Vicinity
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But she cannot accomplish her goal alone, for she cannot leave the
vicinity
of Grayskull and retain her powers.
Wearing kilts in the
vicinity
of log tossers.
Only one of every three job seekers finds a job, but the overproduction is probably worthwhile, for it ensures that as a replaceable neuron dies, there will already be, in its vicinity, a younger one ready to take its place.
So far, communities in the
vicinity
of extraction operations have often been hostile to the process, seeing themselves as the victims of environmental damage, while domestic elites and foreign companies are presumed to be the primary beneficiaries.
Most of today’s crop of economists are not defunct, but continue to work in the ideological
vicinity
of Chicago.
An incomplete list of his crimes includes:using chemical weapons against Iranian troops during the eight-year Iran-Iraq war that he started in 1980;murdering about 5,000 residents of the predominantly Kurdish town of Halabja in March 1988 through the use of chemical weapons, after using these weapons in previous months against Kurdish villages in the vicinity;murdering about 100,000 Kurds during the "Anfal" campaign between February and September 1988, mainly by transporting the victims to a desert area where they were forced into trenches, machine-gunned, and then covered with sand by bulldozers;destroying the ancient civilization of the Marsh Arabs in southeastern Iraq, followed by the forced resettlement and murder of the region's former residents;his actions in Kuwait when Iraq invaded in 1990, including the disappearance--still unresolved--of hundreds of Kuwaiti citizens;savage reprisals against the Shiites in southern Iraq in the aftermath of the 1991 Gulf War;and persecution of any and all Iraqis suspected of dissent or disloyalty.
Either scenario would have serious consequences beyond the immediate geographic
vicinity.
Many unarmed Chinese citizens were killed by People’s Liberation Army troops on June 4, 1989, not only in the
vicinity
of Tiananmen Square, but in cities all over China.
The Northern Caucasus and its
vicinity
already is a tinderbox; acquiring more territory with disaffected Muslims would undoubtedly yield further security challenges.
Its unemployment rate is currently 10%, and GDP growth this year will be in the
vicinity
of 1.3%, only slightly above the EU average.
Such a monument is also notably absent from the
vicinity
of the Kremlin.
According to reports, the final settlement will be in the
vicinity
of R$12 billion ($3.8 billion), a far cry from a previous central bank estimate of R$150 billion, or the R$341 billion predicted by Febraban, the Brazilian Federation of Banks.
The US is better positioned than any other power in this respect, particularly when it comes to applying these advantages in its immediate
vicinity.
Despite this, I have frequently said to local policy leaders, business people, those from the philanthropic world, and others that unless the areas lying outside the immediate
vicinity
of central Manchester benefit from regional dynamism, Greater Manchester’s success will be far from complete.
Ever since Japan dispatched minesweepers to the Persian Gulf after the Gulf War in 1991, the Self-Defense Forces have been expanding their activities beyond Japan and its immediate
vicinity
to include international peacekeeping missions, emergency relief operations, multilateral military exercises, and naval refueling support in the Indian Ocean.
Negative ex post real interest rates in the
vicinity
of 30-60% register on the high end of historical haircuts.
Finally, American officials have indicated they would accept limits on the scale of the BMD systems deployed in Russia’s
vicinity
in order to avoid threatening to overwhelm Russia’s own ballistic missile arsenal.
Should search-and-rescue aircraft and vessels be stationed in the
vicinity?
While the weakening and rollback of Iran serves Israeli strategic interests, Israel will have to reckon with Sunni Islamist power everywhere in its vicinity, leading directly to a strengthening of Hamas.
But this “EU Europe” is now being thrown back in time and challenged, yet again, by the return of power politics on its borders and in its immediate
vicinity.
The marks were interpreted to mean that the animals had been slaughtered, but skeptics questioned why no butcher’s “blades” were found in the
vicinity.
As regulators’ focus turned toward limiting global warming, there were tremendous incentives to manufacture vehicles that produced fewer greenhouse-gas emissions, even if that meant, as with diesel engines, emitting other gases and micro-particles that are much more harmful to humans in their
vicinity.
The club-restaurant “Major Pronin:” is conveniently located in the
vicinity
of the KGB-FSB headquarters.
For example, the World Bank estimates that if Niger could ban child marriage, it would realize annual welfare savings in the
vicinity
of $1.7 billion.
So the impact of new regulations on countries where banks are significantly under-capitalized could easily be four or five times larger than the headline figure – say, in the
vicinity
of a percentage point at a four-year horizon.
Health facilities were set up in the
vicinity
of the camp, and the Bangladeshi government has also suspended import taxes for supplies and equipment to fight COVID-19.
Iran has already shown its capacity to resist by downing an US spy drone, allegedly targeting six oil tankers, and seizing two more in the
vicinity
of the Strait of Hormuz.
In one fell swoop late last year, he not only boosted Turkey’s image as a regional power, but also clinched a maritime border deal with Libya, thereby disrupting a plan by Greece, Cyprus, Egypt, and Israel to develop underwater oil and gas fields in the
vicinity.
Moreover, restaurants and other small businesses in the
vicinity
of government facilities were hurt by a lack of business.
Now, if that £39 billion represents the price for three months of social distancing, and if policies of similar budgetary weight relative to GDP were adopted across the G20, the total cost for the group would be in the
vicinity
of $1 trillion.
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