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There has long been support for the idea of European citizenry, and the EU treaties include provisions that could serve as stepping stones to this end.
Based on whatMunk reports about the MVP, I’m not about to throw stones.
Rather, he had spent two years rallying around the almost boringly uncontroversial notion that his family and many others deserve justice from the Sanlu Dairy Group, a company that gave their children kidney stones by illegally doctoring its milk powder with the industrial chemical melamine.
The only solution, therefore, is a process of qualitative analysis followed by rigorous and reiterative testing against empirical facts until different paths or policy options are found – or, as Deng Xiaoping famously said, “crossing the river by feeling the stones.”
As the Chinese saying puts it, policymakers will need to cross the river by feeling the stones.
I have never believed in the old adage, “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.”
His approach reflects a key feature of Chinese reforms since the 1970s: announce a bold vision and then figure out how to realize it through structured experimentation and careful iterations – or, as Deng Xiaoping famously said, “crossing the river by feeling the stones.”
But, as China’s leaders are acutely aware, climate change is already flooding Chinese rivers and pulling away stones, while other countries, including the United States, are battling historic wildfires in the midst of a pandemic.
Now, they sometimes reach for stones.
When your dinner host asks if you eat everything and you say yes, you presume sticks and stones are not part of the discourse.
Deng Xiaoping summed up this approach with his axiom, “crossing the river by feeling the stones.”
'They will throw stones at me, I know,' she said, 'but I shall come and see Anna.
She, he thought, would cast no stones, but would simply and resolutely go and see Anna and receive her at her own house.
They drove into a gravelled courtyard surrounded by flowers, where two men were making a border of rough porous stones round a well-forked flower-bed and stopped beneath a roofed portico.
CHAPTER XXX'THERE, AGAIN IT IS THAT GIRL!Again I understand it all,' Anna said to herself as soon as the carriage started and, rocking slightly, rattled over the stones; and again different impressions succeeded one another in her brain.
Another girl given a tumble on a pile of stones?
They were abusing each other, the young one accusing the elder of raking her stones so that she could not get a basketful in ten minutes.
One could only see, all along the hoppers, the round backs of women squabbling incessantly over the stones.
She was abusing him because he had not supported her in a quarrel with an overseer over her reckoning of stones.
At the bottom of the pit-bank, in a hollow into which some large stones had slipped, little Jeanlin was violently snubbing Lydie and Bébert, seated one at his right, the other at his left.
But an unforeseen drama interrupted him: Poland, the big tame rabbit, which had ventured outside, came bounding back, fleeing from the stones of a band of trammers; and in her terror, with fallen ears and raised tail, she took refuge against his legs, scratching and imploring him to take her up.
He went on walking, his feet stumbling against the stones, and the thought that the Company would be found strongest, and that he would have brought misfortune on his comrades, filled him with insupportable anguish.
He was obliged to stop, he saw the child afar, placing his candle between two stones, and putting himself at ease with the quiet and relieved air of a man who is glad to be at home again.
He pushed Bébert, and proposed to enliven the end of the journey as far as the trees by detaching Poland and pursuing her with stones.
Willingly would he have starved as they did if he could begin life again with a woman who would give herself to him on a heap of stones, with all her strength and all her heart.
"Down with the traitor!" repeated a thousand voices, while stones began to whistle by.
They fled and were pursued with stones.
bread!"M. Hennebeau was standing at the window when Hippolyte came in to close the shutters, for fear the windows should be broken by stones.
The twilight was drowning the road when stones began to riddle the front of the villa.
And now that stones were already grazing the facade of the villa, he sought in vain for some lawful prey on which to throw the band, so as to avoid greater misfortunes.
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