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“It is snowing butterflies that have escaped from a prophet’s head.”
Zenawi has largely escaped sanction from his Western allies, in part because the erudite ex-Marxist had a friendly relationship with former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and cooperated closely with the Bush administration in counter-terrorism efforts in the Horn of Africa.
Many Czechs and Slovaks escaped to the West after the Communist takeover in 1948, and many more after the invasion by Warsaw Pact armies ended the Prague Spring in 1968.
The fact that Trump’s presidency seems to have escaped from the set of a seventeenth- or eighteenth-century period drama is no accident.
As such, it helps to prescribe a course of action that so far has escaped public attention.
When a bloody coup against Corazon Aquino’s fledgling democratic government failed, the leader of the putsch escaped from a floating prison – and then successfully ran for senator.
I escaped mutilation, but other girls from my rural Kenyan community continue to receive “the cut” to this day.
If we are to believe them, we should consider ourselves lucky to have escaped the fate of Greece or Zimbabwe.
As the journalist Martin Wolf noted recently, “the rest of the UK has surely not escaped the horrors of the eurozone only to create similar horrors for itself at home.”
Indeed, the experience with SARS in Toronto, where cases escaped detection and led to a second outbreak, stands as a warning against excessive optimism about the apparent control of the larger and more geographically dispersed outbreaks in Taiwan and mainland China.
I traveled to Beijing to participate as an activist in Tiananmen Square, where I narrowly escaped the massacre and was able to make my way back to the US.
Like the genie that has escaped the bottle, the horse that has fled the barn, and the train that has left the station, the myth has become a cliché.
With the BoE at liberty to create as many billions of pounds as it deemed fit to reflate the City and back the government’s bank nationalization and monetary stabilization drive, Britain escaped the crisis with a single-year recession (2008-2009) amounting to a loss of 5.15% in national income.
The Cow Who…MELBOURNE – Last month, a steer escaped from a slaughterhouse in the New York City borough of Queens.
Not all languages make this distinction, but in English, to refer to “the cow that escaped” seems to deny the animal’s agency.
We would all say “the prisoner who escaped” but “the rock that rolled down the hill.”
According to the book’s tally of nine German-occupied Polish counties, two-thirds of the 250,000 Jews who escaped during the Nazis’ “liquidation” of Jewish ghettos in 1942 had been killed by 1945, most of them by Poles or with Polish participation.
It cannot have escaped their notice that to uphold indefinite detention of foreign nationals without judicial process would have made them virtual pariahs on the conference circuit.
Seven other Saudi jihadis who escaped to Yemen are also known to be active in Al Qaeda there.
A response to global challenges based simply on schadenfreude may promote a short-term sense of well-being, as people often like to think how lucky they are to have escaped a mess that originated elsewhere.
Putin's re-consolidation of power within the Kremlin, after much of it escaped to the regions during the Yeltsin years, dramatically shifted Russia's political dividing line.
The men at the barricades were persuaded to leave their stronghold; the insurrectionary leaders were either detained or escaped to Spain.
He strikingly suggests that we could think about these quarter-century changes in terms of what happened over the past 24 hours: seen this way, just in the last day, average life expectancy increased by 9.5 hours; 137,000 people escaped extreme poverty; and 305,000 got access to safer drinking water.
As a result, felonious servicemen have largely escaped justice.
These days it is a growing industrial power which, after six and a half years of high-speed economic liberalization under successive governments of varying political hues, now has the largest middle class in the world, is an ever more enticing lure for foreign direct investment, and is economically stable enough to have escaped the financial storms that have wrecked much of east Asia.
But Germany’s similar-size surpluses – which have averaged about $170 billion since the euro’s introduction in 1999 – have, until recently, largely escaped scrutiny.
Nim suffered various other vicissitudes – and narrowly escaped being infected with hepatitis as part of a medical experiment – until he was eventually released to an animal sanctuary, where he died in 2000.
Yet, somehow, China’s official investment statistics have largely escaped discussion.
Primo Levi, the Italian chemist who escaped death in the Nazi camps to become a writer, wrote movingly about his life as a chemist and about “the strong and bitter flavor of our trade, which is nothing more than one special case, a more bold version, of the trade of life.”
I listened to a Sunni engineer whose association with an American construction company makes him a target for extremists, and to a translator of the Christian Mandaean minority who narrowly escaped death when the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad was bombed in August 2003.
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