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   • 2015, Roy Posner, A New Way of Living, page 103:

     The United Nations then became the one great attempt to establish a formal institution to unify the world, especially in light of the darkness that preceded it.

   • 2019, Li Huang; James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, DOI:10.1080/01434632.2019.1596115, page 2:

     In light of such conceptualisations of the power of linguistic landscapes, we set out to examine the connection between the visual landscape and the spoken landscape in our institution[.]

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