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It contrasts starkly with the extremism that grabs headlines when bombs are planted, hostages seized, or embassies attacked in Islam's name.
Bangladeshi authorities insist Haque was a drug dealer who died in an exchange of gunfire, but the audio evidence – captured by his wife as she listened to her husband die – suggests that the officers involved killed him and then planted drugs at the scene.
In those months, the seeds of my conversion to all things British were planted, which flowered decades later in my becoming a British citizen.
The background was bright red, and a hammer and sickle and a skull were planted on Putin’s breast.
Most worrisome is America’s huge dependence on foreign borrowing, particularly from China – an imbalance that likely planted the seeds of the current crisis.
Rain gardens – small pockets of native vegetation planted in natural depressions and low points – can resolve this problem by collecting and filtering rainwater, so that it can be reabsorbed by the Earth, resulting in recharged aquifers and increased biodiversity.
Since the group’s infamous attack on the Westgate shopping mall in the center of Nairobi last year, Kenya has experienced a slew of smaller-scale incidents, ranging from explosive devices planted in crowded markets to attacks on bars, police stations, and public transport.
Faisal Shahzad, who planted bombs in New York City’s Times Square, took meticulous care of his apartment in Bridgeport, Connecticut, before leaving for his failed bombing mission.
So far, about 3,500 hectares have been planted with trees or put under improved soil-management practices.
According to one study, between 1965 and 2004, farmers in developing countries who planted high-quality seeds were able to reduce farmland by almost 30 million hectares – an area roughly the size of Italy.
Havel, however, would have questioned whether it could be planted, much less take root, by decree.
In Italy between the two world wars, Mussolini made himself the focus of a masculine cult: the Great Leader in riding boots, hands planted firmly on his leather belt, scowling and strutting and jutting his massive jaw, dominating the Italian public, as though it were his submissive mistress.
But as soon as we engage with the details of the prosecutions, a shocking picture emerges: some of the key evidence in the cases is clearly planted, while much of the rest remains circumstantial at best.
The question that is now being hotly debated is whether this financing boom planted the seeds of a new emerging-economy crisis.
But the seeds of democratic paralysis are being planted.
Among Macri’s resolutions are market-oriented reforms, and clearing the many economic land mines that Kirchner planted.
A Post-Brexit Investment PrimerCAMBRIDGE – There was a time when businesses eager to expand into Europe planted their flag first in the United Kingdom.
Different crops are affected differently, and weather insurance must take account of a farm’s various crops and when they were planted – complexities that modern information technology can solve.
The researchers calculated that, from 1996 to 2010, cultivating GM varieties increased farmers’ profits in three US states by roughly $3.2 billion – $2.4 billion of which accrued to farmers whose nearby fields had not been planted with GM varieties.
He planted the beans, selected seeds from the same plants, and planted them again, repeating the procedure two more times.
It lacks the sort of civil society that could have led the uprising and planted the seeds for post-authoritarian politics, as was the case in Tunisia and (more problematically) Egypt.
True to its name, grassroots democracy has planted the seeds for future change.
Grassroots democracy may be momentarily suppressed, but once the seeds have been planted, the roots can only grow deeper and deeper before an inevitable bloom.
The Party must make a choice, for the seeds of democracy have been planted, and the People are growing ever hungrier for more than a mere taste.
Campaigns routinely planted spies – interns, household staff, or even lovers – in the opposing camp, and devoted vast numbers of man-hours to combing through private records in opposition research.
When we really examine the “ecological footprint” calculations, we discover that the only thing the world is running out of is space to plant a colossal amount of imaginary forest that we wouldn’t have planted anyway, to avoid CO2 emissions that we can prevent through much smarter and cheaper means.
The problems of mass transportation can be fixed with our feet planted firmly on the ground – and long before flying taxis are even a viable alternative.
Since then Russia planted its flag on the seabed below the North Pole to demonstrate its claims to the Arctic and its natural resources; announced its intention to build its own missile defense system and issued repeated threats against Europe because of the planned deployment of a small American defense system; exploded a “stray” missile or bomb in Georgia as a warning signal to the government in Tbilisi and its Western friends; buzzed America’s military base on the Pacific island of Guam with surveillance aircraft; blocked a decision on the final status of Kosovo in the UN Security Council; and launched a hacker attack against computer systems in Estonia.
In doing so, he planted the seed of the values-based approach that was adopted by the US as it spearheaded the development of the rules and structures that order today's world.
Perhaps a time bomb has been planted under the thrones of Arab potentates - kings, emirs and presidents.
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