Just as nature abhors a vacuum, political media abhors a boring story about a stale, predictable race.
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If nature abhors a vacuum, politics abhors a military standoff, especially between two nations in one of the poorest, most volatile and most strategically sensitive regions of the world.
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He abhors any violation of the Constitution or any law.
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Kara abhors Justin and she can't exactly turn to him.
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And nature abhors a vacuum — especially in a work force.
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The political world, as with the natural world, abhors vacuums.
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She abhors widespread state surveillance of Americans' emails and phone calls.
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The government in Beijing, however, abhors the idea of two Chinas.
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But, it's also important to note that politics abhors a vacuum.
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Robertson abhors the thought of the conference dissolving on his watch.
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"This is a country that abhors a power vacuum," Krauze said.
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They become experts at projecting autonomy in a system that abhors it.
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Politics like nature abhors a vacuum and Ryan decided to fill it.
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Lifting those limits introduces new unpredictability in a system that abhors uncertainty.
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He met his wife there; in Puerto Rico, nature abhors a bachelor.
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But it really abhors a fraction, and so has led us astray.
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Unlike Mr Trump, who abhors policy details, Mr López Obrador obsesses over them.
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As America has pulled back, others have stepped in—geopolitics abhors a vacuum.
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Grace Notes "Nature abhors a vacuum," Hans Honschar said, and so does he.
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Ahmed, a Muslim, abhors the brutality that ISIS practices in the name of religion.
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Now, she is left watching a man she abhors run away with her crusade.
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She is the chamber's fiercest advocate for gun control — a cause Mr. Cruz abhors.
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Also, a person suffering a migraine attack is nauseated or abhors sound or noise.
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First comes a predictable argument; she abhors supporting any brand that uses the Trump name.
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This newspaper abhors anti-Semitism and did not intend to cause offense to Jewish people.
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Having grown up Catholic but later immersed himself in Buddhism, Sir Antony abhors rigid religious systems.
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Just as nature abhors a vacuum, the press corps is said to abhor a boring campaign.
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Ms Tsai's party normally abhors anything suggesting that China and Taiwan have the same territorial interests.
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He abhors Muslims as much as the questioner and wants to reassure the questioner of such.
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"This newspaper abhors anti-semitism and did not intend to cause offence to Jewish people," Fitzgibbon said.
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IT IS a truth universally acknowledged that business abhors uncertainty, and nothing is more uncertain than Brexit.
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It's the sort of inefficiency Musk abhors, particularly when it's him sitting in the middle of it.
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But because the political press abhors a vacuum, Sanders got plenty of oxygen to build his fire.
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It abhors her Democratic Progressive Party, which leans towards formal as well as functional independence from China.
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But the other half of Peru abhors Fujimorismo, seeing it as the legacy of a corrupt dictatorship.
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I love platforming and exploration and puzzles, and my partner abhors puzzles and does best in combat.
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Trump, who abhors lengthy US military occupations abroad, has long wanted to end America's time in Afghanistan.
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Voters deserve to hear Mr. Cuomo describe Ms. Nixon as a worthy opponent who abhors anti-Semitism.
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Roberts is a buttoned down conservative Republican who abhors the court playing transformative roles in political areas.
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Mostly, her silence seems useful and convenient, as it discourages two things she abhors: explanation and interpretation.
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The irony is that Trump has helped make money for the fake news media he so abhors.
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A spokesperson for China's government blamed Taiwan's ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), which abhors the idea of unification.
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"Fitness abhors a wire" is a quote I just made up, but it makes a lot of sense.
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He does not look like a member of the Taliban, an Islamist movement that abhors music and hairstyles.
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How can anyone who abhors the oppression of Negroes be in favor of degrading classes of white people?
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"I pride myself on being factual," Stranahan said, adding that he abhors online threats, having received many himself.
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Trump can't stand the EU -- it's just the kind of multinational organization that pools sovereignty that he abhors.
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Philosophy abhors inconsistency, and applying deontology in some cases and consequentialism in others might come off as inconsistent.
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Urban plant-life truly illustrates the truth behind one of the world's oldest adages: Nature abhors a vacuum.
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How can anyone who abhors the oppression of negroes, be in favor of degrading classes of white people?
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All of this feeds into the frenzy of our thinkpiece-powered media economy, because the internet abhors a vacuum.
