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First, the case built by the police and state prosecutor contained documents that were so blatantly falsified that the police indicted two officers.
But two days after the American presidential election in November 2016 – and more than two months before Trump’s inauguration – the NGO I was working for halted distribution of a reproductive-health guide because it contained information on South Africa’s constitutionally guaranteed right to an abortion.
Costs were contained, but not so the outcries of aggrieved patients who felt they were denied adequate care and the late-night comics who conjured up scenarios of "drive-by" obstetrics and other pointed jokes.
The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) has contained the number of nuclear states.
According to the World Trade Organization, the foreign value-added contained in exports is only around 15% for most large economies, such as the United States and the European Union.
They believe that, should asset-price inflation emerge, it can be contained with macroprudential credit policies, rather than monetary policy.
The second possibility is that the crisis remains relatively contained, leading Germany to pursue closer economic and fiscal union.
But it can be contained and managed through policies that compensate workers for its collateral damage and costs.
Its government should have no problem demonstrating that it is willing and able to fulfill the obligations of membership contained in the IMF’s articles of agreement.
And while Macron’s victory does not mean that the populist threat has been eliminated, it does show that such forces can be contained.
And the fact that populism has been contained in France bodes well for other European countries.
The Dodd-Frank financial reform bill, signed into law by President Barack Obama in 2010, contained many provisions to reduce the chances of another big financial crisis.
The specific figure of 50 years was used to avoid the ambiguity contained in the phrase "long-run," which was used in the earlier discussions over Hong Kong’s sovereignty.
In attempting to explain this phenomenon, scientists observed that most of the island’s inhabitants ate cycad seeds, which contained beta-methylamino-L-alanine (BMAA), a toxin that interferes with the nervous system’s functioning.
Such support cells can be grown from the stem cells contained in the patient’s own bone marrow, avoiding the ethical issues that arise when using embryonic stem cells.
I do not want anyone to forget that over less than half of the years contained in the past century—from the outbreak of World War I to the famine that followed Mao’s “Great Leap Forward”—about one in every ten people alive on this planet was shot, gassed, stabbed, burned, or starved to death by his or her fellow human beings.
Nor are any of these crises likely to be easily contained or quickly resolved; each will have to be managed over the long term.
US President Donald Trump’s more radical, populist policies have been partly contained.
Arrow’s thesis contained his famous “impossibility theorem,” an analytical result of breathtaking elegance and reach.
One promising proposal contained in the German coalition agreement is for a new European Monetary Fund (EMF), to be overseen by the European Parliament.
One matter under investigation is the Trump campaign’s role in ensuring that the Republican platform contained no provisions backing arms supplies for Ukraine – which mainstream Republicans supported, but Russia of course opposed.
Nonetheless, the SDGs represent a departure from the previous development framework, the Millennium Development Goals, which contained no explicit targets relating to corruption.
Contained in the Appeals Act is the first clear legislative definition of sovereignty.
President Barack Obama has deployed the “confidence multiplier” and claims to have contained the recession.
While wage inflation in the US is contained, global monetary policy is probably excessively loose – one reason that oil prices have taken off.
Scientific research to develop products like irradiated sterile insects or the Oxitec mosquitoes proceeds progressively from more to less contained conditions – from the laboratory to confined trials to limited field trials.
A new study by the non-partisan Committee for a Responsible Budget presents a very different outlook for US deficits and debt from the one contained in Trump’s budget blueprint.
Man modifying man (and man's environment) is contained in man.
Football chauvinism always contained an edge of violence, for it often included an ethnic, religious, or class component: Protestants versus Catholics (in Scotland);“Jewish” clubs (in Amsterdam, Berlin, London, and Budapest), taunted by fans who opposed the “Yids”; posh clubs (like Galatasaray in Istanbul) and resolutely proletarian sides (West Ham in London); clubs that took pride in a strong regional identity (Barcelona); and clubs that were close to the centers of power (Real Madrid).
From 1980 to 2010, the share of “households” that consisted of just a single man or woman rose from 26% to 33%, while the share that contained married couples declined from 60% to 50%.
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