The first major commercial cities appeared, as a monetary economy spread further into the corners of western life.
Although Grise Fiord represents the most northerly civilian settlement in North America, Brossier explains that the town is still privy to the comforts of contemporary western life.
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Since China opened up its markets in the 80s, it has become the fastest growing economy in the world and teenagers are now tempted with all the trappings of Western life.
Both loved humor, and however trite the theme, Lincoln always found some quaint illustration from his western life, and Seward some case in point, from his long public career, to give it new light.
In the millennium year of 2000 Jacques Barzun published his chronicle of ideas in the making of the West over the past five hundred years titled From Dawn To Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life.
Burke's rich songwriting weaves classic western themes of life and death, honor, and morality throughout the record's narrative songs.
Tax evasion, coupled with government spending in Greece has helped put Western Europe on life support for much of the last year and a half.
This huge shift in the daily life of the western Balkans is happening without fanfare.
"The reason many changed their way of life and adopted Western ways was because they lacked the necessary information about their religion, " they said.
This article seeks to illustrate them, unscientifically, by contrasting the life of a Western expat in China with that of a Chinese expat in Europe.
In severing sex from procreation, humankind set into motion forces that have by now shaped and reshaped almost every aspect of life in the Western world.
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However, Russia's current president, Vladimir Putin, has made life much tougher for western oil firms by restricting exploration by foreign outfits, making conditions stricter for joint-venture partners, and showing what would happen to dissenters with the dismemberment of Yukos.
In the following years, tens of thousands of Chinese blasted tunnels through the Sierra Nevada, with great loss of life, to build the western arm of the transcontinental railway.
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While war rages, a handful of Western outfits are risking capital--and life--to explore and produce plentiful oil.
And as such, says Hikmet Ersek, chief executive of Western Union, many of the transactions are life-changing.
Showing an African life is worth as much as a Western one - that would help defeat terrorism too.
But surely The Economist would wish to give some credit to Western liberal democracy for the levelling of gender in public life.
As part of his plea agreement in exchange for four consecutive life sentences, Rudolph told investigators where in western North Carolina he stashed five caches totaling more than 160 pounds of explosives.
He bequeathed to his son two precious gifts: a love of language, and a passion for the raw materials of life and industry timber, such as western red cedar, metals, stones and minerals.
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The idea that we are born knowing how to handle the greatest challenges of life is a theme that runs throughout eastern and western cultures in the major myths, religious texts and popular stories of our time.
By Western standards, Lin's argument for a change in his life seems easy to justify.
It is striking that this generally poor country seems, in some areas of life, to be following a path more akin to Western countries than its neighbours.
The track is featured on his latest album Joko, a musical journey from life in his parents' village to his collaborations with western artists including Gabriel, Sting and Fugee Wyclef Jean.
In doing so, he would model a more humane approach to life than the cold pragmatism now eroding the moral fabric of Western democracies.
Dr. MADHI: I didn't want to reveal my identity because my family was living in Iraq and I didn't want it - didn't want to appear that I'm connected to the Western media because my fear on my family, not really on my life.
The book's description of the texture of village life will also help people to understand the subtleties that usually escape Western headlines about Darfur.
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The majority of the civilian soldiers of the Western democracies, by contrast, just wanted to survive and return to normal life as soon as possible.
It's a fusion of word and film that has taken the interior life of a teenage girl, and a small town on the Western edge of the United States, and placed them at the center of the world.
He mentioned a Western friend who had quit his job to go backpacking and find his calling in life.
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