Normality is boring.

The 1995 Dayton agreement restored some semblance of calm to Bosnia.

It soon seemed to have restored some normality.

When its grip was loosened, any semblance of law and order disappeared.

And then there are times to return to normality.

Reporting is different we re supposed to maintain some semblance of separation of fact from feeling.

When an event has never occurred, it cannot be predicted with any semblance of confidence.

But, in view of the political volatility of recent years, this semblance of stability and constitutional regularity is deceptive.

Still, he can be credited for some tangible results in bringing Chechnya a modicum of normality.

But Abe s idea of normality is not yet shared by the majority of Japanese, let alone other Asians.

Throughout his time in prison in Iran, Rezaian has been consistently denied any semblance of due process.

Maybe through this fake law we would finally be able to achieve normality?

But this apparent return to normality should not mislead us about the longer term importance of 9 11.

But the outcome has been the return of normality to the one and a half million people of Northern Ireland.

The assumed normality of belief in the inevitability of secularization tends to reproduce itself, as well as to appear increasingly irreversible.

Any semblance of fiscal prudence would go out the window, with cuts in health, welfare, and education spending being reversed.

His semblance is that of a rock covered with earth which is washed away by rain exposing the hard rock bare.

The protests are clearly the result of ordinary citizens becoming fed up with corruption, the lack of any semblance of rule of law, and arbitrary treatment.

The unbearable situation of a large part of the Syrian population contrasts with the attempts to project an image of normality in areas under regime control.

Who can be proud that Romania s last Communist boss, Nicolai Ceaucescu, and his wife were shot without even the semblance of a fair trial?

For the reformers, normality meant the progressive development of Muslim societies, and they tied this to the interaction of Islamic teaching with relevant, worldly ideas of the time.

The semblance of those who expend their wealth in the way of God is that of a grain of corn from which grow seven ears, each ear containing a hundred grains.

The reaction of Boot, and others of his persuasion, points to a genuine dilemma that always occurs in authoritarian systems that use some semblance of democracy to bolster their legitimacy.

But the nagging questions about the campaign's legitimacy lie less in the past, and more in the ongoing absence of virtually any semblance of the rule of law in Iraq.

President Kostunica also accepts the need to cooperate with the Hague but is more concerned to protect the country's sovereignty and preserve a semblance of national dignity.

This identity may be secular or religious it may seek middle class normality or proclaim an Israeli version of manifest destiny 160 the two are not incompatible.

Indeed, as my country, Ukraine, is now demonstrating, after revolutionary euphoria fades and normality returns, democratic revolutions can be betrayed and reversed.

The heavy handed closures of NTV and TV 6 are merely two of the best examples of this country's halting leap toward normality, and both closures reveal Putin's selective approach to restructuring Russia.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge I try to convey a semblance of truth in my writing to produce for these shadows of the imagination a willing suspension of disbelief that, for a moment, constitutes poetic faith.

So let me show you how quickly our brains can redefine normality, even at the simplest thing the brain does, which is color.

The renewed fighting, coming eight months after a promising peace initiative known as the Goma Agreement, means more civilian deaths and little chance of normality returning to the eastern part of Congo.

But pariah states never behave responsibly, and no state has a bigger role than we do in coaxing Kim Jong un s regime into normality.

The desperate try to restore order and normality, and if we are not able to cut this circle of violence, it will be transferred to the next generation without a doubt.

The Sunni resistance a guerilla and terrorist war that was well prepared in the last years of Saddam s rule will continue to try to subvert any semblance of order representing the current majority Shia Kurdish coalition.

The semblance of peace on the Korean Peninsula remains fragile, and South Korea s government has engaged in intensive diplomatic efforts to rally friends and partners in the region and worldwide to deter the North.

Of course, Putin s success over the past few years in killing off any semblance of a free press and when an ex KGB man kills off a free press, it is not just a figure of speech has helped mute open opposition.

If the US and Turkey are to work together to eradicate the Islamic State, they will first have to agree on a longer term strategy for restoring some semblance of order to a crisis ravaged region.

But this apparent return to normality should not mislead us about the longer term importance of 9 11. As I argue in my book The Future of Power, one of the great power shifts of this global information age is the strengthening of non state actors.

But, in view of the political volatility of recent years, this semblance of stability and constitutional regularity is deceptive. Echoing popular movements elsewhere, Thailand remains locked in conflict and polarization between an entrenched regime propping up Abhisit and burgeoning new voices clamoring for enfranchisement.

It is commonly assumed (but nobody takes big bets) that the Nasdaq still carries major downside risks while the euro, sooner or later, must return to normality, whatever that means.

Bill Clinton had also talked about enlarging the role of human rights and democracy in US foreign policy, but most Americans in the 1990 s sought normality and a post Cold War peace dividend rather than change.

The study challenges many of the most common and often erroneous stereotypes about the North Caucasus, revealing and unpacking the normality obscured behind the exoticism and imagined differences popular in mainstream work about the region s culture and netizens.

This identity may be secular or religious it may seek middle class normality or proclaim an Israeli version of manifest destiny the two are not incompatible. Either way, the country no longer resonates with the expectations, hopes, and fears of a world still focused (ever more dimly) on resolving the Israeli Palestinian conflict.

Bill Clinton had also talked about enlarging the role of human rights and democracy in US foreign policy, but most Americans in the 1990 s sought normality and a post Cold War peace dividend rather than change. By contrast, Bush s 2002 National Security Strategy, which came to be called the Bush Doctrine, proclaimed that the US would identify and eliminate terrorists wherever they are, together with the regimes that sustain them.

(ii) Denial of freedom of expression, including freedom of the media, of association, of assembly and of movement