They made a virtue of qualities that made for economic success: self-reliance, frugality, industry, and energy, and through them influenced modern social and economic life.

The final tragedy described in Kings is the result of Israel's failure to uphold its part of the covenant: faithfulness to Yahweh brings success, economic, military and political, but unfaithfulness brings defeat and oppression.

The success of Cyprus in the economic sphere has been attributed, inter alia, to the adoption of a market-oriented economic system, the pursuance of sound macroeconomic policies by the government as well as the existence of a dynamic and flexible entrepreneurship and a highly educated labor force.

A popular sweeping Land Reform Act, as well as American foreign aid during the 1950s, laid the foundation for Taiwan's economic success, becoming one of the Four Asian Tigers.

Deng's vision for economic success and a new socialist market model became entrenched in the Party constitution in 1997 as Deng Xiaoping Theory.

From a sociological point of view, Danielle Lindemann has noted the " embattled purity regime " in which many pro-dommes emphasise their specialist knowledge and professional skills, while distancing themselves from economic criteria for success, in a way which is comparable to avant-garde artists.

In the 18th and early 19th centuries, it became clear to coastal residents that the city or state that succeeded in developing a cheap, reliable route to the West would enjoy economic success, and that the port at the seaward end of such a route would see business increase greatly.

Speaking at the 2007 budget session, Peter Caruana, the Chief Minister said " The scale of Gibraltar's economic success makes it one of the most affluent communities in the entire world.

However, it was never an economic success.

Guinea's economic reforms have had recent notable success, improving the rate of economic to 5 % and reducing the rate of inflation to about 99 %, as well as increasing government revenues while restraining official expenditures.

Honduran president Rafael Leonardo Callejas Romero, elected in November 1989, enjoyed little success in the early part of his administration as he attempted to adhere to a standard economic austerity package prescribed by the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) and the World Bank.

His attempts to carry out badly needed economic and social reforms met with little success, and the new constitution promulgated in February 1977 failed to quell chronic political instability.

As in prior weak financial markets and prolonged economic slowdowns, hedge funds again lost popularity during the downturn of the 1970s but received renewed attention in the late 1980s, following the success of several funds profiled in the media.

Dole despised Kemp's economic theories, but he felt Kemp-like tax cuts offered his best chance at electoral success.

With no doubts, the honor of the chairmanship in the authoritative international organizations symbolizes the success of social, economic and political achievements of Kazakhstan during the 18 years of its independence.

Lebanon reached the peak of its economic success in the mid-1960s – the country was seen as a bastion of economic strength by the oil-rich Persian Gulf Arab states, whose funds made Lebanon one of the world ’ s fastest growing economies.

Recent reports on progress on the Millennium Development Goals by the Overseas Development Institute indicated four key reasons for economic success.

The economic success achieved in the 1980s engendered the rapid growth of the financial services sector in Mauritius.

During the economic collapse of the seventeenth century Spain had little coherent economic policy, but French mercantilist policies were imported by Philip V with some success.

Belgian economic historian Herman Van der Wee concludes the Marshall Plan was a " great success ":

According to Mayor Bloomberg, City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn, NYC & Company CEO George Fertitta and New York City Clerk Michael McSweeney, " same sex-marriages in New York City have generated an estimated $ 259 million in economic impact and $ 16 million in City revenues " in the first year after the enactment of the Marriage Equality Act.

Marriage exchanges need to be analysed within their wider economic and political context rather than in isolation, as Lévi-Strauss tended to do.

The prose satire Les XV joies de mariage ( The Fifteen Joys of Marriage, first published 1480-90, written perhaps in the early 15th century, and attributed variously to Antoine de la Sale, Gilles Bellemère the bishop of Avignon, and many others ) is a riotous critique of wives ( typical of misogynistic literature of the period ), but it also provides important insight into the economic and social life of a married household in the 15th century.

Yet Coontz argues in Marriage, A History that during the 20th century, marriages have become increasingly unstable in the United States as individuals have begun to seek unions for the ideals of love and affection rather than social or economic expediency.

The political, administrative and economic reforms of the Habsburg rulers Maria Theresa of Austria and Joseph II improved the economic situation of the peasantry, and were well received by the emerging bourgeoisie, which was however still weak.

The film, constructed in the Hollywood tradition of women's pictures presenting a woman overcoming hardships, serves also as a parable of the West Germany economic miracle embodied in the character of Maria Braun.

