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Fifteen
million immigrants had come to the US in the first 20 years of the century, leaving many Americans with an uneasy fear of being overwhelmed.
Fifteen
years after its conception, the “responsibility to protect” against the worst forms of violence and persecution has become a historical footnote.
Fifteen
years later, WTO members are still debating whether the Doha process should continue.
Fifteen
years ago this week, the G8 issued the Gleneagles declaration, relieving 18 “highly indebted poor countries” – Benin, Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guyana, Honduras, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Nicaragua, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia – of debt totaling more than $40 billion.
There was the same kind of pushback from the financial sector
fifteen
years ago, and from the railroads back in the late 1800s.
Fifteen
Nobel laureates, more than 50 professional philosophers, and many other prominent intellectuals have signed the letter.
Fifteen
years ago, the World Health Organization revised and upgraded the global framework for responding to outbreaks, trying to fix perceived shortcomings in the global response experienced during the SARS outbreak in 2003.
'No, why?' replied Levin, conjecturing that Veslovsky must weigh not less than
fifteen
stone.
'Altogether,' she thought, looking back at the whole of her life during those
fifteen
years of wedlock, 'pregnancy, sickness, dullness of mind, indifference to everything, and above all disfigurement.
At home it was clear that six jackets required twenty-four arshins of nainsook at sixty-five kopeks, which comes to more than
fifteen
roubles, besides the trimmings and the work; and she had saved all that.
To settle a matter worth two roubles I should have to send an attorney who costs me fifteen.'
His grandfather, Guillaume Maheu, an urchin of
fifteen
then, had found the rich coal at Réquillart, the Company's first pit, an old abandoned pit to-day down below near the Fauvelle sugar works.
Slender for her
fifteen
years, all that showed of her limbs outside the narrow sheath of her chemise were her bluish feet, as it were tattooed with coal, and her slight arms, the milky whiteness of which contrasted with the sallow tint of her face, already spoilt by constant washing with black soap.
Fifteen
metres higher they came on the first secondary passage, but they had to continue, as the cutting of Maheu and his mates was in the sixth passage, in hell, as they said; every
fifteen
metres the passages were placed over each other in never-ending succession through this cleft, which scraped back and chest.
These scamps of twelve to
fifteen
years shouted abominable words to each other, and to warn them it was necessary to yell still more violently.
But I am
fifteen!
From the age of ten, since she had earned her living at the pit, she went about the country alone in the complete liberty of the colliers' families; and if no man had possessed her at
fifteen
it was owing to the tardy awakening of her puberty, the crisis of which had not yet arrived.
Fifteen
nail-makers from the Marchiennes nail works had responded to the appeal, each with a dozen cages; and the gloomy little cages in which the blinded finches sat motionless were already hung upon a paling in the inn yard.
For
fifteen
years they lived in the same small provincial town, and no event broke the monotony of existence, not even the birth of a child.
A well-equipped pit today costs from
fifteen
hundred thousand francs to two millions; and it is difficult enough to get a moderate interest on the vast sum that is thus swallowed.
Only two men have touched me--a putter, long ago, when I was fifteen, and then Maheu.
They had already mounted fifteen, and were arriving at a landing-place.
When they came up to Madeleine there were at least
fifteen
hundred.
But the narrative of the five who had escaped increased the weeping;
fifteen
mates had not been able to follow them, having gone astray, and been walled up by falls.
This crater, as of an extinct volcano,
fifteen
metres deep, extended from the road to the canal for a space of at least forty metres.
Négrel's opinion was that not one of the unfortunate people was alive; the
fifteen
had surely perished, drowned or suffocated.
Fifteen
days later and 2,000 leagues farther, the Helvetia from the Compagnie Nationale and the Shannon from the Royal Mail line, running on opposite tacks in that part of the Atlantic lying between the United States and Europe, respectively signaled each other that the monster had been sighted in latitude 42 degrees 15' north and longitude 60 degrees 35' west of the meridian of Greenwich.
What creatures inhabit, or could inhabit, those regions twelve or
fifteen
miles beneath the surface of the water?
The lad was thirty years old, and his age to that of his employer was as
fifteen
is to twenty.
Near three o'clock in the afternoon on July 6,
fifteen
miles south of shore, the Abraham Lincoln doubled that solitary islet at the tip of the South American continent, that stray rock Dutch seamen had named Cape Horn after their hometown of Hoorn.
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