Mantle
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Earth’s crust is made from several vast, jagged slabs of rock called tectonic plates, each riding on a hot, partially molten layer of Earth’s
mantle.
And all these faults are subject to varying gravitational forces, as well as the currents of hot rocks moving throughout Earth’s
mantle.
Deep beneath the geysers and hot springs of Yellowstone Caldera lies a magma chamber produced by a hot spot in the earth’s
mantle.
For example, diamonds, which form deep in the Earth’s mantle, have a cubic crystalline structure and can grow into either cubes or octahedrons.
While we can’t directly observe growth conditions in the mantle, laboratory experiments have shown some evidence that diamonds tend to grow into cubes at lower temperatures and octahedrons at higher temperatures.
Tom Conway fully inherits the
mantle
of the Falcon from his real-life brother George Sanders with this entry.
But the harsh truth is clear as day: nobody has stepped up to claim his
mantle.
Ledgers performance in the title role is quite solid, taking the
mantle
of cinema's best Ned (not hard considering the previous Ned's include Yahoo Serious, Mick Jagger & former Carlton champion (Australian Rules Football) Bob Chitty, a great footballer but a poor actor.
Like most gangster films of the time, The Public Enemy tries to wrap itself in the
mantle
of a moral tract.
An overbearing Eric Freeman takes over the psychotic mantle, and is unbeatably awful and at the same time comical.
One of the things that supposedly led Jeremy Brett to take on the
mantle
of Holmes was the fact that Granada wanted to do something that no other film or television producer had done before, namely, do the Doyle stories as they were written.
In the meantime, the return to the idea of a “just cause” carries big risks, especially evident when, as happened in Georgia, a great power claims the
mantle
of a protector of the rights of its nationals in a neighboring country.
Taking up this
mantle
did not come easy.
After World War II, the US picked up the interventionist mantle, following a CIA-backed military coup in Syria in 1949 with another CIA operation to topple Iran’s Mohammad Mossadegh in 1953 (to keep the West in control of the country’s oil).
They should specifically call on the US to assume the
mantle
of global responsibility and, in the phrase that Obama used to describe the intervention in Libya, “create the conditions and coalitions for others to step up.”
Nationalism is essentially a modern political creation wrapped in the
mantle
of a common history and shared memories.
This is the complex world in which Obama takes up the
mantle
of leadership.
Now, with the US abandoning free trade, China can take up the
mantle
of promoting it, thereby improving its image as a major power and demonstrating its commitment to global governance and development.
Frighteningly, groups like Al Qaeda can claim the
mantle
of popular nationalism as a means of pursuing their ultimate utopian aims.
Some are inspired by Al Qaeda, others by disgruntled Sunnis, but all can claim a nationalist
mantle.
It was not just Europe that benefited from China’s willingness to take on the
mantle
of “lender of last resort.”
But Zardari retained the
mantle
of the PPP’s co-chairman that he acquired following the assassination of his wife, Benazir Bhutto, in December 2007, and even held all formal and informal party meetings in presidential properties.
As Asia’s leading power, China has seized the
mantle
of “hope” from the US.
But a government that defends its record by claiming to be no worse than its predecessors is not one that can claim the
mantle
of change, as Modi’s so often does.
Nevertheless, with both sides claiming the
mantle
of international law, authoritative legal decisions about these issues might perhaps push the parties to reach a lasting agreement.
If the spread of authoritarianism and illiberalism is to be slowed, these liberal democracies must assume the
mantle
of renewing Albright’s vision.
On the other hand, Krugman has inexplicably taken up the
mantle
of crude aggregate-demand management, making it seem that favoring large budget deficits in recent years is also part of progressive economics.
Today, the IOC still wraps itself in the lofty
mantle
of apolitical Olympic idiocy, while Putin uses the Winter Games to try to add luster to his increasingly autocratic, and failing, Russian state.
I’m keeping my fingers crossed in the hope of calm and patient statesmanship by those who have the courage and decency to pick up the
mantle
of leadership.
Hazare, egged on by a flag-waving and indignant urban middle class and sensation-seeking media, tries mightily to claim Mahatma Gandhi’s mantle; he is good at mimicking Gandhi’s piety, but lacks his root wisdom.
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