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The growing understanding of transgenerational epigenetic modifications, whether nutritional or neurological, has opened new perspectives on the plasticity of the phenotype (an organism’s observable characteristics), and the factors that might affect it.
At a protest in Madhya Pradesh this summer, police opened fire on farmers demanding debt relief and better crop prices, killing five.
Under the rule of President Carlos Menem, who rid the country of inflation and opened the economy to the world, Argentina became the darling of international investors and institutions.
The political reforms initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev put an end to the cold war and opened the country up but no common interest appeared to take the place of the lost imperial/military mission.
It also opened the international development community’s eyes to the importance of overlooked afflictions, such as mental illness and road injuries.
A Chinese-funded railway between Nairobi and Mombasa, which opened earlier this year, is the latest example.
General Electric and IBM have both opened schools where students can benefit from a focus on math, engineering, and science.
As smartphone subscriptions increase from 2.9 billion to 7.7 billion worldwide in the next five years, 80% of the new accounts are expected to be opened by users on these two continents.
The next round of peace negotiations, which opened in December 2004, stalled because the government launched a military offensive just as they started, in defiance of the ceasefire.
The Halki Seminary, opened in 1844, is a relic from that bygone age of pluralism.
In Latin America, for example, manufacturing productivity has grown by leaps and bounds since the region liberalized and opened itself to international trade.
Asian economies have opened up too, but policymakers there have taken greater care to support manufacturing industries.
Iraq’s Sectarian NightmareDENVER – With the apparent conquest of Iraq’s northwestern provinces – and maybe more – by the militant Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the country’s troubled history has opened a horrifying new chapter.
Most importantly, Mecca was later opened to protect the pagan people of Khoza’a against the attacks of Quraish.
GATT (General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs) rounds cut tariffs to almost nil;Europe adopted its integrated internal market; extreme currency swings opened up the US.
The old Soviet-style economies opened themselves to the world.
This year must be education’s moment – a window of opportunity opened by a new consensus that education is critical to achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals, including reducing maternal and infant mortality rates, spurring job creation, improving quality of life, and opening our minds to issues of gender equality.
Eight terrorists dressed in military uniform penetrated the school’s well-guarded perimeter and opened fire on the students and school personnel.
The crisis, and reactions to it, widened old cracks and opened new ones.
The entire formidable work was recently opened to limited public viewing, with a plan to publish it over the next five years.
At this moment, however brief, America’s soft power defeated by a knockout that of China, which less than one day later solemnly – and in the most opaque manner – opened the 18th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party.
The country has opened its already over-extended schools and health facilities and delivered on the promise to support a more effective response to refugees, pursuant to a 2016 declaration by the United Nations General Assembly.
Above all, diplomatic cooperation on chemical weapons has opened the door at last to a negotiated settlement of the underlying conflict in Syria.
Her trip opened with the always-tense annual US-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue, which was threatened at the start by the plight of the blind human-rights activist Chen Guangcheng, who had taken refuge in the United States’ embassy in Beijing.
The US leadership vacuum has, however, opened the door for regional diplomacy, with Kuwait attempting to mediate the current crisis.
Lafontaine's brief and turbulent bid for mastery in Germany, and his spectacular crash, opened a rare opportunity to see how the country's domestic interests are really aligned; what can happen and what must not take place.
Eyes are opened; the illusion of arbitrage between efficiency and solidarity fades.
Obama wanted to bridge the divides among Americans that George W. Bush had opened.
Curious about the contents of the trunk, the captain of the ship crept down to Descartes’ cabin one night and opened it.
Thus, in periods after large new gold discoveries – for example, following the California Gold Rush of 1849, and again in the 1890’s, when new mining techniques opened up South African, Alaskan, and Australian reserves – the classical gold standard had a mild inflationary bias.
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