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Fenton and Horler have faces and bodies that are treated like landscapes, initially jarring for their distinctive and atypical attributes and eventually becoming familiar elements of the story itself.
China hopes to do the same, but it faces a distinctive challenge: its sheer size.
In the past, regions or communities have achieved statehood almost exclusively after a struggle against colonial subjection and oppression, galvanized by an appeal to a distinctive religious, cultural, or ethnic identity.
To boost exports, Brazil will have to develop distinctive skills and capabilities, particularly in industries adjacent to commodities.
What is distinctive about the recent mass protests against US plans for a war against Iraq is that the February 15 event was planned ahead of time, at short notice, for a specific date, and with an explicit goal of worldwide scale.
The two pillars of evolutionary theory are the consequences of interaction among three distinctive features of living organisms: reproduction (individuals produce offspring), heredity (like gives rise to like), and variation (sometimes offspring are different from their parents).
Trump is now aligning some of his policy proposals with mainstream Republican ideas, but he is also clearly determined to retain his distinctive identity.
At a personal level, I am also afraid that Lugar’s defeat may be the end of an era of enormously attractive and distinctive civility in the way that America’s most senior legislators conducted themselves.
Latin America is distinctive in the recurring and broad overlap of mass movements professing revolutionary goals with transnational criminal operations.
The monetary union’s distinctive feature is the absence of a common state, despite the single currency.
People often take pride in their cities, and seek to nourish their distinctive civic cultures.
In fact, many cities have distinctive identities of which their residents are proud.
What made the American Dream distinctive was neither the hope of winning the lottery nor of being buoyed by national market forces or public policy.
To suppose that money was their focus – even in their dreams – is to miss what was distinctive in American life.
The EU’s main objective should be to preserve the distinctive character of this order – ie, the centrality of human rights and the rule of law.
Yet this seems to be the distinctive operating style of Kirchnerism, torn between an elite born and raised in Patagonia, a few close allies, and everybody else.
To fulfill what has been seen since then as its distinctive purpose – holding power to account – a free press needs information.
What was distinctive this time was that the new borrowing was concentrated in housing.
But not giving up on accountability, despite the passage of time, sends an important message about human rights, and the distinctive nature of these offenses as “crimes against humanity.”
Three of the largest emerging markets – India, China, and Russia – confront distinctive challenges.
The downturn was a distinctive balance-sheet recession that caused sizeable declines in household wealth and necessitated painful deleveraging.
So companies can attract like-minded shareholders by espousing distinctive values, missions, and cultures.
But against this shared background, France exhibits some important distinctive features.
Mexico’s mood is palpable: high expectations that the country will escape its past demons - instability, corruption, and massive social divisions - to become a dynamic society built upon strong, distinctive cultures, social inclusion, and a growing role in the world.
Distinctive Welsh institutions, apart from those concerned with the Welsh language, are difficult to identify.
By contrast, Scotland’s institutional landscape – schools and universities with their own curriculum and exam structures, a legal system with its own codes and rules, a church independent of the state, and a distinctive system of local government – were left untouched by the union.
The urbanist Jane Jacobs, for example, described the rich interactions occurring in New York City neighborhoods – what she called an “intricate ballet, in which the individual dancers and ensembles all have distinctive parts which miraculously reinforce each other.”
Rather, what is distinctive about populists in power is that they attend only to their clientele (the rest of the population is utterly undeserving) and ride roughshod over checks and balances.
The Gaullist dream of creating an independent power center never succeeded, but the role of “awkward partner” has given a distinctive flavor to French diplomacy, and it may be equally viable for a shrunken, proud, but no longer hegemonic Russia.
And, as hard as they try, many traditional media outlets – especially those unable to claim quite distinctive content – find it increasingly difficult to compete.
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