Sight
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2006 examples of Sight in a sentence
Rather than losing touch with its own culture and traditions, however, Japan merged the two, moving forward without losing
sight
of the past.
From computers and scanners to mobile devices, an increasing number of humans spend much of their conscious lives interacting with the world through electronics, the only barrier between brain and machine being the senses — sight, sound, and touch — through which humans and devices interface.
Syria – which has become a true humanitarian disaster, with no end in
sight
– poses the most severe test of the region’s ability to compromise and reconcile.
Wandering around the camp, segregation was in plain
sight.
At first sight, the Ivory Coast’s post-colonial history looks like a variation on standard themes.
At the same time, the British government must not get so caught up in preserving short-term growth and employment amid Brexit that it loses
sight
of the need to boost long-term growth potential.
A final settlement of the lengthy dispute with Egypt over the waters of the Blue Nile – which rises in Ethiopia – appears to be in sight, and could have a powerful impact on economic growth.
The Bangladesh-based BRAC, the world’s largest development NGO, has 1.3 million children enrolled in one-room schools – and hardly a laptop in
sight.
And, when some of the IMF’s largest debtors (Brazil and Argentina) began to prepay their debts a few years ago with no new borrowers in sight, it looked like the final nail in the coffin had been struck.
What leverage can be wielded by the Russian oligarchs who, in 2004, when Trump was mired in one of his bankruptcies, stepped in for the American banks that had blacklisted him to recapitalize his companies and bought –
sight
unseen and at premium prices – luxury apartments in Trump World Tower?
But, while strengthening such programs should be a high priority, we should not lose
sight
of how well middle-income families have actually done over the past few decades.
In Syria, for example, it is not: Although politicians and commentators talk about stemming the flood at the source, no peace plan is in
sight.
Colombia Between the FARC and the PeopleLIMA – Colombian governments have been fighting the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) for the past 52 years, with no victory in
sight.
And symptoms accumulate:
sight
is gradually lost, genital lesions appear around puberty (sometimes increasing risk of HIV), and skin condition declines as millions of microscopic worms become intolerably itchy.
At first sight, that proposition seems reasonable enough.
With no end in
sight
to the crisis in Syria, it is likely that we will need to provide these children with education for years to come.
Last August, fighting to the north of the provincial capital Goma flared up again, provoking a major humanitarian crisis that has no end in
sight.
But, as we prepare to face new political trials, we must not lose
sight
of the challenges we already face, especially global health challenges like the rise of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), which has no regard for economic performance or political stability.
The Cubans, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans will not cut Funes any slack, either, believing that history is on their side, and that now is the time to force every issue in
sight.
The war between Yemeni President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi’s Saudi-backed government and former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s rebel Houthi coalition has been raging for years, with no military breakthrough in
sight.
One reason global poverty has been so intractable is that it remains largely out of
sight
for those who are not living it, safely somebody else’s problem.
At first
sight
this seems to bode well for the transatlantic relationship.
It is fewer than 100 days until the UK leaves, and at the moment there is no deal in
sight
that is acceptable to both Parliament in Westminster and the European Commission and European Council in Brussels.
Alas, the responsible, imaginative, and inclusive political leadership needed to minimize the damage is nowhere in
sight.
But Nanny only muttered: “He would never come into sight.”
John Maynard Keynes was not off by much when he famously predicted in 1930 that the human race's “economic problem, the struggle for subsistence," was likely to be “solved, or be at least within
sight
of solution, within a hundred years."
We must not lose
sight
of the cataclysmic consequences that could result if such violence is not curbed.
Hundreds of thousands of lives have been lost, and a resolution of the larger conflict is nowhere in
sight.
For him, abstract thought is a luxury that requires time, information, and a reason to reflect on a subject that, at first sight, appears to be from another galaxy.
That objective is within sight, but we cannot count on our current approach to carry us across the finish line.
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