World market players are not ready to pull the covers up over their heads and stay in bed, behavior that will ensure that the prophecy of impending immolation is fulfilled.

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In Buddhism, the subject of self-immolation is controversial, said Robert Sharf, the chair of the Center for Buddhist Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, also a secure-looking despot, fled Tunis for the relative safety of Saudi Arabia on January 14, 29 days after the act of self-immolation.

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Just along the corridor from where Hosni's terrible throat injuries were being dressed - many victims of self-immolation suffer agonising lung and internal chest injuries - another victim had been brought in and was fighting for his life.

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Is the moral purpose of those who are good, self-immolation for the sake of those who are evil?

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Understandably, many Republicans fear that a tough primary campaign will weaken their eventual nominee while the Administration is finding it hard to hide how much it has enjoyed the spectacle of Republican self-immolation.

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The tragic death of Tunisian street vendor Mohamed Bouazizi, by self-immolation, brought about a grassroots political movement among Tunisians that effectively overthrew the country's authoritarian ruler, Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali.

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Then the self-immolation by Tunisian street vendor who had his vegetable cart confiscated by the government sparked a national uprising of all the others who were frustrated.

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