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Parallel lines, squares, Could it be .. then the light fades and the brief glimse of ...what... has gone and it is time for the spacecraft to return to Earth.
It has become infuriating to watch movies at the cinema with these little glowing squares popping up all around you in the dark as you're trying to concentrate.
The ugliest cast in the world squares of against blood worms turned ravenous man killers by lightning strikes.
Nikita squares this problem away just with the protagonist: a young punk (Anne Parillaud, in her most recognizable, near star-making performance) who kills a cop in the midst of a shoot-out is sentenced to life, but then sort of resurrected following the lead of a member of a covert spy organization, and given an ultimatum: become a spy/assassin, or die.
I'm pretty sure that "I Love You Alice B. Toklas" seemed silly to 1968 viewers, both "squares" and "potheads."
Go is played on a far larger board (19 by 19 squares, compared to 8x8 for chess) and has more possible moves than there are atoms in the universe, so raw computing power was unlikely to beat a human with a strong intuitive sense of the best moves.
In fact, protests in streets and public squares are essential to democratic life.
Mobilizing on streets and squares can send an important signal about a constituency’s commitment to a specific cause.
Who would argue that after 1945 streets and squares in German cities should continue to be named after Adolf Hitler?
These parties made no effort to reach out to the new regimes and the rising new generations in the public squares of the Arab world.
Equality through employment – not the snazziest of slogans, but one well worth painting on banners and flying over occupied squares and parks, on Wall Street and much farther afield.
No doubt, this is a dream come true for anyone who grew up shopping in real, hands-on markets, with sellers displaying their wares on store shelves, on public squares, or along dusty roads.
He fears Ukraine’s 2014 uprising as a “revolutionary plague” only because it might erupt in Moscow’s own squares.
In Egypt, danger lurks in the squares, universities, football stadiums, and even bathhouses, with the security services having detained anywhere from 22,000 to 41,000 citizens in the last year.
No doubt, his regime revels in all the historic forms of populism: messianic leadership, anti-American rhetoric, disregard for constitutional forms, drunken spending, and state-orchestrated popular mobilization to fill squares and jeer at supposed enemies.
You can see that on the streets and squares of Kiev.
Many women remain secretly glued to satellite television channels, watching their peers in the public squares of Egypt or Yemen, beyond their reach but not beyond their imagination.
Streets and squares, newspapers and literary journals became the ground for free public expression.
By refusing to leave the streets and squares of Kyiv, Ukraine’s mass volunteer army of democrats forced our country’s gray old men of the past to retreat into the past.
The power struggle pitted the forces of Hosni Mubarak’s regime against the people, including women, who were on the streets and in the squares demanding freedom, dignity, and social justice.
Consider Tunisia, where Mouheb Ben Garoui, a 24 year-old activist, writes in our book about how fellow citizens from all walks of life and no definite political affiliation poured out of their homes to occupy squares and demand a say in the country’s future.
In the squares of both Tunisia and Egypt, demonstrators who had felt alienated and isolated under repressive regimes were overjoyed to discover that they were not alone.
As Spain’s indignados sat in the squares, they felt for the first time connected to the people in their communities – a feeling that became a large part of why they stayed.
The Palestinian cause will now resonate louder than ever in the central squares of Cairo, Amman, and Ankara.
In response to calls by some overseas Chinese for people to gather on Sundays at specific sites in Shanghai and Beijing to help launch a molihua (jasmine) revolution, China has revealed a new strategy: preemptively flood the protest-designated squares with police to leave no room for protesters.
So far, we have established 65,000 public places, such as schools, libraries, and squares, with broadband connections.
Shortly thereafter our squares filled with hundreds of thousands of people who made it clear that they had had enough of life without freedom.
If so, the people on the squares of Madrid, Athens, and New York are not so much demonstrating against those in power – give or take a few anarchists – as demonstrating to those in power that they should feel ashamed for having reneged on supposedly shared commitments.
Lhasa, a sleepy, rather grubby backwater only 30 years ago, is now a city of huge public squares, shopping centers, and high-rise buildings, connected to the rest of China with a high-speed railway line.
“We either get the rights of the martyrs, or die like them,” chanted hundreds of thousands in Tahrir and other Egyptian squares.
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