The dispute over the term "Persian Gulf" is a reminder that what a place is called can have powerful political repercussions.
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People who come here say 'what a lovely place, I didn't know it existed'.
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What a great place to let the free market run wild with innovation.
"Those of us who were on that tour last time realise what a tough place it is to tour, " he said.
But what about a place like Lancaster, Pennsylvania, population 55, 000?
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"I knew it was time to leave when I realised I could no longer look students in the eye and tell them what a great place this was to work, " he wrote.
And what a great place to do so.
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Instead of trumpeting what a remarkable place it is, and how remarkably far-sighted they have been to allow it to stay that way, Chinese leaders cannot help but sound grudging and suspicious, preferring to boost, for example, Shanghai.
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In short, neither the distorted reality in which he lived nor the disorganized psychology of his thoughts allowed him a minimal understanding of what attorneys and judges do, of what it means to commit a crime, and of what takes place in a court.
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This is a sad misunderstanding of what a market is: simply a place where exchanges take place.
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That is what happens when a place gets Tour of Britain fever.
But what makes America great, what continues to make America the envy of our competitors, what makes this a place where people come not just to invest but to start lives and businesses and families, is something that has been inexorable and enduring, especially in times of great challenge and great change.
Obviously, they don't place a higher value on what this hotel has to offer than they would place upon a room at that lesser property.
Emails overnight from friends in New York remind me what a tough, resilient place it is.
What you need is a place where you can unwind with your wife and get away from all this annoying stuff.
He says that the abundant natural resources in the country are what makes it a good place to set up a business.
Mr Hassan also dismisses notions that what took place was a coup.
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And what that is is a place, a ceremonial space where states can present a statue - two statues of their own choosing.
According to today's accepted methodological wisdom, what really happened at a place and time the story, the anecdote might be entertaining but it is intellectually empty: Stories do not allow us to formulate a theory, to test a theory, or to generalize.
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Music has become a present-day version of what MTV used to be: a place where music fans turn first to watch their favorite music videos.
What I would tell them is this: You are used to thinking of America as a place that honors you and what you do, which thinks of entrepreneurship and investing as a noble thing.
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But what is clear is that the academic world is a very different place from what it was 30 years ago.
Its headquarters in Ohio is a very different place from what it was four years ago, a frenzy of youthful activity rather than a morgue.
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"It comes down to what type of security a bank has in place to detect fraud and what the small business did for the hackers to be able to access its accounts, " Mr. Tubin said.
Dai Young's 14-man Blues won 16-12 at Kingsholm on Sunday to earn a quarter-final place, setting what Holley says was a bench-mark to Wales' regions.
And one of the things that we really love to do when we have state visits is to invite you guys in so that you have a better sense of what happens in this place, because we always give the press a preview, right?
"This judgment confirms what we have been saying for a long time, and what the government has now recognised - Ashfield is no place for a child, " said Frances Crook, chief executive of the Howard League for Penal Reform, which represented all seven claimants.
What better place to hijack a truckload of Xboxes, PCs and servers than a chaotic computer equipment trade show?
And the truth is that we can actually monitor a lot of what takes place through satellite imagery and so forth.
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The nightmare scenario, however, is a repeat of what took place in the 1980s, with what was then the most commonly used anti-malarial drug, chloroquine.
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