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Over 14 million people are in urgent need of assistance in the states of Borno, Adamawa, and Yobe alone.
Almost half a million children are facing the prospect of severe and acute malnutrition, 300,000 of them in Borno alone.
After all, most US voters can be trusted not to learn how other countries, let alone countries in the Far East, really work.
Against this background, the notion that force alone can transform conflict-riven societies in the Middle East and elsewhere is a dangerous fallacy.
As was true of European fascism in the 1920s and 1930s, it is not easy to find much ideological coherence in these various political strands, let alone in Bannon’s Movement.
In the Philippines, Indonesia, and Malaysia alone, Japan has trained more than 250 coast guard personnel.
No country can secure its own peace alone anymore.
Preparing for Europe’s Next RecessionPARIS – If you do not understand what is happening to the eurozone economy, you are not alone.
She is not alone in her concern.
The US government will no longer be able to afford to invest hundreds of billions of dollars (the cost in Iraq alone will run into the trillions) trying to supply other people with decent government.
Indeed, the deal that Hong Kong’s colonial subjects appeared to accept – leaving politics alone in exchange for the opportunity to pursue material prosperity in a safe and orderly environment – is not so different from the deal accepted by China’s educated classes today.
So far, there is no evidence that the protesters in Hong Kong’s Central district have any ambition to undermine, let alone topple, the government in Beijing.
Share prices rose 30% in 2013 alone, and house prices increased 13% in the same twelve months.
And France is hardly alone among advanced economies.
Jobs and productivity growth could contribute 75% of the potential gains, while increased public spending alone, without measures to improve its effectiveness, would contribute less than 10%.
Most parents are barely able to keep up with the evolving technology, let alone oversee their children’s online conversations.
These six international banks alone accounted for nearly 20% of the prime money-market funds’ value.
And decisions like that of the UK – and France, Germany, and Italy – show that they are not alone.
Despite having had open-heart surgery during his first term, India’s 81-year-old leader has sought to offset his low domestic political stock by flying more than one million kilometers on overseas trips – including visits to Japan, China, Indonesia, Russia, Thailand, and the United States in the last six months alone.
In the Middle East alone, the US has overstretched its capabilities in two controversial wars; repeatedly failed to broker a peace between Israel and Palestine; estranged key regional powers; and performed disappointingly on issues like Iran’s nuclear program and Syria’s civil war.
“It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honors that we are fighting,” they declared, “but for freedom alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself.”
The United States and Spain did it in their civil wars, and today’s Spain would go to the outer limits of its capacity to prevent a Catalan or Basque referendum, let alone independence.
Doing so would highlight the famous case of former oil magnate Mikhail Khodorkovsky, whose political ambitions alone landed him in prison, and who has been declared, after a second trial, a prisoner of conscience by Amnesty International.
And with US President Donald Trump threatening to start trade wars and abandon Europe to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s revanchist predations, this is an especially dangerous time for the UK to go it alone.
Ironically, the temptation to go it alone may ultimately weaken the US in this domain.
There is another important issue here which most observers have overlooked: as a "transitional" Tsar Yeltsin can no longer rule alone.
If the prospect of a referendum alone is enough to push the UK into dire economic straits, both the government that introduced that referendum and the group campaigning to exacerbate the situation are effectively discredited.
With application-software development alone capable of employing 4.8 million people and contributing €63 billion ($87 billion) to the European Union’s economy by 2018, enabling women to contribute to the ICT sector’s development is a matter of common sense.
While the UK could negotiate new agreements with these partners, that would take time, and, acting alone, its negotiating power would presumably be weaker.
In fact, every week, it seems, some new development emerges that, alone or in concert with the rest, would get a CEO fired.
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