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To assert the right to retaliate against Hamas is not to say that it is just, or wise, to shell large swathes of Gaza.

scary because it seems to reduce great swathes of our humanity, of our activities and our intellectual lives, to a mindless phenomenon.

And began to collect swathes of the gods and the top of the killed human soul and strength.

Looking across the soft green swathes of Hyde Park, The Dorchester is one of the most desirable places in the world to stay.

Unleashed by an unauthorized technical experiment, it spewed radioactive dust over swathes of Ukraine, Belarus, Russia and western Europe.

Despite the marketisation of large swathes of the economy, market measures either do not work or are not available to the authorities.

Now it is one of a host of countries eagerly laying claim to swathes of the seafloor that may one day yield huge riches.

Gambling is the heart of Macao, employing swathes of the workforce and supplying by far the bulk of government revenues.

In Portugal meanwhile fires continued to destroy vast swathes of the country's forests.

Aging infrastructure and cable theft often leave swathes of Johannesburg in the dark.

As it is in vast swathes of China, the new was replacing the old, and it was not doing so slowly. It was doing so in the blink of an eye.

Its companies are "colonising" swathes of Africa and Latin America, cosying up to regimes Westerners shun.

Huge swathes of the wholesale industry's product offering (including some of its most profitable areas) have disappeared.

Japan knows that swathes of its territory will be contaminated, perhaps uninhabitable, for the rest of the century.

Rebels held large swathes of territory after taking heavy losses estimated to be at least 1, 000 killed and many more injured.

Witnesses at the time said that wide swathes of the two villages had been completely leveled by the blasts.

Is exercise and a low-fat diet enough, or should large swathes of the population be prescribed preventative medication?

Perhaps the Great Recession has permanently diminished work opportunities for big swathes of the work force, in particular prime-age men.

In this method only narrow swathes of the product are applied, perpendicular to the direction of the marching hopper bands.

State governments have followed suit; Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama have all closed large swathes as well.

The big blackouts over swathes of India in the summer of 2012 were widely blamed on its burgeoning middle class's desire to keep cool.

Counting in Democrats' favour, however, the weather was forecast to be clear across large swathes of the country.

Accordingly, planners have decided to block off huge swathes of downtown Washington.

First, Mr Barnier and his colleagues are under pressure to propose swathes of crowd-pleasing regulation, especially in financial services.

And lots of officials like the current system of auctioning swathes of land, a recipe for "rent-seeking" .

The fires come as large swathes of Australia have been grappling with a severe drought.

Swathes of the country still lack broadband access, though it is hard to tell how far they extend.

Instead, the FCC has used the switch to digital television as an opportunity to free huge swathes of bandwidth for others to use.

Militia leaders and rogue army commanders still control swathes of it.

Our suburbs are changing as swathes of properties are being bought by foreigners seeking a home purely as an investment.

The Papuan development will involve clearing vast swathes of virgin rainforest, including additional areas for support facilities.

Like drainage ways and canals, railroad corridors offer pre-established swathes through the landscape.

SAC itself has received a subpoena from the federal government, which has made a request for broad swathes of information.

Swathes of smoke mark out the shashlik kebab stalls beside sellers of reams of gaudily coloured polyester material.

What may have finally tipped the balance, dam critics say, is a severe drought affecting swathes of central and eastern China.

But it is less sure that it could deal so adroitly with grievances shared by swathes of the middle class.

Those policies also created the huge rift seen today between China's select urban areas and vast swathes of impoverished rural hinterlands.

He effectively subverts this mood by injecting abstract swathes of bright colour into the compositions.

What applies with champagne applies across whole swathes of industries: the top end is suffering.

In swathes of Britain, including Scotland, the state accounts for the bulk of the economy.

These APIs are often complicated and come with whole swathes of tests to verify compliance.

Each year hundreds of volunteers and villagers plant four different varieties of rice in late May across huge swathes of paddy fields.

