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Both have populations composed largely of people of European descent.
Of Syrian descent, Hamed Franco is an active supporter of Palestine who has been watched by US security agencies because of his alleged links to Islamist groups.
This underscores the descent of all life from a single common ancestor.
It is no coincidence that people of African descent in the United States, or indigenous populations in Latin America, are among the poorest of the poor.
All of the major European teams, including Germany’s, depend on players of foreign descent.
And there are other big challenges looming beyond Syria: Iraq’s descent into chaos, closely linked to the Syrian tragedy, threatens to turn into a new theater of conflict between Iran and Saudi Arabia.
Surkov is Chechen by descent, infused – like Stalin – with the saber-rattling mindset of the Caucasus.
Many of them seem to be of Russian descent.
So the question facing Americans as they toast their good times is this: If and when a correction occurs, will it take the shape of a stock market crash, as occurred in 1987, or will it take the shape of a slow and painful descent, as in Japan in the 1990s?
The case of Khaled el-Masri, a German citizen of Lebanese descent, appears to be another of these errors.
But if that is the benchmark, we could say that jumping off a cliff is the best way to get down from a mountain; after all, the descent has been stopped.
It was, after all, for many years the “culture” of some parts of the United States that people of African descent should sit at the back of the bus and go to separate schools, hospitals, and universities.
This hesitation can be explained, at least partly, by the fact that neither Osama bin Laden nor Mullah Omar (the Taliban’s leader) can fulfill the conditions for being a caliph, one of which is proof of descent from the Prophet Muhammad’s tribe, the Quraysh.
Moreover, Khatami wears the black turban that signifies his family’s descent from the prophet Mohammed, and served in both the parliament and cabinet until forced from power in 1992.
Of course, the nearly 25 million people of Indian descent who live abroad fall into both categories.
The political community is not a product of its citizens’ commitment to a common constitutional and legal order; instead, as in the 1930s, membership in the nation is derived from common descent and religion.
With all military options appearing to be counterproductive, the only chance of halting Syria’s descent into total chaos is Annan’s political mediation.
Likewise, when cattle rustlers recently killed dozens of police officers in northern Kenya, the media described the suspects in terms of their Turkana descent, rather than calling them what they are: criminals.
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.
Twenty-nine API directors held 32 of 1,211 total board seats, and two of the 100 CEOs were of API descent.
Every society, under certain conditions, is vulnerable to a descent into barbarism.
There seem to be two common characteristics of the descent into barbarism.
The descent into barbarism generally occurs in the midst of economic crisis or when localized violence has already flared.
Once we recognize how vulnerable all of the world is to this kind of descent into violence, the importance of international law and international institutions such as the United Nations become all the more obvious.
This time, the descent has been far milder.
It is now entirely possible for there to be more people of Swedish descent in Chicago than in Stockholm.
The images of separated children were, she argued, “eerily reminiscent of the internment camps for US citizens and noncitizens of Japanese descent during World War II, now considered to have been one of the most shameful episodes in US history.”
The result was increased US spending and the descent of measured household savings into negative territory.
Or did the coup prevent a total takeover of power by the Muslim Brotherhood, and thus avert Egypt’s economic collapse and chaotic descent into religious dictatorship?
It is with the French of Algerian descent, not to mention Algeria itself, that reconciliation seems most difficult to achieve.
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