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With a few exceptions, the vast number of developing countries that have adopted electoral regimes are still suffering from poverty and civil strife.
In an age of global strife and climate change, I'm here to answer the all important question: Why is sex so damn good?
Reason can lay out a road map to peace and harmony if the reasoner wants peace and harmony, but it can also lay out a road map to conflict and strife if the reasoner delights in conflict and strife.
But what if secrecy is actually the reason for all that strife?
And Dane saw the strife that happened as a result of this.
After a time of intense internal strife and environmental challenges, Egypt rebounded with an incredible resurgence of art, architecture and literature.
He uprooted the country’s religious foundations and broke the Church of England away from Rome, leading to centuries of strife.
She knew that opening the box was irreversible – but alongside the strife, she’d set hope forth to temper its effects.
In 1963, he published "The Fire Next Time," an arresting portrait of racial strife in which he held white America accountable, but he also went further, arguing that racism hurt white people too.
With her stories of women founding new societies, time travelers overcoming historical strife, and interspecies bonding, Butler had a profound influence on the growing popularity of Afrofuturism.
In this scene of strife, these animals raise more questions than answers.
Many of these poems were experimental and surreal, merging epic landscapes, supernatural themes, and feelings of longing with discussion of political strife and a poet’s responsibility to speak out against injustice.
They tell of war and strife, as they often have in recent months.
Liberia had been torn apart by civil strife for decades.
What we didn't understand, what was happening all around us, with the confluence of fear, ethnic strife and certainly an aid game, if you will, that was playing into this invisible but certainly palpable movement inside Rwanda, that at that time, 30 percent of the budget was all foreign aid.
The homes they return to, with grown children and independent, working women along with a depressed economy, only add to the strife.
It moved fast since it only had two hours (with commercials also taking up time) to cover this great man's long life, but Thomas Kretschmann admirably was up to the challenge.He did a remarkable job in conveying the emotions and strife that John-Paul endured.He-unlike the CBS biopic- played the role from youth to old age and managed to seem "realistic" at both ends of the scale.His credibility never wavered.He has an amazing range and depth.
This explains in my view the often simplistic nature of Hollywood movie when they try and explain a foreign country's strife.
Quickly, however, it becomes apparent that the main theme of the film is the big Daddy-O of Irish Cliches - religous strife.
In the 90's when NWA and Public Enemy were at the top, there were internal strife within the groups and members when their separated ways (Ice Cube, Easy E, etc).
The voice, intonation and vitality of Redgrave's reading brings this touching poem to life with all its fear, strife and pain.
It lends the film an unsettling mood that permeates through all the political strife that is otherwise lost on the viewer (unless you have a deep knowledge of Italian politics during the 80's).
We first meet Paul at his bachelor party, where he professes no desire to engage in any of the normal bachelor party type activities his (surprisingly few) buddies encourage, in case he's a bit naughty and gets into hot bother with his soon to be trouble and strife.
The concept of the drama is similar, four 30 something women guide us through there friendships and relationships with problems and strife along the way.
The characters were not only lively but alive, mirroring real every day life and strife within a family.
The ensemble acting is delightfully accurate, and the strife which ensues in this scenario is comically overwrought and horrifying.
Domestic strife seems to be a way of life for the unhappy boxer who finds self-worth and expression in only the ring.
Otherwise, Greece’s exit from the eurozone – with all the concomitant social and economic strife – seems all but inevitable.
As a neighboring country, India would face disturbing consequences if they returned to power in Afghanistan, as would Iran, which would not sit idly by if sectarian strife intensified and the Shia became targets of a resurgent Taliban.
The rise of incompetent states brings about huge challenges: proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, terrorism, religious and ethnic strife, rivalry for natural resources, waves of migration, drug trafficking, and deterioration of the environment.
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