Witnessed
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As a result, the past three years have
witnessed
little movement toward developing and implementing a strategy for strong, sustained, and inclusive recovery.
This very centralized and proud country, where the state matters more than elsewhere and the military had won so many wars,
witnessed
the complete collapse of both in the span of just two weeks.
But gene drives are unlike anything we have witnessed, and amount to the ultimate test of our self-control.
A few NGO’s and some brave Russian and Western reporters have
witnessed
countless crimes.
We have
witnessed
brutal repression of protests in Syria and Yemen, Saudi troops crossing into Bahrain, and an ongoing battle for Libya.
What we have
witnessed
is not a shift in demand into sectors lacking an adequate number of qualified and productive workers, but rather a collapse in the level of aggregate demand.
There was good news, however, in that the Stockholm summit
witnessed
the first signs that the EU may at last be creeping, crab-wise, toward an idea hitherto taboo: that the European Union may require an immigration policy.
Africa’s Avoidable AIDS CrisisNEW YORK – At Uganda’s largest AIDS clinic, I recently
witnessed
a remarkable celebration of life.
Earlier in the day, we’d
witnessed
a hundred capuchin and squirrel monkeys rush down from the Amazon jungle canopy and were now relaxing beside Lake Chalalan while her cousin, a shaman, blessed coca leaves as the evening’s traditional drumming and dancing began.
But at the same time that the world
witnessed
the growth of this economy, it also saw incredible political fragmentation.
Some of the state assemblies in India’s federal system have already
witnessed
scenes of furniture upended, microphones ripped out, and slippers flung by unruly legislators, not to mention fistfights and garments torn in scuffles.
Twenty Years After the WallBERLIN – Those who
witnessed
that night 20 years ago in Berlin, or elsewhere in Germany, will never forget what happened – the night the Wall came down.
It also
witnessed
economic interventionism on a massive scale, including the proliferation of public-sector enterprises in areas beyond public utilities.
Hedges, a former reporter for The New York Times,
witnessed
this in El Salvador.
What we have
witnessed
since August is the latest battle in a Kulturkampf between Russia’s liberal intelligentsia and conservative, often fundamentalist, believers in the unity of the Orthodox Church and the Kremlin.
Meanwhile, Martin Dempsey, a retired army general and former Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, has said that the world has entered the most dangerous period he has ever
witnessed.
Indeed, that is why we have collectively done a very bad job so far in dealing with the enormous rise in inequality between the industrial middle class and the plutocratic superrich that we have
witnessed
in the last generation.
The next year, he embarked on a mission to the United States to brief President Franklin D. Roosevelt and other dignitaries on the horrors that he had
witnessed.
Those who are fortunate enough never to have
witnessed
cholera’s effects firsthand might assume that it is just another stomach bug.
Timidity of the type
witnessed
in the past five years will only increase the risks.
At the Paris climate talks last year, we
witnessed
the power of global collective action to address climate change.
Fueled by research, the past few years have
witnessed
the development of increasingly cleaner and more energy-efficient coal-fired generation plants and the retirement of older technologies, especially in the developed world.
I myself once
witnessed
Putin courting culture.
The North’s latest ICBM test has transformed the theater of diplomacy and war in Asia, and possibly the world, as it implies a level of nuclear risk
witnessed
only once before, with the Soviet Union in 1962.
I personally
witnessed
the power of living in truth in that year, when the leadership of Poland’s Solidarity movement asked me to help Poland with its transition to democracy and a market economy – part of what the Poles called their “return to Europe.”
In 2005, the most severe hurricane season ever
witnessed
in the Atlantic devastated New Orleans and broke records in terms of the number and intensity of storms.
In the US, we
witnessed
an equally promising development in the climate debate just last month, when the conservative American Enterprise Institute, the liberal Brookings Institution, and the centrist Breakthrough Institute teamed up to publish a report that called for revamping America’s energy system with the aim of making clean energy cheap.
In what is arguably the most striking change since the fall of Ben Ali, Tunisia has
witnessed
the swift rise of an Islamist movement that was banned from the country for decades.
As we have recently witnessed, terrorists can be attacked and stopped before they can cause harm; individuals and countries can be defended; and societies can take steps to bolster their resilience when they are successfully attacked, as on occasion they inevitably will be.
People Power in the CaucasusFor the past month, women in Georgia who were displaced from Abkhazia during the 1993 conflict have
witnessed
history moving backwards; everything they lived through 15 years ago is repeating itself.
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