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Read More from "Zone Defense"The Case for KurdistanTEL AVIV – The Kurds – who occupy a mountainous region that includes portions of Armenia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey – are the largest ethnic group in the world without a state to call their own.
The world’s largest dictatorship is preparing to crush and occupy the first Chinese democracy in history – Taiwan.
What Cheney did was to feed and nourish the Bush prejudices, and to move ruthlessly and energetically to occupy the policymaking ground left vacant by the President’s indolence and National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice’s lack of political clout.
In 1999, Pakistan’s General Pervez Musharraf destabilized the Lahore peace process by sending rangers to occupy the Kargil Heights on Kashmir’s Indian side.
Several European Union leaders were recently spotted in a small rowboat on a Swedish lake, reportedly scheming against the frontrunner, and British Prime Minister David Cameron has launched a public campaign to reassert the right of EU member states’ governments to decide who will occupy the EU’s executive arm.
Russia in recent years has used armed force to seize, occupy, and annex Crimea, in the process violating the fundamental principle of international law that borders may not be changed by armed force.
The Palestinians are seen as colonial subjects, and the longer Israel continues to occupy Arab territories, the more this perception will be confirmed.
Even though men still occupy most leading positions in society, this is no longer a given.
French ministries still occupy the former eighteenth-century palaces of the King and his nobility.
He writes: “It is a fearful problem for the ordinary person, with no special talents, to occupy himself, especially if he no longer has roots in the soil or in custom or in the beloved conventions of a traditional economy.”
Debates about reproductive freedom and “cosmetic” enhancements – such as the use of growth hormone to “treat” short stature – already occupy the news.
While annual real GDP per capita has grown 72%, from $29,000 to $50,000 (in 2009 prices), almost all of this growth has gone to those who now occupy the highest tier of the US income distribution.
Instead, we occupy our bodies.
President George W. Bush called Iran part of an “axis of evil,” yet his decision to invade and occupy Iraq benefited Shia-dominated Iran above all.
In 1990, when Saddam Hussein sent Iraqi forces to occupy Kuwait, claiming that he was retaking lost territory, the UN Security Council voted, based on chapter seven of the UN charter, to punish Iraq by imposing a strict financial and trade embargo.
Today, Israel is relying on historical claims to occupy another people.
They now occupy three of the company’s board seats, with Trump occupying a fourth.
But democracy promotion is too uncertain a proposition, and the world too dangerous a place, for it to occupy center stage in what the United States does.
Back then, the paramount question was: How did a small state like Israel defeat the armies of three Arab countries and occupy vast areas of Egyptian, Jordanian and Syrian territory in a few days?
One can understand the Polish position: on regaining independence in 1918, Poland found itself in a brutal war with the Red Army, which was poised to occupy Warsaw.
He has inspired thousands of demonstrators, many from his power base in the country’s south, to storm and occupy government buildings with the aim of unseating Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, the sister of exiled former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.
The theorists of asymmetric information occupy a deviant branch of mainstream economics.
If the transition is assisted now, the crucial economic reforms that will occupy elected governments for years to come stand a much greater chance of succeeding.
Putin’s Russia has swung to one extreme of the spectrum, while the United States and Europe (despite the protests of civil libertarians) have chosen to occupy the other end.
It is not just that China and India have little in common, save for the fact that they occupy a rather vast landmass called “Asia.”
Inevitably inadequate – one idea being toyed with is recognition of a Palestinian state in provisional borders that might encompass around 50% of the West Bank – it will nonetheless occupy the attention of the international community, and perhaps even derail the new Palestinian strategy.
The United States and other western governments fueled Cambodia's civil war in the 1970's, then lent the Khmer Rouge legitimacy in the 1980's by insisting that they continue to occupy Cambodia's seat at the UN.
On the other hand, with Americans controlling Iraq, Syria will find itself surrounded by three unfriendly (if not outright hostile) and allied neighbors: the Americans in the East, and the Turks and Israelis in the north and south, both of which occupy Syrian territories.
Many of Habré's most brutal henchmen still occupy key security posts in the new administration, however, and coming forward remains a risky business.
In return, Stalin’s USSR was given a free hand to attack Finland and to occupy Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, as well as a part of Romania.
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