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Its forces have trained hard for just such an engagement, as well as working on improvements to civil defence, supply lines, planning and public relations.
BBC: Hamas ready for bitter urban battle
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More broadly, he fails to draw clear lines around which civil liberties would remain inviolable regardless of the super-majority in Congress.
ECONOMIST: Civil liberties
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This is what happened during the early 1960s, when a young generation of print and television reporters brought the nation vivid reports from the front lines of the civil rights struggle.
CNN: Seize the immigration deal
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During that time, the countervailing institutions of the new state tend to wither in their infancy, constitutions are swept aside and the civil service is politicized as lines blur between government and party.
WSJ: The Real Legacy of Nelson Mandela
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In speeches he has made subsequently, Lord Butler has been highly critical of the blurring of lines between political appointees and civil servants.
ECONOMIST: Intelligence
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Even worse, the army might split along ethnic lines, plunging the country into civil war and catastrophe on a vast scale for Nigeria's 100m people and the 60m or so neighbours at risk from Nigerian instability.
ECONOMIST: Abacha��s wobbly throne
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We are people standing on the front lines, elected politicians, businesspeople, civil servants, journalists.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Martin Lee: Keeper Of The Flame
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Meanwhile, other representatives of civil society also tend to vote along party political lines.
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It was crucial that the supporters of civil rights took the time to organize across partisan lines, build their strength and, just as importantly, wait for the opposition to show its weakness.
NPR: In Filibuster Fight, Both Parties Switch Stances
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The battle lines are drawn: it is the government versus "civil society" in India now.
BBC: India's activists on warpath against the government
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As the country says goodbye to Coretta Scott King, Commentator Lester Spence reminds us she should be remembered not only for being the widow of a great civil rights leader, but also for her own work on the front lines of the freedom movement.
NPR: Coretta Scott King, a Leader in Her Own Right