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This design was crafted not only from enlightened principle but from necessity: America needed to persuade people to cross the ocean and endure the hardships of the frontier and, later, industrialization.
Meanwhile, Ukraine’s neighbors are left feeling vulnerable, worried that Russia’s efforts to destabilize the region may cross yet another border.
They devised an electoral system whereby Poles would not vote for candidates of their choice, but would cross out those they did not want – which is to say, each and every communist.
Preliminary findings from a joint nutrition assessment show that one in four children is malnourished, and refugees are desperate when they cross the border.
It does Ahmedinejad no good for Europe to maintain a sense of history that must put it at cross purposes with Iran.
Without these five components, any immigration proposal will not cut back on the number of deaths among those seeking to cross the border, or the existence of an abused underclass, or the persistence of temporary and legal employment that becomes permanent and illegal employment.
The surge of people risking their lives to cross from North Africa has confirmed that, regardless of targeted arrangements like that between the European Union and Turkey, flows of people across the Mediterranean are set to continue.
In the month of May, before the summer's searing and deadly heat, local authorities estimated a daily average of 1,000 migrants attempting to cross.
While this would not cross the EU’s 3%-of-GDP ceiling on budget deficits, it is considerably more than the 1.6% that the finance minister informally agreed with the EU over the summer.
Whereas no army can cross the plains of Mongolia or Manchuria, Chinese strategists believe that, until the country establishes itself as a dominant naval power, it will remain vulnerable to the gunboat diplomacy that it experienced in the past.
Indeed, with the cost of connectivity falling sharply – China’s mobile users are expected to surpass PC users by 2013 – and, with urbanization and per capita incomes also rising sharply, it is not unreasonable to expect China’s Internet penetration rate to cross the 50% threshold by 2015.
Amnesty International has documented the widespread practice of pushing back migrants and refugees attempting to cross into Greece and Bulgaria – a practice that contravenes international law.
And more than 2,500 would-be migrants have drowned in the Mediterranean this year, most of them attempting to cross from North Africa to Italy.
Encouragingly, after a gap of seven months when no military supplies could reach Afghanistan via the Khyber Pass – a cutoff that followed the death of Pakistani soldiers at the hands of NATO troops firing across the border – NATO trucks in early July were finally allowed to cross again.
But military action alone will not end the migration crisis – a crisis that, this year alone, has led to the deaths of more than 1,800 people trying to cross the Mediterranean from Africa.
But even if international institutions or Lebanon do nothing, Israel will attack any Hizballah forces trying to get close enough to cross the border or fire rockets at Israeli civilians.
Egyptian politicians can do little but cross their fingers and hope that the street does not rise up in response to the recent currency devaluation.
Rather, global efforts should be ratcheted up to cross the finish line.
Millions of Arabs have opted out, with some of the brightest emigrating to the US and northern Europe, while some of the poorest risk their lives to cross the Mediterranean.
As the price of nuclear power steadily rises and that of renewables falls, inevitably the cost curves will cross.
There is competition among Shia parties and among Sunni parties; but few voters cross the sectarian line – a grim reality that is unlikely to change for years to come.
Financial capital can cross borders far more easily, and physical capital can relocate almost as quickly.
Over the decades, the governments in Islamabad and Kabul have done little to remove the sanctuaries established by the two groups, whose members freely cross the poorly patrolled frontier.
In recent years, having opted-out of the single currency and the Schengen area (which allows Europeans to cross borders without passports), the UK has distanced itself from important EU initiatives.
Yet North America has failed to match Europe in building the political structures necessary to focus the hemisphere on the problems of immigration, cross border security, labor rights, and environmental degradation; or in facilitating a more united approach to strong economic competition from Europe and Asia.
A descent into chemical-weapons hell has been averted, almost certainly permanently: the Assad regime knows that it has no friends or protectors left should it cross that red line again.
The spread of the Ebola virus has been facilitated by our countries’ shared history and culture, which has enabled the disease to cross borders easily and move quickly from remote rural areas to urban centers.
While non-organic fruits and vegetables had more pesticide residue, the levels in more than 99% of cases did not cross the conservative safety thresholds set by regulators.
Not only good things – like principles of social justice and gender equality – cross borders more easily than ever before; so do malign influences like environmental problems and disease.
In her talk, Clinton evoked the ancient Chinese aphorism Tongzhou Gongji : “When on a common boat, cross the river peacefully together.”
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