The officials, however, disliked it.

A grease spot had given the figure a new pose.

I could not understand what prevented me from moving.

Access to those technologies gave Syrians the tools both to communicate among themselves and to connect with the rest of the world.

It has been shown in most studies on this subject that intervention of the legislature had adverse effects.

Of course, protectionist pressures have occasionally arisen since then.

The position she standing in concealed any evidence of previous surgical history.

Indeed, we were so equal that the government gave many of us new, Bulgarian names.

Everyone wants economic stability, and many are reluctant to abandon today what gave them stability yesterday.

The hippodrome is state property and the national government never gave permission to rename it, but that has not stopped the rebranding going ahead.

Bruce was born with a DSD that prevented his body from producing enough testosterone to properly develop his genitals.

Yet, this is what every one of Romania s post revolutionary governments have promised at one time or another.

The post carried a salary of from seven to ten thousand roubles a year, and Oblonsky could hold it without resigning his official position.

The song became their eleventh number one single, giving the band a cumulative total of 81 weeks at number one.

First, the Karzai government must overcome credibility issues related to the broken promises it made in the past to former Taliban who laid down their weapons.

Greater home buying pushed up housing prices, which made banks feel that it was safe to lend money to non creditworthy borrowers.

Unhappy with the capitalist consumer society that was metastasizing all around them, West European and American students attacked the system from far left positions.

If mind wandering were a slot machine, it would be like having the chance to lose 50 dollars, 20 dollars or one dollar. Right? You'd never want to play.

Indeed, the north and south have struggled to overcome cultural differences and unequal economic conditions, preventing them from viewing the situation from each other s perspective.

The feeling of anger with his wife, who would not observe the rules of propriety and fulfil the only condition he had insisted on, that is, that she should not see her lover in his house, gave him no rest.

The 1990's saw an unprecedented rise in the number of quarters in which earnings beat analysts' estimates by a penny a share, suggesting that more irregularities could be discovered.

This tolerant posture gave way to war in Chechnya in 1994, but the armistice of 1996, which de facto recognized Chechnya's independence, gave rise to new hopes of a better future.

This was followed by the June 2001 court decision to set a date for trial, making it possible at last to present the evidence against these individuals.

They thought that after thirty years of soaring inequality, in the middle of a recession, they could take away the last little things that gave people hope, the benefits, the jobs, the possibility of higher education, the support structures, and nothing would happen.

After all, even in times of prosperity, the international community has been notorious for making grand pledges, only to renege when it comes to following through with the money.

Robust exports from Japan and Europe supported economic recovery and steadied investor confidence, providing, in turn, further export opportunities for newly industrializing countries, most notably China.

Deng supported Zhao s drive to liberalize the economy, even though it was creating mixed results in 1988 and 1989, with inflation spiking and economic anxiety pervasive.

It sought to express the ways in which art could provide a space for dialogue complicated dialogue, dialogue with many, many points of entry and how the museum could be the space for this contest of ideas.

He felt himself a king, not because he believed that he had made an impression on Anna he did not yet believe that but because the impression she had made on him filled him with happiness and pride.

When Talleyrand became French ambassador in London in 1830, she accompanied him and felt more comfortable there than in Paris, which she detested and where the whole Faubourg Saint Germain made her feel she was a foreigner.

She had that morning repented of having told her husband and wished it were possible to unsay her words and here was a letter treating her words as unsaid and giving her what she had desired but now the letter appeared more terrible than anything she could have imagined.

Although multi faceted and complex, Casanova's personality, as he described it, was dominated by his sensual urges Cultivating whatever gave pleasure to my senses was always the chief business of my life I never found any occupation more important.

Indeed, the regime welcomed George W. Bush and his neo con administration, because it allowed Iran s leaders to close ranks, and at the same time delivered free access to influence in Iraq and Afghanistan.

But Danbi, who took on her new name after fleeing, is from a city near the Chinese border which has become surprisingly porous, and so she s grown up in this presumably closed nation with a window to the outside world.

Not only did Grass define Israel as a threat to world peace he also noted that he had remained silent for so long simply because he believed that his own origins, tarnished by a stain that can never be removed, denied him the right to speak the truth.

But neither the one set of books nor the other so much as hinted at explaining what Levin, and all the Russian peasants and landowners with their millions of hands and acres, should do to make them as productive as possible for the general welfare.