In Zao's case, this phenomenon is perhaps best understood as a self-statement: the artist's insistence on his personal and aesthetic identity in the face of the vagaries of borders and time.

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Benjamin Netanyahu is understood to favour Palestinian self-rule in an entity which has no army and does not control its own airspace or borders.

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See, the two main reasons for the lag in self-directed 401(k) accounts are pretty well understood.

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Prior to launching The Founding Moms, I ran two companies and understood deeply what it meant to be self-sufficient.

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Monroe emerges as a painfully self-aware and motivated performer who craved achievement as much as fame yet understood the value of her sexual allure, which she donned like a mask and became, to her dismay, her public identity.

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The availability of labour and land has fallen, domestic capital is abundant, the local market is now understood to be among the most attractive in the world and sentiment has become more nationalistic and self-satisfied.

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Ms. CHANG: Most of the comments that I've seen have either not really understood what the data was about or, you know, thought that I was trying to equate self-worth with net worth, which is absolutely not the case.

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