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His administration’s environmental policy is not carved in stone; it’s written in water, which always seeks the fastest route to the lowest point.
Whereas the British resorted to the ballot box, the French have adopted a mixture of barricades, marches, and
stone
throwing.
Competition means that a society has economic winners and losers, and everyone feels pressure to perform; flexibility means that the status quo is not written in
stone.
After all, just in the past year, a
stone
was hurled through a synagogue window in Gelsenkirchen, Israeli flags have been burned at demonstrations, and a Berliner wearing a yarmulke was assaulted in the street.
It sank like a
stone.
In 1965, when the North Vietnamese were proving to be stubborn enemies, LeMay threatened that they would be “bombed back into the
stone
age.”
For example, consider methane clathrate, an ice-like
stone
that in most cases is built in an ordered way by a complex collaboration of microbes.
For example, elongated
stone
blades are found not only at Neanderthal sites in Europe and the Near East, but also at sites inhabited by Moderns in the Near East and Africa since at least 100,000 years ago.
For most of our evolutionary history, human beings – and our primate ancestors – have lived in small groups, in which violence could be inflicted only in an up-close and personal way, by hitting, pushing, strangling, or using a stick or
stone
as a club.
The good news here is that these ideas are not carved in
stone.
They realized that the realities of East Germany were not fixed in
stone
after all; that it was possible to achieve change, which many brave dissidents and proponents of civil rights trapped behind the wall had demanded for so long a time.
To fulfill this commitment and benefit from the window of opportunity that the recent election opened, my government is prepared to leave no
stone
unturned in seeking a mutually acceptable permanent solution.
In a dramatic reversal, Musharraf’s minister of religious affairs, the son of former dictator General Zia ul-Haq, promised to rebuild damaged mosques and even symbolically laid the first
stone
at one construction site.
On the other hand, there is a belief that nothing is set in stone, and that finality will come only after many thorny issues are resolved.
It is all the more important for the EU to take a more proactive role in the neighboring countries whose political orientation is not yet set in
stone.
In 1411, Zheng erected a
stone
tablet – translated into Chinese, Persian, and Tamil – near the Sri Lankan coastal town of Galle, with an inscription appealing to the Hindu gods to bless his efforts to build a peaceful world based on trade and commerce.
Just before leaving the village, we laid the symbolic first
stone
of a new secure water source.
Fortunately, this state of affairs is not set in
stone.
But seniority is not written in stone: poor economies that are unable to repay even the IMF are eligible for debt reduction under the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries program, and 35 have received it since the program was established in 1996.
“The
Stone
Age came to an end not for lack of stone, and the Oil Age will end long before we run out of oil.”
One hopes that we will someday look to Lviv – where every citizen feels a sense of ownership over every
stone
– for inspiration as well.
ASEAN’s Destructive ElitesTOKYO – The Association of Southeast Asian Nations has long been envisioned as a foundation
stone
for stability, security, and increased prosperity in Asia.
For, if Asia is to begin to build the type of dense institutional infrastructure that has brought Europe peace and prosperity, the flashpoint between China and Taiwan will need to be transformed into a foundation
stone
of regional cooperation.
Iraq’s Politics, Iraq’s ProblemDENVER – The narrative of contemporary Iraq is becoming etched in stone: United States troops are leaving, and the country is falling apart.
But evidence also suggests that some Neanderthals buried their dead with grave goods (items presumably intended to help the deceased in the afterlife), produced complex tools (such as
stone
armatures mounted with mastics), and developed personal symbols (including manganese oxide pigments and pendants made from animal teeth).
Our only defenses against a hostile world were primitive
stone
tools and fire - a minimal kind of protection at best.
The foundation
stone
for the Bundesbank’s sternly independent reputation was its repudiation of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer’s calls to refrain from raising interest rates in 1956.
This quadruple source of change will leave no
stone
unturned in the world economy.
For example, US support for Mexico’s campaign against the cartels looks set in stone, with Congress apparently ready to provide $300 million for another year of military and security upgrading.
Political maps are never carved in
stone.
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