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And it especially abhors Kendall feeling anything other than abject, empty, gutted horror at the state of his life.
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Well, as you know, Succession abhors joy and it will do anything it can to tear yours to shreds.
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How can any one who abhors the oppression of negroes, be in favor or degrading classes of white people?
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Since Peña is proposing to wipe out Miguel Rodriguez, a person whom Serrano abhors, he agrees to join the endeavor.
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Many of its soldiers support Islah, which has ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist movement that the UAE abhors.
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The party would also welcome any shrinking in the size of unregistered churches: it abhors social activity beyond its control.
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His Fine Gael party represents the country's most anglophile camp, and it abhors irredentists who call the rising unfinished business.
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Perhaps he wants to speak, or simply abhors the persistent pressure of the oxygen piped into his mouth and nostrils.
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"CFA abhors discrimination of any kind whether it is focused on race, age or gender," Trojan wrote in the email.
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Trump and his lackeys have been waging their own sort of psychological warfare on the American majority that abhors them.
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Nature abhors a vacuum — and he is just one or two steps away from vacating leadership at the highest level.
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The "Need to Impeach" campaign is running ads to pressure her to put "party over country," a tactic she abhors.
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Russia abhors American sanctions, and the ones that affect its financial sector have had a crippling effect on its economy.
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"How can any one who abhors the oppression of negroes be in favor of degrading classes of white people?" he asks.
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The better part of our nature abhors seeing others fighting, cheating, lying, abusing, or on the receiving end of such things.
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Ms Warren abhors lobbying—she proposes an "excessive lobbying tax", rising up to 75% for companies spending more than $5m annually.
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Like nature, policy abhors a vacuum, and we have seen some reaction already in the form of increased state regulatory efforts.
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The association is especially tricky for Muslims, whose monotheism abhors the attribution of godly power to any but one supreme being.
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He abhors the ACA and campaigned against it, and is trying to get waivers to undermine some key parts of Medicaid.
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Still, Mr. Moon's office, which abhors the prospect of military action against the North, says negotiations are the only realistic approach.
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The "Finnish Nightmares" comic series documents the social challenges faced by Matti, a mild-mannered stick figure who abhors small talk.
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But in the modern era, everyone from Dean Acheson to John Kerry has found that superpower diplomacy abhors a news vacuum.
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Warren says if she lands in the White House, she's going to prioritize rooting out the corruption she so deeply abhors.
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The Ethicist As a gun owner who abhors the ''slippery slope'' philosophy of the N.R.A., every new mass shooting sickens me.
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Many within the alt lite sphere are virulently anti-Muslim; the group abhors everyone on 'the left' and traffics in conspiracy theories.
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Politics, like nature, abhors a vacuum Because of his long tenure and extensive service, Democrats view Biden fondly as an elder statesman.
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"The University of Oklahoma abhors such conduct and condemns the students' actions and behavior in the strongest terms possible," he also said.
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Politics abhors a vacuum, so other rising star Democrats will fill the void left by the losses of Gillum, Abrams and O'Rourke.
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She abhors the anti-tax revolt in California that culminated in 1978 with Proposition 13, the People's Initiative to Limit Property Taxation.
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Charles M. Blow I feel as if we are being conditioned to chaos by a "president" who abhors the stillness of stability.
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Just because one abhors violence and cruelty doesn't mean that one truly believes that all people are equal — culturally, intellectually, creatively, morally.
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One element of it is because of the controversy surrounding Sheikh Tamim, and his relationship with entities that Saudi Arabia abhors, like Iran.
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Nature abhors a vacuum, they say, and into the spaces Eisenberg deliberately leaves open, the reader's own terrors and interpretations can seep in.
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But her willingness to lay bare her own early personal and economic struggles distinguishes Warren from a rival who largely abhors personal storytelling.
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CARAMANICA Nature abhors a vacuum, so with Ed Sheeran largely missing in action, the Australian singer Dean Lewis has stepped into the void.
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The net result is more dependency on Chinese technology with all the pitfalls of reliance on an authoritarian regime that abhors freedom and privacy.
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Silicon Valley abhors doomsayers and runs on some collective delusion: Yes, the IPO market might be bad for most companies, but not my company.
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I stand with the wife of my friend killed in action, who abhors politics, but who is deeply and terribly wounded by all this.
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So it's strange to see Clinton getting out-hustled by a white-haired democratic socialist who abhors big money, but that's exactly what's happening.