While initially a contract was awarded to Palladio, economic shortfalls awarded the project, still completed in a Palladian style, to the young Brescian architect Giovanni Battista Lantana, with decorative projects directed mainly by Pietro Maria Bagnadore.

" Ross Mayfield, political cartoonist of the Santa Maria Sun, lampooned California's economic situation with his " The New State Seal for the Great Bankrupt State of California " cartoon, which portrayed a worried Minerva holding signs that read " Send Money " and " Need Cash ," the miner in his ( literal and figurative ) hole with a " We're In Too Deep " sign, and the ships flying " Bail Us Out " and " We're Sinking " banners.

In 1831, Maria Stewart ( who was African-American ) began to write essays and make speeches against slavery, promoting educational and economic self-sufficiency for African Americans.

The Bushwick Initiative aims to address deteriorated housing conditions, increase economic development opportunities, reduce drug dealing activities, and enhance the quality of life in the twenty-three square blocks surrounding Maria Hernandez Park.

Under Charles and Maria Theresa, Hungary experienced further economic decline.

Santa Maria Maior too was influenced by the evolution of the economic cycles, primarily wheat, suger and wine, which developed the island in successive decades.

Different industries have taken root in this city such as Industrias Facundo located in the periphery of the city, and also the Ingenio Isabel Maria, the fourth largest refinery in the country, and different ( piladoras ); a large part of the city is upwardly mobile above all in the city center which is the largest economic center in the province.

Most people at the Spanish court hated Maria Anna, in part, because she used to do everything in order to get as much money as she could for her Palatine family and for herself, even stealing precious paintings from the royal collections of art and sending them to her German relatives. Nevertheless, the economy of the kingdom was far from good and even Maria Anna had to make some economic sacrifices at times.

It would appear that the subsidizing of southern populations by the import of wheat from the north of the Empire temporarily overcame this problem, and it seems to have allowed economic recovery and a growing population within this region.

Repeatedly emerging victorious from these decisive wars has allowed Britain to influence world events with its policies and establish its self as great power and one of the world's leading military and economic powers.

Free-market capitalism refers to an economic system where prices for goods and services are set freely by the forces of supply and demand and are allowed to reach their point of equilibrium without intervention by government policy.

" Anarcho-capitalist Walter Block claims, however, that, while Adam Smith was an advocate of economic freedom, he also allowed for government to intervene in many areas.

His death was followed with the economic liberalism ( 1912 – 25 ) when banks were allowed to acquire almost complete control of the country.

The mayor's relentless lobbying for federal funds allowed New York to develop its economic infrastructure.

Spain's neutrality in World War I allowed it to become a supplier of material for both sides to its great advantage, prompting an economic boom in Spain.

The government's acceptance of foreign aid during the 1980s, in lieu of economic growth sparked by private investment, allowed it to ignore the necessity of creating new jobs.

These represent three ' leading sectors ', in which there were key innovations, which allowed the economic take off by which the Industrial Revolution is usually defined.

The doctrine of economic individualism holds that each individual should be allowed autonomy in making his or her own economic decisions as opposed to those decisions being made by the state, the community, the corporation etc.

The International Monetary Fund was one of the key organizations of the international economic system ; its design allowed the system to balance the rebuilding of international capitalism with the maximization of national economic sovereignty and human welfare, also known as embedded liberalism.

Such successful diplomatic and economic policies allowed Tito to preside over the Yugoslav economic boom and expansion of the 1960s and 1970s.

Along with his Minister for Economic Affairs and successor Ludwig Erhard, the West German model of a " social market economy " ( a mixed economy with capitalism moderated by elements of social welfare and Catholic social teaching ) allowed for the boom period known as the Wirtschaftswunder (" economic miracle ") that produced broad prosperity.

Greater economic and social freedom allowed women gradually to be able to determine how they could form relationships and families.

Meanwhile, in 1960 Maldives allowed the United Kingdom to continue to use both the Gan and the Hitaddu facilities for a thirty-year period, with the payment of £ 750, 000 over the period of 1960 to 1965 for the purpose of Maldives ' economic development.

Partnerships across ethnic groups allowed economic redistribution to be negotiated and the resulting better balance of economic and political power allowed strong and independent institutions.

According to Weber, this evolution occurred as the growing economic stability allowed professionalisation and the evolution of ever more sophisticated priesthood.

Chilean graduates of the Chicago School of Economics and its new local chapters had been appointed to important positions in the new government soon after the coup, which allowed them to advise Pinochet on economic policies in accord with the School's economic doctrine.