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In the 1990s,
dozens
of academic papers addressed the issue of migration into welfare states, discussing many of the problems that are now becoming apparent.
Similarly,
dozens
of South Americans and Africans play in Russian, Turkish, Polish, and various Southeast European leagues.
In preparing for the 2016 US presidential election, the Internet Research Agency in St. Petersburg, Russia, spent more than a year creating
dozens
of social media accounts masquerading as local American news outlets.
Activists with grievances over Tibet, Taiwan, Burma, Darfur, and
dozens
of other political, environmental, and human-rights issues are already making plans.
Dozens
of others could get there within a few years.
Perhaps the
dozens
of journalists who have been arrested in Turkey since the coup attempt, or the families of Putin’s many opponents who have ended up dead, could provide some insight into the cost of living in constant fear of the government.
Maintaining peace in a world in which literally
dozens
of fingers are on nuclear triggers will be far more difficult—and the consequences of failure far more destructive.
For example, on February 26, at a garment market in Benghazi, Libya, members of a powerful Islamist militia rounded up
dozens
of Egyptian Coptic Christians – identified by crosses tattooed on their right wrists – whom they then detained, tortured, and threatened with execution.
Demonstrations by bus drivers, school teachers, women’s rights activists, and students have been brutally suppressed, with
dozens
of arrests.
In contrast, neighboring Kenya was formed by colonial rule from
dozens
of different peoples or tribes, with different linguistic backgrounds and customs.
In April, the protests turned violent, leaving one man dead and
dozens
injured.
In May, at the World Health Organization’s annual World Health Assembly, officials from
dozens
of countries discussed how to achieve universal health coverage through the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
With food riots in
dozens
of countries, isn’t it time to admit that the whole idea was a giant, if well-intentioned, mistake?
In the United States, Robert Mueller, the special counsel investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election, has handed down
dozens
of indictments, secured multiple convictions, and demonstrated the need for empowered prosecutors in cases involving social media.
In Amman, Damascus, Istanbul, and Beirut I met
dozens
of people who have a well-founded fear of persecution in their home country.
But, despite deep popular sympathy, not a few Israelis – on both the left and the right – opposed the exchange of one soldier for a thousand or more Palestinian prisoners, some of whom perpetrated terrorist attacks that killed
dozens
of people.
Months later, after managing to board a trafficker’s flimsy vessel on Turkey’s Aegean coast, he found himself shipwrecked, surrounded by
dozens
of drowned fellow refugees.
A key feature of my research into the BRIC economies (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) more than ten years ago was that at some point during this decade, India would start to grow faster than China and continue to do so for
dozens
of years.
Dozens, often hundreds, of assumptions must be made to estimate just the costs of almost any policy.
China will likely go to great lengths to foster a more positive attitude among the
dozens
of European leaders visiting this year’s World Expo in Shanghai.
Last month, for example, the revelation that an American-made Boeing 737, specially outfitted for the use of President Jiang Zemin, was bugged with
dozens
of listening devices, elicited only a mild from the Chinese government.
Dozens
of ethnically based armed groups called Mai-Mai prey on local populations.
This strategy is highly labor-intensive, given that it requires individual engagement with every new cyber power (potentially
dozens
of countries).
Because anyone who engages with us is subject to possible prosecution and imprisonment, we have had no choice but to cut off relations with the
dozens
of Russian citizens we supported in their efforts to preserve some fragment of democracy in their country.
But over the last two decades, as active citizens have toppled regimes in
dozens
of countries, governments have moved too far in the opposite direction, imposing excessive regulations on those organizations and that space.
Just since April, Syrian hospitals have suffered
dozens
of attacks, and aid has been withheld from some of the most devastated villages.
And in
dozens
of this fall’s battleground states, where the rival campaigns will blanket the airwaves with political ads, broadcast news departments are increasingly ill-equipped to assess either the candidates or their political claims.
In fact, the US may already have killed
dozens
of Russian military contractors in a recent airstrike.
Unfortunately, it is not easy to weigh breast cancer’s dangers against the cumulative effects of radiation from
dozens
of mammograms over the years, the invasiveness of biopsies, and the debilitating impact of treating slow-growing tumors that would never have proven fatal.
The Doing Business project calculates
dozens
of separate indicators that are then averaged into a single number.
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