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Blessed in sentence

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And yet, despite our obvious ability to produce much more than we need, we do not seem to be blessed with an embarrassment of riches.
His role has been blessed both by Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.
Central Asia is blessed with an abundance of energy and water resources, even though much is wasted by inefficient use and poor maintenance of infrastructure.
Sri Lanka is blessed with brilliant people, indefatigable civil-society organizations, decent courts and infrastructure, and abundant natural resources.
Somalia’s New PiratesMOGADISHU – Somalia is blessed with the largest coastline in continental Africa.
While the US is blessed by a growing population (set to rise from 300 million to 400 million by mid-century), the EU is cursed with demographic decline (to 450 million by mid-century, from 500 million now).
Earlier in the day, we’d witnessed a hundred capuchin and squirrel monkeys rush down from the Amazon jungle canopy and were now relaxing beside Lake Chalalan while her cousin, a shaman, blessed coca leaves as the evening’s traditional drumming and dancing began.
Mind you, citizens of the West are blessed to live in a time of peace: changing circumstances and priorities can be addressed through democratic processes instead of foreign and civil wars.
Yet, of the profoundest importance and benefit, we are also blessed with the enduring inspiration of Havel’s life in truth.
Khrushchev was ousted in a palace coup sponsored by the KGB and blessed by the military.
Are Americans specially blessed, or just lucky?
Sometimes those who study history are blessed to repeat it.
Since the early part of the twentieth century – and, most clearly, since John Paul II’s papacy (1978-2005) – the traditional dominance of Italy and other European countries in the locations of blessed persons has waned.
As part of this process, Benedict XVI dramatically shortened the number of years that blessed persons had to wait to graduate from beatification to sainthood.
For example, John Paul II became a blessed person a mere six years after his death.
With respect to competition with Protestants, the key feature of the last two popes is the shift in the geographical distribution of blessed persons away from the traditional dominance of Europe.
These shares compare with the mere handfuls of blessed persons from these regions who were named by previous popes.
Blessed at the start with a very low inflation rate in the euro area, the common currency soon faced a series of one-off shocks.
Judging from the recent evolution of Ecuadorian bond yields, it appears that markets have not punished Ecuador’s behavior: Ecuador, an oil exporter blessed by the 2009 recovery in oil prices, could have returned to the capital markets shortly after the exchange.
The government, under intense pressure from Beijing to enact the blessed version, calls this unnecessary.
Most Iraqi scientists I knew would consider this a blessed opportunity to escape the confinement and threats that shadow their lives.
Governments in regions blessed with cheap oil have sometimes considered the resulting revenues as a sign of divine favor and spent money as if it would never run out.
As Jesus put it, “It is more blessed to give than to receive.”
Managing social and political inclusion is not difficult for states blessed with an advantageous position along one of the world’s major trade routes, traditions of cosmopolitanism and commerce, massive oil wealth, and small national populations.
Conversely, already-rich and lightly populated countries – such as the US, Australia, and Chile – are blessed with enough space to build low-carbon energy systems at very low cost and with trivial consequences for agricultural land availability or landscape aesthetics.
For some countries that are blessed with vast supplies of oil and gas, the use of energy exports to reward friends and punish foes seems a tempting option.
Indeed, I know that I have been incredibly blessed.
Libya has never been blessed with a professional bureaucracy like that of neighboring Egypt.
The Kissinger Associates lobbying group, whose Russian section is headed by Graham, feeds in to the Kissinger-Primakov working group, a quasi-private-sector effort, blessed by Putin, to deepen ties between Russia and the United States.
We must also hope that his attempts to act as a peace-broker between West Bank Palestinians and Israel are blessed with success.
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