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Instead of joining the highly regulated and integrated Franco-German core of Europe, they can remain part of the flexible, diverse and deregulated periphery to which historically and geographically they have always belonged.
The Archaeological Survey of India, however, reported the existence of ruins beneath the demolished mosque that might have belonged to an ancient temple.
They argued that the oil belonged to all the people of Nigeria, not just the eastern area.
Aylwin belonged to the Christian Democratic Party, which in Chile emerged from the ashes of the old Conservative Party.
A recording of the telephone interview was played in court; sworn testimony was heard from the reporter who conducted the interview and from two editors who witnessed it; the official record from the telephone company was submitted as evidence of the call; and an expert witness concluded that the voice on the recording belonged to Tomy Winata.
About five hundred belonged to the prestigious Academy of Sciences and worked mainly in basic science.
The remaining "branch institutes" - industrial research facilities, design bureaus, field stations and so on - belonged to one or another ministry.
They belonged to the Fourth Army, headed by Zhang Guotao, Mao’s archrival.
They argued that the oil belonged to all of Nigeria’s people, not just the eastern area.
But her remarks that half of Trump’s supporters belonged to a “basket of deplorables” – that they were racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic – reinforced the impression that she and her party looked down on Trump voters as morally contemptible and even stupid.
By 2008 or so, around 55% of these countries’ populations belonged to the middle class, by whatever definition one used.
The evidence in this case, as in so many others, consists of Microsoft Word documents found on a computer that belonged to Saylan’s foundation.
In the face of relentless settlement expansion, failed evacuation of outposts, and the construction of new Jewish neighborhoods in areas that never belonged, either geographically or historically, to the city of Jerusalem, the doves should take an unequivocal stance and say: stop, enough.
Once the Republic of Ireland and the UK both belonged to the EU, the impetus for Irish reunification disappeared, and the decades-long civil war between Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland could be put to rest.
The practical realities of EU integration meant that it no longer mattered which country Northern Ireland belonged to.
Speaking on behalf of the European Union, a German spokesperson rejected the concept of “defamation of religion” as not valid in a human rights context, because human rights belonged to individuals, not to institutions or religions.
If our thoughts belonged to one universe and their subject matter to another, truth might be within our grasp.
Thousands of Muslims [suddenly] belonged to a state dominated by Christians.”
Each belonged to a special class of women whose husbands or fathers were their country’s recognized founding father or longstanding political leader.
The merging of computer science and engineering with neuroscience has already produced results that not long ago belonged only to science fiction.
For many people, the introduction of the euro meant not only that currency risk – i.e., the risk of devaluation – had disappeared, but also that all euro-zone members now belonged to an economic area of monetary stability and, thanks to the discipline of the Stability and Growth Pact, of fiscal stability.
Assuming the responsibilities that have long belonged to men requires that women let go of the tasks that have prevented them from advancing beyond low-ranking positions.
Instead, he found eager supporters among pious Protestants, for whom Jews belonged in their own holy land rather than in Europe.
For 1,000 years, Russia has belonged to such a category.ampquot;
And at one rally in New Delhi, farmers carried human skulls, which they say belonged to farmers who have committed suicide following devastating crop losses over the past six months.
Until the recent Asian accident crisis, the poorest workplace safety record in world history belonged to the United States in the fifty years following the American Civil War.
Iranians had had the temerity to elect a progressive, secular prime minister who believed that the country’s oil belonged to its people, not to the United Kingdom or the US.
During the Pope's visit, Poles really loved each other and loved the fact that they belonged to a community, but a very short lived community of those who go to papal masses.
When a country is robbed of a national art treasure, we don’t call its return “re-nationalization,” because it belonged to the country all along.
They belonged to a global institution, the International Monetary Fund, and to a pair of regional ones, the European Commission and the European Central Bank.
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