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So the real issue is not whether the noises that Putin and Medvedev make suggest real divergence, and a potential for rivalry, but whether there is daylight at the end of the tandem.
The next day, Salafists bulldozed the Sha’ab mosque (and the more than 50 Sufi tombs that it contained) in the center of Tripoli in broad daylight – uninterrupted by security forces, who were at the scene.
Dawn and daylight are the time of hands, twilight the hour of the mind.
The shooting, by automatic weapon fire, took place in broad daylight in a largely Roma neighborhood, where the grandmother of one of the victims lived.
In apparent retaliation, on January 21, Boko Haram launched a daylight attack on government facilities in Kano, including several police posts, killing an estimated 160 people.
On the day of Ai’s arrest, former Global Times journalist Wen Tao was grabbed off the street in broad daylight.
In fact, militants were able to carry out their work – drilling holes in the rock, filling them with explosives, and detonating them – in broad daylight.
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.
And our mother, a beacon of hope and courage for hundreds of thousands, including judges and law-enforcement officials, was executed in broad daylight.
But with the departure of Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis and others, the adults are now gone, and there is ever-less daylight between the policies and the tweets.
But if you find hypocrisy in the daylight, look for power in the shadows.
Meanwhile, the state is failing to provide basic security: in July 2018, an Olympic ice-skating medalist, Denis Ten, was murdered in broad daylight in the center of Kazakhstan’s largest city, Almaty, for trying to prevent his car mirrors from being stolen.
The US, seemingly with no awareness of this history, and led by an emotionally unbalanced president who believes he may commit murder in broad daylight and get away with it, is still acting out a 40-year-old psychological trauma.
In January 2004, Vichea was shot dead in broad daylight.
These ten years he had lived in this hole, occupying the same corner of the stable, doing the same task along the black galleries without every seeing daylight.
The ascent had been so rapid that he was stunned by the daylight, and his eyelids quivered in the brightness to which he had already grown unaccustomed.
In the daylight they looked like a band of Negroes thrown into the mud.
And beneath the livid sky, in the faint daylight of this winter afternoon, it seemed as if all the blackness of the Voreux, and all its flying coal dust, had fallen upon the plain, powdering the trees, sanding the roads, sowing the earth.
Chapter 2THE room remained shut up and the shutters had allowed gradual streaks of daylight to form a fan on the ceiling.
The cage was unfastened, and fell like a stone to the bottom of a hole without causing him even to lift his head to see the daylight vanish.
On this Sunday there was dancing from five o'clock with the full daylight through the windows, but it was not until towards seven that the rooms began to fill.
The rain from the tubbing fell very cold, and the men looked up towards the air impatient to see daylight.
A soft daylight entered, sifted through the lace.
For a moment he asked himself if he ought not to make a bad return for Jeanlin's hospitality by bringing him up to daylight by the ear, and forbidding him to plunder any more by the threat of telling everything to his father.
From the bottom to daylight there were a hundred and two ladders, about seven metres in length, each placed on a narrow landing which occupied the breadth of the passage and in which a square hole scarcely allowed the shoulders to pass.
And it even interested her and took her out of her grief, this unforeseen ascent, this long serpent of men flowing on and hoisting themselves up three on a ladder, so that even when the head should emerge in daylight the tail would still be trailing over the sump.
Their anxiety had increased since leaving the bottom; their ignorance as to what was going on above oppressed them more as they approached daylight.
She never knew how she reached daylight, carried up on people's shoulders, supported by the throttling narrowness of the passage.
Chapter 3FROM early morning, before daylight, a tremor had agitated the settlements, and that tremor was now swelling through the roads and over the whole country.
Almost a hundred, who had set out before daylight, were taking refuge beneath the forest beeches, waiting for the others.
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