Every pastor, he said in one sermon, has a divine mandate to "capture our Jerusalem for Christ," then "capture our surrounding province, or state, our Judaea for Christ," then "capture the adjacent nations, our Samarias," and, finally, "touch the uttermost part of the earth and likewise capture it for Christ".
"Ukraine and any other adjacent nations in a similar position need to be leery of attacks that soften, test, probe and seek to destabilize because destabilization is a heartbeat away from so-called police actions, nation-building, and adventurism," Sam Curry, chief security officer at Cybereason, told VICE News in an email.
If Russia succeeds in preventing Ukraine from embarking on this course, the pressure on a number of Central and Eastern European countries will rise; adjacent nation-states to the east running a much less liberal and less open system will not be "nice" neighbors.
Viking raids were often part of struggles among Scandinavian nobility for power and status, and like other nations adjacent to the Franks, the Danes were well-informed about the political situation in Francia; in the 830s and early 840s they took advantage of the Frankish civil wars.
President George W Bush liked the idea of a Christian nation adjacent to Islamic Sudan after September 11, and President Barack Obama continued to uphold this vision, though with less enthusiasm.
The construction of a new $9 million exhibition space for the Liberty Bell drew attention to this adjacent site, where the nation's first two presidents — George Washington and John Adams — had lived between 1790 and 1800, when Philadelphia was the nation's capital.
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If co-hosting has a future, it will be in smaller nations that are genuinely adjacent.
Operation Overhear, which invited NATO nations to sit in an adjacent room with the door open while nuclear strategy was being discussed, & Operation Overlook, which allowed member nations to watch our nuclear planning through a plate glass window but not to hear what was being said.
Since 1981, the Schaghticoke Tribal Nation has sought 2,000 acres adjacent to its reservation, claiming that it was taken from them.
The widening gap in life expectancy between these two adjacent Florida counties reflects perhaps the starkest outcome of the nation's growing economic inequality: Even as the nation's life expectancy has marched steadily upward... a growing body of research shows that those gains are going mostly to those at the upper end of the income ladder.
