Instead, the extremes seem to be squeezing out the desire for modernization.

But these awesome sponges are dying and their habitat is being overtaken by the same waterplants (Spirogyra is their academic name) which are cast ashore by storms.

Economic interests are supplanting ideology as the motor of politics, and money serves as the key instrument in elections.

In economic terms, information and communications technologies are disruptive, meaning that they will outcompete the existing, more expensive ways of doing things.

But state incursions into the capital markets are now crowding out the private sector's ability to borrow.

In parts of the world where the rule of law is weak, criminal networks and corruption displace democratic processes.

El Silbon (a person who whistles a lot) and La Sayona are two of the most popular characters that have spread to other regions.

Deforestation and the burning of peat lands, aside from causing haze, also displaces orangutans in Malaysia and Indonesia.

If immigration countries suffer from chronic unemployment because wages are overly generous and rigid, as seems the case in most West European countries, migrants who find work will simply displace nationals from their jobs.

Extreme events displace large amounts of people, especially those who are unable to respond and rebuild after disasters, due to lack of resources.

To focus on how many species have become extinct, or will go extinct, obscures the fact that a large number of species have become greatly contracted in the range of their habitats, primarily due to human activity. We appropriate land and resources for our purposes, release harmful wastes, and introduce alien species that displace natives.

As though that we call religious people often believers, as though that were the main thing that they do. And very often, secondary goals get pushed into the first place, in place of compassion and the Golden Rule.

We appropriate land and resources for our purposes, release harmful wastes, and introduce alien species that displace natives.

For all the theorizing of Plato and Marx, the family seems to prevail unless other social institutions counteract or supersede it. Nepotism, patronage within the family circle, is thus a natural way for anybody in power, or aspiring to it, to strengthen his support in societies where other institutions are weak or non existent, or where the destruction of existing institutions forms part of the power grabber's intentions.

For all the theorizing of Plato and Marx, the family seems to prevail unless other social institutions counteract or supersede it.

Third, oil and other natural resources, while perhaps a source of wealth, do not create jobs by themselves, and unfortunately, they often crowd out other economic sectors.

The view that extra government spending crowds out an equal amount of private spending, so that its net stimulus effect is zero, would be true only if the economy were at full employment.

In countries (for example, Sweden) where recourse loans allow seizure of household income to enforce payment of mortgage obligations, private consumption may plummet as debt payments (and eventually rising interest rates) crowd out discretionary spending.

2.5 of Territorians were born in England, 1.9 in New Zealand, 1.7 in Philippines, 0.9 in India and 0.5 in the United States.

Some of the students were from Asia and the others were from Europe.

Americans are from Italy, Europeans are from Japan

Are you an NGO? Are you the media?

This is a pair of underpants from from Tibet.

What is the wall mostly made of? Atoms.

In a few months we've reached more than 6000 followers, most of them Burmese obviously.

Many of us walked away from Luhansk.

Is it made of wood or metal?

Is it made of wood or metal?

Is it made of wood or metal?

Do you come from Austria or Australia?

Do you come from Austria or Australia?

Are you American or French?

One of the tigers has escaped from the zoo.

Are you guys from Austria, or is it Australia?

Musawwira from Ghana, Hadya from Pakistan, Jaleel from Iran who uses fire.

What are little boys made of? Snips and snails and puppy dog tails.

Yours comes from guesswork, ours from the Bible.

Five of the victims were tourists from Argentina.

Some of them can be from the government.

An image from one of the Argentinan blogs to receive an award.

She comes from the soul of the people, from wine,

Is it made of wood or metal?

Is it made of wood or metal?

Is it made of wood or metal?

Is it made of wood or metal?