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Instead, their entrepreneurial talents and legal rights to assets are recorded in hundreds of scattered records and rules systems throughout their countries, making them internationally inaccessible.
Hundreds of destroyed communities are scattered deep in the mountains.
Apart from a few scattered speeches – some by Abbas himself – it never accepted peace and compromise.
Both economic theory and past experience show that scattered national regulators who face conflicting pressures cannot efficiently manage such crises.
Likewise, a large number of European citizens and dependents are scattered throughout Africa.
This is especially true for Syrians, who are scattered across the Middle East, North Africa, Europe, and North America.
Bilateral relations have been bedeviled ever since by a festering dispute over the divided territory of Kashmir, India’s only Muslim-majority state (but home to only 3% of India’s Muslims, who are scattered in larger numbers throughout the country).
It is scattered, sporadic and uncoordinated, leaving many areas uncovered.
Traditionally, contract manufacturers in China are scattered and fiercely competitive.
In the future, geologists will see telltale markers like radioactive carbon – debris from nuclear blasts – and plastic waste scattered across the planet’s surface and embedded in rock.
We could see it in Scandinavia, and in scattered pockets elsewhere, but the strong imprint of improved computer and communications technologies on the growth rates of output and productivity economy-wide seemed to be missing.
His fellow-surfers paddled out into the ocean and formed a circle, sitting on their boards, while his ashes were scattered over the surface.
There have been a few scattered attempts to meet the challenge.
One of the most important roles of an education investment bank lies in transforming the scattered strands of research and ideas related to financing global education into actual transactions.
Two million Iraqi refugees are scattered around the region, the great majority of them in Jordan and Syria, with smaller numbers in Turkey, Lebanon, and Egypt.
Powerful vested interests had been built up in the postal monopoly; opposition to it was scattered.
To its scattered ethnic groups, it performed the twin roles of referee and bouncer, pacifying indigenous rivalries and protecting pint-sized nations from predatory states.
There are an estimated 15,000 nuclear warheads scattered around the world, and eliminating them means speaking truth – and often hard truths – to power.
Fortunately, there is no sign yet (not even on the horizon) of a charismatic leader capable of forging the scattered energies of national-socialist grievances into a critical mass of hatred and “national revival.”
Nearby windows shook, and birds scattered into the air.
The rest are scattered across neighboring countries like Syria, Armenia, and Turkey.
Although small-scale protests are not uncommon, even among those in the top 20%, they tend to be scattered and fleeting.
Conceived in 1969 by Milton Friedman as part of a thought experiment – not an actual proposal – helicopter drops got their name from the fantastic vision of fresh money being scattered from a helicopter whirring overheard.
But Albania no longer needs the OSCE's staff to be scattered throughout the country to monitor every aspect of its political life.
Similarly, when companies with billions of users scattered around the world suffer data breaches or choose to pursue profits at the expense of universal human rights, it is not currently clear who can hold them to account.
Most people believe that a few wind turbines can be attractive, but it is an entirely different matter when turbines are scattered across the countryside, or when massive, industrial wind farms extend for miles.
Furthermore, this new Kurdish nation-state will be a safe haven and a shared home for a people that has been scattered by the cruelties of history.
The world’s first university was Plato’s Academy in Athens, venerable old universities are scattered across Europe from Coimbra to Cambridge to Copenhagen, and the modern university, uniting research and education, was pioneered by Wilhelm von Humboldt in Berlin.
For several decades after the usurpation of their homeland, Palestinians were reduced to aggregates of refugees, some remaining in the newly-created state of Israel as second-class citizens, with others scattered over the Arab World and far beyond.
In any case, Europe’s spending on education in the region is scattered among inter-regional, national, and thematic programs, which makes it difficult to see how these funds’ effectiveness might be measured.
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