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Add to this centuries-old patriarchal traditions, 15-year-old post-war traumas, a 20-year economic crisis, and current Russian aggression, and you may begin to grasp what women in South Ossetia, Abkhazia, and Georgia are enduring these days.
Obama in ChainsNEW YORK – It is hard for international observers of the United States to grasp the political paralysis that grips the country, and that seriously threatens America’s ability to solve its domestic problems and contribute to international problem solving.
By expanding our grasp of the vastness of the universe, science has, if anything, increased the awe and reverence we feel when we look up on a starry night (assuming, that is, that we have got far enough away from air pollution and excessive street lighting to see the stars properly).
In all this President Kim assumed personal leadership, surprising many with his grasp of, and commitment to, liberal economic ideas.
Most sane people – including in Israel – grasp that an unprovoked Israeli attack on Iran could have catastrophic consequences.
The Kremlin, far from being able to control the situation, does not fully grasp what is happening.
But his greatest failure was his inability to grasp that successful governance in Iraq requires reaching out to other communities, notably the Sunnis and Kurds.
Sound policy aimed at reviving the economy seems beyond the grasp of both candidates.
In other words, while researchers attempt to grasp complex, real-world situations, students are pondering unrealistic hypotheticals.
The message is clear: the EU needs to get its act together within its neighborhood before it can grasp a broader role.
For a company facing sexual harassment claims, the comment displayed more than poor taste; it showed an appalling failure to grasp the gravity of the situation.
There is no indication that Bush will begin to grasp this bitter reality during the remaining months of his term.
After exploring this issue with legislators in several countries over the past couple of months, it has become abundantly clear that many do not have a full grasp of the myriad issues that need to be considered.
Unfortunately, one of the unwritten laws of academia--unquestioned by the committee on which I serve--is that a candidate who does not seek and grasp the holy grail of "independence" is not qualified to be promoted.
Once again, African readers are being shortchanged, remaining dependent on foreign reportage in order to grasp the enormity of what is transpiring.
But it will require courage to acknowledge what is occurring before our eyes, rather than continue to grasp at the chimera of a consolidated Iraqi state.
SDRs are highly complicated and difficult to grasp, but they boil down to the international creation of money.
If we don't grasp the moment it will vanish.
He communicates effectively to a broad audience – and understanding the technicalities of finance is not needed to grasp his main points.
By inquiring about it; thinking about it; by trying to grasp its essence, we contribute to our own self-awareness.
But most outsiders fail to grasp the maze of living threads that bind Nigerians to one another.
We need only to convince ourselves to grasp it.
Terms like the “The Great Unraveling,” coined by the journalist Roger Cohen in the fall of 2014, resonate widely because they capture the current sense of helplessness, lack of control, and inability to predict or grasp which crisis might come next.
To grasp the nature of the problem, we need to examine how humans are made at the molecular level, and contrast our constitution with that of other species that we often call “rudimentary,” such as unicellular organisms.
It can be difficult to grasp the fact that we live in an overwhelmingly parasitic world.
What they fail to grasp is that the 1980 Jerusalem Law, which declared the city – “united in its entirety” – to be Israel’s capital did not actually result in unity.
As is often true in crises that become systemic, we knew the phenomena, but failed to grasp their interaction, in part because politicians and analysts are unwilling to anticipate ruptures: the familiar is held to be stable even when it is known to be problematic.
Yes, but only in order to understand it, grasp its scope, and retain what still makes sense today.
That is a slim reed for the Syrian people to grasp, but unhappily it’s the only one around.
We can best grasp this problem by asking why many members of the Republican Party who have voted in the House of Representatives to force the government to shut down are not worried that their tactics – which will undoubtedly harm many of their constituents – will fuel an electoral backlash.
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