Passage
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But the
passage
of recent constitutional reforms by the Legislative Yuan illustrates the continuing volatility of the situation.
In a recent book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, the economist Thomas Piketty highlights the phenomenon of “meritocratic extremism” – the culmination of a century-long
passage
from the old inequality, characterized by inherited wealth and discreet lifestyles, to the new inequality, with its outsize bonuses and conspicuous consumption.
They are rites of
passage
that mark both an end and a new beginning in the life of a country or an individual.
California, Wyoming, and other states allowed women to vote – an example that encouraged
passage
of the Nineteenth Amendment (enfranchising all adult women).
Its key
passage
reads: “[…] we shall so wear down the Goyim that they will be compelled to offer us an international power that by its position will enable us without any violence gradually to absorb all the State forces of the world and to form a Super-Government.”
Given this potent list of challenges, what are the prospects for Obama’s
passage
to India?
Ninth, the alternatives for dealing with nuclear proliferation do not improve with the
passage
of time.
To endanger this
passage
is to endanger the world economy’s energy lifeline.
But the approach that will bring the most progress is a “middle passage” that smooths contradictions and offers a balanced, accommodative, and pragmatic vision behind which Africans can unite.
Best of all,
passage
of the HER Act would create a permanent, legislative repeal of the global gag rule, and return a sense of apolitical morality to US foreign aid.
Yet a convergence may be at hand, owing to developments in Greek, Spanish, and British politics, as well as to the simple
passage
of time.
The
passage
of time ought to help with this bargaining.
Becoming a mother – the rite of
passage
that Mothers’ Day celebrates – can carry a terrible burden of fear, anxiety, and loss for many women and their families.
NGO's played key roles in the disruption of the World Trade Organization summit in 1999, the
passage
of the Landmines Treaty, and the ratification of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control in May 2003.
China's Anti-Secession Law BoomerangsThe
passage
of any law by China’s rubber-stamp National People’s Congress is always a mere formality.
The Bush administration’s reaction was uncharacteristically blunt, with its call for “Beijing to reconsider the
passage
of the law'” – a rather directly worded intrusion into what China considers to be an internal matter.
This means that the Hu Jintao administration could well have its hands tied, and find itself unable to pursue some kind of compromise solution to a situation that is already fraught with nuance and complexity, and which shows no sign of getting easier to manage with the
passage
of time.
Ironically, Susan Mubarak, says the report, urged the
passage
of a 1992 law that permitted Egyptian non-governmental organizations to receive foreign funds – a provision used by some opposition groups – in order to provide channels for the NGO’s she runs.
In fact, thousands of migrants cross Asia’s numerous and porous frontiers each year with the help of expensive brokers who secure their
passage.
Indeed, the time is ripe to offer assurances to the isolated Syrian regime that blocking Hezbollah’s rearmament, stopping Islamist fighters’
passage
into Iraq, and improving the country’s appalling human rights record would bring valuable diplomatic and economic benefits, including a strengthened association agreement with the EU.
And, with the
passage
of time, the region’s wildlife population continued to grow, as animals made use of what people had left behind.
Anti-Semites often cite a
passage
in Matthew in which a Jewish crowd cheers for Christ's execution and voluntarily accepts permanent guilt: "His blood be on us and on our children."
His disquisition on the dangers posed by same-sex marriage followed a
passage
deploring the modern tendency to avoid lifelong commitments in human relationships, as if that were not precisely what gay marriage is about.
True,
passage
of this resolution might give Palestine some standing that it now lacks to seek prosecutions in the International Criminal Court for alleged violations of international law.
In her novel The Cairo House, Samia Serageldin remarks that, “for those whose past and present belong to different worlds, there are times that mark their
passage
from one to the other, a transitional limbo.”
Memory’s sister became pregnant during a traditional sexual “cleansing ceremony,” a rite of
passage
in some parts of Malawi that is supposed to prepare pubescent girls for womanhood and marriage.
More broadly, the gridlock will prevent the
passage
of important structural reforms that the US needs to boost growth.
While it is impossible to know what proportion of these people are experiencing normal sadness that would go away with the
passage
of time or a change in social context, it is almost certainly very high.
Do the revolutions across the Arab world presage the glory days of summer, or a
passage
through a bleak winter?
Despite
passage
in July of the 18th amendment to the Pakistani constitution, which restored it to the form in which it was promulgated in 1973, political and executive authority remains in the hands of President Asif Ali Zardari.
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