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And who better to enforce this anti-Washington law (with its old-timey, anti-Easterner resentment) than that iconic Western figure: The Sheriff.
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And Richard III the man is not now a major figure in Western consciousness.
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In eastern Germany, non-believers account for about 33% - far higher than the 6% figure for western Germany.
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Gen Petraeus certainly had more experience of combating terrorism in its different guises than any other military or civilian figure in the Western world.
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That figure was small by Western standards, but the sum went far in China, according to Evan Feigenbaum, an Asia specialist at the Council on Foreign Relations, who studied the program.
NEWYORKER: Green Giant
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The Island health boards, made up of Orkney, Shetland and Western Isles NHS areas, had the lowest figure at 6.1.
BBC: Tayside has highest abortion rate
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To the eyes of the Christian east, the western Madonna often seems to be rather a shallow and sentimental figure because her theological role as agent and locus of the Incarnation has been forgotten or blurred.
ECONOMIST: Virgin Mary
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Their dilemma will be to figure out how South Asian they want to appear versus how Western they want to be.
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His early training as an icon painter in Greece, his subsequent study in Renaissance Venice and Rome, and his efforts, after arriving in Spain in 1577, to attract prominent patrons, all figure in El Greco's canvas, where both Eastern and Western traditions combine to transform his memorial into a cogent contemporary parable.
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Its senior Orthodox prelate, Archbishop Anastasios, a scholarly figure with a deep knowledge of Islam, has been raising money from western churches to help the Kosovo refugees, and will use this weekend's Orthodox Christian Easter celebrations to pray for all victims of ethnic hatred.
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The figure increases each year as the sands move south, both in the eastern and western portions of the country.
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