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In cheeky deference to the self-help genre, Brinkmann has structured "Stand Firm" as a seven-step guide of the type that he abhors.
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Capitalism abhors a vacuum, and into this collective social void has stepped a fleet of companies and entrepreneurs selling an end to social isolation.
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" One constituency, which Buss described in an email as "politically conservative and high on religiosity," adamantly "abhors short-term mating, casual sex, promiscuity, etc.
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Mr. Bolton does not want to hear opposing views, these officials said, abhors leaks and wants to control everything that flows to the president.
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In closing arguments on Wednesday, the defense argued that the government was using the towns as scapegoats to seek revenge against a religion it abhors.
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"To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical," Jefferson wrote.
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This week might have been a slow one for the primary cycle—no elections, no debates—but nature abhors a vacuum, and so does Donald Trump.
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This is a purely political campaign of intimidation and persecution meant to destroy an organization whose mission to serve women's health care needs the governor abhors.
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But capitalism abhors a vacuum, so over time, more and more low-paid workers found themselves in the category of being salaried and ineligible for overtime.
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In 2016, weeks before her death, Lee gave her approval for it to go ahead even though "she abhors anything that trades on the book's fame".
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Mr Buhari, who—unusually among Nigeria's political grandees—is said to have just $150,000 and a couple of hundred cattle to his name, abhors such excess.
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"This wait should not last too long because ... nature abhors a vacuum, and so bad things will happen if good things do not occur," she said.
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In an era when rock music—and to use a term that Cox tells me he abhors—"indie" were mannered and polite, Deerhunter were outsized outliers.
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The essence of networking in the rarefied world of handcrafted, small-production boozes (the team abhors the term "small-batch" as soggy marketing) cannot be overstated.
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Although the article did not show any illegality, it is the kind of unflattering deep dive critique of his personal and business practices that Trump abhors.
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The political parties supported by most of her neighbors in Elad, a bastion of ultra-Orthodoxy, belong to the right-wing governing coalition that she abhors.
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The President often treats foreign policy as an extension of his wild, unpredictable character that abhors restraints, has little appreciation for history and lives in the moment.
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The episode plays directly into Republican claims that Clinton is dishonest, abhors transparency and lacks the ethical standards required of someone who sits in the Oval Office.
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Kim kind of explains that she abhors Rob's decision to post explicit pics of her on social media, but we don't hear apologies from the man himself.
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Politics, though, abhors a vacuum, and across Europe, fringe parties of the left and right have moved to center stage by offering populist solutions with growing support.
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Kennedy begins his concurrence by trying to identify "common ground" between all the justices in this case: everyone on the court abhors religious and other invidious discrimination.
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Miss Manners abhors the tipping system for many reasons, but acknowledges that it is necessary to supplement workers who do not otherwise earn the wages they deserve.
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During Senate hearings for his attorney general nomination, Sessions denied some of the accusations, arguing that he abhors the KKK and will work to defend people's civil rights.
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And Mr. Kudlow — a "free-market guy" who conceded he generally abhors the idea of tariffs — did not claim to have averted a trade war with his advice.
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Democratic presidential candidates also were quick to condemn Trump, as his remarks played directly into their narrative that he abhors American values and is unfit to be President.
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Taesung village, South Korea (CNN)A triumphant anthem blares across the rice fields that surround this village, singing the praises of a regime most of the world abhors.
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Saudi Arabia, at its core, and despite recent claims to the contrary, is a Wahhabist state that abhors Shiite Islam as a perversion of the true Islamic creed.
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She has done so fully aware that law and truth are forces that the Islamic Republic abhors, and that simply invoking them incurs the wrath of the regime.
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The arms control and nonproliferation efforts of the past, which Mr. Trump abhors, remain a critical tool for lowering our risks and creating the space for more cooperation.
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This election is already showing that the party establishment abhors Trump and all he stands for — his showy demagoguery, his disregard for core conservative economic values, his divisiveness.
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That may seem like a bureaucratic response unlikely to change anything, but it is the kind of political pressure Mr. Netanyahu abhors and has been working assiduously to prevent.
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"Nature abhors a vacuum, and if Helicobacter, which was dominant, is gone, something is replacing it, or some things are replacing it, and that has consequences," Dr. Blaser said.
