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In doing so, it was bound to affect interpretations of the old imperialism, which was now extolled for spreading economic progress, the rule of law, and science and technology to countries that would never have benefited from them otherwise.
From such a perspective, imperialism, old and new, has been a beneficent influence, because it has been the means of spreading these “apps” to the rest of the world, thereby enabling them to enjoy the fruits of progress hitherto confined to a few Western countries.
Fighting between the rebels and government forces is spreading, and the resulting refugee flows into neighboring Turkey, Jordan, and Lebanon threaten to bring these countries directly into the conflict.
When you look at an aerial photograph of housing developments spreading into prairies or logging operations obliterating rain forests, it's hard to avoid entertaining a frightening possibility: we are parasites.
Syria’s internal conflict has now become a Sunni-Shia sectarian war that is spreading across the region.
The emergence of a highly lethal and rapidly spreading antimicrobial-resistant infection would lead to untold numbers of deaths and unimaginable misery.
That requires not only spreading damaging lies at home, but also sowing violence and instability among its neighbors.
No doubt it would, but that needs to be balanced against the risks of spreading a dangerous virus.
The result of all this is spreading hopelessness.
Another casualty of neo-conservative hubris might be the idea of spreading democracy itself.
Indeed, that component’s absence was behind this summer’s spreading financial crisis, which moved beyond small, peripheral countries like Greece, Ireland, and Portugal to strike systemically important countries like Italy and Spain.
More people with HIV/AIDS are getting inexpensive anti-retroviral drugs and their life-expectancy has increased, but universal access is still far off, and the disease is still spreading, if more slowly than before.
Giving substance to the initiative would offer an attractive alternative to the Bush administration's policy of spreading democracy by military means.
Technology is the most obvious part: the telecommunications revolution is far more pervasive and spreading more rapidly than the telegraph or telephone did in their time.
Armed opposition is spreading, albeit slowly.
The regime has been effective in exploiting that uncertainty by spreading the fear of an Egyptian scenario, in which the weakness of secular activists leads to a takeover by the Muslim Brothers and jihadis.
Yes, there is still a real risk of hitting an iceberg, beginning perhaps with a default in the Baltics, with panic first spreading to Austria and some Nordic countries.
Whatever one thinks of laws against spreading hatred or insulting people, the law remains a blunt instrument when it came to matters of speech.
Moreover, recession on the periphery is now spreading to the eurozone core, with French output contracting and even Germany stalling as growth in its two main export markets is either falling (the rest of the eurozone) or slowing (China and elsewhere in Asia).
Russia’s tragic decline into what can only be a protracted period of political uncertainty and economic depression already affects the countries towards its West, spreading economic concerns and raising fears that the big neighbor might compensate for internal weakness by external bullying.
Two decades of spreading global uncertainties have taught us a clear lesson: my neighbor’s weaknesses and my partner’s weaknesses are my own weaknesses.
By investing in and spreading innovative technologies, strengthening market linkages, encouraging visionary leadership, and targeting those most in need – and thus with the most potential – we can feed the world.
The recent drop in commodity prices has exacerbated the situation, depleting what little growth dynamism the economy had left, while fueling inflation, deepening poverty, and spreading economic insecurity and financial instability.
If rich countries are the major force in global climate change, and if that climate change is a major force in loss of life, loss of crops, physical destruction, and even spreading disease, among poor countries, then rich countries have a real job to do.
The CIO would operate more like a “virus,” spreading everywhere, rather than being an additional appendage grafted onto the government.
Moreover, in recent decades, the scourge has been spreading rapidly in many developing countries, especially the more prosperous among them.
Making matters worse, there is an even greater shortfall of specialists equipped to treat chronic diseases such as diabetes, which is spreading rapidly through the developing world, owing to changing diets and habits.
The best measures are familiar ones: expanding immunization coverage, promoting breastfeeding, increasing the use of simple and cheap treatments for diarrhea and childhood pneumonia, ensuring widespread distribution of key micronutrients, and spreading the use of anti-retroviral drugs and breastfeeding substitutes to prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission.
By spreading his forces thinly across Syria, President Bashar al-Assad has drastically reduced his capacity to win decisive battles, and he is now being forced to evacuate wide areas of the country to concentrate his army around Damascus and the Alawite enclave in the northwest.
We’ve seen record drought, spreading famine, and storms that are growing stronger with each passing hurricane season.”
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