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All you can find are newsreaders from national television covering the smiling faces of people who come back to Hongdong to seek their roots and pay homage to their ancestors.
Indeed, were it not for the 400 fathers who petitioned for the rescue of their kidnapped children who had been sold into slavery, Hongdong County would still remain a tourism hot spot for Chinese people seeking their roots.
This linkage does exist in the case of Hezbollah, but the networked actors have their own social roots and are not simply pawns used by regional powers.
Syriza – which comprises a variety of left-wing groups, from those on the far-left to the more moderate social democrats – has roots in the Greek Communist Party, which played an important role in resisting German occupation during World War II.
Since it is an economic crisis, most people seeking its intellectual roots are tempted to begin with economists, who, with a few exceptions, look particularly discredited.
If we are to lock in our progress, we will need to address the failures of our financial system at their roots, putting in place standards, regulations, and practices that make it compatible with the long-term needs of a more inclusive, sustainable economy.
The roots of Pakistan’s instability run deep.
Instead, the roots of Taseer’s assassination lay in the dark delusions of fanatical belief, his killing supposedly undertaken to protect the faith.
The fact that Afghanistan’s ethnic groups are concentrated in distinct geographical zones would simplify partition and make the resulting borders more likely to last, unlike those drawn by colonial officials, who invented countries with no national identity or historical roots.
Unlike the “war on terrorism,” European integration can serve as a model for resolving the underlying crises of the Middle East and addressing the roots of violence in the wider region.
The radical violence of ISIS has many roots, but the tripling of the population of North Africa and the Middle East over the last 50 years certainly is one of them.
But guilt and anger have deeper roots in Europe's image of the Jew.
Many Jews with European roots who now live in America or Israel were in attendance.
A decade later, the Red Army had withdrawn its forces, the US packed up and went home, and Al Qaeda set down roots.
But if the government is to succeed and prevent further violence, Kenya must tackle the roots of its election chaos.
This two-way dependency – the economic equivalent of what psychologists call codependency – has deep roots.
Many of the conflicts in the Middle East have their roots in the tension between Sunni and Shia Islam.
The alternative – allowing serious housing shortages to go unaddressed – will make it impossible for future generations to put down roots.
Looking back with the benefit of nearly 70 years, we can see the financial roots of the worldwide crisis.
Many of these dynasties have roots that stretch back to the colonial era, implying at least seven decades of dominance.
This project has received wide acclaim from officials, economists, and entrepreneurs, reflecting a widespread belief that boosting growth and competitiveness starts at the grass roots level.
Though these parties have very different roots, they all have one thing in common: all are trying to upend the foreign-policy consensus that has defined Europe for several decades.
In order to secure a working majority in the House of Commons after last year’s disastrous snap election, British Prime Minister Theresa May’s Conservatives made a deal with Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party, which has its roots in the more extreme unionist traditions.
Following its inadequate response to the euro crisis, the Fund should admit that the time has come to return to its roots.
The example of ‘aggression genes’ could be made over and over again in relationship to many of the other claims to explain the genetic roots of abnormal or undesirable human behavior.
In his recent memoir, Stress Test, Geithner says, “I basically restored the New York Fed board to its historic roots as an elite roster of the local financial establishment.”
Pakistan’s new prime minister, Yousaf Gilani, is a seasoned politician and, more importantly, has Sufi family roots, which is a good omen because of the Sufi tradition of tolerance.
To my surprise, many see its roots in the Akkadian word 'erebu', meaning twilight or sunset.
As a largely refugee population, most Gazans had weak social roots.
But, unlike European or Russian anti-Semitism, the Asian variety has no religious roots.
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