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In this report, he says it was the environment that created Abu Ghraib, by leadership failures that contributed to the occurrence of such abuse, and because it remained undiscovered by higher authorities for a long period of time.
They received a summons from the Nazi authorities to go to Brussels Railway Station.
So I worked with a local team and the local authorities to set up a new orphanage and rescue the kids to give them a safe new home.
So what made James Baldwin loom so large in the imaginations of both the public and the authorities?
Washington authorities initially rejected her plan- and then tried to relegate the march to side streets.
And all I had to do was persuade the public authorities that shutting the city for four days was something completely normal.
His first, in the town of Innsbruck, didn’t gain much traction with the local authorities, who disapproved of his harsh questioning of respectable citizens and shut down his trials.
While religious authorities encouraged witch hunts, local secular governments usually carried out the detainment and punishment of accused witches.
The potential for similar situations, in which authorities use their powers to mobilize society against a false threat, still exists today— but so does the capacity of reasoned dissent to combat those false beliefs.
I think it was a poor translation, probably, but people relied on authorities like that.
As alcohol consumption became part of everyday life, some authorities latched onto effects they perceived as positive— Greek physicians considered wine to be good for health, and poets testified to its creative qualities.
The focus on the basic service delivery through these independent service authorities would have rescued basic services from their catastrophic levels, and it would have given ordinary people the sense that the government was doing something useful.
In nearby Africa, poachers intentionally poison carcasses to prevent the birds’ presence from alerting authorities to their location.
And pretty soon, that support was too strong and intense for the authorities to subdue.
And so the authorities became convinced that this smell was this problem.
The public health authorities had largely ignored what he had to say.
And so, with the help of this map, and with the help of more evangelizing that he did over the next few years and that Whitehead did, eventually, actually, the authorities slowly started to come around.
But then authorities did something very smart.
And so, you call local authorities up and down the country to inquire about the children that are in their care systems, and this is where we hit a huge wall of negativity.
So, they believed that knowledge came from authorities that actually knew very little.
Authorities had been rejected before, many times.
And he answered it by telling the story of the man who fell among thieves, and how religious authorities went the other way, and how their supporters in the congregation went the other way; but an unsuspecting, despised person came along, saw the man in need, provided oil and wine for his wounds, put him on his own transportation, and took him to the inn and asked the innkeeper, "Take care of him."
While it's easy to point the finger at local officials and higher authorities, 99 percent of these people are hired by the private sector, and so therefore we're equally, if not more, accountable.
Most of our local authorities, when they sit down to plan for the next five, 10, 15, 20 years of a community, still start by assuming that there will be more energy, more cars, more housing, more jobs, more growth, and so on.
There are now two local authorities in this country who have declared themselves transitional local authorities, Leicestershire and Somerset.
It also gave the U.S. monetary authorities the right to monitor any dollar transaction taking place anywhere in the world.
And our job is to convince the authorities that these forests have to be protected.
These guys could go to jail for up to seven years if they were caught by authorities.
It empowered authorities, and, as a result, marginalized citizens.
The authorities did not have the reason to make economic growth happen so that they could tax people and make more money for to run their business.
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