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These children have joined the ranks of 25 million displaced boys and girls worldwide – a number equivalent to the population of a midsize European country and the largest in the 70 years since the end of World War II.
What Western policymakers fail to understand is that such an approach is less likely to undermine the regime than to cause Russians to close ranks behind it.
South Korea ranks 26th on the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Index, whereas Japan ranks sixth.
In Asia, Japan ranks above only North Korea in scores on the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) examination.
With annual output of approximately $325 billion in 2017 and 5.6 million inhabitants, Singapore now ranks with Denmark economically (though its population is more diverse).
This is a flattering comparison, given that Denmark typically ranks at or near the top in global quality-of-life surveys.
Indeed, the combined effect of intelligence operations, drone attacks, transformations within jihadi ranks, and the Arab Spring has thwarted the power of “Al Qaeda Central.”
They promote wrestlers to the highest ranks not just on brute merit, but according to how much hinkaku (dignity) they are judged to possess.
The subtext is that Cameron and Obama have closed ranks in identifying Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, and not the ayatollahs, as the primary wildcard.
It ranks, I believe, just below the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 and the start of Hitler’s War in 1939 as the most critical moment of the twentieth century.
Saudi Arabia’s Iraq DilemmaSaudi Arabia broke ranks with the Arab world’s opposition to military action against Iraq when Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal announced that the kingdom would allow the use of its military bases if the UN sanctions an attack on Iraq.
As for Bangladesh, the United Nations’ Human Development Index, admittedly a problematic source, ranks it below India.
Yet he continued to rise in the ranks of the Trump administration, which has repeatedly attempted to obfuscate the issue.
The US ranks far behind other high-income countries because America's plutocracy has for many years turned its back on social justice and environmental sustainability.
In Europe, the percent of women on corporate boards remains in single digits, as is true of the top ranks of government and academia.
They were able to place their own sympathizers in the senior ranks vacated by the military officers targeted by their sham trials.
When Putin joined the ranks of the informal “Bessmertnyi Polk” (Immortal Regiment) march, in which citizens commemorate loved ones who died in WWII, he turned it into a Kremlin initiative.
Likewise, Germany ranks 42nd in the world in terms of Internet speed, and its broadband infrastructure would be embarrassing even to a Ukrainian.
Before and after World War II, many skilled people came from Europe, Germany in particular; in recent decades, Asian immigrants dominate, with India, Pakistan, and the Philippines occupying the top ranks.
Extreme poverty has been more than halved since 2000, to about 22% in 2010 – taking almost 700 million people out of the ranks of the world’s poorest.
Meanwhile, opium production is surging, and Afghanistan now ranks second in the world in money laundering (after Iran).
The son of a poor building worker, he had a meteoric rise through communist ranks to become party boss in the industrial city of Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg) in the Urals.
Despite its remarkable rise, China’s per capita income, at $10,057 (adjusted for purchasing power) in 2011, ranks 99th in the world – roughly one-fifth of US per capita income of $49,782.
If this means putting pressure on some actors within the EU’s own ranks, so be it.
Among developed countries, the US ranks low in terms of literacy, general knowledge, and science.
With a gender gap of roughly 12 million voters, Pakistan ranks last in the world for female participation in elections.
There were welfare-spending cuts along the road, yet the country still ranks at or near the top of most development indicators and continues to be perceived as a social-democratic role model.
Unfortunately, in repressive conditions such as those in, say, Zimbabwe, Third-World journalists tend to take their cues from the conduct of their national leaders and close ranks around the continent’s rogue elephants.
The September 11, 2001, attacks in the US led many countries to close ranks around America.
It is notorious for abducting and forcibly recruiting children into its ranks, hacking off its victims’ limbs, mass rape, and sexual enslavement of girls.
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