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But nature abhors a vacuum, and the first lady's fans and critics focus on her costumes in part because, so far, that's about all they see of Melania Trump.
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During the multi-segment talk, Cruise lectured Matt Lauer on the evils of psychiatry—a practice Scientology abhors—and criticized Brooke Shields, who'd recently disclosed a battle with postpartum depression.
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Moskowitz abhors the singsong voice that some adults often adopt with young children, characterizing it as "an insult to the scholars' intelligence," and her teachers are trained to avoid it.
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Cell phones aren't the only things Tarantino refuses to buy into: he also prefers VHS to streaming platforms like Netflix, and abhors the use of digital capture over traditional film.
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The big picture: It's proving hard for them to convince a Republican who abhors regulations, dismisses climate change and dislikes global accords to embrace a policy that combines all three.
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Politics abhors a vacuum, and judicial activism increasingly fills the empty space created by legislative sclerosis and political cowardice, by the unwillingness of elected representatives to act on controversial issues.
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Congress's deal on sweeping sanctions to punish Russia for election meddling and regional aggression created a stark choice for President Trump: veto the bill, or approve sanctions his administration abhors.
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She looks at the people she's known all her life who hold views that she abhors, and she loves them anyway — an extraordinary ability in this riven culture of ours.
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The question is now whether Trump -- an erratic, inexperienced leader who abhors advice and rarely thinks more than one step ahead -- is equipped to handle such a perilous, enduring crisis.
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Netanyahu is unlikely to press Trump about his campaign promise to undo the nuclear deal with Iran (which Netanyahu abhors), or to move America's embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
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S&S maintained that they "have never condoned discrimination or hate speech in any form," something Yiannopoulous, who abhors political correctness and staunchly defends free speech, has been accused of plenty.
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Only tangible acts can dismantle China's sex trade, confront a North Korean regime that abhors women, and rescue sex slaves scattered across brothels, remote townships, and cybersex dens in mainland China.
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I'm somewhat sympathetic to these dumb-dumbs — Twitter abhors context, and so it can be very difficult to tell which outraged tweets are made in earnest, and which are put-ons.
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He wrote that the Times as an institution abhors "the actions of the government in this case," which he said were an attempt to interfere with the work of the media.
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Scarred by his own experience growing up in Nazi Germany, Kissinger has always been alive to the fragility of democracy, a feeling that has guided his approach, one that abhors idealism.
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When details about her condition finally emerged -- in the form of a statement issued through the campaign by Clinton's physician Lisa Bardack -- they only added to impressions that the campaign abhors transparency.
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Life-writing abhors a vacuum, and experts have indulged in all manner of speculation, generally mirroring their own approaches to the world, about how Bach must have understood himself and his works.
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Having tasted success in Taiwan, China conducted another disinformation campaign in the run-up to this month's presidential election, trying unsuccessfully to undermine Taiwan's incumbent president, Tsai Ing-wen, who China abhors.
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This was explained as a humane intervention to prevent cruelty to animals, but was widely seen as a sop to the BJP's conservative north Indian Hindu base, which abhors the slaughter of cows.
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Unlike many of her collaborators, Niedermair told me she abhors online abuse and the proliferation of fake news perpetuated by power-hungry internet celebrities who don't know or care they're being lied to.
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In Poland, the drill involved busing in a friendly crowd to cheer at Trump's campaign-style lines embedded in a major foreign policy speech, countering ideas that Europe abhors the new US President.
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Modern television abhors the vacuum of an unanswered question — just ask David Chase — and Season 2 of "End" has the answers, beginning Tuesday on Netflix (after its premiere on Channel 4 in Britain).
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Business abhors uncertainty, and so all Britain's business groups have been urging the government to get on and clarify Britain's new relationship with Europe, and indeed the world, as soon as it can.
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I've wanted to reconnect with my father, to find some sort of middle ground where we can coexist that doesn't involve "debates" surrounding feminism, unions, or socialism (all ideas I support and he abhors).
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You're not expected to be their keeper, but if you suspect something is up, tell your RA. Or, they might just be some Leonardo Dicaprio motherfucker who abhors soap and refuses to wear deodorant.
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The girl reflects the self-destructive nature of separatist efforts and the need to resist the narrative of "securing a motherland" from the oppressor so as to avoid unwittingly becoming the oppressor one abhors.
