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And the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, a volunteer organization modeled on the fascist groups of the 1920s – complete with khaki shorts and staves – declared a campaign of Ghar wapasi (“return home”), or reconversion of minorities to the Hinduism from which their ancestors had allegedly lapsed in the distant past.
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s annexation of Crimea, undertaken in open contempt of international law, has put European security back at the top of the global agenda, serving as a stark reminder that a free, cooperative, and peaceful Europe – the dream of countless Europeans since the 1950’s – remains a distant prospect.
All inputs needed to feed each additional person will, on average, come from scarcer, poorer, and more distant sources, disproportionately more energy will be used, and disproportionately more greenhouse gases will be generated.
This dynamic is particularly apparent in the EU, where many decisions are in the hands of a distant and unaccountable bureaucracy lacking in sufficient democratic legitimacy.
This "map" was made from the walls of two different buildings: one from Chmielna Street in Warsaw, the other from Grosse Hamburger Strasse in Berlin - a reality less distant than the stars.
They can well imagine how somewhere in distant Chile, for example, a bunch of retired Pinochet associates are muttering to themselves that finally they are being vindicated by history.
For Japan and other US allies, an isolationist America remains a distant prospect.
So tempers are rising over something which, if and when it happens in the distant future, may or may not have much impact.
By announcing its determination to go ahead with a distant NMD, the US has created political turbulence which it must address now if major damage is to be avoided.
From its new home, Hezbollah has been able to prepare assaults on Israel and the West, including the war against Israel in 2006, the recent car bombs directed at Israeli diplomats in India and Georgia, and attacks against Western and Jewish institutions in distant countries such as Argentina.
We do know that metastasis is a very inefficient process, with most cancer cells that escape into the blood stream failing to form metastatic tumors in distant organs.
While Asia’s resource-hungry economies can secure fossil fuels and mineral ores from distant lands, they cannot import water, which is prohibitively expensive to transport.
A critical factor in the Taliban’s revival was the haven that it found in the distant reaches of the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, and the support that it continued to receive from elements within Pakistan.
These events are not distant memories.
America’s burgeoning deficit was financed by billions of dollars of daily net inflows into Wall Street from the foreign (and often US) owners of these distant factories – a form of modern tribute to the Global Minotaur.
Likewise, it is negligent to focus on inefficiently cutting CO2 now because of costs in the distant future that in reality will not be avoided.
But gender equality remains a distant goal in the region, with women being left out of the political process, exerting little influence in governing bodies or in drafting new constitutions.
The 1929 crash just does not seem relevant to most people today, probably because we survived the 1987 and 2000 crashes with few ill effects, while 1929 seems not only the distant past, but another world.
Rigid rules and distant policymakers merely suffocate the animal spirits of the business class.
Finally, managers, not distant shareholders, control access to well-paid appointments and lucrative consulting jobs.
In the past decade, it became fashionable to extol the superiority of the Anglo-Saxon model, with its supposed virtuous circle of diffuse ownership and strong protection for distant shareholders.
They don't know whether to love them or hate them, support them or denounce them, foster a close relationship or remain distant neighbors.
Whereas Japan is separated from China by an ocean and the US is geographically distant, China has sharply escalated border violations and other incidents in recent years to increase pressure on India, even as the US has maintained tacit neutrality on Sino-Indian disputes.
It follows, therefore, that the economic health of every country is a proper matter of concern to all its neighbors, near and distant.”
Such investments will have big implications for Europe’s gas industry and create more transparency in global gas pricing, because it is now possible to import gas from distant producers.
Our views will change as we learn more, but at the moment the size of the tax hinges on a question of moral philosophy: how much do we believe we owe our distant descendents?
The job of the central bank, according to Greenspan’s distant predecessor, William McChesney Martin, was to “take away the punchbowl [of low interest rates] before the party really gets going.”
Thus, the moon may appear more distant to people who say: "The moon looks close."
In addition to communicating with distant audiences, leaders need the ability to communicate one-on-one or in small groups.
Hitler was skillful at communicating with both distant and inner-circle audiences.
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