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But such arguments actually poisoned the idea of refugee protection: The focus on the potential economic role of refugees inadvertently reinforced the view that they were, in fact, economic migrants.
The festering debt question poisoned the atmosphere in the US for years afterwards and contributed to sectional tensions that were already inflamed by the dispute between the North and the South over slavery.
The US also suffers from an epidemic of malnutrition at the hands of the powerful US fast-food industry, which has essentially poisoned the public with diets loaded with saturated fats, sugar, and unhealthy processing and chemical additives.
The children were poisoned by their midday meals – a vital part of a government-run nutrition program in schools – which apparently were cooked in oil that had been carelessly stored in used pesticide containers.
Sadder still has been the reaction of some parents in Bihar, who have withdrawn their children from school rather than risk their being poisoned.
True, NATO’s abuse of the UN Security Council mandate for regime change in Libya poisoned the atmosphere, and Russia’s cynical rhetorical appropriation of the language of protection in Georgia and Ukraine added fuel to the geopolitical fire that has tragically blocked meaningful action to protect people in Syria.
Thus, a new social contract is needed, especially as a new, post-Soviet generation of Russians has entered political life – a generation that has not been poisoned by the fear that decades of state terror in the USSR implanted in their forebears.
Justice for LitvinenkoLONDON – In 2006, Alexander Litvinenko, a former officer of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), the KGB’s successor, was poisoned in London with radioactive polonium-210.
State-controlled media even offered an alternate (and utterly baseless) theory: Litvinenko was “accidentally poisoned” while handling polonium for MI6.
Without modern stoves and heaters, we would need to find our own firewood, and we would risk being poisoned in our own houses by killer air pollution.
The evidence is as ample as it is harrowing, from the 29 schoolboys killed by suspected Boko Haram militants in the Nigerian state of Yobe earlier this year and Somali schoolchildren forced to become soldiers to Muslim boys attacked by ethnic Burmese/Buddhist nationalists in Myanmar and schoolgirls in Afghanistan and Pakistan who have been firebombed, shot, or poisoned by the Taliban for daring to seek an education.
For too long, intemperate historical debates – often driven by biased newspaper accounts – have poisoned bilateral relations.
In many regions – and especially in rural areas – people still believe that TB patients have been bewitched, poisoned, or, as one Nigerian doctor put it, “cursed by the gods.”
This "inevitable" process poisoned political life and the media, which led to a strange state of limited freedom and a mafia-like environment.
Consider, for example, that, because GM crops require less chemical pesticide, fewer farmers and their families risk being poisoned by runoff into waterways and ground water.
A non-Catholic, slowly being poisoned by a fetus that was no longer viable, was asked to accept that care would be withheld from her because the Pope, acting on the orders of St. Paul, was staying the hand of her doctors.
Was Napoleon slowly poisoned by arsenic during his exile in St. Helena?
Given the bizarre circumstances of Stalin’s own death, was he poisoned by his secret police chief, Lavrentiy Beria, or perhaps by his archenemy, Yugoslavia’s Josip Broz Tito?
Maduro himself invoked the rumor that the Israelis poisoned former Palestinian President Yasser Arafat.
He could just as well refer to Egypt’s Gamal Abdel Nasser, who dropped dead of a heart attack in 1970;Nasser’s confidant, the journalist Mohamed Hassanein Heikal, always maintained that the president had been poisoned by his deputy and successor, Anwar El Sadat.
The victims were poisoned because this April, in a fit of moralism, Bihar adopted a draconian law prohibiting the sale, possession, and consumption of alcohol.
For home imprints identity; it is like the air we breathe; we become fully aware of it only when it is lost or poisoned.
In both countries, deep and mutually paralyzing suspicion has poisoned relations for three decades.
Indeed, his case also serves as a reminder that the early 1950’s was the most brutal period of “proletarian dictatorship” in Eastern Europe – a period of great enthusiasm and terrible fear that poisoned the minds and souls of devoted believers, fierce opponents, and apathetic bystanders alike.
Think of collateral debt obligations (CDOs) as poisoned sausages, says the economist Nouriel Roubini, with sub-prime mortgages as the rat meat in them.
Will you back – or back away from – free trade pacts with Asia?3.The American invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, regardless of their relative merits, have unquestionably poisoned America’s standing among Asia’s 900 million Muslims, from Pakistan to the Philippines and all points in between.
The fecklessness of their politicians has plumbed new depths, patronage has poisoned their government, Transparency International’s corruption index ranks their country 80th in the world, and, in September 2011, the Greek treasury had carried out only 31 of the 75 tax audits of high-income individuals promised for the year as a whole.
In the latter case, there would be losers all around, and UK-EU relations could be poisoned for a long time to come.
Today, little over a decade later, the atmosphere is so poisoned that neither local community leaders nor the local police came forward to protect these monuments or claim them as their own.
Unfortunately, my suggestion for perpetual bonds has been confused with “coronabonds” and this has poisoned the debate.
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