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But using the broad
brush
of “human rights” to resolve such issues trivializes the concept.
India is Boyle’s palette, and Mumbai – that teeming “maximum city,” with 19 million strivers on the make, jostling, scheming, struggling, and killing for success – is his
brush.
Yet the government’s days of putting out protests like
brush
fires may be ending.
That businesswoman's
brush
with the law typifies the main reason-aside from low incomes-that bridging the so-called "digital divide" between rich and poor countries is so difficult.
If anything, in his most recent speech, Fischer seemed to
brush
aside any such fears – assuring his audience that there is great social value in continuing to have extremely large financial firms that operate with so very little equity capital (and therefore a great deal of leverage).
But some, like the US administration, continue to paint all wealthy Russians with the same
brush.
But apart from tarring too many with the same brush, there is something deeply troubling about this narrative’s reductionism.
After his
brush
with Communists in Spain, George Orwell captured the essence of the narrative’s importance in his novel 1984: “Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present, controls the past.”
If his analysis were merely wrong, one could
brush
it aside as just another piece of academic irrelevance.
Of course, one should not paint with too broad a
brush.
Our homes and our cities are just a few kilometers from each other, our fields
brush
up against theirs.
Werqit’s workflow solution does a good job of discovering, through social activity, who is likely to help you – and, just as important, who will probably
brush
you off.
The disparity between perceived and actual risk and the tendency to paint all emerging economies with the same
brush
is a longstanding problem.
So we really don't know whether we should tell central bankers to
brush
up on their Greenspanese.
Instead of painting all emerging economies with the same brush, they are accounting for each country’s economic fundamentals, domestic political stability, and relationships with others (for example, Turkey’s current diplomatic tensions with the United States).
An important feature of this shift will be the realization by high-profile executives that they can no longer afford to
brush
off criticism with the you-just-don’t-understand defense.
All of this paints China with a very different
brush
than was used during the first 30 years of its growth miracle.
Of course, not all technology companies should be tarred with the same
brush
as the main offenders.
The EU would then be able to cast its criticism within the appropriate legal framework, while Turkish leaders would no longer be in a position to
brush
aside the EU's concerns.
Anyone who thinks this sounds radical needs to
brush
up on economics.
The number of forest and
brush
fires that start is thus much higher than during a normal summer.
My dentist-guide also described her work spreading “sanitary propaganda” – that is, visiting local grade schools to teach children how to
brush
their teeth.
Revolutionaries can then
brush
aside established norms of behavior, or even of truth, as trivialities that should not impede the popular will.
Many who voted for Trump viewed Democrats’ support for this year’s street protests against police brutality as condoning violence and tarring the nation as a whole with the broad
brush
of racism.
The breeze, which they had felt while driving, died down when they stopped; and horseflies settled on the sweating horses, which angrily tried to
brush
them off.
She had nothing to change into as she was already wearing her best dress; but to give some sign that she had prepared for dinner, she asked the maid to
brush
her dress, and she put on clean cuffs, pinned a fresh bow to her dress and placed some lace in her hair.
And did I
brush
my hair or not?' she asked herself; but could not remember.
When even the painter's
brush
can't depict the effects unique to the liquid element, how can the writer's pen hope to reproduce them?
"That damned captain," the Canadian went on, "must really be sure of his course, because if these clumps of coral so much as
brush
us, they'll rip our hull into a thousand pieces!"
In it you can view these primordial rocks that have never seen the light of day, this nether granite that forms the powerful foundation of our globe, the deep caves cut into the stony mass, the outlines of incomparable distinctness whose far edges stand out in black as if from the
brush
of certain Flemish painters.
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