Corners
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They can peek through windows, fly into buildings, and sit, undetected, in
corners
or other small spaces.
Foreign journalists with hand-held air pollution detectors have been popping up on street
corners
checking levels of soot and dust.
Amid these transformations, China gained an opening to boost its global influence – one that it is determined to exploit, despite resistance from some
corners.
In fact, there are rays of hope in certain
corners
of Europe.
The ancients understood that the builder always knows more about the risks than the client, and can hide sources of fragility and improve his profitability by cutting
corners.
The three of us are working with a distinguished group from all
corners
of the Euro-Atlantic region to develop these and other concrete steps that are essential to creating a genuine security community, including its economic, energy, and environmental dimensions.
Moreover, we will need to light the dark
corners
of international finance, especially tax havens like the Cayman Islands and secretive Swiss banks.
Obama’s investment plan could be the foundation stone for a formal global agreement that delivers higher levels of growth to all
corners
of the world and creates millions of new jobs.
High-speed Internet connections have penetrated remote
corners
of Russia in recent years, and blogging services such as LiveJournal have been prominent for a decade.
The incentive problem stems from the fact that when governments procure a road project, the winning contractor may cut corners, because he gets to pocket the savings.
The contractor will be responsible for the increased maintenance cost if he cuts
corners
at the time of construction, presumably making him more likely to do high-quality work.
Those who focus only on the angry nationalist rhetoric heard in some
corners
of the UK’s Leave campaign miss the larger truth.
Indeed, on the great issues of policy, as distinct from the murky
corners
of self-interest, Putin can still be seen as a good president.
Putin should recognize that the sheer extent of his presidential power makes it essential that the darkest
corners
of Kremlin decision-making be exposed to daylight.
Given this knowledge, those of us tackling nutrition and climate challenges cannot simply keep fighting in our respective
corners.
They will have to cut
corners
and neglect some cases by judicial triage.
If anything, debt-service requirements will push countries to pursue export revenues at any cost, including by cutting
corners
on climate-resilient infrastructure and stepping up their own fossil-fuel use and extraction of resources.
Our view, in Jump-Starting America, is simple: do it all, because creating new sectors is precisely what will create the good jobs of the future – and in all
corners
of the country.
But, as COVID-19 infections rise and social tensions surface – exemplified by widespread protests over racial injustice and police violence – America’s lawmakers have returned to their respective
corners.
As incompetent governance takes its toll and the consequences of mendacious populism snowball, there are worrying signs of
corners
being cut in our political system – for example, a blurring of the boundaries between private and party financial interest and ministerial responsibility.
As the fruit of a year’s worth of discussions and revisions, the declaration has received broad support from different
corners
of the world.
'My dear friend!' repeated the Countess with her eyes fixed on him; and suddenly the inner
corners
of her eyebrows rose, forming a triangle on her forehead, and her plain yellow face grew still plainer; but Karenin felt that she was sorry for him and ready to cry.
'It is truly said that everything in the world is sin,' he thought, again glancing out of the
corners
of his eyes at the chamberlain's calves.
Then Levaque and Pierronne, with a peaceful air and without impolite curiosity, contented themselves with watching the visitors out of the
corners
of their eyes.
She was his little wife, and in the dark
corners
they used to try together the love which they heard and saw in their homes behind partitions, through the cracks of doors.
Ever since she was ten Mouquette had been lying about in all the
corners
of the ruins, not as a timid and still green little urchin like Lydie, but as a girl who was already big, and a mate for bearded lads.
Set fire to the four
corners
of the town, mow down the people, level everything, and when there is nothing more of this rotten world left standing, perhaps a better one will grow up in its place."
When it became dark four petroleum lamps were fastened to the four
corners
of the room.
To carry on an extensive correspondence, to discuss the fate of the workers in the four
corners
of the province, to give advice to the Voreux miners, especially to become a centre and to feel the world rolling round him--continually swelled the vanity of the former engineman, the pike-man with greasy black hands.
And in this burst of hope, in this gallop of big boots sounding over the pavement of the streets, there was something else also, something sombre and fierce, a gust of violence which would inflame the settlements in the four
corners
of the country.
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