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But the roots of this development, he contends, lie even further back—in the classical texts that early modern thinkers read and absorbed.

Another division the novel rejects is the one between life and death; it is possible, the narrator contends, to be “a certain percentage alive and a certain percentage dead.”

On top of a degraded infrastructure, it would have to contend with a shrunken military and new threats such as drones.

Local producers must contend with poor roads, dotted with checkpoints which illegally levy taxes to let them through.

He contends this understated Deutsche Bank’s leverage by over €200 billion last year.