Word: ades
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...This poise, she assures you, is strictly a façade. “I’m a little stressed,” she says...
...guise of a broad education is just a red herring, if not a façade for promoting the terrorist agenda. We are in a state of war. We need to focus on the problem at hand: eradicating the unreasonable, ungodly, democracy-hating savages from the face of this Earth. These people do not listen to reason—they are religious extremists who only understand hatred. We have to fight fire with fire—not with a required half-course in each of seven unique fields...
...Location of Culture.” In addition to his leather manbag stuffed with Marlboro Reds and Saturday night show tickets for the Middle East, he sports an ironic Communist slogan T-shirt. But don’t be fooled by the façade of pretension; he’s actually quite approachable—when it comes to post-Wall Berlin cinema...
Within 48 hours, the whole faade falls apart. As soon as it is time for action, the will evaporates. Beijing reverses course. The U.S. waters down its proposed resolution. At Russian and Chinese insistence, the unanimously approved Security Council resolution imposes mere inconveniences that do nothing to threaten the regime's survival...
...into practice is extremely complicated. Cultural legacies are the first problem. Conquered by two naval superpowers with Papal mandates, Latin America was plundered for precious metals as its indigenous populations died from disease and war. Spaniards and Portuguese alike were highly autocratic, installing viceroys without even the façade of local representation...