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Her grown children, who viewed her body, told relatives that they saw evidence of torture and that she had sustained a severe head wound.
Here was the hero, motley and scarred, whose glory seemed like a wound, whose victories were stigmata, and who, from metamorphosis to metamorphosis, embodied what is wrongly called pop or variety but that was, in him, more like fallen greatness or the lament of a cleverly disguised poet.
Indeed, the question in this region is not whether the war on terror can be wound down, but whether Pakistan, which in many ways has become Islamic terrorism’s nexus, is doing all that it can to fight it.
Moreover, leaving the EU will wound the British economy, and could well push Scotland to leave the United Kingdom – to say nothing of Brexit’s ramifications for the future of European integration.
And, when wound into coils, they can produce extremely strong magnetic fields.
We must close the wound from which flows the lifeblood of a fragmented society.
The loan operations of the IMF would be wound up over a suitable period.
So, while Obama should continue to apologize for the Koran burnings, we must understand that Afghans’ rage is a response to an even deeper, rawer wound.
This self-inflicted political wound is extremely dangerous.
In the Dutch case, Euroskeptics, seeking to drive a wedge between the Netherlands and the EU, exploited the 2014 tragedy of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, which departed from Amsterdam and was shot down over Ukraine by Russian-backed separatists, leaving a deep wound in the Dutch public psyche.
It’s hard to connect canned tuna with an individual fish, let alone to think of that fish as a person, but the writer Sean Thomason recently tweeted about “the tuna who died to get put in a can that wound up in the back of my cabinet until past expiration and which I just threw away.”
It could take only one such upset to fatally wound the EU – particularly if that victory brings Marine Le Pen of the far-right National Front to power in France in May.
While deposits above €100,000 at Laiki Bank – Cyprus’s second-largest bank, which will be wound down – will be used for recapitalization, the CBC, Cyprus’s largest creditor, is getting off scot-free.
Since then, C. auris has been documented as the cause of wound infections, bloodstream infections, ear infections, and respiratory infections in countries across four continents, including India, Kuwait, Pakistan, South Africa, South Korea, and countries in South America.
Will these cracks in the international political system now wound the world's economic architecture, and with it globalization, as well?
The endgame is far more likely to entail a wave of debt write-downs, similar to the one that finally wound up the Latin American debt crisis of the 1980’s.
Their bad assets will be separated and wound down over time.
As the embassy was opened, Palestinian residents of Gaza escalated their protests demanding that Palestinian refugees be allowed to return to what is now Israel, prompting Israeli soldiers to kill at least 62 demonstrators and wound more than 1,500 others at the Gaza boundary fence.
This would setback not only the EU, but also wound the strategic partnership between France and Germany that has been at the heart of European diplomacy since the days of Adenauer and de Gaulle.
Though Clinton stayed in the race to the end, she toned down her rhetoric against Obama as the contest wound down.
What accounts for this implacable determination to leave the Greek wound festering under a flimsily applied Band-Aid?
China’s huge industrial overcapacity and property glut needs to be wound down; the hubris driving its global acquisitions must be reined in; and its corruption networks have to be dismantled.
Banks must now produce “living wills” showing how they can be wound down without the authorities’ support.
As they have wound down, spending has declined.
A transcript of his comments and sections of the video-tape wound up on a hard-line, pro-regime website, baztab.com.
But this sarcophagus is no more than a wildly expensive Band-Aid, which will be ripped off a still-festering wound in 100 years, by which point, it is hoped, a permanent solution will have been found.
It is not that we should feel nothing; but we should be encouraged to think more and to prevent the wound rather than pay for the Band-Aid.
The 90th anniversary of the Armenian massacres of 1915, ordered by the ruling Young Turks of the Ottoman Empire and carried out with the help of the Kurds, is another wound that will not heal, but one that must be treated if Turkey’s progress toward European Union membership is to proceed smoothly.
Poor farm workers have never quite recovered from this unnecessary government-inflicted wound.
And, in a recent joint letter to German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the EU’s other 27 national governments, 185 American CEOs alleged that the EU had over-reached yet again, resulting in a “self-inflicted wound” for Ireland’s and Europe’s economy.
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