While it is hazardous to project the trend of history, it seems clear that a genuine community is painfully emerging in the Western world, particularly among the countries of Western Europe.

Shipments of arms from Western countries could similarly be seized as contraband.

The Communist countries allocated more than $1,000,000,000 in economic aid alone last year, according to Western estimates.

It is Field Marshal Montgomery's belief that in most Western countries about 60 per cent of the people do not really care about democracy or Christianity ; ;

But these Western countries do care about themselves.

A common criticism has been that many social science scholars ( such as economists, sociologists, and psychologists ) in Western countries focus disproportionately on Western subjects, while anthropology focuses disproportionately on the " other "; this has changed over the last part of the twentieth century as anthropologists increasingly, also study Western subjects, particularly variation across class, region, or ethnicity within Western societies, and other social scientists increasingly take a global view of their fields.

Anthropology as it emerged amongst the Western colonial powers ( mentioned above ) has generally taken a different path than that in the countries of southern and central Europe ( Italy, Greece, and the successors to the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman empires ).

Since then, it has focused on improving relationships with Western countries, cultivating links with other Portuguese-speaking countries, and asserting its own national interests in Central Africa through military and diplomatic intervention.

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Some, like Hernando De Soto, argue that much of the poverty in the Third World countries is caused by the lack of Western systems of laws and well-defined and universally recognized property rights.

His non-violent resistance movement satyagraha had an immense impact on India, impressed public opinion in Western countries and influenced the leaders of various civil and political rights movements such as Martin Luther King, Jr.

In Western countries, soy milk options are widely available for those who avoid dairy products.

In a few Western countries female toplessness at a beach is acceptable, although it may not be acceptable in the town center.

Initially, Stalin directed systems in the Eastern Bloc countries that rejected Western institutional characteristics of market economies, democratic governance ( dubbed " bourgeois democracy " in Soviet parlance ) and the rule of law subduing discretional intervention by the state.

The United Kingdom and the United States were concerned that electoral victories by communist parties in any of these countries could lead to sweeping economic and political change in Western Europe.

Through the support of the Western bloc ( most Western countries continued to recognize the ROC as the sole legitimate government of China ), the Republic of China on Taiwan retained China's seat in the United Nations until 1971.

This model is prominent in Western and Northern European countries, albeit in slightly different configurations.

Today constitutional monarchies are mostly associated with Western European countries such as the United Kingdom, Netherlands, Belgium, Norway, Denmark, Spain, Luxembourg, Monaco, Liechtenstein, and Sweden.

Ear cuffs ( such as the gold ones utilized in South India provinces ) or wrapped bead work ( common amongst the Maasai of East Africa ) are other options, though are not usually seen in modern Western contexts.

War films usually frame World War II as a conflict between good and evil as represented by the Allied forces and Nazi Germany whereas the Western portrays the conflict between " civilized " settlers and the " savage " indigenous peoples.

When the double track was reinstated to Sherborne the signal box frame was replaced with a Western Region one of 44 levers.

Some reliefs, especially funerary monuments with heads or busts from ancient Rome and later Western art, leave a " frame " at the original level around the edge of the relief, or place a head in a hemispherical recess in the block ( see Roman example in gallery ).

Loaded with western props and furnishings, it has been described as a " complete frontier town, with a dusty street, hitching rails, a saloon, jail, bank, doctor's office, surveyor's office, and the simple frame houses typical of the early Western era.

Recent historians, including Chris Bayly, have preferred to frame this as a " clash of knowledges ", with proclamations from religious authorities before the revolt and testimony after it including on such issues as the " insults to women ", the rise of " low persons under British tutelage ", the " pollution " caused by Western medicine and the persecuting and ignoring of traditional astrological authorities.

In the grounds of the Best Western Hotel are a number of timber A frame chalets

Defined by Toni Morrison as " a global novel ", the book sets itself in the wide frame of Western and post-colonial culture, through the multilingualism of its characters, the mixture of East and West and the great number of references that span from Greek mythology, European philosophy and contemporaries such as Milan Kundera and the stars of rock ' n roll.

Western theories and most of the famous masters from Chen Village ( see Chen Zhenglei's English language book ) tend to favor the view that big frame tradition came first ( noting that " small frame " tradition was originally called " new frame ").

He and Rootes ' Western Service Manager Walter McKenzie measured up several V8 engines and determined that Ford's new Windsor V8 engine would fit nicely between the frame rails.

