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In the case of Tamerlan, a talented boxer, he was denied the chance to become a champion because he was not yet a United States citizen.
The summit also provides an opportunity to develop strategies for better meeting the needs of children who are being denied an education because of crisis and conflict.
Given the limited number of currencies that can serve as IVCs, the failure of the renminbi to achieve IVC status before, say, the Indian rupee, the Russian ruble, or the Brazilian real could mean that the renminbi is denied IVC status – and that Shanghai fails to achieve 1-IFC status – for generations, if not forever.
But memory won’t be denied.
It cannot be denied, however, that the path to acknowledging their existence and value can be painful.
With millions of children still being denied the right to an education, the world can no longer afford the status quo.
By proclaiming that Tajikistan’s border (with Afghanistan) was Russia’s, Moscow denied Tajikistan’s sovereignty.
The history of colonialism in western Europe and Japan, of slavery in the US, shows that as liberal democratic ideals take root in a society, the rights of citizenship cannot be denied to colonial subjects of members or certain groups.
And 32 million girls are denied the basic right to attend school, owing to gender discrimination; around 500,000 of them are trafficked each year.
While voters denied the UMP a landslide victory in the second round, its overall win meant that the governing party retained its legislative majority for the first time in 29 years.
Many of the countries that refused to take in suffering refugees were themselves, in due course, occupied and brutalized by the Nazis – and desperate for the compassion that they denied the Jews in July 1938.
By contrast, a more needy Louisiana (with its staggering 24% poverty rate) was denied its request for flood-mitigation funds in 2004.
These countries are being denied a useful tool for attracting FDI, with recent evidence suggesting that signing a BIT by itself does not lead to increased inflows.
Had Clinton won, Trump most likely would have denied the new president’s legitimacy.
Terrorist attacks would no doubt continue, perhaps even in the name of ISIS for a while; but the group would be denied its base of operations in Syria and Iraq.
Democracies rightly constrain majority domination, which is why they enshrine certain basic rights that cannot be denied.
Encompassing all big emerging economies, this appeared to be the most effective way to muster the legitimacy denied to the G-7.
The vast majority of us live in Third World conditions – denied access to adequate housing, health care, and education.
Of course, the British Foreign Office denied that these thoughts reflected the British government’s views.
The new Arab generation’s quest for dignity is rooted in a yearning for decent government and civil rights that was long denied under the pretext of conflict with the “Zionist crusaders.”
Denied their Iraqi and Afghan bases by Western intervention, al-Qaeda militants are now flocking into Syria from Libya and Iraq, and are probably responsible for some of the recent terrorist atrocities in Aleppo and Homs.
Sunni clerics in Syria and throughout the Arab world are issuing fatwas to give the Free Syria Army the halo of holy warriors fighting the Alawite infidels who have denied Syria its true Sunni identity.
The "reforms" that have been conducted over the last 15 years have denied a large proportion of the work-fit population, primarily young people, of jobs and the right to a decent life.
The first team thinks that a speaker can invoke a white-supremacist slogan repeatedly in a single speech without having malign intentions; the second team knows that the genealogy of words cannot be denied without the past taking its revenge.
But it is also true that the northern Turkish part of Cyprus is denied access to free trade and other benefits from EU-membership.
But children in institutions are denied education, despite evidence showing that every child can learn and develop.
They are denied rehabilitation and recreational activities.
In 2016, there is a new – and global – invisible class: the 260 million boys and girls who are currently denied access to basic education.
Today’s invisible victims are refugee children holed up in tents, shacks, and hovels who will never enjoy a first day at school; they are the millions of 9-12-year-olds condemned to child labor, and the millions of young girls destined for child marriage and denied an education simply because of their gender.
When Islamist groups are denied access to electoral politics, their cause takes on a mythic aura.
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