He was then transformed into a woman.

A series of explosions reduced the laboratory to ruins.

The witch turned her boyfriend into a frog.

But India made a strength out of its major weakness.

Perestroika turned the country into one big public space.

Such persistence has helped Turkey become the top Twitter censor worldwide.

The terror attacks of September 11, 2001, turned Afghanistan into the theater of a global war.

The pandemic has claimed 19 million lives, and created 13 million orphans.

National service has transformed Eritrea into a collective prison, and those who attempt to flee the country risk being shot.

But following the spirit of the party meeting, the She Xian police turned the case into a criminal act of spreading rumors.

Sixteenth century Venice turned the wealth of the spice trade into the canvases of Titian and Tintoretto.

I wish People's Daily bought up all the newspapers and turned the whole world into a mouthpiece.

Sadat s initiative transformed the conflict from a fight about Israel s right to exist into a negotiation of interests between legitimate sovereign states.

Several other countries in Central and Eastern Europe, such as Hungary, Ukraine, and the Baltic states, were also living dangerously, with large current account deficits and firms and households running up huge debts in foreign currency.

There is little excuse for Iceland, which essentially turned itself into a highly leveraged hedge fund.

Europe turned diversity into one of its constitutional traits, and this is why it has had such an impact on the world.

China s future no longer looks to be determined by its hugely successful economy, which has turned the country into a world power in a single generation.

In targeting the Taliban, the US has converted them into an insurgent army, an idea of resistance that the population is beginning, once again, to find acceptable.

NEW YORK The sharpening international geopolitical competition over natural resources has turned some strategic resources into engines of power struggle.

In fact, disconnected from the heroin trade, which has turned the Taliban into a colossal economic concern, Al Qaeda is in clear financial decline.

Social rejection has not turned young French and British Muslims into mass murderers, and the infatuation of many with al Qaeda has not overwhelmed their desire to fit in.

This first anniversary of the attack will be the first and sharpest of many annual reminders that once again history has turned the unimaginable into the real.

Greece largely succeeded in following the dictate set by the troika (the European Commission the ECB, and the IMF) it converted a primary budget deficit into a primary surplus.

In short, the ECB bond buying program has transformed the ECB from a passive observer of the euro crisis, paralyzed by the outdated legalistic constraints of the Maastricht Treaty, into a proper lender of last resort.

By failing to limit the size of the Commission and accepting the one country one commissioner rule, the Constitution has turned the Commission into a body of national representatives.

When the Internet injected the media industry with a heavy dose of speed, I welcomed the resulting 24 hour mania of political coverage, and working as a correspondent in a storied newsroom made the craving virtually insatiable.

Even after the tensions had become commonplace, the severity of a 2010 massacre in the town of Dogo Nahawa turned Ibanga and other local women into vocal activists.

By 1900, it represented only 20 of world output not because something bad happened in Asia, but rather because the Industrial Revolution had transformed Europe and North America into the world s workshop.

Chen s popularity among his party followers, whose fervency often bordered on fundamentalism, changed him from a person with deep democratic instincts into a textbook case of a man who regards power and its prerogatives as being his by right.

In Kazakhstan, 17 year old volleyball player Sabina Altynbekova earned a large following online for her good looks, but the teen has turned the attention into a platform to talk about the difficulties Muslim sportspeople face fasting during Ramadan.

As the yen's strength undermined foreign demand for Japanese output, rising asset values turned domestic demand into the engine of the economy, and Japan rapidly grew out of the recession. The BOJ hailed this outcome, since it gave the tradable sector time to adjust to the stronger yen.

As the yen's strength undermined foreign demand for Japanese output, rising asset values turned domestic demand into the engine of the economy, and Japan rapidly grew out of the recession.

And, sure enough, what we are seeing now, 16 years after the eurozone institutionalized those relationships, is the antithesis of democracy Many European leaders want to see the end of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras s leftist government.

Catherine has transformed her garage into a deposit point for donations such as clothing, shoes, blankets, mattresses, heaters and wheelchairs, and her living room has become a small bazaar where she sells handicrafts, scarves and carpets to raise funds.

In the words of a senior NGO human rights leader They re punishing the Syrian people because they were unhappy that NATO took the mandate of protecting civilians in Libya and transformed it into a mandate for regime change.

Who today would oppose amnesty for Syrian President Bashar al Assad if it ended the brutal civil war that has led to more than 100,000 deaths and created nearly two million refugees (including more than a million children) in just two years?

Journalism s essential role in a democracy is to enable people to fulfill their roles as citizens by providing information about government, other powerful institutions, civil movements, international events, and so on. But News Corporation replaces such journalism with titillation and gossip, as it did when it took over the 168 year old News of the World and turned it into a tabloid in 1984, and with partisan campaigns, as it did when it created Fox News in 1996.

But News Corporation replaces such journalism with titillation and gossip, as it did when it took over the 168 year old News of the World and turned it into a tabloid in 1984, and with partisan campaigns, as it did when it created Fox News in 1996.