But this peaceful outcome depended largely on factors absent today: recognition by the ruling power of the time that, having no strong allies near the United States and facing a bigger threat from another rising power closer to home, it could not constrain the rise of the challenger and should instead accommodate American desires as much as possible.
Those who find this intuition compelling may conclude that contractualists must drop the individualist restriction, and instead accommodate Case Three by saying that "people have stronger moral claims, and stronger grounds to reject some principle, the worse off these people are" (Parfit 2011, volume 2, p. 202).
Despite the climbing death toll in besieged Gaza since Israel began "Operation Protective Edge," corporate media has ignored Palestinian voices and has instead accommodated those which further the narrative in favor of Israel.
But if we don't do this, we are forced to accept the status quo, a workforce where disabled workers often face scorn instead of support, where we are forced to hide our needs instead of accommodating them.
But Harris's conclusions are precisely the opposite of theirs: instead of accommodating the situation even further, he argues, kids should revolt.
Instead of accommodating China's overcrowded urban masses, too many houses stand empty, serving as stores of value for people dissatisfied with bank deposits and distrustful of the stockmarket.
Unlike the people of many other British cities, Londoners have already been sold on the "back to the city" idea, and urban programmes should now focus instead on accommodating urban settlers, not just attracting urban pioneers.
Jeff Akins Highland, N.Y., Dec. 22, 2008 To the Editor: Perhaps instead of accommodating the industry's demand that we upgrade to digital TV, many of us will give up in frustration and entertain ourselves the way our World War II-era forebears did — with a good book, gathered around a piano or electronic keyboard, or with some board games.
She is merely interested instead, in accommodating trans experiences of sexuality in a way that is not invalidating (2010, 45).
Instead of accommodating these concerns, Monsanto responded by publicizing scientific evidence about the benefits of genetically modified seeds but few of the farmers believed that the scientists supporting the company's claims were truly independent.
