And they become like nutrient pumps.

Some believe that the Earth is a kind of hell.

These diverging objectives make it hard to believe that the SCO will ever evolve into an eastern version of NATO.

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

A breakthrough like this couldn't pass unnoticed in Greece's Twittersphere

Leung found that a type of black market appeared to appear at many refugee camps

It was a very special experience ... these pristine waterfalls were turned into some kind of public bathing area.

With Rafsanjani, either a real agreement or the pretense of cooperation would have been easy to maintain.

The result was a simulacrum of the old Obama, as if he were acting the part of himself.

In other words, this apparent fact of nature the overwhelming genetic similarity of human and ape is a fact constructed from culture.

'Oh, not at all!' said Levin, crossly. 'That treatment seems to me just a parallel to treating the peasants by means of schools.

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.

Transfers of wealth on the scale of what took place between West and East Germany won t happen.

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

Many Ukrainians now hear domestic echoes of the lead up to war in Georgia.

The second episode (the one at issue now) mocks eastern Ukraine's female vatniki, like the former mayor of Slovyansk, Nelya Shtepa.

Then we place these mountains on the island, surrounding this sort of central green valley, almost like a central park.

If anything, the DNA comparison underestimates the profound similarity of the human and ape bodies in the great tapestry of nature.

Until the beginning of the twentieth century, tsars knew no legal constraints, such as impeded the absolutism of West European sovereigns.

And we thought, sustainability has grown into being this sort of neo Protestant idea that it has to hurt in order to do good.

After the fall of Ceausescu, I went to Romania and discovered a kind of gulag of children, where thousands of orphans were being kept in medieval conditions.

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

Continued crackdowns would result in a military dictatorship, while an accommodation with the protest movement would produce some kind of consensual semi democratic government.

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.

It was found that the locus standi (the right or capacity to bring an action or to appear in a court) was not met. Unfortunately, for both sides, this was kind of a draw.

Both sides endorsed something like the pre 1967 borders, yet the deal was not quite struck, with each side claiming intransigence by the other on one or another point.

Psychologist and political analyst Srđan Puhalo posted an advertisement about the vacant embassy, mentioning the Serbian minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dačić as a sort of secret agent from the James Bond 007 series

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.

Actually, that overwhelming similarity between human and chimpanzee DNA is a product of two cultural facts our familiarity with the chimpanzee s body, and our unfamiliarity with DNA.

Kuwait now allows women to vote, Qatar has embraced an ambitious reform program, Bahrain has shown great tolerance of mass demonstrations, and the U.A.E. is allowing something like a free press.

Even if the system were to become something like Japan s democracy in the 1920 s, with two more or less conservative parties competing for power, this would still be preferable to a one party state.

Much of Taiwan's manufacturing sector has migrated across the Taiwan Strait despite restrictions on direct contacts with the mainland and Singapore is becoming a kind of Asian Switzerland, betting its prosperity on investments in China.

But Iran, too, harbors illusions, including the notion that it can count on support from non Western countries, or at least from some sort of Islamic caucus.

To do so would be to display a prejudice against other beings merely because they are not members of our species a prejudice we call speciesism, to highlight its resemblance to racism.

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.

If you sit a guy on a chair with all this kind of apparatus measuring your physiology, and there's kind of a bomb that goes off, it's so instinctive response that, in 20 years, they never saw anyone who will not jump.

I will heal the blind and the leper, and infuse life into the dead, by the leave of God.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt could have made no better investment for the future of America and the world than to wage total war against Adolf Hitler. Likewise, Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton ought to have recognized in the 1990 s that something like a Marshall Plan for Eastern Europe to help with the transition from communism would have been an excellent investment for the world s future.

And then he did it again. We filled the balloon again a few minutes later and here you see, even after 10 seconds, a great rise in this piece, which we can have computers inside, under your chest like a pacemaker, with a wire into your heart like a pacemaker.

Likewise, Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton ought to have recognized in the 1990 s that something like a Marshall Plan for Eastern Europe to help with the transition from communism would have been an excellent investment for the world s future.