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But evidence also suggests that some Neanderthals buried their dead with grave goods (items presumably intended to help the deceased in the afterlife), produced complex tools (such as stone armatures mounted with mastics), and developed personal symbols (including manganese oxide pigments and pendants made from animal teeth).
If that idealistic democrat Nehru had not been cremated, India’s stance toward Burma might cause him to turn over in his grave.
The Constitutive Act of the African Union provides in Article 4 the “right of the Union to intervene in a Member State pursuant to a decision of the Assembly in respect of grave circumstances, namely: war crimes, genocide, and crimes against humanity [as well as a serious threat to legitimate order].”
But implementing policies that restrict potentially productivity-enhancing technologies would be a grave mistake.
When the evidence is as clear as it is with vaccines (and the consequences as grave), the government has the well-established authority – indeed, obligation – to act in the name of public safety.
Should unity crumble in this crisis, the consequences for all parties involved – especially the refugees – will be grave.
It would be a grave mistake, for example, to sell out Ukraine’s interests and lift the sanctions imposed on Russia out of the mistaken belief that the Kremlin’s assistance is needed in Syria.
Of course, a grave question arises about the now-ruling Supreme Council of the Military High Command in Egypt: How can the enforcers of the status quo become the agents of change?
A second reason given by eurozone policymakers to justify their demand for more IMF support is basically a form of blackmail: the global consequences of a further eurozone crisis would be so grave that the IMF has no choice but to do whatever it can to prevent it.
But any risk must be weighed against other grave threats that we face.
Instead, all we hear from them is a deafening silence – and, in Haiti and elsewhere, the silence of the grave.
This year marks the tenth anniversary of Security Council Resolution 1612, which established – as one of the many results of a landmark report by the world’s foremost children’s rights campaigner, Graca Machel – the Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict and a monitoring and reporting mechanism for grave violations against children in armed conflict.
A final conclusion is that the past two years have provided still more data to support former US Secretary of the Treasury Larry Summers’ grave suspicion that the economies of the global North are now trapped in a state of “secular stagnation.”
Indeed, the top priority – for Obama and his successor alike – must be to explain why the grave errors of the recent past have made such realism the only plausible option.
It even prompted a grave US Presidential address – all for a simple case of hacking.
This trend has grave implications for agriculture’s ecological footprint.
My very cloudy crystal ball shows a rewriting of the rules, but not to correct the grave mistakes of the Reagan revolution, a milestone on the sordid journey that left so many behind.
France and other EU member states will suffer grave economic damage, and a global crisis will likely ensue.
Unless Russia changes course – which seems unlikely anytime soon – the global consequences are apt to be grave.
Africa Beyond EbolaMADRID – Among this summer’s grave global worries, the spread of the Ebola virus has monopolized the discussion of Sub-Saharan Africa and reinvigorated hoary notions of disorder and despair – at a time when a new image of a dynamic Africa was emerging.
Yes, this is what might be called “lemon socialism,” creating grave dangers for corporate control, posing a threat of large-scale corruption, and establishing a precedent for intervention that could be very dangerous down the road.
Third, the world’s major powers – most urgently, America’s NATO allies, China, and Russia – should make clear that any unilateral US attack on Iran or North Korea would constitute a grave and illegal violation of the peace, and that matters of war and peace must be agreed within the UN Security Council.
At the moment, however, little if anything suggests that this will happen, because, for Iran’s leaders, Obama’s offer also represents a grave danger.
The punishments being considered – expulsion from the G-8, for example – would be laughable were the threat to Europe’s peace not so grave.
Countless countries, from Japan to Israel, rely on America’s commitment to act robustly against grave breaches of the peace.
And ongoing debates over identity politics and borders in the Levant are a prelude to the grave, fundamental challenges ahead.
Of course, in the face of India's vast advantages in conventional forces, and the flexible nature of India's strategy, there is a grave risk that Pakistan will escalate its response hastily, even to the point of approaching its own ultimate "Samson Option" - use of nuclear weapons.
Given the grave dangers, it is in every country’s interest to halt further nuclear competition and eliminate the risks associated with the world’s remaining stockpiles of some 15,000 nuclear weapons.
But the consequences are equally grave.
The Mare Nostrum is gradually becoming the kind of vast and watery mass grave described by a faraway poet.
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