Huge swathes of industry were protected from foreign competition by high import tariffs, leaving them moribund.

There's a tree called "horizontal" that weaves through large swathes of forest making them virtually impenetrable.

Snow has blanketed swathes of the disaster zone, where many survivors have little food, water or heat.

Russia's summer misery continued, as forest wildfires spread across large swathes of the country.

The quake devastated Port-au-Prince and left swathes of the country's fragile infrastructure in ruins.

prices shoot up when it gets mired after rain. Swathes of the south are inaccessible.

Illegal deforestation happens when ranchers and loggers conspire to clear swathes of land.

The resulting economic shrinkage is leaving large swathes of property in negative equity.

If this means vast swathes of valuable forest being sold to private developers, it will be an unforgiveable act of environmental vandalism.

Large swathes of China is seismically unstable, although most earthquakes occur in the relatively sparsely populated western regions.

Moreover, for "wasteland" , like swathes of Tawa's mountain slopes, auctions are common.

When Lewis and Clark crossed America's heartland, they tramped through wide swathes of oak forests.

The Depression, in contrast, not only refashioned the structure of American finance but brought regulation to whole swathes of the economy.

SIX weeks after Mwai Kibaki stole an election, the bloodshed and ethnic cleansing in swathes of Kenya are getting frighteningly worse.

AS HUMANITY grabs great swathes of land for its use, the wilderness favoured by other animals shrinks.

In the other, a stretch of coast about 10km (six miles) long showed significant damage, with swathes of grass brown and shedding leaves.

Mr Pitera has ideas for how Detroit might use its swathes of abandoned land, whether for farms or artists, theatres or wind projects.

The grid lost about half the generated energy, and missed out swathes of the country.

The party is rapidly disappearing in whole swathes of America.

Australia, New Zealand and swathes of east Africa hold the strongest ties to Britain.

In contrast, northern Europe, swathes of Russia and bits of America were colder.

In Brazil, the Amazon Fund has been established to preserve vast swathes of forest as quickly as possible.

Similar practices are common throughout large swathes of Asia.

Others watched television, amid swathes of unused floor space.

It has made no collections in swathes of AP for three weeks.

This way China has rapidly acquired interests and influence across swathes of South-East Asia, Africa and Central Asia.

Vast swathes of land are almost empty. David Bieter, the mayor of Boise, says his city could easily double in size again.

But swathes of the population are struggling.

But they cheat: they steal swathes of genes from bacteria, fungi and plants.

Such swathes of digital desert are still rare in the blogosphere.

Many of the remaining homes sit in swathes of prairie created by untended empty lots.

His outfit had killed over 3, 000 security officers and captured large swathes of Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province (NWFP).

The swathes of downed trees may actually turn forests from carbon sinks to sources, according to an April 2008 study.

A cold wave sweeping across large swathes of China has forced power rationing in some provinces.

Skating breezily across swathes of economic policy, his theme is that new capitalism will be defined by experimentation.

But the fires burning for three straight days obliterated vast swathes of the country and the death toll rose by 11 on Sunday to 60.

Centre-left politicians fret over what the new stringency might do to areas such as Naples, where huge swathes of the economy are black.

In the past, nations migratedacross huge swathes of the earth in search of food, adventure, and more hospitable environments.

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Millions of people in Asia will see the longest total solar eclipse this century as swathes of India and China are plunged into darkness.

works of art and vast swathes of Spanish real estate to marry for love at 85.

The team is using an imaging system based on mass spectrometry to detect swathes of signals at the same time.

The 3. 3 sq km (1. 27 sq mile) neighborhood, with more than 1, 000 residents, boasts green swathes which provide shade in the summer heat.

Many of the developments like this one in Ordos, China, have swathes of newly-created public space completely unused by anyone

The guerrillas still control swathes of rural Colombia

In Southeast Asia, rubber trees now occupy huge swathes of land;