Kingdom
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For them, doing so would be tantamount to admitting that most people in this hospitable, well-endowed
kingdom
had been kept poor by design all along.
Some ask what “value” Kim’s hermit
kingdom
provides that prevents China from acting decisively; others wonder to what extent Chinese leaders’ domestic concerns continue to inhibit their willingness to switch course on North Korea.
No longer a hermit kingdom, Japan was a beacon for Asian modernization.
But recent democratic trends worldwide have now reached the shores of this medieval desert
kingdom
and can no longer be ignored.
Like King Lear after he lost his kingdom, there is nothing France can do about its lost influence but rage impotently.
To turn a feudal
kingdom
into a modern nation-state, Saudi Arabia needs to address its internal weaknesses; it does not need more combative alliances and colossal arms deals like the one its leaders signed with Trump on his recent trip to Riyadh.
Unsurprisingly, China’s state-run media have responded to Kim’s attempts to chart an independent course by accusing him of pursuing the “de-Sinification” of the hermit
kingdom.
Human culture sets us apart from the rest of the animal
kingdom.
Indeed, since taking control of Mecca, the Saudi government has used the city and the hajj as centerpieces in its efforts to place the
kingdom
at the center of the Muslim world and spread Wahhabi Islam.
In the short term, Iran’s response has benefited Saudi Arabia’s rulers, rallying Sunnis both within the
kingdom
and abroad and silencing their jihadi opponents.
Returning to Allison’s historical paradigm, it is worth remembering that while Sparta emerged as the winner of the Peloponnesian War, it nonetheless suffered a subsequent decline, opening the way for the peripheral Greek
kingdom
of Macedon to rise to power under Philip II.
The post clearly draws on Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians, in which Paul is reported as saying: “Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the
kingdom
of God?Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men,nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the
kingdom
of God.”Paul also tells his Christian readers that they must not associate with anyone who is sexually immoral: “Do not even eat with such people.”
While the ongoing talks made Obama hesitant about the Saudi-led intervention, America’s traditional alliance with the
kingdom
won out, and the US backed the coalition.
Despite growing international criticism of the military campaign and rifts within the Arab coalition – especially between the
kingdom
and the UAE – MBS was unwilling to recognize the futility of the venture.
But Britons would nonetheless do well to heed the words of the Duc de Saint-Simon: “The Revocation of the edict of Nantes, without the least pretext or any necessity, depopulated a quarter of the kingdom, ruined its commerce, and weakened it in all its parts.”
His longer-term aim is to lift his country out of diplomatic isolation, gain relief from years of international economic sanctions, and reform the poverty-stricken “hermit kingdom,” enabling him to remain in power for decades to come.
Containing the Anger VirusPARIS – The small landlocked Himalayan
kingdom
of Bhutan, which lies between China and India, is not only a tourist mecca.
In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the medieval Catholic Magyar
kingdom
of Hungary disappeared, its territory squeezed between Islam and Protestantism.
Then, indeed, there would be a real
kingdom
of God, every one recompensed according to his merits, and the law of labour as the foundation for universal happiness.
Deliverance would come from the country priests, who would all rise to re-establish the
kingdom
of Christ, with the help of the poor; and already he seemed to be at their head; he raised his bony form like the chief of a band, a revolutionary of the gospel, his eyes so filled with light that they illuminated the gloomy room.
Among the foods we were served, I was able to identify various daintily dressed fish; but I couldn't make up my mind about certain otherwise excellent dishes, and I couldn't even tell whether their contents belonged to the vegetable or the animal
kingdom.
I observed that all these exhibits from the vegetable
kingdom
were attached to the seafloor by only the most makeshift methods.
"The animal
kingdom
blossoms, and the vegetable
kingdom
doesn't!"
Medicine to the ancients, jewelry to the moderns, it wasn't decisively placed in the animal
kingdom
until 1694, by Peysonnel of Marseilles.
Amid these shrubs of precious coral, I observed other polyps no less unusual: melita coral, rainbow coral with jointed outgrowths, then a few tufts of genus Corallina, some green and others red, actually a type of seaweed encrusted with limestone salts, which, after long disputes, naturalists have finally placed in the vegetable
kingdom.
As for the foregrounds passing before our eyes, they were fantastically carved rocks, forests of trees that had crossed over from the vegetable
kingdom
into the mineral kingdom, their motionless silhouettes sprawling beneath the waves.
At this topmost level the vegetable
kingdom
began to challenge the mineral
kingdom.
Then I saw that bees weren't the animal
kingdom'
s only representatives inside this volcano.
Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the
kingdom
of heaven.
I had a hand in remaking a
kingdom
and putting a fresh king upon a great throne the very year that I came of age.
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