Sentences with phrase «blurring national lines»

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On the one hand, the boundary lines which separate ethnic and national groups (which were mostly geographical in origin) are now becoming blurred, indistinct and sometimes irrelevant.

And, in the military struggle against the government, the clear lines of distinction that the West wants to see between the National Coalition - linked Free Syrian Army and the Islamist factions have been blurred several times.

Even the National Science Foundation blurred the line.

In an article in National Geographic, singer, songwriter and producer Pharrell Williams, credited with the popular songs «Get Lucky» and «Blurred Lines,» describes a new venture, diversifying his assets in what is being called «sustainable fashion.»

Thrifts historically have focused on consumer loans, but the lines between them and commercial banks have blurred, and they aren't typically national institutions.

«I might say, parenthetically, I believe there are national security and common security aspects to the whole globalization challenge that I really don't have time to go into today, so I'll just steer off the text and say what I think briefly, which is that as we open borders and we increase the freedom of movement of people, information and ideas, this open society becomes more vulnerable to cross-national, multinational, organized forces of destruction: terrorists; weapons of mass destruction; the marriage of technology in these weapons, small - scale chemical and biological and maybe even nuclear weapons; narco traffickers and organized criminals, and increasingly, all these people sort of working together in lines that are quite blurred.