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In recent years he has traveled widely in Europe, conducting in Italy, France, Austria, and Switzerland.
There is probably some significance in the fact that two of the best incest stories I have encountered in recent years are burlesques of the incest myth.
This is the good kind of sophistication, and with all our problems and crises this kind of sophistication has flowered in the United States during recent years.
In recent years America's partners and friends in Western Europe and Japan have made great economic progress.
Our surplus from foreign business transactions has in recent years fallen substantially short of the expenditures we make abroad to maintain our military establishments overseas, to finance private investment, and to provide assistance to the less developed nations.
In recent years, we have come increasingly to recognize that ideas have a history and that not the least important chapters of this history have to do with thematic or conceptual aspects of literature and the arts, although these aspects should be studied in conjunction with the history of philosophy, of religion, and of the sciences.
In recent years, however, a wind of change seems to be blowing through early English historical circles.
Citing the advances of Communist power in recent years, Sir Anthony observed: `` This very grave state of affairs will continue until the free nations accept together the reality of the danger that confronts them and unite their policies and resources to meet it ''.
-- I, too, congratulate the American Legion, of which I am proud to have been a member for more than 40 years, on the recent state convention.
It occurred to me that you might be interested in some thoughts which I expressed privately in recent years, in the hope of clearing up a certain confusion in the public mind about what foreign policy is all about and what it means, and of developing a certain compassion for those who are carrying such responsibilities inside Government.
On this basis, our already substantial budget for research and development has been further increased in recent years in order to finance the continuing engineering and design work essential to Leesona's future growth in sales and earnings.
As in many other industries, rising costs and intense competition, both domestic and foreign, have exerted increasing pressure on earnings of the textile industry in recent years.
Factory stocks in recent months have been the highest they have been in three years, while those at retail are below 1959.
For the near term, however, it must be realized that the industrial and commercial market is somewhat more sensitive to general business conditions than is the military market, and for this reason I would expect that any gain in 1961 may be somewhat smaller than those of recent years ; ;
In recent years many counties and the U. S. Forest Service have taken aerial photos which show features in detail and are very good for planning use.
There has been an intensification of price-consciousness in recent years ; ;
and much more commonly in recent years, the engineer who found that other duties interfered with -- or eliminated -- his engineering contributions.
In recent years gagwriters have discovered this brand of blunder and thus the misplaced modifier has acquired a new habitat in the gagline.
In recent years, this burden ( which includes allowances for revenue deficiencies in the passenger business and in less-than-carload freight traffic!!
With the development of nuclear technology, isotopic materials, and machine radiation sources in recent years, the possibilities of applying ionizing radiation to the preservation of foods attracted the attention of investigators in the United States and throughout the world.
Contrary to the thinking of 30 to 40 years ago, when all malocclusion was blamed on some unfortunate habit, recent studies show that most tooth irregularity has at least its beginning in hereditary predisposition.
One can apply these facts to Britain in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as she spread her dominion over palm and pine, and they can be applied again to the United States in more recent years.
The other charge was that America's political position in the world has progressively deteriorated in recent years.
Sandman told the gathering that reports from workers on a local level all over the state indicate that Jones will be chosen the Republican Party's nominee with the largest majority given a candidate in recent years.
The great advances made in recent years in Communist strength and in our own capacity to destroy require an educated citizenry in the Western world.

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This is one of multiple periods of failed statehood in Chinese history ( the most recent of which was the Chinese Civil War ).
However, recent reexaminations of Chinese gender roles suggest that many women flourished within Confucianism.
Chuanr ( Chinese: 串儿, pinyin: chuànr ( shortened from " chuan er "); " kebab "), originating in the Xinjiang ( 新疆 ) province of China and in recent years has been disseminated throughout the rest of that country, most notably in Beijing.
A more recent version, more Chinese in style, is prepared by the Ōbaku school of zen, and known as ; this is served at the head temple of Manpuku-ji, as well as various subtemples.
Complaints centered on the recent problems with Chinese production of other consumer products, China's human rights record, exporting of jobs, and China's less than friendly political relationship with the USA.
Eurocentric interpretations focus on interaction with Europe as the driving force behind recent Chinese history.
However, many of these traditionalists will accept using pinyin for more recent Chinese borrowings.
Others prefer pinyin-based Daoism because of growing acceptance internationally of Hanyu Pinyin as the standard romanization for Chinese, as reflected in other recent spelling changes such as the pinyin Beijing that replaced the Wade Pei-ching or Chinese Postal Map Romanization Peking.
The most recent translation is by Bill Porter ( Red Pine ) ( Copper Canyon Press, 2009 ) and distinguishes itself in its extensive commentary by scores of poets, monks, and Chinese scholars.
Its migration routes and wintering grounds are poorly known, the only recent information being from occasional records on both the eastern and western coasts of Japan and along the Chinese coast.
Therefore a continuation of English culture by recent English immigrants was simple and official policy ; the need to integrate with the Chinese populations was thus limited.
Nonetheless, the variation within Mandarin is less significant than the much greater variation found within several other varieties of Chinese ; this is thought to be due to a relatively recent spread of Mandarin across China, combined with a greater ease of travel and communication compared to the more mountainous south of China.
Jackie Chan and Jet Li are prominent movie figures who have been responsible for promoting Chinese martial arts in recent years.
Several of these articles advocated his staunchly feminist views, calling for the liberation of women in Chinese society ; alongside his early experiences with forced arranged marriage, this was possibly influenced by the recent death of his mother and his increasing romantic involvement with Yang Kaihui ( 1901 – 1930 ), the daughter of Mao's recently deceased mentor Yang Changji.
As a result of increased Chinese influence in Burma as well as the safe haven and arms trafficking occurring along the Indo-Burmese border, India has sought in recent years to shore up ties with the military junta.
His most recent book on globalisation, ' A World Without Walls ', has also been published in Chinese and Turkish.
The People's Liberation Army Navy has become more prominent in recent years owing to a change in Chinese strategic priorities.
In recent years, the country has sought to strengthen ties especially with the People's Republic of China by signing the Treaty of Friendship as well as building the Trans-Siberian oil pipeline geared toward growing Chinese energy needs.
However, Jacques ( 2006 ) notes, " comparative work has never been able to put forth evidence for common innovations to all the Tibeto-Burman languages ( the Sino-Tibetan languages to the exclusion of Chinese )," and that " it no longer seems justified to treat Chinese as the first branching of the Sino-Tibetan family ," as the morphological divide between Chinese and Tibeto-Burman has been bridged by recent reconstructions of Old Chinese.
In recent decades, there has been a serious attempt to revive the Theravada Bhikkhuni Sangha with the assistance of Mahayana bhikkhunis from the Chinese lineage.

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