Word: align
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...everyone is convinced of his good faith. Mohammed Ali Abtahi, who was Vice President to President Mohammed Khatami, the reformist President of Iran from 1997 to 2005, ridicules the idea that reformers would truly align themselves with the centrist bloc Qalibaf envisions. "In reality this is a political current constructed by the state in order to present personalities from the conservatives like Qalibaf as reformists," Abtahi says, pointing out that Qalibaf played a prominent role in quelling pro-democracy dissent during Khatami's presidency. And while perhaps not the unreconstructed revolutionary that Iran's hard-liners so admire, Qalibaf...
...part because he needs support from both parties for his various world projects. His new willingness to embrace causes regardless of their political implications places him firmly in the movement of New Evangelicalism, which remains socially conservative but has opinions on, say, Christianity in China that don't align with either political party...
...Blatt explained that the education school had already embarked on a calendar reform initiative because it wanted to align its calendar with that of some of the other professional schools...
...free time. If University Hall agrees to burn the midnight oil, then perhaps they could justify eliminating online forms. However, this step only represents one more bureaucratic hurdle set up against fun. (Not to mention that printing out hundreds of PDFs a year doesn’t quite align with University Hall’s goal for a green campus.)Other than those two points, the letter of the report appears sound. But the spirit in which the administration carries out these changes will ultimately determine the effectiveness of this policy. So far, the draft has been formed...
...fact, when asked whether Latvia’s geopolitical interests align more with Western Europe or Russia in the post-Putin era, Vike-Freiberga said that “there is not even a question...