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Evita: In the New Republic , historian Enrique Krauze lists the horrors of Perónism glossed over by the musical and film: the torture and murder of political opponents, often under Nazi tutelage; the sheltering of war criminals, possibly for personal profit; the destruction of the Argentine economy; the laying of the cornerstone for the "Dirty Wars" of the 1970s and 1980s.
Cousy boasted that Bradley "makes human rights a cornerstone, really, in terms of his priorities … All those problems stem, obviously, from man's inhumanity to man.
Gesher's [Levy's political party's] pulling out of the coalition removes a cornerstone from the Netanyahu government.
The cornerstone of the treaty is its support for the "precautionary principle," which allows countries to ban the import of genetically altered products without conclusive scientific proof that said products are hazardous.
Accurate staging represents the cornerstone for triaging patients to either localized or to more aggressive and systemic therapies.