Word: graduality
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Either your whole life is Christian and you submit it to God, or none of your life is Christian and you refuse to submit it to Him," Hansen says. He describes life as a gradual process of "taking out 'Do Not Enter' signs that stand between...
...since 1979, when Washington recognized Beijing as the sole government of China. (China regards Taiwan, the seat of the Nationalist Chinese who fled the communist takeover of the Chinese mainland in 1949, as a renegade province.) The State Department has been loath toupset its delicate China policyin hope that gradual pressure will persuade Beijing to moderate its trade and human rights policies. But they said recent outcries from Capitol Hill -- including near-unanimous House and Senate resolutions supporting the visa application last month -- have forced President Clinton to make an exception of Lee as a "friend of democracy...
...accounts, the descent into delusion is gradual. Everyone has experienced slights, insults or failures at one time or another, and most people find some way to cope. Or, if they don't, a trusted friend or family member may persuade them to forget the past and get on with their lives. But if they cannot shake off the sense of humiliation, they may instead nourish their grudges and start a mental list of all the injustices in their lives. Rather than take a critical look at themselves, they blame their troubles on "the company," for example, or "the government...
KIET: We will restructure the economy with gradual political democratization. We are trying to build a state based on the rule of law. We will continue to develop a law-abiding state to ensure that everyone from whatever position in society is equal under the law. We think that is political reform, which brings freedom to everyone...
...communism they can get away with jettisoning. A recent internal party poll showed that 47% of the government's top bureaucrats would just as soon have some other system. But so far, no one knows what that might be. "The politburo keeps talking about evils like peaceful evolution [the gradual erosion of communist control]," says a party economist. "There is only one evil: low growth...