He is frankly partisan, a multilateralist who sees the unilateralism of Mr Bush's presidency as a sorry interruption in history's inexorable progress towards a more consensual world in which going it alone can no longer answer pressing problems such as nuclear proliferation and climate change.
Instead, the oil inflation of 2011 was widely believed to reflect a long-term structural increase in demand from China and other developing economies running into the inexorable limit of a global oil supply that is at or near its geological peak.
The mostly inexorable forces driving a rebalancing of strategic power and political relations are plain to see.
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Through steady price increases, despite year after year of volume contraction net income has continued a seemingly inexorable ascent.
We are seeing a slow, but it seems inexorable, move in North America in many industries to a stakeholder model where the shareholder is the first among equals but not the only person at the table.
It's a sequence of events, an inexorable chain reaction where each small link is fundamental, like a snake of upended dominoes.
Just under a year ago, he appeared at a public lecture in a wheelchair to announce that he was suffering from a variant of motor-neurone disease, in which the body succumbs to inexorable paralysis: like being imprisoned in a shrinking cell, he said.
The fear instead is of a slow but inexorable unravelling of the peace process and of the paramilitary organisations' discipline.
Yet beneath all that volatility lies a haunting and inexorable truth: "In real-dollar terms, paper pricing basically goes down" over the long haul, says Georgia Pacific President Lee Thomas .
To some, the purchase was a head-scratching gambit: The sport of horse racing is perceived to be dying a slow, inexorable death, an ember of the 20th-century sporting scene, like boxing.
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Their leaders describe it as a step forward in an inexorable progress towards civil marriages and the disestablishment of Orthodoxy in Israel.
The implication is that without a third runway, London faces inexorable decline.
And because the forces of intellectual fashion behind that public-health vision of social policy are inexorable, this story is likely to offer a somewhat sad ending: ever-higher sin taxes on an ever-greater range of recreational foods.
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The "inexorable squares of mass" line brought out more than a few commenters, who pointed out Newton's Second Law doesn't work like that.
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Clearly EU leaders have not yet found a way to reverse what seems like an inexorable decline in affection for the European project.
What is made in Germany is often the work of only a few highly skilled people engaged in an inexorable pursuit of quality and precision.
Yet it is a lot easier to cope with slow, inexorable change than the abrupt kind, especially if you get to watch other countries change first.
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As the economy here and abroad evolved, both faced the prospect of either taking radical action to adjust to a new world of global competition or entering an inexorable decline.
Those effects, in turn, could allow many desperate companies to return to a semblance of solvency, and so halt the inexorable rise of bad debts swamping the region's banks.
Yes, we are all ultimately messy inside, but the truly interesting fact is that Jobs had tamed the messiness in ways that allowed him to act like a force of nature: simple, elemental and inexorable.
He concedes that there is a lot of bad mass entertainment, but that it is not part of an inexorable process of dumbing down.
However, past history clearly signals to investors that it is only a matter of time before economic conditions deteriorate to the point where governments return to their inexorable pursuit of inflation.
But within half a century, the picture had changed dramatically, for while the US continued its seemingly inexorable journey to global greatness and unprecedented affluence, it no longer did so on the trains.
The push to put people in homes and save the casualties of housing downturns has caused a gradual long-term divergence between housing prices and incomes, paradoxically putting us on an inexorable path to redefine the middle class as property-less.
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In divesting that division, the company is reacting to a perceived market trend and, by doing so, it reinforces the perception that that trend is indeed inexorable.
But though it may be a mission as futile as Sisyphus', I feel bound to protest when I discover new lows in inexorable degradation of our sensibility, manners, idealism and common sense.
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