Late last month, holed up in the Hotel du Golf in Abidjan where he had been under siege since the election by forces loyal to Mr Gbagbo, Mr Ouattara decided it was time to resort to his own forces.

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There is, instead, ample evidence that Western (and not only) culture conditions girls to not express aggression, which then forces them to resort to covert bullying, very frequently using that intimacy sharing you spoke about as a tool.

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Local business leaders, including ski resort executives, established task forces to deal with land use and traffic.

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By flooding midfield and denying players time on the ball, the opposition frustrates and forces them to resort to long-ball tactics, through desperation more than design.

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It has built a steel fence around the woodland cottage resort at Muskoka that will receive the G8, and deployed special forces on overtime to lurk in the water and surrounding forest.

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Argentina wisely insists that it will not resort to military action (in contrast to 1982, the Falklands are now well-garrisoned whereas its own armed forces have shrunk).

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