Erect
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And I mean, normally it kind of rolls it away, but in its
erect
form, that's what it looks like.
Through hard work and perseverance, my parents were able to
erect
a block apartment and send my siblings and me to school.
My parents did not
erect
a block apartment by wishing and dreaming.
But at the time when I started this project, the best explanation I could find for penal erection was that the wall surrounded these spongy tissues, and the spongy tissues filled with blood and pressure rose and voila! it became
erect.
So I went ahead, collected wall tissue, prepared it so it was erect, sectioned it, put it on slides and then stuck it under the microscope to have a look, fully expecting to see crossed helices of collagen of some variety.
Pharaoh had his slaves move millions of blocks just to this site to
erect
a big freaking headstone.
Anyone with an
erect
sense of humor will tell you "This Is Spinal Tap" was one of the funniest movies ever made.
When he moves out of frame and stops, the shadow of his arm is just to the right of the door-frame and is very clearly in the shape of an
erect
penis.
So the rich world will, in a knee-jerk response,
erect
ever-higher barriers to stem the human tide.
The tiny island states of the Pacific, for example, have been unable to
erect
adequate defenses against the “king tides” that are encroaching on their land and causing the freshwater “lenses” beneath their atolls to become brackish.
Our Arab neighbors should never be trusted; hence, as Jabotinski preached, the new Israeli nation must
erect
an Iron Wall of Jewish power to deter its enemies forever.
After some hesitation, Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet Union’s leader, allowed his East German counterpart, Walter Ulbricht, to
erect
a barrier between East and West Berlin in order to ensure the survival of communism in the entire Soviet bloc.
Now, as governments
erect
barriers and reinstate border controls, the refugee crisis is disrupting flows of people and gumming up trade.
In the real world nowadays, people are increasingly tempted to
erect
walls and close themselves off from “others.”
If buying dollars is not sufficient to stem the appreciation tide, regulators in emerging economies will
erect
an array of other barriers to keep money out.
At the same time, one need only recall the damage that unregulated carry trades wrought on Asian economies in the 1990’s to understand why China must
erect
barriers to protect its domestic markets from inflows of hot money.
While People’s Daily, the Chinese Communist Party’s official newspaper, consistently attacks that position, the Party itself has been rehabilitating Confucius, the central figure in Chinese traditional thought, going so far as to
erect
a statue of him in Tiananmen Square.
We can
erect
houses that resist burning.
Tsipras is attempting to
erect
two lines of defense against the coming tsunami of pain (and thereby minimize popular discontent).
In April, a platoon of Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) border-security personnel crossed the so-called “line of actual control” into India’s Depsang Valley in Ladakh to
erect
an encampment, where they remained for almost three weeks.
Failure will
erect
a huge obstacle to European economic growth for years to come, and could threaten the survival of the euro itself.
That should be enough for the World Trade Organization to allow other countries to
erect
trade barriers against US goods.
But if present EU members
erect
conditions on membership that are too harsh for newcomers to meet, they run the risk of creating a "Catch-22" situation.
To
erect
barriers to innovation, such as taxes on robots, which some have proposed as a way to ease the pressure on workers, would be counterproductive.
Rich countries like Germany can afford to pile more and more indirect taxes on business, and
erect
more and more obstacles to the efficient operation of business for a long time.
This means that the US could
erect
barriers to almost three-fifths of Bangladeshi exports.
In fact, it is this European crisis of confidence that has turned the current refugee crisis into an existential one: If the EU fails to regain control of its external borders, it will
erect
internal ones, jeopardizing the entire European project.
Many countries will benefit from US growth (if Trump does not simultaneously
erect
trade barriers).
That is because, as David Glasner, an economist at the Federal Trade Commission, has pointed out, attempts to
erect
an automatic monetary system – whether based on the gold standard, Milton Friedman’s k-percent rule, or the Stanford University economist John Taylor’s “rules-based monetary policy” – have all crashed and burned spectacularly.
Morales’ sympathizers threaten to
erect
roadblocks.
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