Word: offshoots
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These accusations came as an offshoot of Summers’ responses to questions centered around what the “Matrix” author states as “a seemingly obvious point in the forum: some of the largest problems facing the developing world health, such as AIDS and nutrition, could be combated globally if trade policies were adapted in order to prevent further impoverishment of poor countries...
...Little known outside Japan, the New Komeito is an offshoot of the country's largest lay Buddhist organization, Soka Gakkai. In the elections, the New Komeito was the only party other than the DPJ to pick up more seats, increasing its bloc from 31 to 34. But the New Komeito's influence radiates far wider than those numbers indicate. As most smaller parties drift into irrelevance or disband completely, the New Komeito, as a member of the LDP's ruling coalition, is cementing its role as kingmaker...
...that the absence of channels for democratic political participation in Arab states has helped foster terrorism, which has eventually been exported. Osama Bin Laden may be Saudi, but most of the top-tier al-Qaeda leadership at the time of 9/11 were veterans of Egyptian Islamic Jihad, a militant offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood that turned to terrorism in response to the Sadat regime's peace treaty with Israel, and found hundreds of willing recruits in Egypt's middle class and in its officer corps. The Brotherhood, of course, is a far more moderate Islamist entity than Jihad, originating...
...taller player like Sifers (5’8), speed is an offshoot of agility...
...legal controversy is the latest offshoot of the military’s controversial “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, which emerged in the mid-1990s...