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But, without Mandela’s towering moral and political leadership, the transition would have been long, ugly, and bloody beyond measure.
With its modern architecture towering around the busy harbor, that great and exciting city must rank among the world’s most enjoyable urban destinations.
For all the Sturm und Drang about refugees, Merkel and the CDU maintain a towering lead over all other parties in the polls.
A towering myth in the fight against HIV/AIDS is that high-quality local talent does not exist.
On the contrary, he appointed Paul Volcker, a towering pillar of monetary stability, as chairman of the Board of Governors.
How can cities as ostensibly different as New York, with its towering profile, and Paris, characterized by wide boulevards, function so similarly?
Output is expected to grow by more than 2% this year, and wages by 3%, with the current-account surplus set to reach a towering 8.4% of GDP.
The towering Karakoram Pass was part of the old silk route that connected Ladakh and Kashmir with Xinjiang – now, like Tibet, an “autonomous region” of China.
The conceptual and institutional reordering of economics that followed is usually credited to one towering figure: the British economist John Maynard Keynes, who published The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money in 1936.
His role in establishing enduring democracy in India, despite the tensions of caste, ethnicity, religion, and regional loyalties, made him one of the towering figures of the twentieth century.
So, by all means, let us admire the smooth highways, towering office blocks, and spotless shopping malls of Singapore.
Towering levels of corruption damage not only the authority of government at home, but the very standing of Georgia as an independent state abroad.
The natural instinct of many is still, as in the past, to look at the American economy, towering over the rest of the world with its $14 trillion GDP, as the engine of global recovery.
Solzhenitsyn, one of the most famous and heroic dissidents of the Soviet era, now seems certain to become a towering figure in the iconography of Putinism.
It is a sad testament to Russia’s current mindset that it is Solzhenitsyn the anti-modernist crank who is being remembered, not Solzhenitsyn the towering foe of Soviet barbarism and mendacity.
Though no one can condone Fischer’s virulent rants and dark thoughts in his later years (he died in 2008), it is sad to realize that someone of such towering creativity and genius, who inspired so many people through his chess, might have had his career ended at a much earlier stage today.
Nowadays, there is a respectable body of opinion that questions whether growth in productivity beyond the towering levels seen today is of any great value compared to the fearsome costs that are taken as given in most discussion.
The towering Himalayan Highlands, particularly Tibet, influence the Northern Hemisphere’s atmospheric-circulation system, which helps to transport warm air from the equator toward the poles, sustaining a variety of climate zones along the way.
How, in particular, can this situation be explained in view of the fact that today's unchallenged heads of government are (at least for the most part) not towering leaders whose charisma shields them from opposition?
Its towering merit is that it will work.
Inequality, Immigration, and HypocrisyCAMBRIDGE – Europe’s migration crisis exposes a fundamental flaw, if not towering hypocrisy, in the ongoing debate about economic inequality.
What comes next is the era of the prudent politician in a boring blue suit who acknowledges that hard problems have no easy solutions, and who spurns towering promises in favor of Churchillian sweat and toil.
Unfortunately, many of my colleagues – particularly those who write textbooks – present physics as a towering, seamless basilica, ignoring the gaps in our hodge-podge of skewed models.
The wave’s height reached 15 meters, towering above even the highest pole-vault bars.
The late economist Alberto Alesina, a towering figure in the field of political economy, argued that for a well-governed country in the age of globalization, small can be beautiful.
That division bedevils the current French and German leaders – President Emmanuel Macron and Chancellor Angela Merkel – as much as it did their towering predecessors, Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer, ever since the two of them linked hands across the Rhine 60 years ago.
But Harvard’s Lawrence Summers – a former US Treasury Secretary and a towering figure in public finance – has argued that such estimates are wildly optimistic.
Plans for the green transition, which young climate activists had put on the agenda before 2020, were given only lip service as governments buckled under towering mountains of debt.
This powerful animal is audible from far away when it sends up towering spouts of air and steam that resemble swirls of smoke.
The sea grew towering, inflated by long swells.
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