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...many words, the U.S.S.R., China (whose Foreign Minister, Qian Qichen, Baker met in Cairo) and France indicated that they would at least not veto a Security Council resolution approving the use of force. But the allies generally made it clear that such a resolution is a sine qua non if they are to go into battle alongside...
Toxic waste and radioactive contamination could lead to shortages of safe drinking water, the sine qua non of human existence. And in a world that could house between 8 billion and 14 billion people by the mid-21st century, there is a strong likelihood of mass starvation. It is even possible to envision the world so wryly and chillingly prophesied by the typewriting cockroach in Donald Marquis' archy and mehitabel: "man is making deserts of the earth/ it wont be long now/ before man will have it used up/ so that nothing but ants/ and centipedes and scorpions/ can find...
...Philippines, a former U.S. colony and longtime beneficiary of American goodwill, was consigned, informally at least, to a kind of probationary status during Ferdinand Marcos' dictatorship; the "People * Power" revolution and the triumph of Corazon Aquino, however flawed and fragile, have been a reminder that democracy is a sine qua non for a special relationship with...
...leadership, the trade issue has not only dogged him but has also put him in a seemingly contradictory situation. While he is running as the man who led Canada into an era of sunny prosperity, he is also campaigning on the claim that free trade is the sine qua non of Canada's economic future...
Take a recent description of an aspect of Hegel's philosophy that I read. What the author meant to say in the sentence was that Hegel believed that self-consciousness lay at the core of mankind's production of artwork. Instead he produced a sentence with many "qua's" scattered throughout. He even added a German passage in the middle of the sentence without feeling any particular need to translate...