Western observers also have noted Eritrea ’ s excellent potential for quarrying ornamental marble and granite.

Early Western travelers, whether to Persia, Turkey or China frequently remark on the absence of changes in fashion there, and observers from these other cultures comment on the unseemly pace of Western fashion, which many felt suggested an instability and lack of order in Western culture.

Bukharin's confession and his motivation became subject of much debate among Western observers, inspiring Koestler's acclaimed novel Darkness at Noon and a philosophical essay by Maurice Merleau-Ponty in Humanism and Terror.

The situation was fueled through several public insults Nobunaga had directed at Mitsuhide that even drew the attention of some Western observers.

Western observers have raised questions as to how much of Russia's political system corresponds to Western liberal democratic ideals.

Independent electoral observers from around the world – including groups from the UN as well as observers from Western Europe – found that the elections had been fair.

Some Western scholars, citing anonymous " observers " or " Tajiks around the country ", accordingly estimate the number of Tajiks in Uzbekistan at 20 % or even as high as 25 %- 30 %.

In 2001, he was re-elected as president in elections described as undemocratic by Western observers.

According to most Western observers as well as followers of Deng Xiaoping, this led to almost an entire generation of inadequately educated individuals.

Western observers suggest that much of China's thousands of years of history was in effect destroyed or, later, smuggled abroad for sale, during the short ten years of the Cultural Revolution.

Bukharin's testimony became the subject of much debate among Western observers, inspiring Koestler's acclaimed novel Darkness at Noon and a philosophical essay by Maurice Merleau-Ponty in Humanism and Terror, among others.

This resulted in Western observers assigning their own designations to the missions, for example Luna E-1 No. 1, the first failure of 1958 which NASA believed was associated with the Luna programme was known as Luna 1958A.

Some Western observers who attended the trials said that they were fair and that the guilt of the accused had been established.

Bukharin's confession in particular became subject of much debate among Western observers, inspiring Koestler's acclaimed novel Darkness at Noon and philosophical essay by Maurice Merleau-Ponty in Humanism and Terror.

Her dynamic personality and style caught the attention of Western media and observers.

Western observers generally view the year that Zhao served as General Secretary as the most open in the history of the People's Republic of China.

Western observers attribute a sense of caution to Hu's philosophies, citing China's recent history of fallen heirs.

What has been written about berdaches reflects more the influence of existing Western discourses on gender, sexuality and the Other than what observers actually witnessed.

Accompanying the Minister were several Western observers, including Italian naval attaché Ernesto Burzagli who photographed the inspection tour.

" By 2010, almost 20 years later, the estimated wealth of the Al-Sabah family is unknown, but many observers predict that it has tripled, or even quadrupled over the years, as the Al-Sabah's have the largest shares in almost all the blue chip corporations in the Western world, with tens of billions of dollars invested in companies from Citibank to Daimler AG to Merrill Lynch.

Saint Anthony decided to follow this tradition and headed out into the alkaline Nitrian Desert region ( which became the location of the noted monasteries of Nitria, Kellia and Scetis ), about west of Alexandria, on the edge of the Western Desert.

A New York writer sent to Tulsa, Oklahoma in late 1940 / early 1941 noted an "... Oklahoma version of shag done to the Western Swing music of Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys at the Cain's Dancing Academy in Tulsa.

It should be noted, however, that the vocabulary of Interlingua extends beyond the Western language families.

As noted, the country also is a member of NATO's Partnership for Peace as well as an observer in the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council and the Western European Union.

The Hungarian tribes of Árpád vezér who came to settle in the Carpathian Basin were noted for their fearsome light cavalry, which conducted frequent raids throughout much of Western Europe ( as far as present-day Spain ), maintaining their military supremacy with long range and rapid-firing reflex bows.

A Time review of The Hour of Decision noted his international popularity as a polemicist, observing that " When Oswald Spengler speaks, many a Western Worldling stops to listen ".

In Whitehead's Science and the Modern World ( 1925 ), he noted that the human intuitions and experiences of science, aesthetics, ethics, and religion influence the worldview of a community, but that in the last several centuries science dominates Western culture.

It should be noted, however, that socialist legality itself still lacked features associated with Western jurisprudence.

Theorists such as Ralf Dahrendorf have noted the tendency toward an enlarged middle class in modern Western societies, particularly in relation to the necessity of an educated work force in technological economies.

Christopher Frayling, in his noted book on the Italian Western, describes American critical reception of the spaghetti Western cycle as, to " a large extent, confined to a sterile debate about the ' cultural roots ' of the American / Hollywood Western.

St Gall is noted as an early user of neume, the basic element of Western and Eastern systems of musical notation prior to the invention of five-line staff notation.

This century is noted for being a time of repeated disaster and instability both internally and externally for the Western Roman Empire, which finally unravelled, and came to an end in AD 476.

In a footnote to a poem titled Speech to the Western Indians, ( published 1813 ) Arent DePeyster, British commandant at Fort Michilimackinac from 1774 to 1779, noted that " Baptist Point de Saible " was " handsome ", " well educated ", and " settled in Eschecagou ".

He was most noted for his extensive writing on the geography, history and customs of Russia and contributed greatly to early Western European knowledge of that area.

Further, the Umayyads appear not to have scouted northward for potential foes, for if they had, they surely would have noted Charles Martel as a force to be reckoned with in his own account, because of his growing domination of much of Europe from 717: this might have alerted the Umayyads that a real power led by a gifted general was rising from the ashes of the Western Roman Empire.

IS interpreter Bill Moody noted in a 1994 paper that the vocabulary used in conference settings is largely derived from the sign languages of the Western world and is less comprehensible to those from African or Asian sign language backgrounds.

Further, it has to be noted that Niggaz with Attitude themselves, together with performers like Ice Cube and Dre Dre initiated the ' gangsta hip-hop ', a subgenre which was especially popular in those parts of the Western Gernamn scene in which identification with this youth culture bordered on glorification " ( 258 )

And, a New York writer sent to Tulsa, Oklahoma in late 1940 / early 1941 noted an " Oklahoma version of shag " done to the Western Swing music of Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys at the Cain's Dancing Academy in Tulsa.

In March 2007, it was noted that the destruction of the Western Line railway base found below the floor of the Taipei Main Station and built in 1893 by Qing Empire-appointed Governor of Taiwan Province Liu Mingchuan was part of the government's call for desinicization through removal of the Chinese site.

" Chelo also noted that " It is this Western Wall which stands before the temple of Omar ibn al Khattab, and which is called the Gate of Mercy.

In Sweden, birds were found to be the primary prey, with the most common prey species being the Western Capercaillie ( Tetrao urogallus ); while in sub-Arctic regions a strong preference for Rock Ptarmigan ( Lagopus muta ) has been noted.