Cradle
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The Chad-Cameroon pipeline project is one African project that wasn’t strangled in the cradle, and it cannot be allowed to fail.
What began as a democratic uprising against Bashar al-Assad’s dictatorship has developed into a cat’s
cradle
of conflicts, partly reflecting a brutal proxy struggle among Iran, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia for regional domination.
First, let us try to disentangle some of the cat’s
cradle
of ironies and contradictions that are bedeviling efforts to end the violence in Syria.
True, across Europe, even in corporate boardrooms, there remains an unwillingness to go to the US extreme of "perform or perish" Politicians of all stripes are committed to the
cradle
to grave welfare state, no mater its expense and debilitating effects on the economy.
It is time for Sunnis in Iraq and beyond to speak and act with much greater clarity and consistency on this existential threat to civilization in the
cradle
of civilization.
The deeper threat or fear is that Iran’s ultimate target is leadership of Mecca, the
cradle
of Islam.
For Russians, America was an evil empire, the world of capitalist exploitation and a nuclear superpower, but also a
cradle
of economic prosperity and individual freedom.
For America, Russia, too, was an evil empire, the world of communist expansionism and a nuclear superpower, but also a
cradle
of science, spirit, and soul.
The old notion that large companies are responsible for their employees' welfare from
cradle
to grave - providing not only wages and bonuses, but sports facilities, cheap holidays, and generous retirement benefits - fell into desuetude.
In order to prevent such an outcome, Ukraine’s revolution against Yanukovych, the monumentally corrupt Kremlin puppet, had to be strangled in its
cradle
and discredited in the eyes of the Russian people.
It was not the US that was gripped by this wave of racist paranoia, but France, the
cradle
of “liberté, egalité et fraternité.”
And, as the
cradle
of the world’s first democracy, Greece needs other symbols of national renewal than scepters and robes.
But the current estrangement from Europe – the
cradle
of Russian civilization and modernization – threatens Russia’s identity and will increase its geostrategic risks in the future.
Peru’s Self-SabotageSAN MARCOS – You may know Peru as the
cradle
of Incan civilization.
But policymakers seem trapped in a cat’s
cradle
of economic, political, and legal constraints that is preventing effective action.
Even the Nordic countries – world leaders when it comes to creating universal and well-designed welfare policies that cover citizens from
cradle
to grave – face significant health disparities, despite their relatively low income inequality.
It now seems possible that the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM), the mechanism that French President Nicolas Sarkozy set up in 2008 to increase regional cooperation, may actually step up to the challenge of reclaiming the region’s past as the
cradle
of reason, tolerance, and humanism.
But it will have lost the
cradle
of liberty.
If they are financed through standard government debt, interest rates would rise sharply, and the recovery would be smothered in its
cradle.
This dynamic was reversed under the Bolsheviks after 1917, when Russia became the
cradle
of revolution.
It is hard to overstate British influence over global affairs after it became the
cradle
of the Industrial Revolution.
Although the downturn was still considered large enough to warrant exceptionally loose monetary policies, the political establishment in the US, Britain, and much of Europe coalesced around austerity, smothering the recovery in its
cradle
and setting the stage for rising inequality and social discontent.
The glass door was open; one could perceive the lobby of a landing, a sort of recess in which the father and the mother occupied a fourth bed, against which they had been obliged to install the
cradle
of the latest coiner, Estelle, aged scarcely three months.
Maheu seemed all at once to hear them, and, in a fury, snatched the little one up from the
cradle
and threw it on the mother's bed, stammering with rage:"Here, take her; I'll do for her!Damn the child!
"It is very strange," thought Emma, "how ugly this child is!"When at eleven o'clock Charles came back from the chemist's shop, whither he had gone after dinner to return the remainder of the sticking-plaster, he found his wife standing by the
cradle.
Going back to the
cradle
of society, the orator painted those fierce times when men lived on acorns in the heart of woods.
'All these poor devils,' he added, 'labourers from the cradle, have lived, until they came here, upon skim milk and black bread.
To his great confusion, Julien felt the tears start to his eyes; he was longing to fling himself into the arms of his friend: he could not resist saying to him, with the most manly air that he was capable of affecting:'I have been hated by my father from the cradle; it was one of my great misfortunes; but I shall no longer complain of fortune.
And so the pride that had been inculcated in her from her
cradle
began to fight against her virtue.
The poor mother saw her son rolling along in the thick waters of the Seine, a rigid and horribly swollen corpse; while at the same time, she perceived him a babe, in his cradle, when she drove away death bending over him.
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