Kingdom
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The
kingdom
has long provided financial support to Egypt, Jordan, and other countries in the region, so this shift will put pressure on those governments to pursue private-sector growth to improve their own countries’ economic performance.
Solar energy enables plants to absorb carbon gas and thereby produce not only oxygen, but also matter that the animal
kingdom
uses for food – and that our machines can use for energy.
National borders ought to be abolished in God’s earthly
kingdom.
Although established as a unitary Hindu kingdom, with politics directed from the Himalayan foothills, today around half the population live in the fertile southern plains and more than one-third are from over 50 indigenous, largely non-Hindu communities.
As a kingdom, Libya’s foreign policy was pro-Western.
Divisions in the
kingdom
are sharper than ever, and the King’s death might deepen them further.
He claims that the erstwhile Sikh
kingdom
offered the gem to the British East India Company in 1849 as “voluntary compensation” for the expenses of the just-concluded Anglo-Sikh wars.
But Singh’s successors could not hold on to his
kingdom.
The Saudis fear that Sunni-Shiite discord, spreading from Iraq across the Arab world, might harm the kingdom, whose Shiites are concentrated in the oil-rich eastern part of the country.
Among the five BRICS countries, two (Brazil and Russia) are in recession, one (South Africa) is barely growing, another (China) is experiencing a sharp structural slowdown, and India is doing well only because – in the words of its central bank governor, Raghuram Rajan – in the
kingdom
of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
Kim’s father, Kim Jong-il, was supposed to have been born on Mount Paektu, believed to be a sacred spot where the divine founder of the first Korean kingdom, a bear-man named Tangun, was born more than 4,000 years ago.
The Last of the Sudeiri SevenLONDON – Ever since the Al Saud clan established in 1932 the
kingdom
to which they gave their name, the exercise of power in Saudi Arabia has been shaped by the intrigues and intricacies of royal politics.
African art exhibitions usually include stories about each piece’s origins, which are often tied to an African
kingdom.
Indeed, the mutaw’a saw their wide powers enhanced even more by decrees issued by King Abdullah in March, after helping to suppress protests in the
kingdom
earlier in the month.
Moreover, the ancient
kingdom
of Macedonia has great cultural and historical significance for modern-day Greeks.
PRINCETON – The small Himalayan
kingdom
of Bhutan is known internationally for two things: high visa fees, which reduce the influx of tourists, and its policy of promoting “gross national happiness” instead of economic growth.
Is it the OSCE's presence, and not Albania's government, that is now keeping the country what it has long been, a hermit
kingdom?
When Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990 and threatened to attack Saudi Arabia, Mubarak quickly dispatched troops to defend the
kingdom.
For a country once known as the “hermit kingdom,” this took some doing.
Many Thais hoped that the upcoming vote would put the
kingdom
back on a path toward stability after more than a decade of political turmoil.
Some in the
kingdom
argue that Saudi Arabia must confront Iran, stand up for Sunni Arab interests, and become a hands-on regional power.
Various sons of the regime’s founder, Abdulaziz Ibn Saud, succeeded each other as rulers a
kingdom
that, following Arab tradition, bore the name of its founding and ruling dynasty (another is the current Hashemite
Kingdom
of Jordan).
Macquarie University’s Andrew Barron, a cognitive scientist, and Colin Klein, a philosopher, argue that subjective experience could be more widespread in the animal
kingdom
– and older, in evolutionary terms – than we realize.
Saudi Arabia’s Iraq DilemmaSaudi Arabia broke ranks with the Arab world’s opposition to military action against Iraq when Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal announced that the
kingdom
would allow the use of its military bases if the UN sanctions an attack on Iraq.
The Lost Donkeys of ScienceCAMBRIDGE – The biblical story of Saul finding his
kingdom
by chance while searching for his father’s lost donkeys offers an important lesson for scientists.
Terrorist attacks in Saudi Arabia have led many to question not only the ruling House of Saud's prospects for survival, but also whether the
kingdom
is fundamentally dysfunctional and destructive.
The fact that 15 of the 19 hijackers in the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States were Saudis crystallized a long-held view of the
kingdom
as a bastion of authoritarianism and intolerance.
Another factor arose from the fact that Tamils, on the whole, had been open to a succession of Portuguese, Dutch, and British administrations from the 16th century onwards, while most Sinhalese lived under their own king in the Kandyan
kingdom
until the 19th century.
In other words, the purported magical Swedish
kingdom
of female sexual equality, empowerment, and robust institutional support for rape victims – a land, conjured by Swedish prosecutors, that holds much of the global media in thrall – simply does not exist.
Despite cynicism, apathy, frustration, despair, and violence, some Saudis still hope for the emergence of a prince on a white horse who will place the
kingdom
onto the path of reform.
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