Distance
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Other countries’ governments, it seems, have been trying to
distance
themselves from the problem, fearing a contagion that they know is likely to spread.
The new members of his team were quick to
distance
themselves from some of the most controversial and confrontational elements of the Socialist's program, including proposed legislation that would greatly increase the power of labor unions, hurting Chile's ability to compete internationally and reducing its economic growth potential.
It is this de facto debt mutualization that has prompted creditors to accept lower interest rates, and it is only lower interest rates that have permitted Renzi, Samaras, Valls, and the others to
distance
themselves from austerity policies.
It is not
distance
from modern life, but proximity to it that triggers a return to religious identity.
Unlike during the protests of 2009, and mindful of the generally disappointing outcome of the Arab Spring uprisings, Iran’s middle class has so far exercised caution, observing the demonstrations apprehensively and from a
distance.
The Face of EvilNEW YORK – Standing with Slobodan Milosevic 13 years ago on the veranda of a government hunting lodge outside Belgrade, I saw two men in the
distance.
But the Socialists began to change their stripes in the late 1970’s, rallying around the concept of nuclear dissuasion as a guarantee of national independence and beginning to
distance
themselves from America.
The point is to step outside of one’s comfort zones,
distance
oneself from the voices around the table that sound just like one’s own, and remember that board members are responsible for the direct and indirect impact of their decisions.
Indeed, he admitted as much in his speech at the launch of his political party, the All Pakistan Muslim League, from a safe
distance
of thousands of miles from an increasingly turbulent Pakistan.
Additional weapons – including anti-tank guided missiles, mortars, and sniper rifles – would enable the opposition to launch effective attacks from a distance, and challenge the pro-Assad forces’ air supremacy.
Even Ayman al-Zawahiri, Al Qaeda’s current leader, views al-Baghdadi as an extremist, and has taken steps to
distance
his group from the Islamic State.
The paradox is that, by maintaining a political
distance
and thus limiting Turkey's options, Europe may end up reinforcing Turkey's status as a military outpost of the US.
Some – local, regional, national, cosmopolitan – seem to be arranged as concentric circles, with the strength of identity diminishing with
distance
from the core; but, in a global information age, this ordering has become confused.
The
distance
from Manchester to the center of any of those other cities is less than 40 miles (64 kilometers), which is shorter than the London Underground’s Central, Piccadilly, or District lines.
It wasn’t just that
distance
lends a certain enchantment to any view.
There are many advantages to having an independent central bank run by professionals who can keep their
distance
from politicians.
How can you do anything but keep your
distance
when you have experienced, bodily, both disaster and miracle?
This so embarrassed the three Arab NME partners that each raced to
distance
itself from the US-sponsored initiative.
Of course, for them and for Israel, this was Hezbollah and the need to eradicate or at a minimum disarm it and force its fighters to a safe
distance
from settlements and towns in northern Israel.
The CER has taken this analysis a lot further, by measuring UK trade with countries inside and outside the EU and adjusting the results for economic size and other factors that affect trade, such as
distance
to markets.
Barriers like geographical
distance
and low resources, which have long prevented billions of people from getting the care they need, are much easier to overcome in the digital age.
The Rich Should Keep Their WordFor the first time in human history, the world is within striking
distance
of ending global poverty.
As a result, the culture of physical violence and verbal provocation that is gaining ground in Putin’s Russia is deeply disturbing, whereas we tend to judge Chinese misdeeds with a greater sense of distance, if not indifference.
At what
distance
from different households (or by pipe into each house)?
Oppression thrives on distance, on not actually meeting or seeing the oppressed.
Both Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, and Paul Ryan, the speaker of the House of Representatives, have been trying to protect their troops by maintaining some
distance
from Trump.
Of course, there was much else in the manifesto – fantasies about reviving the medieval Knights Templar, for example – that suggests a more bizarre disposition, and Wilders was quick to
distance
himself from Breivik’s violent methods.
Governments will need to
distance
themselves from the companies that fail to do their part.
The more he can
distance
his autonomous Serb republic from its victims, the easier he will find it to deny the atrocity crimes committed by Bosnian Serb forces during the war.
Perhaps, after the first brutal generation of democratic rule, a slightly more moral society will arise and the Pope's words will be recalled from a
distance.
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