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While we have come a long way in reach and coverage when it comes to bus and rail networks, India’s door-to-door transportation network is still dispersed and unreliable.
One leading idea was that modern humans’ primitive ancestor Homo erectus left Africa nearly two million years ago, and dispersed into other areas of the world.
Furthermore, increasingly sophisticated DNA studies of extinct populations have shown that, despite their general classification as the distinct species Homo neanderthalensis, Neanderthals interbred with modern human groups as they dispersed out of Africa.
Innovative off-grid and mini-grid electricity-distribution systems, meanwhile, are already transforming Africa’s energy landscape and multiplying the ways to exploit clean-energy sources and expand electricity access for the poor, particularly in areas where consumers are widely dispersed.
These are highly complex cases, frequently involving not only novel issues under international law, but also thousands of witnesses – often traumatized by their suffering – dispersed to many lands, the constant need for high-quality simultaneous translations, and disruptive tactics by some defendants.
With executive authority increasingly in the hands of elected representatives, rather than dispersed among various competing institutions, the political establishment has been revitalized – and it has taken three important steps toward strengthening democracy and the rule of law.
Only several hundred showed up, and the police quickly dispersed them, arresting dozens.
By then, however, the news was already widely dispersed.
The shareholders are so dispersed and powerless that they exercise little control over the management.
Indeed, in a globalized world, with ever closer integration in terms of communication, technology, and – as we have recently seen – the movement of people, the centers of power are diluted and dispersed; by its very nature, a globalized world eludes the imposition of twentieth-century order.
In April 2009, and again in April-May 2010, the disenfranchised red shirts camped in the streets of Bangkok to demand new elections, but were dispersed by the army, with 91 fatalities.
They then dispersed – as outreach workers or “violence interrupters” – for a long Saturday night of taking the temperature of potential hot spots, talking down those who needed calming, and identifying those who needed more sustained help with the issues that were taking them to the edge.
According to this theory, such agents were dispersed after a missile or bomb hit, rather than being delivered with incoming warheads.
Why is ownership of large American and British companies so widely dispersed?
In contrast, when legal protections are stronger, ownership may be more dispersed and small investors (who do not have significant day-to-day influence on company affairs) can expect a return on their capital.
They are widely dispersed, spread over a vast swath stretching from Morocco to Indonesia.
Iran’s nuclear facilities are dispersed; some are underground.
Indeed, Pakistan has begun producing tactical nuclear weapons, which must be kept dispersed, and are thus less secure.
The same Commission, on which I served, urged the new President, George W. Bush, on January 31, 2001, to prepare the nation for these attacks by consolidating dispersed federal government agencies into a new national homeland security agency.
Thus, the collapse of an Italian bank would severely damage the economy of the surrounding region, whereas the effects of a US bank failure would be far more dispersed.
They were violently dispersed, with loss of life, by the Washington police and the US Army under General Douglas MacArthur.
Our celebration lasted precisely 40 seconds, before the police dispersed us with teargas.
Suddenly, geographical boundaries no longer operated as insurmountable barriers between widely dispersed buyers and sellers.
After the crowd was dispersed, the police continued to search the neighborhood, shooting at and detaining individual demonstrators they encountered.
With ISIS essentially defeated and dispersed, Trump called the establishment’s bluff.
After all, it is one thing to champion shareholders when they are too dispersed to organize themselves.
The protests have been dispersed across several locations in Minsk, including Pushkinskaya, the Kamennaya Horka neighborhood, and the Riga shopping center, where barricades are going up.
At the same time, supplies of critical resources – in particular, fossil fuels – became more dispersed as improved geological information and new technologies (like deep-sea drilling and fracking) helped to loosen OPEC’s grip.
The Moscow protests, the largest in many years, must be keeping Putin up at night, or they wouldn’t be dispersed with such unabated brutality.
Unfortunately, the US is not currently making the best use of one of its biggest advantages, relative to its international competitors: a lot of smart people are dispersed, for historical reasons, across many cities.
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