" Schoenfeld points to what he sees as Macdonald " s " unfamiliarity with both the sociological frame of reference and historical knowledge ", and as an example, notes that Macdonald's comparison of Jewish collectivism during the biblical period with eighteenth-and nineteenth-century English individualism " indicates a total ignorance of the impact of industrialization on Western societies ".

Similar to the Western tambourine, it consists of a circular frame made of the wood of the jackfruit tree, between 7 and 9 inches in width and 2 to 4 inches in depth.

The teeth on a coping saw blade should normally face the handle ( i. e., " backwards " as compared with most other Western saws ); the action of pulling the coping saw allows the frame to remain in tension ( and thus reduces blade breakages ).

The typical Western Christ in Majesty is a full-length icon that in the early Middle Ages usually showed Christ in a mandorla or other geometric frame, surrounded by the Four Evangelists or their symbols.

Broadfoot explains this as a group that “ functions like an exclusive club whose membership is tightly controlled by what might be called a ‘ dominant frame .’” In an academic sense, this leads to an “ overwhelming and disproportionate dominance ” of the United States and the Western world.

To date the case remains unsolved and continues to be fought by the Mickelbergs who maintain their innocence and allege a conspiracy by the Western Australia Police to frame them.

Other similar affirmations in the Declaration on Liberated Europe seemed to assure democratic institutions on the Western model.

Though the title " abbot " is not given in the Western Church to any but actual abbots of monasteries today, the title archimandrite is given to " monastics " ( i. e., celibate ) priests in the East, even when not attached to a monastery, as an honor for service, similar to the title of monsignor in the Western / Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church.

The consumption of alcoholic beverages in Argentina is similar to that of the United States and somewhat lower than the Western European average.

For Western European languages, it is typical and fairly safe to assume Windows-1252, which is similar to ISO-8859-1 but has printable characters in place of some control codes.

" Ogan saw " media imperialism often described as a process whereby the United States and Western Europe produce most of the media products, make the first profits from domestic sales, and then market the products in Third World countries at costs considerably lower than those the countries would have to bear to produce similar products at home.

The phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and lexicon for most of Canada are similar to that of the Western and Midland regions of the United States.

In Western culture, a concept similar to that of prana can be traced back as far as the 18th century's Franz Anton Mesmer, who used " animal magnetism " to cure disease.

Zoé Oldenbourg ( 2000 ) compared the Cathars to " Western Buddhists " because she considered that their view of the doctrine of " resurrection " taught by Jesus was, in fact, similar to the Buddhist doctrine of reincarnation.

Asian style dice bear similar patterns to Western ones, but the pips are closer to the centre of the face ; the one's pip is larger than the others, with that and the four's pips coloured red.

In Western terminology, however, drawing is distinct from painting, even though similar media often are employed in both tasks.

In order to distinguish esoteric currents based primarily on sources from late Antiquity and the European Middle Ages, from e. g. Islamic or Jewish currents with similar features, the more precise term " Western esotericism " is often employed.

In other countries of the Western world the film exhibition situation was similar.

The Greek governmental structure is similar to that found in many other Western democracies, and has been described as a compromise between the French and German models.

South Korean conglomerates, called chaebol, are often compared to keiretsu, but the chaebol conglomerations are much more similar to a Western conglomerate like General Electric than pre-World War II zaibatsu.

The notation developed for it is similar in principle to subsequent Western notation, in that it is ordered left to right, and separated into measures.

Its introduction prompted the development of similar vehicles in Western armies, such as the West German Marder and American M2 Bradley.

This trend has had limited uptake in Western forces with only Germany equipping their airmobile division with the similar Wiesel tankette two of which can be carried inside a Sikorsky CH-53 Sea Stallion helicopter.

In subsequent attempts to reconvene the Western parliament, similar disturbances broke out.

Occidental is devised so that many of its derived word forms reflect the similar forms common to a number of Western European languages, primarily those in the Romance family.

The Supreme Soviet became similar to Western parliaments.

The Premier has similar functions in Western Australia to those performed by the Prime Minister of Australia at the national level, subject to the different Constitutions.

Concepts similar to qi can be found in many cultures, for example, Prana in Vedantic philosophy, mana in Hawaiian culture, Lüng in Tibetan Buddhism, and Vital energy in Western philosophy.

However, an unnamed diplomat from a Western country stated that the Somali government had signed similar deals with other countries, which could bring CNOOC into conflict with foreign competitors over exploration and drilling rights.