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An incident in Moldova two years ago involving highly enriched uranium – which can be used in a nuclear weapon – illustrates both the scale of the threat and the possibility of effective counter-measures if countries take the problem seriously.
Over more than a month every TV show, every newspaper in Russia and abroad has been discussing, condemning, and thus reinforcing the incident.
The task of social workers and police, therefore, is to try to resolve – quickly and discreetly – each particular incident, in order to dampen the revolt.
Mao told Edgar Snow, author of Red Star Over China, that crossing the Dadu River was the single most important incident during the Long March, and today it is eulogized as such.
This incident points to the larger challenge that the EU must overcome if it is to secure its post-Brexit future.
One incident in southern Somalia vividly demonstrated how insecurity can hamper humanitarian work.
May’s government is now scrambling to deal with one shameful incident after another.
A closer look at the problem suggests that the division over Iraq is not merely an isolated incident, but reflects a range of deep-seated difficulties.
This incident revealed the extent to which the police cooperated in turning ordinary Chinese into slaves.
After years of official denial, that horrifying incident triggered awareness that terrorism does exist in Indonesia and that Indonesia's home grown fanatics are connected to a global terrorist network.
The lawsuit did not stop with the DKE incident.
Indeed, fearful of popular backlash against its decision to release the crew of the US spyplane without securing either a meaningful American apology or adequate financial compensation, China's government quietly shut down several popular internet sites in the weeks following the spy plane incident - including the chatroom that posted the above-cited messages.
Even before the trawler incident, China was trying to regulate rare-earths, defining them as a strategic resource.
One can also dismiss the killer’s connection to terror groups; the Islamic State (ISIS) did not own the incident until after the killer himself, in the midst of the attack, pledged his allegiance and thus put a label on his actions.
Thirty years later, Jimmy Carter still spoke bitterly about an incident at the Democrats’ convention in 1980.
The incident inspired Memory to push for a better future for girls.
Shut out on transfers of military technology and hardware by the United States ever since the Tiennamen Square incident of 1989; feeling increasingly "encircled" by the "redefined" Japan-U.S. Alliance (agreed in April 1996);China is particularly anxious to upgrade and strengthen its military might, and quickly.
Just a few days earlier, in an incident that also drew significant media attention and condemnation, a spectator hurling racial abuse at a Sudanese-born player was escorted from the ground and banned from attending future matches unless he undertook racism-awareness education.
The demand for action generated by this incident, and by the highly publicized on-field abuse of another star Aboriginal player, Michael Long, two years later, led the Australian Football League to introduce in 1995 a “Racial and Religious Vilification” code of conduct.
But that incident apparently gave neither Fox News nor its owner pause.
The final issue that the doormat incident brought to the fore is Indians’ tendency to take offense at the slightest affront – a tendency that is now being elevated, by the thumbs of a top minister, to the level of official policy.
But the company’s swift capitulation in the latest incident – which will surely not be the last – shows that the value of a gigantic market like India far outweighs that of any single product.
The incident has become emblematic of radical Islam’s cultural and religious intolerance.
Asked about the incident after the match, Henry said: “I will be honest, it was a handball.
Today, the greatest prospect of a destabilizing incident lies in the complex relationships across the Taiwan Strait.
Both sides must take care that an incident concerning Taiwan does not lead in that direction.
In the worst incident so far, hundreds of police, dressed in riot gear, surrounded Occupy Oakland’s encampment and fired rubber bullets (which can be fatal), flash grenades, and tear-gas canisters – with some officers taking aim directly at demonstrators.
In 1989, before the Tiananmen Square incident, the renminbi’s exchange rate was 45% higher than it is now – a level that could be re-attained relatively soon.
How does one reconcile an isolated retrograde incident such as the disappearance of an elderly Chinese couple with the hopeful progress of the "Chinese economic miracle" that has so transformed this once seemingly desperate, backward land?
India’s foreign minister, having earlier termed the incursion a “localized incident,” had to change his tune under parliamentary pressure, and cautioned China that India might have to reconsider his projected visit to Beijing.
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