Unit III. EU at the Crossroads
Ex. 5. Fill in the gaps with the words from Ex. 3 and Ex. 4.
1. This assessment of the candidates makes the assumption that Governor Romney will hold to
his own policy positions, a ______________assumption given Romney has been known to
publicly alter his positions in periods of time occasionally under twenty-four hours.
2. A leading Australian scientist, recognised internationally for his work in wetlands, says better management of the world's wetlands will help ________________ the effects of climate
change.
3. During the latter part of the nineteenth century, the city (Independence MO.) served as a political ________________ to nearby Kansas City and produced the future President Harry S. Truman.
4. George Osborne said encouraging investment and exports was a ________________ a ga i n s t
which the government should be judged.
5. The Pakistani politician said that the present government has neither vision nor capacity and
future planning _________________ the country out of the prevailing crisis.
6. The economic crisis which has _________________ the EU has required some major policy
innovations, and EU institutions now have a much greater say over national economic policies — particularly for states in the euro area.
7. An ________________ culture involves a full and successful integration of diverse people into
a workplace or industry.
8. Strength is an asset and, true, it is an _____________ against unscrupulous aggression, but it also
becomes self-destructive if it grows excessively strong and is crushed under its own momentum.
9. Lord Byron created Manfred when Europe was _____________ between the night of the Napole
onic wars and the dawn of the Age of Revolution — a time that bred charismatic national heroes.
10. Freedom is an _________________ of democracy, but not undisciplined — an irresponsible
freedom by participation of the people directly or indirectly in the making of the laws by which they are governed.
11. This reported behaviour of refusing most requests is at odds with previous observational research in the US that showed ________________ to be the more typical.
12. What is impermissible is for the state to hand over the _________________ of sanctions to
private individuals who ________________ the sanctions on its behalf.
