Yes, indeed, they tore at the fabric of the Tunisian government and helped launch the revolts in the Middle East and a wave of freedom – and, we hope, democracy – across borders.
A democratic Iraq could send a tidal wave of freedom crashing over Syrian borders, drowning the hapless regime.
Soon a tidal wave of freedom-seekers from across Eastern Europe began pouring across the border, and within months it would sweep across East Germany and topple the Berlin Wall.
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Britons and Americans have become strikingly intolerant of such individual acts as smoking tobacco (see article), and have extended the remit of crime and punishment in other areas, even as the wave of economic freedoms has washed over both countries and even as, in matters of sexual and other mores, both societies have become far more tolerant.
The Faulkner plaque, conspicuously placed on the shop's facade right in the center of the outdoor seating area, was the beginning of an onslaught that featured prominent signs instructing customers to order in English and a steady stream of interviews with the late Joey Vento lamenting the plight of Italian Americans in facing the current wave of goddamned freedom-hating immigrants. .
The religious freedom that the Puritans sought, the freedom that attracted wave after wave of immigrants, the freedom that slaves and suffragettes and workers yearned for -- this wasn't freedom from our government, this was freedom guaranteed by our government.
Waving the banner of freedom and mustering the will to act aren't enough.
Not mentioned in the July 11 Summer Shorelines series article "Chasing Waves in Pursuit of Freedom," about the Jetty Jumpers of the New York waterways, is the peril that these speed demons on Jet Skis present to people in kayaks.
Figure 1 shows the energy densities in terms of either states (due to incoming P, SV, SH and Rayleigh waves) or degrees of freedom.
