and transparency, Blair acknowledged that certain governments, including Ethiopia and Rwanda, were less than open, but what was important was whether they were succeeding in improving lives.

The circumstances were different, but after days of lawless violence in British cities, Mr. Cameron seemed to acknowledge limits to the value of openness given the power of social media to cause instability.

But given the overall lack of openness there is no way of knowing to what extent they are outliers.Thousands of claims for damages following sexual-abuse cases, which typically cost the church over $1m per victim, according to lawyers involved, have led to a liquidity crisis.

Most likely, free traders will have to content themselves with regional agreements for the time being; unfortunate given the extent to which openness has fueled economic gains in the developed and developing world.UPDATE: Douglas Irwin and Petros C. Mavroidis comment at VoxEU.