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Not only did he arrive almost three hours late to the onsen summit, in keeping with his habit of leaving foreign leaders waiting; he also declined a Japanese government gift – a male companion for his native Japanese Akita dog, which Japan gave him in 2012.
Each set of researchers adopted a standardized approach and studied proposals as diverse as linking farmers to the international carbon market, improving rice production, setting up flood warning systems, creating paid paternity leave to get more women into the formal workforce, and teaching young children in their native language of Creole instead of French.
As he explained in his memoir Dreams from My Father , visiting his father’s native Kenya for the first time made him feel more American – and less African – than ever.
The worst inter-communal fighting took place in the plains to the east of the Alawites’ mountain strongholds, raising the suspicion that Alawites were preparing for a retreat to their native region in the event of the regime’s collapse and were trying to expand the area under their control.
The troops arrived in a flotilla of native boats known as "Townshend's regatta," as the river was the only suitable route north.
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century European nationalists often regarded the US as the natural home for capitalists and “rootless cosmopolitans" without any loyalty to their native soil.
The builders of the twin towers, whatever their native tongues, wanted to be Americans, citizens of the New World, the towers they built symbolizing the stature of freedom.
A map of my own fate would encompass Bukovina as my native land, the Transdnistrian concentration camp of my childhood, the Communist labor camp Periprava where my father’s identity was altered, the Bucharest of my student years and my adulthood, Berlin, my exile’s starting point, and finally New York, where my exile found its residence.
China will never rival India as an exporter of high-tech and business services, because it lacks that country’s large population of native English speakers.
Japan’s New Business LanguageTOKYO – Six years ago, I stood before several thousand mostly native Japanese speakers and addressed them in English.
Though the number of native English speakers is dwarfed by the number of, say, native Chinese speakers, English is the language of global business.
A month before, it seems safe to assume, many of these people had never heard of his native land, a landlocked African nation of about 13 million people bordering Mozambique, Zambia, and Tanzania.
In much the same way that cigarette companies shifted their focus to the developing world when regulators clamped down on their marketing practices in America, fast-food companies seem to be trying to capitalize on those portions of the global consumer base that have little exposure to health campaigns in their native languages.
Indeed, the fast-food industry may have greater reach in customers’ native languages than heath-education campaigns do.
AQIM, by contrast, made a concerted effort to go native, marrying local Tuaregs in North Maliand taking up their political causes, such as secession.
His first return visit to his native country soon afterwards showed to all the world the new Pope's power.
Moreover, immigration is more necessary than ever, because population aging and lower birthrates across advanced economies are producing a retirement boom without a commensurate cohort of native prime-age workers to support it.
Kurds now can use their native language in the media and in private schools, and Kurdish-language courses are optional in public schools.
America’s European settlers committed a two-century-long genocide against the native inhabitants, and established a slave economy so deeply entrenched that only a devastating civil war ended it.
In addition, there are hundreds, if not thousands, of native Haitian NGOs.
It should work closely with a professional executive team made up of native and diaspora Haitian professionals with relevant expertise.
For this, he had only his tongue, and not even his native tongue, but the French that he learned in an orphanage for deported children at age 15 – and later turned into his violin.
The human incapacity to see what is coming also animates Sebastian Haffner’s memoir Defying Hitler, written in 1939, a year after he left his native Germany.
Of course, migration creates real challenges for communities and can lead to job losses and lower wages for native workers.
By defending the coca leaf, consumed for centuries in the Andean world and the raw material for cocaine, Morales was able to link his opposition to America’s anti-drug policy with the defense of native cultural tradition and the economic rights of the poor.
Thus, Morales’s leadership brought together three strongly symbolic dimensions: nationalist sentiment, concern for the poor, and emerging ethnic pride among Bolivia’s native peoples.
German, the EU’s most widely spoken native language, hardly makes a dent.
Danish newspapers – coincidentally in the native country of the story of the Emperor’s New Clothes – happily quoted the WWF regarding the event’s overwhelming success.
Standard economic theory tells us that net inward migration, like free trade, benefits the native population only after a lag.
The so-called temporary effects in terms of displaced native workers and lower wages may last five or ten years, while the beneficial effects assume an absence of recession.
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