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But as a generalisation, the efforts of the past few years have thrown up mixed messages.
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Lord Razzall, chairman of the Liberal Democrat general election campaign, described Mr Clarke's statement as a "surprising generalisation".
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This is a careless and damaging generalisation.
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In doing so, Mr Mehta paints a picture of an India that is so vast, complex and confusing as to defy generalisation, and facing such a terrifying array of problems that it forbids optimism.
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At a seminar once, I remember hearing him make the generalisation that monetary policy is easy only when the prices of assets are rising faster than the prices of the goods they produce (when the real return to holding assets is positive).
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And the book's central term jihad is also in the end a rather-too-convenient shorthand, one that cannot altogether bear the weight of generalisation placed upon it.
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