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  • Sure, repealing Obamacare and reversing the statist tide will be a grueling challenge, but pessimism (on the Right) or optimism (on the Left) based on European precedents is ill-placed.

    Economics 2010

  • I then watched with (yes) ill-placed paternal pride as Pulp racked up rave review after rave review across Europe and Australia, fans and critics alike united in adoration, repeating the new orthodoxy that states that in the battle between Blur and Oasis, Pulp were the real winners (never mind that Pulp started as the little Art Rock Engine That Could, as contemporaries of The Smiths and The Fall and James a decade earlier).

    Charlie Ivens: Where now for Resurrected Left-Pop Iconoclasts Pulp? Charlie Ivens 2011

  • Sure, repealing Obamacare and reversing the statist tide will be a grueling challenge, but pessimism (on the Right) or optimism (on the Left) based on European precedents is ill-placed.

    Not Europe Yet 2010

  • Many analysts consider Ireland, in the middle of an austerity-driven recession, is ill-placed to cope with a new cycle of interest-rate increases by the ECB.

    ECB's Honohan: Bailout Deals Need Improvement Geoffrey T. Smith 2011

  • The cause: two mistimed, ill-placed Hollywood fundraisers on opposite sides of the traffic jam known as West LA.

    Jamie Court: Will the President Gridlock West LA as Prelude to Earth Day? He Should Read the Gas Station Signs Jamie Court 2011

  • Sure, repealing Obamacare and reversing the statist tide will be a grueling challenge, but pessimism (on the Right) or optimism (on the Left) based on European precedents is ill-placed.

    Stromata Blog: 2010

  • Sure, repealing Obamacare and reversing the statist tide will be a grueling challenge, but pessimism (on the Right) or optimism (on the Left) based on European precedents is ill-placed.

    Stromata Blog 2010

  • Sure, repealing Obamacare and reversing the statist tide will be a grueling challenge, but pessimism (on the Right) or optimism (on the Left) based on European precedents is ill-placed.

    Obama Nation 2010

  • Sure, repealing Obamacare and reversing the statist tide will be a grueling challenge, but pessimism (on the Right) or optimism (on the Left) based on European precedents is ill-placed.

    Current Affairs 2010

  • Massive bank recapitalizations—requiring funding that stressed sovereigns are ill-placed to provide—are only necessary if multiple sovereign defaults are on the agenda.

    Why Aren't Italian Bonds Rallying? Richard Barley 2011

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