"The current situation is only an exception and for temporary reasons.
"Children who see temporary reasons for good events may give up even when they succeed, believing their success was a fluke".
And they typically take the view that recent declines in inflation are mostly for temporary reasons: lower oil prices, falling commodity prices, a stronger than expected exchange rate.
Now, one might lack empathy for temporary reasons — you can be enraged or drunk, for instance — but Baron-Cohen is most interested in lack of empathy as an enduring trait.
The MUI (the council of mullahs) and the FPI (the vigilantes) provide a lesson: both were created, for temporary reasons of expediency, by the Suharto regime but both have lingered to haunt its democratic successors.
Mr. Lockhart, like most Fed officials, said he expected that inflation would gradually return to a healthier pace, partly because of the Fed's existing plans for continuing stimulus, partly because expectations remained well anchored and partly because officials had concluded that the measurements were understating inflation for technical and temporary reasons.
But what I now appreciate all too clearly, for similar but hopefully temporary reasons, is the pounding frustration of not being able to try something out on the piano, of not being able to go near a concert because of the terrible cacophony that would assail me – because I, too, have developed a hearing problem.
Particularly at times like the year we've just been through, where earnings in the short term are often quite irregular, relative to kind of normalcy, where a lot of companies, for what are going to be temporary reasons, might have very different profits than they normally would have.
except for temporary reasons of Realpolitik, and instead actively supported radical collaborators who favored pan-Germanic unity (i.e. total integration to Germany) over provincial nationalism (for example DeVlag).
Parents who refused to participate were asked for permission to call back in about two months to minimize the number of refusals due to temporary reasons.
