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The column of bikers that descended the Champs-Elysées, which never wore its funereal name so well.
In fact, based on Darwin’s assumptions, most anthropologists claim that modern humans were simply descended from Cro-Magnons, who had exterminated their less-fit adversaries.
If the coup had succeeded, Turkey likely would have descended into open civil war with no end in sight, and with all hope for democracy extinguished.
Palestinian territories descended into a lawless chaos reminiscent of Lebanon in the 1970-80's.
Russia, by contrast, failed to reform, and has descended farther and farther into corruption and decay.
Although countries have not descended fully into protectionism since the global financial crisis began, difficult economic and labor-market conditions in key countries may force politicians to protect domestic markets while trying to gain external competitiveness.
A brigade of experts descended on the jails, looking for evidence to justify their own pet theories of terrorist psychology.
The global economy has not descended into a protectionist spiral.
At this point, Venezuela descended into outright dictatorship.
In early April, a funeral at St. Mark’s Cathedral (the seat of the Coptic Church in Cairo) for four Christians killed in sectarian riots days earlier descended into chaos, with thousands of mourners attacked as they tried to leave after the service.
Moreover, the Left – a party that is descended from the former East Germany’s ruling Communists and Social Democratic dissenters – will have to play ball by embracing political realism.
It is as though a form of original sin entered a subspecies of humanity descended from Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
It then descended into scandal and acrimonious infighting between the party’s president, Marine Le Pen, and its founder, her father, Jean-Marie Le Pen (who was ultimately expelled).
But because the US Founders – many of them descended from people fleeing official religious persecution – guaranteed that there would never be a state-sanctioned religion, no religious group in America, no matter how small, is made to feel marginalized.
Grounding Syria’s KillersNEW YORK – As Syria has descended into all-out civil war, much of the worsening slaughter has been attributable to aerial bombardments of urban neighborhoods that President Bashar al-Assad’s opponents control, with such attacks causing especially high casualties in recent weeks in the ancient city of Aleppo.
The country has descended into warlordism – a take-no-prisoners fight among armed groups, some allied with the government, others with Al Qaeda, and all preying on innocent civilians.
Soon enough, Thailand’s elites struck back, and the country’s politics descended into a cycle of palace-endorsed coups, elected governments, and violent street protests.
Syria descended into a civil war that demolished state institutions and deepened the sectarian divide.
But caterpillars are not descended from Adam.
The Belgians only have a king, who is descended, like most European monarchs, from Germans.
Sadly, the Tamils now living in the Jaffna districts in the northern and eastern parts of the island are probably descended from Tamils who were also victims of the same external attacks.
Some 20,000 delegates have now descended on Bonn, Germany, for the latest round of United Nations climate change talks.
Simultaneously, the eastern part of the country descended into anarchy.
Libya has largely descended into tribal anarchy, and a weak Afghan regime is bracing itself for NATO’s withdrawal in 2014.
For animals also suffer from floods, fires, and droughts, and, since they are not descended from Adam and Eve, they cannot have inherited original sin.
On the one hand, it is to be found in that horde of nativists, white supremacists, and neo-confederates who descended on Charlottesville, Virginia, in August to break some black and Jewish heads.
A second kind of comparison focused on so-called paralogous proteins, which are descended from a common ancestor within the same creature as a result of gene duplications.
Perhaps Libya would have descended into chaos even if the Security Council had remained united, owing to the external players’ failure to understand the internal political dynamics and to prepare intelligently for post-crisis peace building.
Animosity among Europeans is at an all-time high, with Greeks and Germans, in particular, having descended to the point of moral grandstanding, mutual finger-pointing, and open antagonism.
Humans are descended from a long line of imitators, who mimicked each other’s fear responses to identify predators and avoid danger.
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