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They also needlessly hurt animals, killing a black panther There's a giant who goes around terrorizing everyone, and in the end, the hero ends up winning the respect of the heroine by defeating this giant with fire.
In 2006, the World Cup final was European, with Italy defeating France.
It was also the first Asian country to emerge as a world power, defeating Manchu-ruled China and Czarist Russia in separate wars.
From one perspective, this is just another case of emotion defeating economic logic.
Moreover, defeating ISIS is just the first step.
The Liberals’ behavior seems especially myopic: in ousting Lugo, they ruptured the only political coalition capable of defeating the Colorados.
It is a truly horrific situation that highlights the urgency of defeating the Houthis and ending the conflict in Yemen.
And, as South Korea’s rising youth unemployment rate suggests, seniors may be displacing their younger counterparts, instead of working alongside them – effectively defeating the purpose of including more elderly Koreans in the labor force.
Four years ago, on a high tide of hope, a center/right coalition and a new “democratic” president - Emil Constantinescu - took power, surprisingly defeating Iliescu and his party.
The ASB centers on a “networked, integrated attack-in-depth” (a preemptive precision strike), aimed at “disrupting, destroying, and defeating” threats.
Like the US, Russia has a strong interest in stability in Syria and in defeating the Islamic State; but it has no interest in allowing the US to install its choice of regimes in Syria or elsewhere in the region.
Likewise, defeating the Islamic State – another appropriately major US goal – requires heavy doses of diplomacy with the Saudis.
The main concern now seems to have shifted to defeating Al Qaeda, rather than Assad.
The Democrats, in the minority in the Senate, will give Trump’s Cabinet nominees a tough grilling, potentially defeating one or two.
Third, when a splinter group of jihadists split away to form the Islamic State (ISIS), the US diverted significant resources to defeating it, rather than to toppling Assad.
Having withdrawn from the ABM Treaty, the US has already begun to deploy missile-defense systems, with the hope of defeating a small-scale nuclear assault (though not a massive attack of the kind Russia could launch).
Others defend Stalin’s greatness on the basis of his role in repelling the Nazi invasion and ultimately defeating Hitler.
Sun’s core belief is that the “ultimate excellence lies not in winning every battle but in defeating the enemy without ever fighting.”
The final item on the agenda for reviving the rules-based order, and defeating the world’s destructive Dionysuses, is the most challenging: we must reinforce rules-based communities.
The argument that the diamond was offered as “voluntary compensation” for the expenses the British incurred in defeating the Sikhs is ridiculous.
Defeating InsurgencyChaos and violence in Iraq has strengthened the notion that insurgencies cannot be defeated and so must be appeased.
Ancient Athens became a “democracy” – literally, government by the people – when Kleisthenes organized ordinary fisher folk and farmers into a mass rabble capable of defeating Sparta-backed oligarchs.
On May 22, the Senate avoided it, by narrowly defeating – 51 to 48 – a proposed “currency manipulation” amendment to a bill that gives Obama so-called “fast-track” authority to negotiate the TPP.
The US was right to focus on defeating ISIS; but now it faces a much broader mission: to ensure the survival of its various allies on the ground.
In terms of realpolitik, this argument is strengthened by the fact that Iraq’s national army is all but incapable of defeating the IS, while the Kurdish militias could – but only if they are equipped with modern weapons.
Defeating drug gangs was one of Macri’s three campaign mantras (zero poverty and ending corruption being the other two).
Neighborhood organizations proved key in defeating the local Peronist political machine, reputedly Argentina’s most potent.
Defeating North Korea’s Nuclear BlackmailNorth Korea’s announcement that it possesses nuclear weapons has fuelled a diplomatic frenzy.
For Saudi Arabia, these challenges are a higher priority than defeating ISIS, which accounts for the country’s virtual disappearance from the fight.
All these books are variations of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion , the Russian forgery first published in 1903, which Japanese came across after defeating the Czar’s army in 1905.
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