Gates
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Whereas the US and the Soviet Union had limited trade and social contact, the US is China’s largest overseas market, welcomed and facilitated China’s entry into the World Trade Organization, and opens its universities’
gates
to 125,000 Chinese students each year.
If the ongoing process of European integration were to stop at the
gates
of today's NATO, the consequences of such a rupture, regardless of the form it assumes, and regardless of whether they befall us in three years or fifteen, could cost much more than the two World Wars Europe "donated" in this century combined.
In doing this they seek to crash through the
gates
of fortress Europe, refusing to be imprisoned by its narrow assumptions of national or European identity.
Efforts to bring market forces to bear by, say, auctioning
gates
and flight times, were stymied, in particular by airlines with vested interests.
Three years later, the palace
gates
were in disrepair and the stars shone through leaks in the roof.
Surrounded by a forbidding wall, watchtowers, and deadly buffer zones, I entered with a hard-to-obtain visa at the Erez crossing – iron gates, an interrogation by bored young immigration officers and scanners.
In Roman mythology, Janus was the god of gates, doorways, beginnings, and endings.
Turkey today is a Janus-like geography that offers
gates
and doorways to the East and West.
Then there was the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, which the Poles refused to join, and Marshal Jozef Pilsudski’s miraculous victory over the Red Army at the
gates
of Warsaw in 1920.
As a result, though the region continues to be beset by serious problems, the
gates
of hell have remained closed – as they have in Rwanda.
The border between the two Koreas is virtually impenetrable, with
gates
that open for a half-hour at a time a few times per day.
A new management was bought in through the market; unions struck; management filed for bankruptcy, sold planes and
gates.
But the solution proposed by some – close the
gates
to refugees – would merely worsen the problem, by destabilizing countries like Turkey, Lebanon, and Jordan, which have already absorbed millions.
That’s why some commentators, inflaming the tensions, speak of barbarians at the
gates
and compare Europe’s situation to the beginning of the end of the Roman Empire.
Just the unbroken line of people, holding hands and passing silently in the white darkness, the line looping back and forth outside the forbidding
gates.
However, thousands of former political prisoners in central and eastern Europe can attest to the fact that a kick from a secret policeman on the street hurts just as much as a kick from a warden behind prison
gates.
If the US wants to stem the rise of an extremist haven at Europe’s
gates
and prevent Libya from becoming another Russian playground, Trump will need to change his mind, and engage with his Western allies in state building in Libya.
Europe’s leaders need to put private investment at the center of their growth strategy by devising policies that open the
gates
to large potential flows.
A solid majority for the Together for Yes slate should erode Spain’s resistance, may crack Europe’s neutrality, and will open the
gates
to a road – difficult, yet traversable – toward dignity.
But hope also dies when children find school
gates
locked, denying them the chance they deserve to plan and prepare for a future.
Romania’s Pits of DespairBUCHAREST: Nearly at the
gates
of Bucharest, Romania’s miners were turned back by a combination of bribes and threats.
Everyone knows what viable immigration reform in the US will entail: tightening security at the border, but also including
gates
in the walls currently being built; legalizing, with expeditious and sensible fines and conditions, the 15 million or so foreigners present in the US illegally; and establishing a migrant or temporary worker program that allows a sufficient number of foreigners to satisfy the growing needs of the US economy, with paths both to regular visits home and to US permanent residence.
For a nuclear Iran would open the
gates
to an uncontrolled rush for the bomb across the region.
To this must be added another feature that Young described: meritocracy means only that another ruling group closes the
gates
behind it once it has achieved its status.
The fight involves a government that is antithetical to Western values and a Sunni extremist insurgency that at one point captured the borderlands between Syria and Iraq and fought all the way to the
gates
of Baghdad.
All such promises in history have ended either at the
gates
of the gulag or, as in Egypt and Tunisia, with the deceived masses’ cathartic overthrow of the rulers.
It is unlikely that a single grand strategy – whether it is opening up the oil sector, improving access to finance, fighting informality, or, for that matter, altering industrial policy – can unlock the
gates
to rapid, broad-based growth.
Summer camps for children were always fenced, featuring checkpoints, barred gates, and guards, and lookouts were posted at entrances to beaches and other areas prone to unauthorized access.
On the southern border of the United States, refugees fleeing misery and conflict don’t know if they will be met with sanctuary or bolted
gates
and tear gas.
On the last two days of November 2018, tens of thousands of farmers marched through New Delhi to the
gates
of parliament in a Kisan Mukti (Farmers’ Liberation) March.
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