They were firing at people at close range.

He stared at me.

I point blank don't see any qualifying signs of terrorism.

He was very specific about it.

The first category focuses on deficits in social cognition.

It also underscores a greater consciousness of animal rights among the general public.

Microsoft's emphasis on MFC has been reduced in favor of its .NET Framework.

Instead, the EU emphasized the technical criteria of membership.

More emphasis must be placed on dramatically improving the quality of governance in developing countries.

The Sakalava people who live in the Bemaraha region have a culture that puts emphasis on protecting the environment .

The blog, as described by the authors, focuses on Yemeni Food with a historical twist.

Our self selected elite, moreover, emphasizes the impossibility of great political change.

She then conceived a new story, focused almost exclusively on dancing.

One critical focus is the struggle for dignity and rights for homemakers, who first used this day to make their message known in 2012

People remember how the town burned, as children hid in basements, as tanks shot at civilians at point blank range.

This time, the issue was not involvement but disengagement.

Meaning must be given to the provisions of the Georgian constitution granting these regions autonomous rights.

Instead, they emphasized harsh austerity, which was to be pursued everywhere.

They know nothing at all, whatsoever, about you.

The opposition's main campaign claim was a suggestion that the right is more competent than the left in managing the economy.

In China, most SOEs survived because central planners emphasized economic autarky, regardless of cost.

Some of the most important South Korea and Taiwan since the early 1960s, China since the late 1970s, India since the early 1980s have done extremely well under heterodox arrangements.

All emphasized exports none grossly violated property rights.

That focus on the battle with the communists may allow other forces to sneak into the Duma by the back door.

Rather, it is intended to settle old scores and make Washington the arbiter of Arab destiny and resources, particularly oil.

He noted the emphasis that it put on rule via boot on the face techniques and puritanical distaste for pleasure.

The dominant Arab Muslim narrative stresses that the coming war has nothing to do with fighting terror.

In December 2009, computer giant IBM reported that it would predominantly market and sell mainframe based Enterprise Linux Server.

As the election approached, emphasis was placed on preventing the use of personnel and premises of local authorities for partisan political purposes.

The main thrust of the article was that the China Dream was one of a strong nation and a strong military.

Like anyone who farms in a city, Leadley waxes eloquent on the freshness of her product.

American arguments against Russian cooperation center on Iran's motives for developing nuclear power.

The nature of their attraction has to do with two strains in American thought to which the US left and media establishment are truly blind.

The call for human rights,'' which have been made repeatedly since 1989, accents the rights of individuals in their struggles against overweening state institutions.

In contrast to the US, information on GMOs in Europe emphasizes risk rather than benefits (in particular, reduced use of pesticides and insecticides).

108. Welcomes the movement towards educational outreach and the orientation of the UN Chronicle, both print and online editions, to this end

Meanwhile, Jamaicans arriving in Rio have noted the heavy emphasis on security, with reports of gunfire near the Jamaican team's training camp

He has been written about by journalists, scholars and international organisations, all of whom have highlighted the fact he is a member of the academic community, not a spy.

This reflects the old fashioned nature of the region s educational systems, which still emphasize memorization and rote learning.

Overall, however, basic economics, which has always stressed the need to save and invest in order to grow, still explains a lot.

My own guess is that conservative finance ministries in rich countries, and the IMF staff as well, are blind to the political ramifications of their actions.

This emphasis on digital sovereignty remains a central tenet of both countries' cyber policies, even as cooperation on the issue has ebbed and flowed.

Planners should take advantage of the country's decentralized nature and emphasize private sector participation in reconstruction.

Others emphasize the pragmatic, pointing out that EU members can achieve far more in foreign defense policy by working together than on their own. These pragmatists stress the growing number of external challenges in the Balkans, Middle East, Africa or elsewhere requiring a concerted response.

The Putin government's focus on violence demonstrates that Russia hasn't learned from its long history of engagement with Islam.