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One reason is China’s current combination of historical insecurity, rooted in its so-called century of humiliation, and heady arrogance, fueled by its immense economic clout and geopolitical influence.
The pandemic has upended the entire world, causing immense uncertainty and anxiety.
What is less well known is that China is using its immense economic power and international clout to undermine human-rights protections at the global level, too.
A Green Light for Public InvestmentBERLIN/THE HAGUE – The eurozone faces immense economic challenges.
As private-sector analysts immediately pointed out, the image will be of immense value to US adversaries.
Already, enterprises that depend on suppliers in outbreak-affected regions or that face reduced demand due to lockdowns and other containment measures have come under immense pressure.
After a short talk, noticing that Vronsky looked at the clock, Yashvin asked her whether she would be staying long in Petersburg, and straightening his immense body picked up his cap.
The birth of a son (he was certain it would be a son) which they promised him, but in which he still could not believe, so extraordinary did it seem, appeared to him on the one hand such an immense and therefore impossible happiness, and on the other such a mysterious event, that this pretended knowledge of what was going to happen and consequent preparations as for something ordinary, something produced by human beings, seemed to him an indignity and a degradation.
Like all such posts it required such immense knowledge and activity as could hardly be united in one man.
And having spoken about the proposed proclamation of Milan as King and of the immense results this might have, they returned to their respective carriages after the second bell had already sounded.
He could not even see the black soil before him, and only felt the immense flat horizon by the gusts of March wind, squalls as strong as on the sea, and frozen from sweeping leagues of marsh and naked earth.
One could vaguely distinguish four immense blocks of small houses, back to back, barracks or hospital blocks, geometric and parallel, separated by three large avenues which were divided into gardens of equal size.
The engine-man, standing at his post, listened to the ringing of the signals, and his eye never moved from the indicator where the shaft was figured, with its different levels, by a vertical groove traversed by shot hanging to strings, which represented the cages; and at each departure, when the machine was put in motion, the drums--two immense wheels, five metres in radius, by means of which the two steel cables were rolled and unrolled-- turned with such rapidity that they became like grey powder.
"Look out, there!" cried three landers, who were dragging an immense ladder.
Over this immense sea of reddish earth the low sky seemed to melt into black dust, without a breath of wind now to animate the darkness.
And beyond, in the flat plain, shade had submerged everything, Montsou, Marchiennes, the forest of Vandame, the immense sea of beetroot and of wheat, in which there only shone, like distant lighthouses, the blue fires of the blast furnaces, and the red fires of the coke ovens.
Then the immense plain seemed to him too small, and he preferred to pass the evening at Rasseneur's, in the Avantage.
"Oh, Lord, Lord!"Then her hands fell on to her knees with a gesture of immense dejection:"Then if that's true, we are done for, we are."
A new society would spring up in a day just as in dreams, an immense town with the splendour of a mirage, in which each citizen lived by his work, and took his share in the common joys.
The first November cold had denuded the immense plain; the night was now slowly burying it like a shroud fallen from the livid sky.
At first she seemed consoled by the great quiet, soothed by the flat monotony of the immense plain; she buried herself in it as a woman who has done with the world; she affected a dead heart, so detached from life that she did not even mind growing stout.
His arms moved slowly, piling up the stages, preparing the immense cathedral of the future world.
It was the beginning of January and cold mists benumbed the immense plain.
Soon the immense plain belonged to them.
And he went on laughing, filled with immense disdain for Lydie and Bébert.
Then everything whirled around her in the darkness; a millstone turned in her head, her heart grew weak and left off beating, numbed in its turn by the immense weariness which was putting her limbs to sleep.
All his rage of the afternoon, that furious battle in the depths of his silent solitude, had now turned to an immense fatigue.
The abuse increased, while the dead man, stretched on his back, gazed motionless with his large fixed eyes at the immense sky from which the night was falling.
Chapter 2SNOW had been falling for two days; since the morning it had ceased, and an intense frost had frozen the immense sheet.
Is it possible to make oneself so wretched through wanting justice?"Sighs swelled her breast, and her voice choked with immense sadness.
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