The three-and-a-half percent growth was the first expansion in more than a year, and the strongest in two years.

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Also,it did not create ways to protect China and the islands in the South Pacific Ocean from Japanese expansion.

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The objects in the exhibit tell a story about government expansion during a difficult period in American history.

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These programs, along with natural expansion of forests in some areas, have added more than seven million hectares of new forests each year.

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African lions are also threatened by human expansion into areas that once were wild lion country.

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Many Americans were honestly worried that Roosevelt's expansion of government was the first step to dictatorship.

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NATO's expansion to the east, toward the borders of Russia, has raised Russian concerns.

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The IMF credited expansion in Asia and growing demand in the United States.

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"With economic growth and expansion comes the desire for more political freedom.

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This week,President Obama signed an expansion of federal law on hate crimes.

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On Tuesday,President Jacob Zuma announced an expansion of testing and treatment.

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And Executive Director Dan Gallant says there is room for expansion.

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They also were a time of expansion into new territory.

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Some cause pain and the expansion,or swelling, of damaged tissue.

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