Familiarity really is the gateway drug to empathy.

In many countries, lawyers and judges lack familiarity with legal concepts of discrimination.

I hate the idea that governments have dropped this ball and I can't get used to the idea that somehow we can't get them to do their jobs.

But, either way, the bipolar political system to which Italians were getting accustomed is unlikely to survive unscathed.

Even if you don't like it, you'll have to get used to this because at the moment, 70 percent of all our agricultural land is being used to produce livestock.

Mark Twain once said, Fewer things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

In particular, China s two systems in one country enabled exports to bonded warehouses in Hong Kong to be used to pad trade statistics.

Of course, this is an impossible demand. Short of unleashing massive and bloody ethnic cleansing Bosnia, on a continental scale Americans and others have no choice but to get used to living in increasingly diverse societies.