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Some famous and rather powerful voices began to speak of the UN’s irrelevance.
The voices of protectionism and nationalism are gaining strength, and governments are increasingly pursuing policy goals through unilateral or ad hoc measures, rather than by working together.
Acknowledgement that these Cold War relics are outmoded security tools – indeed, that they cause insecurity – is coming from a diverse range of voices.
This has been accompanied by cascades of populist rhetoric: loud voices and defiant words, and promises to fight to the death against ill-defined but malignant economic special interests.
In a chain reaction of indignation, with predictable anti-Semitic spurts, the few voices that dared challenge the general hysteria found themselves overwhelmed.
Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War (1991) spoke of a distant fight – the nine-year Soviet war in Afghanistan – that eroded Russian culture and humanity, while Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster (1997) meditated on the global significance of the nuclear disaster.
Jiactivate, in which I am engaged as National Chairperson, aims to serve as a platform that amplifies young Kenyans’ voices, offering them easier ways to take action.
Pluralism implies a readiness to listen to many voices – whether we agree with them or not – and a willingness to embrace a rich diversity of cultures.
To improve matters, we need to increase dialogue and communication among journalists and those they write about: politicians, civil servants, business people, and religious leaders – in short, the voices of civil society.
Even if the left wing of the European left – like the most liberal of America’s Democrats – voices concerns that Obama has selected a far too centrist cabinet, a classical form of anti-Americanism is bound to recede in Europe.
Given that Russia was, until recently, a member of the G-8 – the northern hemisphere’s most important economic grouping – it would seem to have little affinity with the other four BRICS members, which have traditionally been viewed as the leading developing-country voices in global forums.
And it did not benefit only the developed world; it also ensured decolonization, promoted development, and found ways to accommodate the voices of newly emerging countries.
As a result, more and more young people are turning to street demonstrations to make their voices heard.
This foray into the uncanny is as close as most people come to experiencing auditory hallucinations or "hearing voices," a condition that affects 70% of patients with schizophrenia and 15% of patients with mood disorders such as mania or depression.
For these individuals, instead of hearing just one's name, voices produce a stream of speech, often vulgar or derogatory ("You are a fat whore," "Go to hell") or a running commentary on one's most private thoughts.
One patient described the recurrence of voices as akin to being "in a constant state of mental rape."
In the worst cases, voices command the listener to undertake destructive acts such as suicide or assault.
But hearing voices is not necessarily a sign of mental illness, so understanding the mechanics of auditory hallucinations is crucial to understanding schizophrenia and related disorders.
Hallucinated voices are also known to occur during states of religious or creative inspiration.
Joan of Arc described hearing the voices of saints telling her to free her country from the English.
How can we understand differences between an inspired voice, an isolated instance of hearing one's own name, and the voices of the mentally ill?
One answer is that "non-pathological" voices occur rarely or perhaps only once.
One theory is that voices arise because Broca's area "dumps" language outputs into parts of the brain that ordinarily receive speech inputs from the outside.
Third, heightened emotions may play a role in producing voices.
Verbal messages expressed by voices often are highly emotional.
This would account for the fact that voices also emerge during states of extreme, but incidental, emotionality brought on by inspired thought, mania, depression, or ingestion of certain drugs.
Here the voices disappear when the emotional states return to normal.
Our hypothesis is that voices arise from different combinations of these three factors--reduced brain integration, social isolation, and high levels of emotionality.
There are no trusted Russian voices on the world stage.
Numerous Muslim scholars have raised their voices to challenge the terrorists’ defense of suicide bombings or attacks on civilians, offering long citations from centuries of religious jurisprudence.
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