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In his defense, Sessions said he had not researched certain legal questions or fully thought out matters related to the presidential authority brought so clearly to the fore in the Russia probe Trump abhors.
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But nature, as you may have heard, abhors a vacuum, and new plants have sprung up in the easement: privet and bush honeysuckle and winter creeper and a host of other shrubs and vines.
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But nature abhors a vacuum, and so it has provided Clinton with a galvanizing issue that makes her campaign about something bigger: The idea that she alone can save America from the coming Trump apocalypse.
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Mr. Bouley said he will welcome walk-ins if there is room, but abhors the notion of people lined up outside waiting for tables, as they did for his Upstairs at Bouley restaurant in TriBeCa.
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But this election, she added, is also unprecedented because it features the first female presidential candidate who happens to be running against someone who doesn't just disagree with her positions, but abhors her as a person.
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Poll: Clinton tops Sanders, but lead shrinks The candidates show some personality Sanders, the curmudgeonly 74-year-old who acts like he abhors the pageantry of campaigning, was ready to show a little personality Monday night.
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A few on the left, like The Intercept's Glenn Greenwald, have adopted an odd anti-anti-Trumpism, born of the belief that the establishment that abhors the president is as bad or worse than he is.
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This tension exists for anyone who enjoys the real-time conversations on Twitter but loathes the trolls, loves Facebook but abhors fake news, or depends on the convenience Alexa offers but frets about violations of privacy.
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Image: AirbnbDuring last night's heart-breaking Super Bowl (seriously Falcons, WTF), Airbnb was one of many companies that decided to use the game to promote the kind of diversity and inclusion that our current president clearly abhors.
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As proof, he points to the famously impolitic Larry Summers, whose background as a former president of Harvard, former Treasury secretary and former chief economist of the World Bank embodies all that Frank abhors about modern Democrats.
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At the end of the day, Trump is a New Yorker who abhors "political correctness," has made a cameo in a softcore porno, and is married to a woman who's done her fair share of nude modeling.
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"After the war, our country has consistently taken steps as a country that abhors war and treasures peace, and has made efforts to promote the peace and prosperity of the world," Abe said at a national ceremony.
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Already this year, Hamas had made several overtures to Egypt: In a key Hamas document published in May, it omitted mention of the Muslim Brotherhood, with which it had long aligned itself — and which Mr. Sisi abhors.
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But deep down, Trump is a people-pleaser, his former employees and friends say, someone who abhors direct confrontation and would rather be well-liked by all, even if that means giving his aides power to ax people.
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"What we are seeing is this very famous saying that nature abhors a vacuum and China is very clearly using this moment to assert itself," she told CNBC's "Squawk Box" on Friday on the sidelines of WEF Asean.
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Now they say Republicans like Mia Love of Utah, whose Mormon-heavy district abhors Trump's alleged treatment of women, are doing just fine after a temporary hiccup — though House Majority PAC launched TV ads against Love on Tuesday.
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Because the patriotic left abhors Trump and the alt-right forces that support him, it would never occur to the patriotic left to refer to white immigrants as rapists and criminals, as Trump once notoriously described Latin American immigrants.
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The fact that she is potentially questioning the legitimacy of the president of the United States, a man she abhors and a man I disagree with on many issues, raises very serious questions about her timing and her judgment.
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Even though Pai supports the idea of net neutrality, he abhors the agency's existing rules, which treat internet providers like old-school telephone utilities in order to stop them from blocking, slowing down or otherwise tampering with web traffic.
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More alarming for the party is that the same lawyers who defend farmers' land rights often take up the cases of those whose political or religious beliefs the party abhors, among them house-church Christians, devotees of Falun Gong and dissidents.
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But she also put Trump on notice that the core American values which many Democrats believe Trump abhors, citing his proposals for a ban on Muslim immigration and rhetorical assaults on female journalists during his campaign, would not be forgotten.
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In part, it's a roundup of the singles that have propelled Skepta to stardom in the last two years: the pugnacious "Shutdown" and "That's Not Me," songs that are almost explicitly about how Skepta both celebrates success and abhors its trappings.
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In the Democratic debates, candidates have railed against such medical bills, and during commercial breaks, back-to-back ads from groups representing doctors and insurers proclaimed how much the health care sector also abhors this uniquely American form of patient extortion.
