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With it, Nemeth was able to return to Budapest and proceed with the election, marking a turning point in the tumultuous events that would end with the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 and the breakup of the Soviet empire.
According to this view, the events that led up to the global financial crisis that erupted in 2008 cannot happen again; the reform process has succeeded.
In other words, pain may begin with a neural message of tissue injury or disease, but it is the end product of complex events within the brain.
True believers would no doubt see the hand of God in these stirring events.
But the real importance of Jolie’s story is its context: a wave of women and men, in very different settings around the world, who are insisting on narrating their own meanings for events involving their bodies – events that, like breast cancer, were once shrouded in shame, silence, fear, or blame.
It is they, and they alone, who may assign authoritative meaning to their breasts, their bodies, and the difficult events related to them.
But events are proving me right: nothing changes until everything changes – that is, until a critical mass of “victims” comes forward under their own names to reject the shame assigned to them for carrying a scary, “mutilating” disease, for having been assaulted by rapists, or for having been abused by pedophiles.
When events, for whatever reason, coincide with their theorems, the orthodoxy that they espouse enjoys its moment of glory.
When events shift, it becomes obsolete.
This Kafkaesque turn of events was possible because Pavel has mental health issues in a system that refuses to protect his rights.
This mixture of stimulating events and policies enabled Western economies to maintain high investment ratios in the post-WWII years.
Moreover, the four assessment reports that the IPCC has so far produced have allowed a better understanding of the threat posed by climate change in terms of extreme weather events and natural disasters.
And yet recent events in the United States offer depressing insights about the limits of Sen’s dictum, and about how democracies can fail the people they are ostensibly supposed to serve.
Putin connects two events that triggered WWII, the Munich Agreement of 1938 and the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact of 1939, in one causal construction.
These timetables’ effectiveness will depend on events on the ground, including political compromises inside Iraq and dialogue with Iraq’s neighbors, but a clear sense of direction has been established.
In response to these events, some newsrooms have started preparing for what they will do if a domestic terrorist attack directly affects their operations.
Our research noted that feelings of guilt and helplessness can be overwhelming when events “transgress personal moral and ethical values or codes of conduct.”
In most major sports, there are separate men’s and women’s teams and events, with lower standards of performance expected of women.
In tennis, the principle of equal pay for unequal performance is accepted for grand slam events, but not for many others.
Many policymakers, however, have yet to recognize that biodiversity loss is just as serious a threat as rising sea levels and increasingly frequent extreme weather events.
As events like the Tour de France turn farcical, bioethics professor Julian Savulescu has offered a radical solution.
A wave of extreme weather events this past summer – from wildfires in California and Sweden to floods in India and drought in Australia – show just how right he was.
They see the damage extreme weather events can inflict on homes, infrastructure, and livelihoods, and they hear climate scientists’ warnings that conditions will only deteriorate.
But this financial market buoyancy is at odds with political events and real economic indicators.
But the events described above could reverse such policies.
For Turkey’s new middle class, the survival of democracy could not be more important – and, as recent events have shown, they are willing to fight for it.
The Danger of Weak StatesNEW YORK: Fateful events in Israel and Yugoslavia have obscured ongoing turmoil in Nigeria and Indonesia.
Though it is impossible to predict how events may unfold, there are precedents in the many conflicts triggered by the breakdowns of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia.
The events of the past 15 months – starting with the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, followed by the violence in North Africa and the tragedy in Japan – confront the world with a stark choice between the costs and risks of traditional energy sources and the promise and progress of clean energy.
Taming BigotryMELBOURNE –At a time when the horrific events in Norway remind us how much murderous bigotry there still is in the world, perhaps a story from the other side of it can restore a little optimism that some positive, historically significant, changes in attitude really are occurring.
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