Word: turning
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...insufficient focus on these two issues in the development debate - and in particular recognition of the importance of political leadership. Even with outside support, governments still need capacity at their center capable of taking and implementing big strategic decisions. Without it, even the greatest visionaries find it hard to turn aspirations into actions...
...Some students, myself once included, absolutely hesitate to turn the page to some chapter unfamiliar to them out of fear of ‘failure’ or some dark mark on their transcript,” Malan wrote in an e-mail. “With this change to sat/unsat, CS50 hopes to free students to explore a world beyond their own comfort zone...
...Labour hopes that its proposals, which could also see fans offered right of first refusal to buy their club in the event that it was put up for sale, could coax many football fans to turn out for the party come election day. "There's the potential for [the plan] to be very popular in an electoral sense," says Duncan Drasdo, chief executive of the Manchester United Supporters Trust (MUST), which advocates for fans having an ownership stake in the club. A large number of United's 3.8 million adult fans in the U.K. live in marginal constituencies, Drasdo says...
...reconciliation between Poland and Germany - bitter enemies in World War II - took place. And it is only a matter of decades since something similar happened between the Germans and the French. A Europe in which old enmities like that between Russia and Poland have been put aside will in turn make the relationship of the U.S. with Russia easier...
...Mohammed School more than Jeremiah Ellis. He had worked on it for months; he figured it would be Dog Company's legacy in Senjaray. It fit perfectly into the Army's new counterinsurgency doctrine: protect the people, provide them with security and government services, and they will turn away from the insurgency. Unlike many of his fellow officers in Zhari district, and many of the troops under his command, Ellis really believed in counterinsurgency (COIN) doctrine...