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CHILDREN CHEERING

Except it's you they're cheering.

But the answer to that question is not why the pundits are cheering Obama. They are cheering because financial markets are cheering, following the Federal Reserve s recent announcement of further stimulus.

They're cheering us. We must be good.

Yes, the cheering word, the helping hand...

Almost like in a dream, the cheering crowds leave.

He's drunk and blue. Are you cheering him up?

I'll lead the cheering section in the balcony. Good luck.

They lost. They were defeated. What are they cheering about?

For the first time in my life the audience cheering me.

How about making me vice president in charge of cheering you up?

At the final whistle blew, excited revellers took to the streets cheering and dancing.

That was Lord Roberts. He held up his hand to stop them from cheering.

Canidius, you will remain with the land forces cheering from the hilltop, if you like.

Yeah, and there'll come a time when you'll need a drink for more cheering up.

Banks closed, shops shut and revellers took over the streets of Suva dancing, singing and cheering.

And before I even knew it, I was suddenly on a stage surrounded by thousands of cheering people during a political rally.

A seven metre high poster of the slain Islamic Jihad leader Fathi Shkaki, killed in Malta in 1995, towered over the cheering crowd.

That is an astonishing talk, truly an astonishing talk, and I think you heard that we all are cheering you on your way.

CA That is an astonishing talk, truly an astonishing talk, and I think you heard that we all are cheering you on your way.

So Ms. Dewey heard this, and she shook her head in despair while fellow teachers were sort of cheering each other on and nodding approvingly.

And to see all the people coming out to greet me and standing along the cliff tops and clapping and cheering, I just felt like a movie star.

India's sports minister, Vijay Goel, has been a conspicuous presence at Rio's Olympic Games, frequently spotted in the stands cheering on Indian athletes and taking selfies after their events.

But sport was somehow different. There, it was just letting off steam, no different from cheering or booing or it was a legitimate tactic, no different from needling an opponent by challenging his manhood.

That is why they voted five years ago for Tea Party politicians, who preferred a government shutdown to a negotiated deal with Democrats. And that is why they are cheering for a showy loudmouth like Trump.

A US peace plan that is fair and reasonable would certainly have many ordinary Israelis and Palestinians cheering. It could cause some major damage to right wing Israeli political forces that came to power as a result of eight years of former US president George Bush s so called war on terror.

Not many years ago, in Australia as in most of the rest of the world these kinds of incidents would have passed utterly unremarked and without redress. They were not serious just part of the game, uttered in the heat of the gladiatorial contest on the field and the passionate partisan cheering in the stands.

The essential challenge before him and his country is not transitioning from a more to a less state directed economic system, as many of those cheering Congress s electoral victory believe. While bureaucratic excess, entrenched corruption, and other inefficiencies beg remedy, the real challenge before India is its allegiance to a twentieth century vision of modernity.

Given the current state of polarization in US politics, I think it is likely that in most other settings, my tablemates would not willingly have bought several rounds of beer for someone who spent two years working at the State Department for Hillary Clinton. Here, though, we were cheering not for our political side, but for our national side.

Even as cheering crowds in Sirte and Tripoli were rejoicing at the despot s death, others voiced doubts over the manner of his humiliating end. The French public intellectual Bernard Henri Lévy, who had promoted the Libyan revolution with a strong dose of narcissistic showmanship, wrote that the lynching of Qaddafi polluted the essential morality of the people s rebellion.

Perhaps the most compelling case of all is that of Indonesia, the world s largest Muslim state, with a rapidly expanding middle class, relatively stable democratic politics, and an economy that has been a star performer in Asia despite the global recession. From an American perspective, Indonesia is an attractive alternative to Russia, which recently has vied with Venezuela for leadership of the America in decline cheering section.

New Dehli On June 1, the Indian Premier League came to a thundering climax with a cliffhanger final match, watched by 60,000 cheering fans in a new stadium and an estimated 300 million television viewers around the world. As cheerleaders danced and waved brightly colored pom poms, and star sportsmen from across the globe, clad in their teams multi hued regalia, looked forward to a 2.5 million payday, black market tickets changed hands for as much as 2,500.

If it were really true that the fundamental existence of our democratic Western world were about to be destroyed by an Islamist revolution, it would only make sense to seek protection in the full force of the US informal empire. But if one sees our current problems in less apocalyptic terms, then another kind of trahison des clercs comes into view the blind cheering on of a sometimes foolish military power embarked on unnecessary wars that cost more lives than they were intended to save.