China s Visionary Stimulus

Chaplin was visionary.

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I'm a product of this visionary mother and father.

Leadership needs to be capable, determined and visionary in its commitment to peace.

From pragmatic beginnings could emerge a visionary change of direction in our world.

Chris, could you stand up and let them see you a young, visionary filmmaker who's made a film.

He's a really important leader, a real visionary, forward thinking man, and he told me two things when I approached him.

And he is an absolute renegade and a visionary, and he is the reason that I now live and work there.

This Office is visionary in promoting programmes of alternative crops in support of programmes for the complete eradication of illicit drugs.

Indeed, the challenges we face today require renewed commitment and visionary leadership to ensure efficient and effective service delivery to all humanity.

I found a visionary family, the Ansari family, and Champ Car, and raised part of the money, but not the full 10 million.

And leadership for this huge revolutionary effort will probably have to come from visionary business executives whose profits depend on education and rationality.

After one of the greatest cataclysms in world history, the United States joined with visionary builders from over 50 countries to create the United Nations.

Nandan Nilekani, the visionary co founder of outsourcing pioneer Infosys, explains four brands of ideas that will determine whether India can continue its recent breakneck progress.

During the present session, which coincides with the Organization's sixtieth anniversary, we should be inspired by the visionary dynamism provided by the heads of State and Government.

Indeed, Ivorian leaders bear full responsibility for finding a way out of the current crisis and making the hard decisions and visionary compromises that are urgently required.

Ultimately, the Ivorian leaders bear full responsibility for finding a way out of the crisis and making the hard decisions and visionary compromises that are urgently required.

The late Prime Minister's death has robbed Georgia of a visionary leader who was the driving force behind the economic reforms which are under way in that country.

The late Prime Minister of Lebanon, Rafik Hariri, was presented with a scroll of honour for his outstanding and visionary role in the reconstruction of post conflict Beirut.

We went out and we found some visionary people with enough money to let us design and build these things, and in hopefully enough time to get them accepted.

For his admirers and critics alike, Meles leaves behind a potent political legacy. He will be remembered as an African leader of major historical significance visionary, despotic, and indispensable.

Inventor, entrepreneur and visionary Ray Kurzweil explains in abundant, grounded detail why, by the 2020s, we will have reverse engineered the human brain and nanobots will be operating your consciousness.

At the opening of the Forum, the late, former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri of Lebanon was honoured for his outstanding and visionary leadership in the post conflict reconstruction of his country.

At the end of the day, our nations will have to assess and judge whether we have attained a visionary reform able to respond to the major threats of this era.

Mr. Ilkin (Turkey) Let me begin by thanking the Secretary General for his visionary, comprehensive and thought provoking report (A 59 2005), which will be guiding us during the reform process.

But as early as 1968, this visionary man, Robert Kennedy, at the start of his ill fated presidential campaign, gave the most eloquent deconstruction of gross national product that ever has been.

It is only through investment in visionary ideas, blue skies thinking, research and development, and innovation that we can ensure that the future will be better freer, more peaceful, and more prosperous than the past.

But it would fall short of the type of fiscal reforms that would satisfy Moody s. Such reforms require a grand bargain between America s political parties, which in turn presupposes visionary leadership by both of them.

Such experiences provide grounds for optimism. By investing in and spreading innovative technologies, strengthening market linkages, encouraging visionary leadership, and targeting those most in need and thus with the most potential we can feed the world.

So, I look forward to working with the TED community to hear about your ideas about how to fulfill this wish, and in collaborating with you, hasten the day that that visionary statement can become a reality.

For Europe, the starting point was visionary leaders like Jean Monnet and the creation of new institutions like the Coal and Steel Community. In the Middle East, the process of regional integration could begin with water and energy.

We favour the visionary approach outlined in the report it corresponds to the concept of a new political act for the United Nations for the twenty first century, which Poland presented not long ago in the United Nations.

When the astronomical distance between the realities of the academy and the visionary intensity of this challenge were more than enough, I can assure you, to give one pause, what was happening outside higher education made backing off unthinkable.

Distinguished participants included former presidents Mikhail Gorbachev and Martti Ahtisaari, Jeffrey Sachs and the late Prime Minister of Lebanon, Rafic Hariri, who was presented with a special citation of the Habitat Scroll of Honour for his visionary role in the reconstruction of post conflict Lebanon.

If European leaders do plan to meet in 2014 in Sarajevo, they should act now. The ratification of the Lisbon Treaty allows for an element of visionary realism in European politics, as there are no longer any institutional obstacles to the future enlargement of the EU.

All of this calls for courageous and visionary economic leadership otherwise, our problems will fester and grow, and the solutions will become even more complex. Already, too many of our economy s difficulties, including worrisome trends in youth joblessness and long term unemployment, risk becoming structurally embedded.

Although Zhao was no visionary, no Vaclav Havel or Lech Walesa, and not even anti communist, his agenda in the mid 1980 s embraced the economy, politics, culture, media, and society, and it led to one of the most open and intellectually rich periods of Chinese history.

Yes, we do have all the resources that we need in order to develop new cultural institutions, but what I think is more important is that we are very fortunate to have visionary leaders who understand that this can't happen from outside, it has to come from within.

What France and Germany achieved in the 1950 s can serve as an example. By forging shared sovereignty over issues vital to national security namely, coal and steel visionary leaders in both countries laid the foundation for European peace and security, while overcoming a long history of antagonism.

Furthermore, President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda has created what amounts to a one party state during his 24 years in power, yet he is feted in the West as one of Africa s visionary leaders. It seems that Ethiopia, more often than not, is the victim of diplomatic double standards.