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But, until recently, it was assumed that persons appointed to advise the sovereign were already of sufficient honesty and integrity to do so.
To exercise freedom, individuals needed a safe haven within which to develop as genuine persons before relating – and transacting – with others.
Silicon Valley now employs over 1 million persons, almost 40% have at least a bachelor's degree, and more than one third are foreign born.
For example, one kills ten Kurds not because they are obnoxious or because the perpetrator has strong feelings against each of them taken individually, but only because they are Kurds; by killing those ten persons he intends to contribute to the destruction of the group as such.
It may harden the Sudanese government’s position, endanger the survival of the peace-keeping forces in Darfur, and even induce al-Bashir to take revenge by stopping or making even more difficult the flow of international humanitarian assistance to the two million displaced persons in Darfur.
The UN estimates the number of displaced persons to be more than a million, about 800,000 of them Lebanese.
In India, there are 72 cellphone lines per 100 persons, but only 2.6 landlines.
When persons face the possibility of criminal sanctions, not knowing their HIV status can be their most-effective legal defense.
Prosecutions will act to deter many people—especially men as well as persons living in areas where HIV treatment is largely unavailable—from being tested because it would expose them to the risk of criminal liability.
Things get a bit more complicated when the parties to a contract are not individuals, but legal persons such as corporations or institutions.
And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently.”
Higher inequality means a larger proportion of low-income workers – from cleaners, cashiers, guards, and delivery persons to sanitation, construction, and factory workers – must continue their daily lives, even at the risk of infection.
And, he concluded, even if we have a non-contextual understanding of ethics, “I wonder whether the accused persons have no rights at all.
The US recently passed the Hong Kong Autonomy Act, which allows for the imposition of sanctions “with respect to foreign persons involved in the erosion of certain obligations of China with respect to Hong Kong, and for other purposes.”
With this goal in mind, the European Union recently appointed a “wise persons group” (WPG) to review the European Union’s development-finance architecture.
In my home country of Uganda, for example, the 2009 Prevention of Trafficking in Persons Act mandates a death sentence for aggravated trafficking in children.
In the United States, the State Department’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons has established an advisory council on human trafficking, which serves as a formal platform for survivors’ participation in policy discussions.
In Kerala, 220 persons per million have been tested, compared to just one per million in the northern state of Bihar.
And G20 countries should support the United Nations’ appeal to protect refugees, displaced persons, and others who rely on humanitarian aid.
With camps for internally displaced persons particularly susceptible to outbreaks of contagious diseases, new inflows of people fleeing conflict or the effects of climate change may face stiffer resistance from authorities and local communities.
We therefore urge governments to fill the gaps in financing for refugees and displaced persons immediately, and ensure that the most marginalized populations receive their fair share of the COVID-19 response.
Exponential growth occurs if the number of susceptible persons infected by each infected person is above one.
That number is equal to the R factor: the number of persons to whom each infected person transmits the virus times the probability that the person receiving the viral load is susceptible.
Persons who can do nothing else must make men, and the others must help them to culture and happiness.
At bottom, those who in Vronsky's opinion understood it the 'right' way did not understand it in any special way, but behaved in general as well-bred persons do with regard to all the complicated and unanswerable problems which surround life on every side: they conducted themselves properly, avoiding insinuations and inconvenient questions.
The role Vronsky had chosen, with their removal to the palazzo, was quite successful; and having through Golenishchev made the acquaintance of several interesting persons, he felt tranquil for a time.
Although his artistic perceptions never slept, and although he was growing more and more excited as the moment approached when his picture was to be criticized, he quickly and shrewdly, from imperceptible data, formed his opinion of these three persons.
He was unpleasantly deferential, as if fearful of intimacy with persons whom he did not respect.
The sight of other persons, their words, his own recollections, gave him nothing but pain.
His attachment to Anna excluded from his soul any need he had felt for affectionate relations with other persons; and now, among all his acquaintances, he had no intimate friend.
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