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Virtually none of these operations is in open rebellion against Rome; many just quietly go their own way.
Most people nowadays face death never having witnessed the death of someone else!Next comes a desire to eliminate quietly those who can no longer be seen as members of the social world.
Based on its analysis of Ukraine’s “Orange Revolution” as a foreign-backed “NGO revolution,” Russia has also been quietly building its own network of Russia-friendly NGOs in Ukraine since 2004.
Politicians would adopt the Baptists’ pious rhetoric, while quietly taking campaign contributions from the criminals.
But the defeated have typically retired quietly, and never faced formal corruption charges.
The Kurds – who, like the Shi’a, were victimized by Saddam for decades – quietly cling to their de facto independence in the north, making sure that they will never again come under Arab rule.
Strangely, it is all but forgotten – particularly by the Chinese – that for two decades Japan has watched China’s rise quietly from the sidelines (even supportively, to the extent that Japanese investors have poured in billions of dollars in the three decades since Deng Xiaoping opened the economy).
Thus he is unlikely to publicly trumpet the unforgiving capitalist policies of Gaidar and Chubais, even if he quietly pursues them.
But Carson says them quietly, which may be why his favorability rating in Iowa is higher than that of his Republican competitors (pulling even with Trump in one poll).
China’s intervention in Sri Lanka, and its visibly mounting displeasure with the North Korean and Burmese regimes, suggests that this calculus has quietly become central to the government’s thinking.
And Kim already had a head start, after quietly lobbying member governments at the G7 summit in Japan this May and in personal visits to China and India in recent months.
But its intelligence agencies quietly analyzed the information, in order to improve their understanding of a potential adversary’s future leaders – hardly shocking behavior by a government.
But the historic five-day trial dispelled any notion that Bo would go quietly to his cell in Beijing’s infamous Qincheng Prison, where China’s fallen top leaders are incarcerated.
Conversely, the North’s growing nuclear capability provoked the US into quietly preparing for war while hoping to avert one.
There are reports that European leaders have told the US that if they get Wolfowitz to step down quickly and quietly, they will be allowed to choose Wolfowitz’s successor.
Just as China recently secured the Sri Lankan port of Hambantota on a 99-year lease, it has, according to Nasheed, quietly acquired 17 islands in the heavily indebted Maldives for investment purposes.
This drive for peace remained, quietly, the key motivation behind further steps toward Europe’s economic integration, which was regarded as the vehicle for achieving political integration.
Perhaps the German Chancellor hopes that in the shadows of such an all-party Convention he can quietly slip through "reforms" that are, for the most part, really cuts in public expenditure for social services.
Investors, policy analysts, and even officials are quietly beginning to suggest that this might be the case.
Morocco’s evolutionary approach to improving the country’s well-being – quietly and resolutely building on the political, economic, and social reforms launched more than a decade ago – is backed by an overwhelming majority of citizens.
And yet, during this time, despite such horrors, Nigeria has quietly managed to achieve something truly remarkable: an entire year without a single new case of wild polio.
So Western diplomats who negotiate with China should call lower-level officials’ bluff, and focus on the signal-to-noise ratio, bearing in mind that, ultimately, decisions are taken quietly at a higher level by pragmatic leaders who are indeed susceptible to pressure.
With international attention focused on its trade actions, China then quietly seized the shoal.
Since returning to democratic rule in the 1980s and 1990s, many Latin American countries have been quietly working to strengthen their political systems’ checks and balances, from enhancing the legislature’s authority to analyze budgets and monitor spending to reinforcing the judiciary’s capacity to prosecute complex financial crimes.
So, far from seeking a fair peace deal between the two parties, Trump has effectively declared victory for Israel – and instructed the Palestinians to accept defeat quietly.
While international attention has been understandably focused on events in Darfur, Somalia and Zimbabwe, countries across the continent including Ghana, Tanzania, Mozambique and Liberia have been quietly turning their economies around.
Congress can, in fact, spend money it doesn’t have, especially if the president has been quietly sending it budgets that call for just that.
It is known that some senior military officers were quietly critical of Kim Jong-il’s failure in managing the country’s relationship with the United States and Japan.
But as they hunt down and kill violent domestic extremists, they are quietly tightening the noose around all those who want moderate reform.
Quietly, a panel appointed by Abe’s government this week offered a reinterpretation of a key element of Article 9 of Japan’s constitution.
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