The rapper-turned-actor borrows from Eastern thought to make his point.

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Convincing farmers to adopt new methods is always a challenge, but between 50, 000 and 100, 000 people in eastern and southern Africa are thought to be using the technique already.

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Outside Jalalabad, the troika is thought to control only pockets of the eastern region.

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It is thought that they form the north-eastern corner of the building, which followed a design described in Henry V as "this wooden O".

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Between 2004 and 2009, an estimated 1.5 million people from eastern Europe came to the UK. It is thought 700, 000 of them stayed, with half a million from Poland alone.

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In many cultures, however, including Hispanic, Asian, Middle Eastern, and Native American, eye contact is thought to be disrespectful or rude, and lack of eye contact does not mean that a person is not paying attention.

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The thought that jobs may go to central and eastern Europe, or to China, is having an effect.

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Apparently, the chief U.N. representative for the Eastern Slavonia mission, Jacques Klein, told the council he thought an initial deployment of about 5, 000 troops would be sufficient.

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With the collapse of Soviet and Eastern block economies in the 1980s and 1990s, it was generally thought that SOEs had seen their day.

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But he didn't really give the case much thought until 13 years later, when as a sophomore at Eastern Michigan University he attended a lecture by Mark Lane.

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This is thought to be the first high-profile abduction of a child in the eastern Balkan country.

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Late last year, 57-year-old Marcia Bergeron ordered a package of what she thought was a generic form of the sleeping pill Ambien from an online pharmacy based in Eastern Europe.

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Roughly half of all South-East Asian migrants are thought to have remained in the neighbourhood, and nearly two-thirds of migrants from eastern Europe and Central Asia have stayed in their own region.

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