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Then the raccoons form two armies and square off against each other.
When you drive through the suburbs of Beijing, or through most of eastern China for that matter, you are struck by its bleakness: grey and brown, flat, ugly, industrialised, big square building blocks covered in bathroom tiles, and fog or smog practically the whole year round.
Just after stepping to the podium in the crowded town square, he is hit by an assassin's bullet and almost immediately the crowd is rocked by a bomb.
The best performance in the film is given by Edward Everett Horton as the square successful advertising man.
Their 3 square miles of forage territory must be defended from other mobs such as the Lazuli and Commandos.
It was full of clichés and rubbish effects (the budget was so obviously spent half way through so the second half is more cardboard cut outs than CGI's) The square looking college journalist who's obsessed by UFO's can't get a break with her editor.
By the end, that square looking journalist has lost the specs, her shirt and her hair is hanging down.
I was keen to see to former Bond baddies square off but, at 140 minutes, it dragged on.
Nothing within the musical scenario of "Times Square" rings true.
The battle for freedom, as Zone 9 has shown, is no less real when the public square is the digital domain.
That would be hard to square with the Brexit objective of “controlling our borders.”
For example, about half of Shanghai’s administrative jurisdiction of 6,340 square kilometers (2,448 square miles) is rural.
But a recent International Monetary Fund report reveals the startling fact that China has now surpassed Japan and South Korea in square meters of housing per capita, having reached a level near – or, in some smaller cities, well above – the European average.
Macron’s security policies try to square tough anti-terrorism measures with a more humanitarian approach to refugees.
Maduro’s election in 2013, by contrast, was a very close affair that many people question; for one thing, the opposition was allowed virtually no television time, even if starry-eyed US academics insisted that Maduro won fair and square.
Inevitably, in the bright public square, Augustus the Fool, the poet, faces the Clown of Power.
But that is difficult to square with everything we know about the fateful decision not to restructure Greece’s debt.
In 2003, the Brazilian Amazon lost 23,750 square kilometers of forest – an area nearly the size of Belgium.
How effective words can be, particularly if two hundred thousand people gather in a square to hear them!
Developed after the 2001 attack on the Indian Parliament, the doctrine calls for Indian troops to move rapidly to occupy 300-500 square kilometers of Pakistani territory in the event of another terrorist attack.
This partly explains the current tensions between China and Japan over their conflicting territorial claims to islands in the East China Sea, which occupy an area of only seven square kilometers, but are surrounded by rich hydrocarbon reserves.
Similarly the agriculture sector is under-capitalized, with extremely low levels of mechanization: an average of 13 tractors per 100 square kilometers compared to 129 per square kilometer in South Asia.
That will not be easy; in fact, it could amount to trying to square a circle.
Nearly 200 years and three revolutions later, from the pedestal installed in the center of the square that bears his name, Pushkin’s bronze effigy gazed over throngs of his modern compatriots in mock paper crowns still working to raise Russia from its “age-old slumber” – and at their whip-brandishing detractors in Cossack uniforms.
But the assumption that Trump’s policies will lead to higher prices and wages doesn’t square with the details of his proposals.
The only way Trump will square his promises of higher infrastructure and defense spending with large tax cuts and deficit reduction is a heavy dose of what used to be called voodoo economics.
With 111 Indian enclaves spread over 17,000 acres in Bangladesh, and 51 Bangladeshi enclaves spread over 7,110 acres in India, a settlement would involve a net transfer of some 40 square kilometers (15.4 square miles) of territory from India to its eastern neighbor.
Whoever governs must try to square this circle.
One of the first attempts to square the theory with the evidence was proposed by my late colleague Motoo Kimura, who posited the existence of neutral mutations – gene variants that are neither advantageous nor harmful to an individual, and therefore not influenced by natural selection.
Perhaps more important, it fails to recognize that Li’s Chinese land holdings still amount to more than 20 million square meters (215 million square feet) – nearly a quarter of the size of Manhattan – and that the number of retail outlets he owns in China has increased by 70% in two years.
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