The shooting was splendid.

You complain compulsively.

Where's your spirit of adventure?

And do you know, the shooting in the early morning is often very good.

She has a ravenous craving for chocolate.

She has an unquenchable desire for justice.

They have a strange affinity for each other.

The Chinese leadership s penchant for secretiveness is proverbial.

Several times she had thought she heard the sound of wheels but had been mistaken at last she heard not only the wheels but also the coachman's voice and a dull rumbling in the portico.

But even more so than the financial challenges, it is the race for breaking news that is gradually killing the media.

In the midst of their conversation they heard the snorting of horses and the scraping of wheels on the gravel of the avenue.

Chemical rockets provide too much thrust, too much push. The probe would just shoot away.

The statehood doesn't hide itself here, as it needs no more decoration.

Many of the authoritarian regimes now under threat of collapse cultivated the support of minorities.

The tall grass twined softly about the wheels and the horse's legs, leaving seeds on the wet spokes and hubs.

Chernobyl changed Ukraine forever, and was a catalyst for the downfall of the Soviet Union.

What happens when the pull of a country s imperial history meets the constraints of its current international position?

This is all the more true because the European Commission is currently proving to be a near total failure.

Many imagine a continent consumed by poverty, war, desperation, corruption and failure.

Only governments that are chronically unable to finance their outlays with domestic taxes or domestic debt must keep borrowing large sums abroad. A deep craving for the favor of foreign lenders usually derives from some deeply engrained form of misgoverance.

The intensity to learn English is almost unimaginable, unless you witness it.

Saakashvili, an immensely talented 41 year old, saved his country from utter collapse in 2003.

Though the crisis may be over in the sense that outright collapse has been avoided, the economy remains vulnerable.

The solidarity among African leaders that has sustained Robert Mugabe's brutal regime in Zimbabwe may be on the verge of disintegrating.

ANNA WAS UPSTAIRS standing in front of a mirror pinning, with Annushka's help, a last bow to her dress, when she heard the wheels of a carriage grating on the gravel at the entrance.

After all, Putin had been a protegé of Anatoly Sobchak, the liberal mayor of St. Petersburg as communism collapsed.

In the process, he transformed a country that was in the grip of drug barons and on the verge of becoming a failed state.

Ultimately, the deepest causes of the Soviet collapse were the decline of communist ideology and economic failure.

Nearly two decades after the demise of the Soviet empire, what stands out is a prevailing sense of lost opportunities.

After the fall of the Soviet Union, NATO suddenly found itself without a clear goal (and the Germans no longer needed to be kept down).

The largest protests since the end of the Soviet Union criticized the outcome of Russia s parliamentary elections on 4 December.

all ah dat tralala goin' orn ..... while Kamla an' she Pee Pee .... in Central ..... galleryin deyself .... in celebration of .... two years .... of ..... screwin' de country!!!!!!

But, even for the US, the notion of a world held together by Citigroup s business plan is simply too costly.

BDS s opponents (including me) regard the movement as a political subterfuge intended to bring about the implosion of the Jewish state.

Steam power, factories, markets, and industry quickly spread throughout northwest Europe and its settler colonies.

Though nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) has helped many smokers quit, the cigarette habit remains pervasive in many countries.

The narrative of the further disintegration of the EU was echoed by Turkish president Erdoğan, who warned that more countries will leave the EU.

Another possibility, very obvious, is homophily, or, birds of a feather flock together here, I form my tie to you because you and I share a similar body size.

After some considerable volatility, a smaller and more robust currency union will emerge and, importantly, Europe will avoid the euro s demise and a total breakdown of the eurozone.

A look at the eight postcommunist countries just admitted to the European Union is instructive. Four Hungary, the Czech Republic, Estonia, and Latvia are parliamentary.

A look at the eight postcommunist countries just admitted to the European Union is instructive.

He entered office at a period of change in the world the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of Soviet Union came early in his presidency.

During the collapse of the Russian Empire and the Civil War, the western part was annexed to Poland in 1921, while the east became Soviet Belarus.

So, far from being a harbinger of the break up of Britain, devolution has brought fresh vitality to national life outside London.

Not for the sake of our health, though it's often presented that way, but because it's an escape from the human anthill.