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It's hard to imagine that officials who invested so much in the system now in collapse could accept the need for a significant reorientation of the American economy, never mind lend a hand in what French President Nicholas Sarkozy rightly describes as the "refoundation of world capitalism."

Mark Levine: To Deal with the Global Economic Crisis, Obama Will Need the Clinton Touch 2008

What we've been saved from is a referendum on the refoundation of the European Union in the image of its federalist state constituency.

Gordon Saves Britain! Or Does He? 2007

So it would be a matter of a refoundation, or a revolution, that new actors emerge, and a new international system emerge in order to guarantee the respect for peace, of sovereignty in the people, for self-determination, and so that we can see the emergence of a new international system, what Simon Bolivar used to call the balance or equilibrium of the universe that cannot be imposed through war.

CNN Transcript Sep 20, 2006 2006

The monks of Chertsey were housed in it, as we have already seen, and the revenues of several of the smaller dissolved houses were added to it; so that it was at the moment of its refoundation about three times as wealthy as it had been before.

The Historic Thames Hilaire Belloc 1911

Theoretical explanations of the pressure of liquids were supplied a generation or two later by numerous investigators, including Newton, but the practical refoundation of the science of hydrostatics in modern times dates from the experiments of Stevinus.

A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume II: The Beginnings of Modern Science 1904

The system is, of course, closely akin to such foundation or refoundation as the establishment of a 'colonia' implied in the early Empire, while the no less Roman character of the

Ancient Town-Planning 1889

The surest proof that Gracchus had fallen would be the immediate repeal of one of his laws, and the enactment which was most assailable was that which, though passed under another's name, embodied his project for the refoundation of Carthage.

A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate 1885

Between the 1948 partition of Palestine and their refoundation in 1982 it's West Bank activists operated as part of the Jordanian Communist Party, while those in the 1948 joined the Israeli Communist Party.

Indymedia Ireland Freda Hughes 2010

Despite all the speeches made by Nicolas Sarkozy and other G7, G8 or G20 leaders in the past two years on the "refoundation of capitalism", it is still impossible to have the high-profit-maximum-risk culture of the financial world taken to court.

The Guardian World News Pierre Haski 2010

Sarkozy, a forceful advocate of stronger regulation and state industrial policy called for a refoundation and moralisation of capitalism, and curbs on the business bonus culture.

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