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For roughly a century after the publication of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, scientists believed that genetic mutations were governed by a process similar to that described by the father of natural selection.
All of this comes at a time of greater political openness and democratization: the first ever socialist government in 1998, a younger and more open King – described by democrats of both sexes of Morocco’s “first feminist” – who took the throne in 1999, and a quota system that brought 35 women into the Parliament in 2002.
In May, German Chancellor Angela Merkel described it – in Putin’s presence – as “criminal and illegal under international law.”
Vladimir Putin famously described the break-up of the Soviet Union as the greatest geo-political catastrophe of the twentieth century.
But this has been the modus operandi of rabies at least since 2300 BC, when it was described in the Eshuma Code of Babylon.
In his influential 1803 text Medical Ethics, the English physician Thomas Percival described the doctor’s role as “the minister of hope and comfort to the sick,” noting that at times they should conceal alarming information from their patients.
He described his first “house call” in the 1960s, when he and a senior colleague visited a jovial protestant minister who had no idea that he only had weeks to live, owing to aggressive colon cancer.
The PD is called center left, but it is more realistically described as left and center.
Although the shifting structure of the global economy is best described as a journey taken only once, growth in developing countries does exhibit repeating patterns.
At the Asia Society’s Diversity Leadership Forum earlier this month in New York, McDonald’s Director of Ethnic Marketing Vivien Chen described how the company has focused its marketing on the ethnic consumer.
That term described a transatlantic world that emerged from the twentieth century’s two world wars, redefined the international order during the four-decade Cold War, and dominated the globe – until now.
That is why a Parliamentary censure motion of the sort just attempted is often described as a "nuclear weapon".
This is not because Merkel lacked vision: in April 2010, she described a Germany powered by improved education and innovation.
This does not mean that the forces described by the HO-SS theory are irrelevant.
Rapprochements with Rogue StatesSEOUL – In his State of the Union address to the US Congress in 2002, President George W. Bush famously described Iraq, Iran, and North Korea as an “axis of evil.”
Poland’s defense minister has already described Trump’s planned visit to Warsaw this week as an “enormous event” and a “huge success” for the Law and Justice Party (PiS) government, which has continued to rage against the European Commission and alienate Poland’s European allies.
What Adam Smith described as "the natural effort of every individual to better his own condition" motivates the people who drive the new economy just as it did the old.
What the Chinese public resents most is the collusion between government officials and businesspeople, described by the respected Chinese economist Wu Jianglian as “capitalism of the powerful and rich.”
Alexievich has described herself as “an ear, not a pen.”
Another paper, by Susan F. Martin of Georgetown University, described the arbitrariness of our current refugee procedures, calling for “legal frameworks based on the need for protection, rather than the triggering causes of the migration.”
China has added to regional tensions with a foreign policy – including advancing territorial claims in the East and South China Seas – that would be described diplomatically as “assertive,” and more bluntly as “bullying.”
Yemen’s governing structures are most accurately described as tribal affiliations and alliances, with a minimal consensus holding the country together.
The Houthis – and their leader Abdul Malik al-Houthi – are often described in the West as an “Iran-backed” group, a proxy description of the Houthis’ most politically salient characteristic: their adherence to Zaidism, a branch of Shia Islam.
The Gospel According to GatesBill Gates and Warren Buffett, the richest and second richest person in America, and perhaps the world, are often described as admirers of Andrew Carnegie’s famous 1889 essay “The Gospel of Wealth.”
Indeed, Europe has overcome what could be described as the “original sin” of the single-currency project: the Maastricht Treaty’s prohibition of “monetary financing” of government deficits by the ECB and the related ban on mutual support by national governments of one another’s debt burdens.
Donor agencies, facing reduced aid from major players like the US, could be forced to withdraw funding for the kind of research described here.
In it, the hospital’s public-relations department described the protesters as advocates of “an extreme position on the issues related to intersex individuals.”
At a symposium in Paris last month entitled “New World, New Capitalism,” Sarkozy described capitalism based on financial speculation as “an immoral system” that has “perverted the logic of capitalism.”
It is, after all, a country that can be described as a civilization, and its trajectory has been far more impressive than that of any North Korean rocket.
In 1993, however, Calcutt described the PCC as “a body set up by the industry, financed by the industry, dominated by the industry, and operating a code of practice devised by the industry and which is over-favorable to the industry.”
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