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I find it very hard to see how Bell's forecasts about the future, prescient as they may be, flow from this rather inert theory obtained by weakening that of Marx.
7. The change from numble pie to umble pie to humble pie , attributed to “some anonymous punster in the time of William the Conqueror,” was actually due to the same influences that changed a napron to an apron in the first instance and to the characteristic weakening of the initial h in English, heard today in an historical, an hilarious , etc.
They feared it could fatally damage the authority of the United Nations and lead to a resumption of the Cold War, while benefiting Saddam Hussein and weakening NATO by setting Greece and Turkey against each other.
Setbacks in the Chechen war were widely seen as weakening Vladimir Putin's position as the front-running candidate for the Russian presidency.
The growing scandal is expected to hinder the peace process by preoccupying Netanyahu, weakening his hold over Israel's extreme right, and discouraging the Labor Party from forming a coalition government with him.