As systems of exceedingly fine atoms, they live remotely, unconcerned with human affairs, examples to humans of the ideal life of perfect happiness (absence of mental fear, emotional turmoil, and bodily pain).
Writing about the Thalidomide affair, for example, often meant hazarding a jail sentence or a heavy fine for contempt.
But he is not a Russia expert (he undertook the journey for a BBC television series), and makes some mistakes and simplifications, over Chechnya and the Yukos affair, for example.
Of the several occasions when he himself attracted critical attention — the Pat Tillman affair, for example, or the leaking of his Afghan strategic assessment — McChrystal offers explanations that fall somewhere between perfunctory and disingenuous.
The BBC Trust says we are doing that pretty well in current affairs for example.
The authorities may not be looking for people indulging in extramarital affairs, for example, but they have no doubt recorded some.
If a future owner tried to water down these requirements – by broadcasting less news and current affairs for example – then the regulator should say no, he said.
But the very scale of America's clandestine electronic operations appears to be undercutting America's "soft power" — its ability to influence global affairs through example and moral leadership.
So if Mr. Corzine had picked someone likely to placate the bosses -- Susan Bass Levin, the former Cherry Hill mayor and state commissioner of community affairs, for example, was being touted for the job by many Trenton insiders -- it would have suggested that business in the state Capitol was likely to carry on as usual.
Each niche you focus on R&D or regulatory affairs, for example—has its own set of terms and acronyms, which you can learn about by conducting a few informational interviews with people in these areas.
This does not, however, reflect a global state of affairs: for example, Bottlenose dolphins in captive facilities in Jamaica suffer from extremely high mortality rates.
