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"Our country is still fighting two wars, confronts ongoing terrorist threats around the globe, and faces other major powers investing heavily in their military," Mr. Gates said Monday.

As it confronts ongoing problems of representation, equity and legitimacy, ACOFOP now encourages associated community forest concessions to diversify beyond commercial timber into collectively organized non-timber forest activities.

The chair of the judges, the curator and broadcaster Tim Marlow, said they had been particularly struck by "the visceral power and urgency" of Margolles "as well as the sophistication of her work in confronting an ongoing human tragedy".

Still, politicians and civil rights leaders said the flag was largely that – "a symbol of hate" – and that the United States had "unfinished business" to confront its ongoing legacy of structural racism.

Unless mortuaries are modified to deal with the increasing numbers of morbidly obese individuals, with reinforced and robust equipment including lifting hoists, the autopsy examination of such cases may be compromised, and staff will be confronted with ongoing and increasing risk of injury.

The VA that Shinseki inherits will confront the ongoing consequences of two wars and an economy in recession.

In 2007 he was present when President George W. Bush gave a policy speech on the genocide in Darfur and announced new steps to confront the ongoing atrocities perpetrated by the Sudanese government against some of its ethnic minorities.

Meanwhile, journalist and MTV Latin America personality Ilana Sod travels to Juarez in the north of Mexico to confront the ongoing violent murders of women there.

While the board and the company's execs will argue that they have a strategy moving forward, they confront two other ongoing firefighting challenges and one new one that could be another round of bruising internecine warfare.

The knowledge of genetic risk is lifelong and individuals and families often find themselves confronted with an ongoing need to face issues and make decisions.

The movement asks the university to "confront its role in ongoing physical and ideological violence of empire".