“... and also provides the object which acts as the determining purpose of production.’ Supply may not create its own demand, but we know by now that demand – demand, at least, for oil and gas – calls forth ample supply. We also know that political initiatives of sufficient scale and visibility in the realm of consumption can help, however modestly, in ...”

“... argument has been overstated, and indeed that the grasping materialism of the campaign’s message may have backfired; but he also provides a new perspective on two underappreciated factors, both of which reinforced the SNP’s ability to speak for the nation against central government.The first was Britain’s entry into the European Economic Community. By ...”

“... endorsed by the General Assembly that November, but fighting broke out immediately and worsened in May 1948, when the mandate ended. It was at this point that Lie sent Bernadotte and Bunche to force an agreement. When Bernadotte was murdered Bunche was ‘trapped’, as he told Ruth. No one wanted responsibility but everyone had a view. That November, speaking ...”

“... by capitalism. Berger also notes, pointedly, that however conservative Millet’s perspective may have been, he nonetheless foresaw that ‘the market created by industrialisation, to which the peasantry was being sacrificed, might one day entail the loss of all sense of history. This is why for Millet the peasant came to stand for man, and why he saw his ...”

“... the English ‘occluded’ Scotland because they regarded it as integral to the British project may be more attractive than historical because it draws on unionist assumptions she also wants us to resist. Most historians would say that Scotland was ignored as long as it was no threat to wealthier, populous England. Although Elizabeth enabled a series of ...”

“... so the interest shifts to those other, less tangible sources of value whose workings may be analysed, for instance, in the advertising market. This means that increasing amounts of surplus-value have to be diverted to the end of establishing a product’s desirability or usefulness. ‘To give meaning to an artefact is to convince a potential ...”

“... and Bloom’s faltering response to the prejudice he encounters genuinely heroic. Bloom may lack the ancient military virtues, but he possesses the secular qualities of ‘prudence, intelligence, sensitivity and good will’. And he is kind to animals.– Milk for the pussens, he said.– Mrkgnao! the cat cried.They call them stupid. They understand ...”

“... braving attack and disease to deliver the mail; everyone knows his news will be fresh. It may make fortunes or portend disaster. Money is already changing hands: people love to bet on the news.In early modern Europe, couriers represented the increased connectivity of the Continent. They travelled faster and faster on roads that were constantly ...”

“... and donated it to her friend Virginia Durr’s campaign against the poll tax. Their meeting may, Kaplan suggests, have been behind Churchill’s noticeable gloom that Christmas and his ‘retreat into silence’ at the White House dinner. In 1945, Tom Mitford was killed in action at the age of 36. Decca wrote to her mother that she ‘couldn’t think ...”

“... 34 seasons, were dedicated to the subject. Buckley argued on air that however kindly Ho Chi Minh may have seemed in the 1940s, the sheer number of Vietnamese people seeking refuge from repression south of the 17th parallel surely justified US intervention on humanitarian as well as anti-communist grounds (this argument proved influential on the human rights ...”

“... aim of Khomeini, and the smashing of his nuclear potential before it is too late. Saddam Hussein may simply decide to wait the Americans out. That basically was Nasser’s tactic. Or he might really decide to live or die an Arab hero by taking over Jordan, confronting the Israelis, and asking the ‘Arab nation’ where it stands or whether it ...”

“... out who the man is whom he is really jealous of. Such is the superb end of the first act, and one may agree that a play which went on to show how he really did try to share his wife with his friend would be of greater interest: but the audience would not have stood it, as Joyce realised quite as well as Crommelynck. In the second and third acts Bruno is ...”

“... country villa stocked with the choicest furnishings and pictures that money can buy. Des Esseintes may have joined the bourgeoisie, but Jérôme and Sylvie have to work for their living. Though they start out like yuppies, they prefer flâneurism to the bureaucratic rat-race and are soon left behind by their contemporaries. How to escape? In one of the ...”

“... off work, and without the first he became a mere ghost in his home, disregarded by everybody. He may have misled the interviewers by being less articulate than the others, who took great pleasure in being conscious of their situation, and reviewing it for the writers’ benefit in graphically objective terms. Even so, I should have thought, on the basis of ...”