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This is a fascinating little world of secrets and cross-currents, ideals and betrayals, but his version has none of the intensity AS Byatt gave to her transformation of it in The Children's Book.
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THE OVAL: Obama faces political cross-currents over Afghanistan
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"There are so many cross-currents right now and no strong directionality from the economic data," said Thomas Roth , executive director in the U.S. government bond trading group at Mitsubishi UFJ Securities USA Inc. in New York.
Asset-Backed Bonds Sell, With No Seizure Anusha Shrivastava 2011
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They go into the second quarter still having to navigate strong cross-currents, but with sentiment buttressed by the ability to shake off these twin shocks.
Investors Move Onward and Upward Tom Lauricella 2011
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The GOP's divisions reflect longtime cross-currents on foreign policy.
Republicans Show Divisions Over the U.S. Intervention Naftali Bendavid 2011
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The novel's tone is worldly wise, although a reader cannot help but feel sadness at the loss of a society, ages old, on an island that itself has always embodied historical and cultural cross-currents.
A Lyric, Elegiac Lament for a Lost World Willard Spiegelman 2011
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Response: This statement brings into focus the cross-currents in the polemic, namely that on the one hand ID clearly has evolved as a refutation of conventional (materialist) evolutionary theory/beliefs, whilst on the other it stands as a scientifically deduced argument about the nature of biological organisms.
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Recently released findings from "Freedom in the World," Freedom House's annual survey of political rights and civil liberties, reveal the deep cross-currents at work in each society.
From Revolution to Democracy Christopher Walker 2011
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There are some interesting social cross-currents at work in this race.
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Nearby, furniture by Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Charles Voysey illustrates international cross-currents.
Modernism's Austrian Rebels Barrymore Laurence Scherer 2011
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