Humans, being humans, tend to judge things by comparison with recent experience, not by absolute standards.

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But these days bank lenders tend to judge projects on more conventional financial grounds, and larger Indian firms are tapping international capital markets.

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Our manifestation and subsequent reactions to discomfort thus often allows others to attempt to define us, because as human beings for better or worse we instinctively tend to judge each situation or person we meet.

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