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If there were no Coriolis effect, air would simply rush into the low pressure center, "since nature abhors a vacuum, and a low pressure area is a partial vacuum," said Chris Landsea, a Science and Operations Officer at the National Hurricane Center.
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A president who likes generals and abhors political correctness, Mr. Trump found in Mr. Flynn — who joined Trump backers in an anti-Clinton "lock her up!" chant during the campaign — perhaps the most politically incorrect general this side of his hero, Gen.
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While Mr. Corbyn insists he abhors racism and has offered several expressions of regret and apologies over the anti-Semitism claims, he is in no mood to hide either his criticism of Israel or the support he has given to pro-Palestinian causes for decades.
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He abhors confrontation, or any sort of awkward conversation: He neither told Gilberto Silva that he was being stripped of the club captaincy — he read about it on the club website — nor, a few years later, informed Per Mertesacker that he was being awarded it.
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Whereas 185m people consider themselves Buddhist and 173m say they engage in some Daoist practices, there are now as many as 80m Christians in China, many of whom like the faith's links with the West and its commitment to social change—the very things the party abhors.
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Click here to view original GIFNature abhors a vacuum, or so the saying goes, and you can use that to your advantage when it comes to building a giant table-sized cannon that can obliterate a watermelon without the need for dangerous explosives or compressed air tanks.
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Perhaps the reported internal rumblings at Facebook are evidence that some moral self-reflection is developing; on the other hand, reported employee comments likening anyone who questions or leaks information to "wife beaters and suicide bombers" suggests that the cultural atmosphere that abhors self-criticism is alive and well.
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In both cases, the complexity of serious policy problems, often in life or death situations, clashed with the political instincts of a President who abhors detail and prefers to govern from the gut, while ignoring conventional expertise -- even from subordinates that in no way could be considered moderates.
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It's well known at this point that despite Russia loving the UN for being one of the places where it can make the biggest splash on the world scene, Putin abhors going to the General Assembly and has only rarely made an appearance over his decade and a half in power.
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Biden's advisers said they're just fine with Warren's MO. Politics abhors a vacuum, they said, and her lack of a response amplifies their criticisms and makes it easier to define the former Harvard professor as an "elitist" who won't deign to debate plans they argue won't work in the real world.
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"The Constitution abhors classifications based on race, not only because those classifications can harm favored races or are based on illegitimate motives, but also because every time the government places citizens on racial registers and makes race relevant to the provision of burdens or benefits, it demeans us all," Thomas wrote in 2003.
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But he might want to keep in mind that the tables can easily be turned, especially on a man who is himself 72 years old, lives on red meat, relishes fast food, abhors exercise and tries to deny the ravages of that lifestyle with a necktie that makes a beeline for his knees.
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But there is no telling what Mr. Trump — a president who abhors long briefing papers and often disregards or defies the advice of his advisers — will choose to say while he is alone with Mr. Putin, a prospect that puts some of his aides and experienced diplomats inside and outside the government on edge.
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"Power abhors a vacuum and when the United States pulls back we can't be under the impression that the world is going to stand by and wait for us," said Matthew Spence, a former deputy assistant secretary of defense for Middle East policy under the Obama administration, which faced similar criticism for its policy toward the region.
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Just as Mr. Obama did with Iran, Mr. Trump should focus on the most critical threat to our security and that of our allies — Pyongyang's nuclear weapons and the means to produce them — while making it clear that the United States will continue to punish other actions it abhors, including Pyongyang's development of missiles that can deliver nuclear weapons.
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But because the digital world, like nature, apparently abhors a vacuum, into the self-imposed silence rushed speculation about Ms. Kardashian West's (understandably) shaky emotional state, her husband's hospitalization for exhaustion, whether or not it all might culminate in divorce, and existential questions about whether their tendency toward living in public contributed to the while darn thing.
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The patriotic left fervently believes, as most Americans believe but President Trump does not, that human rights and civil rights should always be upheld and foreign dictators should never be praised Because the patriotic left abhors Trump and what he stands for, liberal Democrats will not tolerate the continuing voter suppression tactics that Republicans have employed in countless precincts across the nation.
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And the EU has emphasized as "critically important" a trio of initiatives that the Trump administration abhors or has abandoned: the Paris Climate Agreement, the Iran nuclear deal and the Global Compacts for Refugees and Migrants, political declaration that is directed at improving the way in which the international community responds to large movements of refugees and migrants, as well as to protracted refugee situations.
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