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Travel to Havana for Americans who are not of Cuban
descent
will become easier.
They sought a system that would prevent nations from exporting their economic difficulties to their trading partners and which would avoid the problems of the interwar period: destabilizing capital flows, excessively volatile currencies, and an eventual
descent
into bilateralism and protectionism.
Naipaul is, after all, an author of Indian
descent
who grew up in Trinidad.
Politics and economics are in fact inextricably linked here: the erosion of the middle classes, which accompanied the rise of a few enormously wealthy oligarchs, and the
descent
of millions into poverty, made creation of a democratic society and the rule of law much more difficult.
On its
descent
from the roof of the world, the Jinsha River, tributary of the mighty Yangtze, cascades through this ten-mile gorge on its way to Shanghai and the East China Sea.
The country began its
descent
into political turmoil a few months after the party claimed to have won, together with its allies, all parliamentary seats in the 2015 elections.
Many viewed the five non-Communist states that founded ASEAN – Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand – as dominoes, set to be tipped over by a neighbor’s fall to communism or
descent
into civil strife.
On this issue, the president stands in a direct line of ideological
descent
from Ronald Reagan, who strongly believed that government was the problem.
If the agreement is not honored, Ukraine could well continue its
descent
into chaos and conflict, which would be in no one’s interest.
For example, studies have shown that patients of European ancestry respond better to beta blockers and ACE inhibitors than those of African
descent.
Research has found that patients of African
descent
require higher doses than those of European origins; patients with Asian ancestry require lower doses.
As Hannah Arendt pointed out six decades ago, the rise of anti-Semitism fueled Europe’s
descent
into totalitarianism.
But the fact that some young people of African, South Asian, or Middle Eastern
descent
feel so alienated in the European countries of their birth that they are happy to murder their fellow citizens in the name of a revolutionary religious ideology, means that something is amiss.
The Lessons of LiberiaAt the United Nations last week, US Secretary of State Colin Powell and UN Secretary General Kofi Annan stood together to urge swift and substantial financial support for Liberia, which is poised on a knife's edge between the possibility of recovery and a new
descent
into violence.
But the one approach that they must not choose is to do nothing – unless they are willing to countenance further erosion of the global order and, with it, a continued
descent
into chaos and violence.
Containment Begins at HomeNEW YORK – Earlier this month, Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez, a 24-year-old US citizen of Middle Eastern descent, opened fire at two military sites in Chattanooga, Tennessee, killing five.
During 1998, Brazil’s economy began a tragic, predictable
descent
into recession.
Overcoming Africa’s North-South DivideThe late President Mobutu Sese Seko of former Zaire once declared that the North African countries, which pride themselves on their Arabic descent, should be excluded from the then Organization of African Unity.
Is it purely coincidence that Merah, who was of Algerian descent, chose to act at the very moment that France and Algeria were commemorating the 50th anniversary of Algerian independence?
In a short 2008 essay entitled “The Spirit of the Enlightenment,” the late French essayist of Bulgarian descent, Tzvetan Todorov, reminded us that “there would not have been a Europe without the Enlightenment and no Enlightenment without Europe.”
And harm-reduction services consistently fail to meet the needs of the groups that have borne the brunt of punitive drug policies for decades, such as people of African
descent
including African-Americans and indigenous people around the world.
In the Soviet dissident purgatory, a special place was reserved for refuseniks, people of Jewish
descent
whose petitions to emigrate had been refused.
Kushner has clearly never seen the 2008 Palestinian movie Salt of this Sea, which describes the plight of a young American woman of Palestinian
descent
who is searching for her grandfather’s home in Jaffa in present-day Israel.
After years of extremely high immigration from Africa and the Middle East, 25% of Sweden’s population – 2.6 million of a total population of 10.2 million – is of recent non-Swedish
descent.
In responding to the pandemic, too many governments have sought to label COVID-19 a “Chinese” virus, setting the stage for surveillance and stigmatization of people of Chinese
descent.
The Vise Tightens on the DollarNEW HAVEN – The US dollar has now entered the early stages of what looks to be a sharp
descent.
Citizens of Asian
descent
are viewed with suspicion, and Chinese restaurants from Berlin to San Francisco are reporting a drop in business of 50% or more as customers shun them.
India’s rapid
descent
into xenophobia, violence, and irrationality – much like support for populist leaders and causes elsewhere – has an important economic dimension.
In the past two decades, two state governors, one US senator, five members of the House of Representatives, and now a vice presidential candidate have been Americans of Indian
descent.
Many Israeli voters of Russian
descent
dream of an “Israeli Putin,” or a strong ruler with an authoritarian temperament – and “Bibi” probably is the most qualified.
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