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Just this past week, as Iran’s death toll reached one thousand, the US Treasury Department blacklisted nine companies, including a social security investment arm, for dealing with the country’s petrochemical sector.
Tragically, this situation has parallels in the real world of pandemic management, where there are a thousand dimensions to policy.
Such a strategy would require keeping several thousand troops in the country to continue to build and train the Afghan security forces and to conduct select counterterrorism missions.
China has gleefully seized on this statement to deny that it has encroached on over a thousand square kilometers (386 square miles) of land.
Because the incomes of the very richest households may be several thousand times greater than those of the poorest households, average GDP is invariably larger than typical (median) income.
The overall mortality rate from COVID-19 currently is around 34 per thousand, with elderly people and those with health problems being most at risk.
Epidemics in early modern Northern Italy, by comparison, had mortality rates of 300-400 per thousand.
Unlike Eurasians, native populations in the New World had not spent several thousand years evolving with animals and their diseases.
Does he really imagine that sending a few hundred – or even many thousand – Turkish troops to aid the beleaguered GNA will somehow resolve Libya’s tragic and bloody turmoil, itself the result of the 2011 intervention by foreign powers that toppled Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi’s regime?
The Roman Empire was unsalvageable after its fall, and it took the Italian Peninsula almost a thousand years to rediscover its classical heritage.
The United States has withdrawn from the 2015 nuclear deal (the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA), designated an arm of Iran’s military (the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps) as a foreign terrorist organization, imposed economic sanctions against nearly one thousand individuals and entities, and taken steps to make it extremely difficult for Iran to sell its oil.
Even though several thousand Lukashenko supporters appeared, many of them undercover policemen, anyone leaving the pro-regime rally melted into a sea of white-red-white flags, which took over the entire expanse of Independence Avenue.
The Indian state, despite all the stories about over-bureaucratization, is surprisingly small in terms of the number of public employees per capita; for example, the number of employees in the tax administration per thousand members of the population is more than 260 times higher in the UK than in India, and five times higher in Turkey.
As we were approaching the end of our route, we were caged in by a human chain of more than a thousand police.
A cyberattack could come from ten miles or ten thousand miles away.
And the policy the military has chosen has been to exploit the Kashmir insurgency as part of its effort to “bleed India with a thousand cuts.”
Multilateralism’s Crisis Is an OpportunityNEW YORK – When Cyclone Idai hit Mozambique, Malawi, Zimbabwe, and Madagascar last month, it left almost one thousand people dead, and hundreds of thousands more homeless, hungry, and threatened by disease.
Fossil fuels have an energy density of 1-7 kWh per kg – a thousand times more than renewables – which can be harnessed anywhere at any time, regardless of the weather.
I can think of a thousand things Israel should do to make a Palestinian state more likely.
This constraint is reflected in India’s response to the Pakistani military’s long-term strategy of inflicting on India “death by a thousand cuts.”
On the night of October 5-6, several thousand opposition supporters protested in Bishkek’s central square, and some stormed parliament and other government buildings.
The movement began when several thousand farmers from the neighboring states of Punjab and Haryana drove their tractors toward Delhi in the hope of publicizing their grievances in the city’s center.
Six thousand miles away, Brazil has just inaugurated Bolsonaro, who has echoed these leaders in promising that “government departments will not be led by anyone who’s been convicted of corruption.”
Russia now has roughly 87,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases and less than a thousand deaths.
We entered a world where we could threaten not only everyone alive today, but everyone who could follow, and everything they could achieve; where we could betray not only the trust of everyone alive today, but of the ten thousand generations who preceded us.
Based on data about 1.2 million inventors and their parents – covering education, test scores, and earnings – the study showed that 8.3 children per thousand from the top 1% of households (in terms of income) become inventors.
For below-median-income households, that figure drops to just 0.84 children per thousand.
What is the matter with you?''What I have said a thousand times and cannot help thinking – that I am not worthy of you!
Each of those faces that with so much searching, so many faults and corrections, he had evolved with its own character, each representing so much pain and pleasure, and all of them so often placed and replaced to obtain harmony; all the shades of colour and tone elaborated with such effort all this, regarded as a whole from those others' point of view, now seemed trivialities a thousand times repeated.
During the sacrament Levin did that which, agnostic though he was, he had done a thousand times before.
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