At the same time, we have also updated sanctions authorities that allow us to target those who interfere with the peace process or the transition to democracy, and we created a ground-breaking framework for responsible investment from the United States that encourages transparency and oversight.

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From an economic perspective, the recent discoveries of abundant domestic shale oil and gas supplies may help us avoid the likelihood of an oil shock and buy us the breathing ground to plan for a more gradual transition to a more efficient post-fossil world.

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Parents establish rules and modes of acceptable behavior as a training ground for children, so that when they eventually make a transition into the world, they will be accustomed to behaving in ways deemed socially acceptable.

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To field them will be more expensive than fielding less miraculous weapons, which cannot simply be abandoned lest an enemy exploit the transition, and which will remain as indispensable as the rifleman holding his ground, because the nature of war is counter-miraculous.

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The danger is that, being forced to play away from their home town while the new ground is under construction, this season may turn into one of transition for Saints.

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"(Withdrawing) would likely precipitate a further blow to efforts to stabilize the situation on the ground, and render the prospect of a negotiated Syrian-led transition, as laid out by the Action Group, more difficult, " Ban writes.

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Meanwhile, though, the CEOs are appointing transition teams so that "the day we close the merger, we hit the ground running, " Mr. Horton said.

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Later on Thursday, President Obama said during a visit to Mexico that the US was "continually evaluating the situation on the ground... to find the best way to move a political transition".

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