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But both Democrats and Republicans are hard at work figuring out what will appeal to voters in their parties’ respective primary elections – and thinking about what will play well to the electorate as a whole in November 2016.

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As a result, pressures from the governments of the respective countries led to me being forced out of my career as a journalist in the Middle East.

And despite that, a Scot and a Brazilian persevered, because that's how we were raised in our respective countries, and for 12, 15 years, we made demonstration after demonstration suggesting that this was possible.

At the end of each day, they return to their respective retirement homes.

The more I've seen and learned about our respective generations, the more I realize that we often don't trust each other enough to actually share our respective wisdom.

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