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This is the agony of democracy, and it is why the next year may prove to be the most unstable, and even dangerous, period in decades for the Korean peninsula and the region.
By rejecting a democratic transition, the regime is only prolonging its own agony and creating higher costs for Venezuela.
Meanwhile, Greece’s agony continues, and the “markets” wait to swoop down on Portugal, Ireland, Italy, and Spain.
The perception that his true objective in supporting the Islamic State is to stem the rise of the Kurds, bolstered by his apparent indifference to the agony in Kobani, has jeopardized one of his major legacies: peace talks with the PKK.
Resolving Libya’s agony will take more than military action.
Braggadocio about carpet bombing, and accusations of appeasement against those who try to negotiate, will only prolong the agony, if not cause an even greater catastrophe.
Part of Syria’s agony is the self-fulfilling nature of the conflict.
Bangladesh’s Deadly War on DrugsLONDON – The audio quality is poor and the sound of gunshots muffled, but the agony in Ekramul Haque’s voice is unmistakable.
Then, in four or five years, Microsoft will begin our agony all over again.
But, despite the supposed novelty of their vision, their actions seem only to be replicating the self-destructive policies that have brought such agony to Cuba.
Despite many past promises of a cleanup, Ogoniland remains in environmental agony, impoverished and sickened by the oil industry.
Following the November 13 terrorist attacks in Paris, a new opportunity to end Syria’s agony has emerged, because all the important players (except ISIS) are now willing to sit down together at the negotiating table.
What Syria MeansNEW DELHI – Syria’s agony has generated a variety of unproductive responses: verbal condemnation of the excesses of President Bashar al-Assad’s regime; disagreements about the wisdom of armed intervention; and all-around confusion about the possibility of finding a viable long-term solution.
Indeed, whatever the outcome, Syria’s agony has underscored a further irreversible weakening of the West’s dominant global role.
There is no denying that Gaza’s agony is a humanitarian disaster.
The President's stem cell policy - developed without consulting Congress - impedes US science and cruelly prolongs the agony of millions of sick and suffering people.
The question, however, is not only one of money; it is about whether Haiti’s agony is to be addressed as just one more humanitarian crisis or as a structural problem of state building – a long-term quest for institutional stability and sustainable development.
The attack reminds us once again that Syria’s agony can be ended only by concerted international action.
The Killings in ColombiaThe murder of 11 provincial legislators held hostage by Colombia’s FARC guerrillas is a reminder of that country’s eternal agony.
Putin’s return to the Kremlin, although painful, could end up curtailing their agony by triggering the regime’s destruction.
If European leaders had deployed a rescue fund endowed with overwhelming financial force in early 2010, Europe and the world would have been spared two years of agony.
This means that, in addition to the agony of being killed, many of these highly social animals are, for long periods of time, in a state of terror, hearing the sounds of those being killed ahead of them, and seeing their family and pod members being brutally slaughtered.
There can be no path from the Middle East’s agony without the participation, commitment, and determination of all parties.
We can also have reasons (though not always conclusive reasons) to prevent others from suffering agony.
Then, last January, Aquino managed to achieve a landmark deal that finally ended Mindanao’s agony.
Ebola has undoubtedly wrought tremendous agony.
There has been the vast ambition of the single currency, with its intrinsic design flaws; the agony of the financial crisis and its aftermath; and the link between the two in the sovereign debt crisis.
Syria’s agony looks like it can end only in sectarian slaughter.
However obsessed international opinion may be with Gaza’s agony, to most Israelis the Palestinian “problem” seems to be happening on the dark side of the moon.
Perhaps they believe they can no longer bear the agony of life; once they have “settled the score” for the perceived slights that have produced it, there is no reason left to live.
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