After all, Syria is situated on a national, sectarian, regional, and geopolitical fault line, where the strategic interests of Russia, China, Iran, Iraq, and Lebanon confront those of NATO, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, and Jordan.

Walking through the mall, you just keep bumping into people.

It is true that, in practice, the exercise of this right is limited by the various constraints faced by women.

Race has always been a provocative subject when the needs of science and statistics intersect with politics.

Logistical obstacles prevent the Government from conducting investigations and prosecuting perpetrators throughout the country.

Financial regulation is driven by the interests of banks, health policy by the interests of insurance companies, and tax policy by the interests of the rich.

You may know that birds don't understand the concept of glass. They don't see it, so they fly into the windows and get killed.

With the support of the National Commission for the Development of Indigenous Peoples, legislation in Mexico has been amended to increase opportunities for action by an extensive network of community radio stations operating in indigenous areas, but these stations run up against the commercial interests of private broadcasters.

The president s domestic agenda is bold and revolutionary, but it clashes frontally with the most fundamental tenets of America s liberal and individualistic ethos.

We know that the investigations carried out by the International Criminal Court often run up against security problems on the ground.

She feared that independent central banks would serve the interests of their banking clients, rather than those of the economy as a whole.

This is a locust. There can be 80 million of them in a square kilometer, and yet they don't collide with one another.

The traditional value system of a State, which is predicated on welfare considerations for its citizens, is challenged by the profit orientation of the market system.

The best interests of the child

Management reforms directly pit the interests of Members against those of the Organization as a whole.

Argentina s interests and those of its creditors were thus aligned both wanted growth.

Clearly, the supply reflected only the exporting State's and Iraq's interests, not those of the organization.

Instead, China should openly confront those neighbors with which it has disputed claims.

People have goals and interests.

In light of article 3 of the Convention, States parties must guarantee that in all activities and programmes concerning children, whether undertaken in public or private early childhood institutions, the best interests of the child shall be a primary consideration.

It is another matter altogether to subvert democracy by privileging particular interests over others.

And the peace process will creep forward more process than peace until it encounters the next roadblock.

This requires that Pakistan s and Iran s interests be included in this consensus, as well as India s, Saudi Arabia s and probably also China s.

To be sure, on many issues the interests of corporate insiders overlap with those of investors, and here insiders can be expected to lobby in directions that are consistent with the interests of shareholders.

Both decisions acknowledge that the current rules of the international economic game reflect the interests of the advanced industrial countries especially of their big corporations more than the interests of the developing world.

One answer would be because the kinetic energy of the water molecules is high and they bounce against things rapidly that's a kind of physical science argument.

But many of the BRICS, along with some other emerging economies, may hit a thick wall, with growth and financial markets taking a serious beating.

Indigenous peoples encounter various difficulties in effectively exercising their right to enjoy their own culture in community with other members of their group and maintaining the use of their languages.

This serves the interests of both sides.

Pakistan has no interests in that conflict.

There is no umpire between us, that might lay his hand on us both.

Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both.

(iv) Enable effective balance and engagement of the interests of members

The ACP Group expected a balanced package that took into account the interests and concerns of all, and in particular those of small, weak and vulnerable countries.

You don't see luminescence until the submersible begins to move forward through the water, but as it does, animals bumping into the screen are stimulated to bioluminesce.

So, no surprise, the energy of Libyan youth ran head on into Qaddafi s inclination toward brutality and, more importantly, into his paid mercenaries.

Meanwhile, austerity fatigue in the eurozone periphery is increasingly clashing with bailout fatigue in the core.

WASHINGTON, DC Negotiations over Iran s nuclear program have again hit a wall, but the country s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, appears unconcerned.

China s Iranian interests boil down to economics.

Both countries have growing strategic interests in the region.

Thereafter, the two camps interests and conclusions diverged sharply.

The women's association of the Parliament has a great potential in protecting the interests of women.

For the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovakia, close cooperation with Poland may not be the best way to protect their interests in the EU, as their interests and the interests of a big, self confident Poland may not be identical.

Why? Because as your attention shifts to your cell phone, you are actually losing the capacity to react swiftly to the car braking in front of you, and so you're much more likely to get engaged into a car accident.

Gordon Brown on global ethic vs. national interest