The importance of intangible cultural heritage is not the cultural manifestation itself but rather the wealth of knowledge and skills that is transmitted through it from one generation to the next.

UNESCO: Intangible Cultural Heritage

Amazingly, she seems not to have noticed the prime manifestation of this: the rise of the G20, which since 2008 has eclipsed the smaller, rich-country club.

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Grillo is very definitely anti-EU. Or not necessarily the EU itself, but the manifestation of it which is endless austerity to save the euro.

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The prime minister said in his statement that although the agreement was not perfect, it was "a massive step forward from what had gone before, a clear manifestation that politics and democracy would triumph over violence".

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For a more recent, if similarly calamitous, manifestation of the power of chaos theory, consider how different the world would be today had not a devout, soft-spoken Saudi Arabian engineer inherited a significant fortune from his estranged father.

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