I regard the endorsement of both the objective and a method - which can differ from one country to another- of democratization by the parties in the region as a basic requisite of democratization in the Middle East.
There are no short cuts, no detours in the Middle East.
A Turkey under a dictatorial regime, providing haven to violent radicals and pushing its Kurdish citizens into desperation, would be a nightmare for Middle East security.
I don't take the ball in the middle of the pitch and dribble past six guys.
Drumming is my middle name.
The medieval hall house was very primitive when it became the characteristic form of dwelling of the landowner of the Middle Ages.
Technology, outsourcing, a growing temp staffing industry, productivity efficiencies, have all replaced the middle class.
The global importance of the Middle East is that it keeps the Far East and the Near East from encroaching on each other.
I could be equally happy on a film set or in the middle of a field.
The middle and working classes are paying the debt that the financial markets created.
The end of commercial fishing is predicted long before the middle of the 21st century.
The U.S. needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has military installations in Uzbekistan.
Washington sees the various local and national conflicts in the Middle East as part of a battle for regional hegemony between the U.S. and Iran.
The Middle East is hopeful. There's hope there.
Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera.
I grew up in Danville, Illinois, right in the middle of the state.
I'm pretty infamous for opening my garage and standing in the middle of it and sneering.
The expected vertical line of Ikiru's narrative breaks when Kurosawa does a flash-forward in the middle of the film.
Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.
Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
