As China continues to rub up uneasily against its maritime neighbors, including Japan, which occupies another set of disputed islands, these seas could get stormier.
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They act as giant petri dishes, where creative types and entrepreneurs rub up against each other, combining and recombining to spark new ideas, new inventions, new businesses and new industries.
Both for what it says about changing attitudes towards aid in Africa, as well as the more familiar chaffing that occurs when pride, philanthropy, poverty and celebrity rub up against each other.
But its introduction has contributed to outbreaks of violent conflict between Muslims and Christians, especially evangelicals, in the middle belt of the country where the two communities rub up against each other, in cities like Kaduna and Jos.
McClung asked a cosmetics lab to whip up a rub made from the oil and aloe vera, which he started selling to his aging, aching restaurant customers in sterilized ketchup bottles in 1998.
He started to cuddle up in bed and rub her back when he walked by.
The problem with that definition, of course, is that not just anybody can measure it -- since most of us don't have an International Prototype Kilogram laying around, especially since every time the thing is picked up a few atoms rub off of it making it a little bit lighter.
If a referee only got to slightly rub his or her temples, would ringing up a charge lose its appeal?
People generally seem happy to rub along though a test of that is thrown up by another rule: that everyone - however fond of their own home dishes - has to eat together in a communal canteen.
If you are going self-service, follow this up with a loofah-and-soap rub-down and douse yourself with water from the marble basins.
And when you talk about the working man, I think people can relate to yours truly as a guy who could easily prop up the bar in the local pub or rub shoulders with statesmen around the world.
To rub salt into the wound, Jordan to this day refuses to own up to his piece of trickery.
Not for the first time, when the Howard University Band strikes up on Tuesday, the ruling elite and the black street will rub shoulders together in the crowds around the White House.
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