If the Americans and English, the Ukrainians and Canadians in Srebrenica, in the meantime it's the Dutch, would not protect them, they would have disappeared from this area long ago . . .
But by introducing tougher labor and environmental standards and ending tax breaks for thousands of factories here, the government has sent a powerful signal about its global ambitions, and helped encourage an exodus of factories from an area long considered the world's shop floor.
Famous as the abode of the bodhisattva Mañju r (known for his habit of riding around the mountain on a lion), the site in northeastern China's Shanxi Province was transformed from a wild area, long believed by Daoists to be sacred, into an elaborate complex of Buddhist monasteries.
Throughout the area, long lines continued.
Third, in rural areas, long distances from health facilities and poor quality of health services at community health centers have been cited as possible reasons for the continued growth of self-treatment [ 9, 17].
The bill would exempt 52 buildings along the two blocks, an area about 1,800 feet long, from a current voter-approved ban on new billboard advertising.
People in rural areas have long suffered from slow internet speeds, but could new technology help bridge the divide between town and country?
The area has long suffered from government indifference, resulting in weak health and education services and infrastructure.
The area was long isolated from the south and east by moorlands, peat bogs, lakes, and forests.
In fact Tesco was granted planning permission in Sheringham after the local council conducted an official poll to determine views in the area, a long way from a process which "grinds down the resistance of local people" as Monbiot suggested.
