Cities have a lot of black asphalt and dark, heat absorbing structures.

Railways began reappearing in Europe after the Dark Ages.

I hope that your persistent struggle is the beginning of the end to this dark days of our history.

The sounds are paired with vibrations, soft for darker areas and more intense for brighter spots.

Two figures in dark dresses (they had been light coloured before) stood bending over something.

Of course, Clinton added, these technologies are not an unmitigated blessing, and can be misused for darker purposes.

Nevertheless, there is no doubt that African economies, taken together, have recovered from the dark years of the 1980 s.

That is why, today, it is critically important, in the face of a dark force that is rising, swelling, and unfurling in Europe, to defend Angela Merkel.

Even, he said, the presence of dark colored folds (acanthuses) on the neck and forearm indicates the likelihood of suffering of metabolic disorders and even prediabetes.

They are intervening in support of a regime that is assaulting civilians in ways not seen since the dark days of Saddam Hussein.

Even during the 1992 1993 dark days of the European Monetary System, Europe looked like a safe haven in an unsettled financial world.

But if Chinese propaganda paints too dark a picture of the Tibetan past, Westerners who sympathize with the Tibetan cause are often too sentimental.

Recent bestsellers suggest that religious faith is really a sign of backwardness, the mark of primitives stuck in the dark ages who are yet to catch up with scientific reason.

And obviously, it landed in one of these flat, dark regions and it didn't sink out of sight. So it wasn't fluid that we landed in.

Beyond undertaking dark deeds as one of Mao s lieutenants, Deng played a decisive role in ordering the massacre in Tiananmen Square in 1989.

To present Juncker s candidacy as a matter of high political principle, with Cameron heroically but unsuccessfully standing alone against the dark forces of federalism and centralization, could have only reinforced English feelings of alienation from Europe.

In the dark, congested alleys of Lahore, Karachi, Peshawar, or Quetta, the yearning is not for democratic liberalism, but for the believers to unite behind the one true faith.

Maduro s conspiracy theory that his mentor s cancer was the result of poisoning by the dark forces that wanted him out of the way is not particularly original, though it does raise the stakes.

The hashtag SomosTodasLorena ( WeAreAllLorena) began to circulate, showing mothers and communities dedicated to praising black curly hair, such as the group As Vantagens de se Enrolar (The Advantages of Rolling).

And so when we look at a map of skin color, and predicted skin color, as we know it today, what we see is a beautiful gradient from the darkest skin pigmentations toward the equator, and the lightest ones toward the poles.

From reporters derided by the public for their subservience to the party, to investigative muckrakers intimidated for exposing the darker sides of China s economic miracle, all journalists in China are hobbled by the absence of a media law defining their rights and responsibilities.

As in the Dreyfus affair, Russia's army is increasingly a prisoner of its friends die hard communists, Great Russian chauvinists, ranting nationalists, and all the other anti reform and anti democratic groups who make defense of military honor a rallying cry for their own dark causes. Indeed, the army's honor is now so firmly tied to finding Budanov both guiltyand insane that Russia finds itself on the brink of issuing a nakedly political verdict.

But despite being in a different land, we were free men, and we had also left behind us seven years of dark cells, vexation, humiliation, malnutrition, nights of insomnia, and sudden jolts every horror of prison, made worse by the lack of motive for being there.

But they don't question long hours and dire working conditions. Instead, most are grateful to be working at all.