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These developments have provoked anxious questions about what role humans will play in a technology-driven world.
In fact, the Congress Party-led government, anxious to appear responsive to public demand for help during an election-year economic slowdown, has pushed forward three stimulus packages since December.
Despite ongoing tensions, the Turkish government has been eager to mend relations with America, as it is anxious to have some influence over developments in Iraq.
The workers would get out of hand and the captains of industry would be anxious ‘to teach them a lesson.’
Indeed, their serene patience stands in stark contrast to the anxious reticence of Russian leaders, who have yet to surmount the humiliation that Russia suffered as a result of the Soviet Union’s disintegration at the end of the Cold War.
And nothing makes them more anxious than their fear that a regional dispute might, if not brought to an end quickly, steamroll into national disintegration.
As a psychotherapist specializing in homosexuality, I have been consulted many times by anxious parents terrified that their little boy is gay (at age five!): he likes to play with dolls, enjoys the company of girls, refuses to play soccer.
While India is home to one of the world’s largest Muslim communities, its members have remained absent from anxious global conversations about militant Islam.
It is anxious to see a US-North Korea dialogue begin, one capable of alleviating the North's anxieties about an American attack and America's concerns about a renewed nuclear program.
While such technologies have brought important gains, they have also raised serious challenges – and left many segments of the population feeling vulnerable, anxious, and angry.
Why did the US not follow the more direct path of redistribution, of taxing or borrowing and spending on the anxious middle class?
The suspicions of China’s neighbors, and their moves to establish closer military relations with the US, have made the Chinese government increasingly anxious and frustrated.
If America can move from a culture of fear to one of hope – and again incarnate hope for the world – it will require a leader who embodies the American dream: modern and armed with a humanistic religious message, in contrast to the anxious irrationalism of the Christian conservative movement that fueled Bush’s political base.
But the drugs that have resulted from this approach are not actually very good at making people feel less anxious.
What they fail to do is actually make people less fearful or anxious.
Though the government is seen as sympathetic to liberal intellectuals, it is also anxious to maintain law and order and avoid provoking the extremists.
Even if the AKP can rely on the allegiance of millions of voters and swarms of new members anxious to join the winning side, the secularists are deeply entrenched in Turkey’s institutions, universities, media, and business.
Already, some of those who criticized him most vocally in the past are anxious about his departure.
Anxious to distance himself from the legacy of the previous Republican administration, he never mentions former President George W. Bush and avoids mention of the two wars of the last decade.
These men simply want their children back, but all the government is doing is watching these anxious fathers with suspicion.
While there are a great many modern, business-oriented Chinese anxious to build the country’s future, there are also those who see in their plucky little neighbor something strangely admirable.
Similarly, some of NATO’s newer members, many of which are former Soviet-bloc states, are anxious about the prospect of Russian rearmament.
This is not something that a new Fed chair, anxious to establish her anti-inflation bona fides, can say out loud.
Shut out on transfers of military technology and hardware by the United States ever since the Tiennamen Square incident of 1989; feeling increasingly "encircled" by the "redefined" Japan-U.S. Alliance (agreed in April 1996);China is particularly anxious to upgrade and strengthen its military might, and quickly.
They are right to be anxious.
Iran is not just anxious about the reinstatement of US sanctions after May 12, when US President Donald Trump is expected to make good on his campaign promise to withdraw from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.
With disintegration looming, they urgently need to demonstrate to anxious Europeans that the benefits of the EU outweigh its costs.
Already there is evidence that neither South Korea nor the US is anxious to demand from North Korea a full accounting of all its nuclear materials and weapons, without which real denuclearization cannot be carried out and verified.
A Russian public anxious about its status; a Chinese people concerned about rampant corruption; a Turkish population divided over ethnicity and religion: All create enabling environments for leaders who feel a psychological need for power.
A parliament anxious for public approval is eager to meet these demands.
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