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When Poland’s most important ally called, Duda essentially stuck his fingers in his ears.
Because the brain of a person trying to tickle herself anticipates the sensations that will be caused by her fingers – a process performed within the cerebellum – the sensation no longer tickles.
You can, however, succeed in tickling yourself through an intermediary – a machine, for instance, that translates the movements of your fingers into sensations on the skin by a method indirect enough for the cerebellum to be unable to anticipate them.
In the midst of all that pain, it is tempting to point fingers.
Giving Democracy the FingerDENVER – Some of the most iconic – and perhaps misleading – news images of the twenty-first century were of smiling Iraqis holding up their purple-ink-stained index fingers to show that they had voted in their country’s January 2005 election.
They react only after they get their fingers burned.
Imposing tariffs on imports, without also stemming the flow of ideas and intellectual property, is like trying to prevent water from flowing through one’s fingers by making a fist.
In the aftermath of the subprime crisis and the collapse of Lehman Brothers, fingers were pointed at the United States as an example of how badly things could go wrong.
It would be unseemly and perhaps “elitist” to point fingers at fellow Americans and imply that they are promiscuous, fat, gluttonous, lazy, uneducated, or that they are more prone to divorce, drunkeness, and gun-related deaths.
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.
It is easy for business to want government just to get out of the way, and for the media to point fingers and sensationalize events without much depth of analysis – or even, sometimes, grasp of reality.
And, five years after the largest financial crisis in almost 80 years, one can count the number of properly qualified board members – across all megabanks – on the fingers of one hand.
the ten tiny fingers on his pudgy hands,his words both cunning and weightless,the huge snuggling fox covering his pate,the orange glitter of his skin colorizer.
Their inaction over the last 20 years does not give them the right to point fingers.
I’m keeping my fingers crossed in the hope of calm and patient statesmanship by those who have the courage and decency to pick up the mantle of leadership.
And it is mad men with their fingers on the trigger.
Reconstruction efforts in Bosnia failed to generate momentum because the size of the territory is too small and the various governmental entities, from federal to local, insist on having their not-so-clean fingers in every pie.
To start, Western leaders should stop pointing fingers and take responsibility for their moral and strategic failings.
In Bulgaria last March, one of his ministers quipped that “there will always be someone pointing fingers at us, whether or not we buy.”
Indeed, the OSCE still sticks its nose and fingers into pretty much every aspect of Albanian political life.
It is far more defensible and correct to argue that everyone – bankers, households, regulators, and politicians – contributed to (and took credit for) the boom while it lasted, only to point fingers at one another when it collapsed.
A Thai Post MortemCAMBRIDGE: There are lessons from Thailand’s currency debacle beyond the sheer fun of pointing fingers.
A Middle East with multiple fingers on multiple triggers is as good a definition of a nightmare as there is.
Russia has managed to revamp the way it operates in the region since it got its fingers burned by interfering so crudely in Ukraine in 2004.
The gangs then upheld classic Japanese virtues of manliness and loyalty – and paid for mistakes by slicing off one of their fingers in atonement.
Clinton, who was embroiled in domestic problems, badly needed an international success, and assured Arafat that fingers would not be pointed at either party if the talks failed.
The terrorists seem to have used knives to shave some victims’ fingers like pencils, he said, forcing them to write their names in their own blood.
Supporters of the war saw their views confirmed in the ink-stained fingers of Iraqi voters who queued up to vote in the various elections held between January and December 2005, in the Cedar Revolution in Lebanon, and in the Afghan presidential and parliamentary elections.
Egyptian politicians can do little but cross their fingers and hope that the street does not rise up in response to the recent currency devaluation.
Reducing the deficit by cutting funds for education, infrastructure, and research and development is akin to trying to lose weight by cutting off three fingers.
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