To make matters worse, Cox, who was born with a dislocated hip and therefore an inward-turning leg, was teased for having "crazy legs".

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Less noted, perhaps, is the retrenchment of Roman Catholicism in France from the aggressive political role it played as recently as the Dreyfus affair toward the inward-turning N.

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By doing so he told everyone beyond our borders that the U.S. was turning inward, becoming uninterested in their concerns.

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In both Europe and America electorates seem to be turning inward.

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Europe, turning inward to absorb the former Warsaw Pact nations, made the fateful blunder of embracing the euro rather than a more aggressive program of reform in labor markets, subsidies and the like.

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The commodity story of China being the demand force for oil, minerals like iron ore and agricultural commodities is still in play, but savvy fund managers are turning inward along with the Chinese government.

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Its once export-driven economy is turning inward.

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The emerging economies are turning inward.

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