Blessing
in sentence
302 examples of Blessing in a sentence
Israel was among the first parties to welcome the Arab League’s reluctant decision to back Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s call for Arabs to give their
blessing
to the talks.
Similarly, because Japan can meet at most 6% of its own energy needs, cheap oil is a true
blessing
– one that may well endure for some time to come.
After Ixtoc, the blow to the Mexican fisheries became a
blessing
in disguise.
In allowing the meeting to take place – and there can be no doubt that Putin has given it his
blessing
– Russia’s president is seeking religious validation and political popularity.
Russia’s liberals would gain nothing from compromising their consciences and
blessing
Putin’s third term.
Instead of thinking what Ahtisaari deemed unthinkable, a partition of Kosovo with a small part of the north going to Serbia and the rest linked to the Kosovars ethnic brethren in Albania or a separate state, the US plans to act without the UN’s blessing, arguing that only an independent Kosovo will bring stability to the Western Balkans.
A weak euro may be a
blessing
in disguise.
This would all but guarantee that Israel would launch a pre-emptive strike on Iran’s nuclear installations – with America’s blessing, if not complicity.
Greenwood and Scharfstein argue that increased financialization was a mixed
blessing.
(Some might cynically say that keeping MBAs and economists out of real businesses is a blessing, but I doubt that that is really true.)
For Sino-Russian relations, such fundamental uncertainties may be a
blessing.
After all, in exchange for abandoning its nuclear weapons program, the North would gain economic and energy assistance, a peace treaty with the United States, diplomatic recognition, the opportunity to join the international community, and even – eventually – the world’s
blessing
to pursue a civil nuclear program.
In retrospect, that turned out to be a
blessing
for Germany.
Indeed, with the main exception of France, the euro does not seem to have been a
blessing
for the countries that adopted it.
Even the fact that her center-right Christian Democratic Union fell short of an absolute parliamentary majority is a
blessing
in disguise.
In the absence of some military force to protect them (in itself a mixed blessing, as interventions from Somalia to Bosnia demonstrated), these humanitarian groups must negotiate access with criminal warlords, oppressive governments, and war criminals.
How the Middle East Can Escape the Middle-Income TrapWASHINGTON, DC – For developing countries, achieving middle-income status is both a
blessing
and a curse.
Many (if not most) developing countries are becoming service economies without having developed a large manufacturing sector – a process I have called “premature de-industrialization.”Could premature de-industrialization be a
blessing
in disguise, enabling workers in the developing world to bypass the drudgery of manufacturing?
For these countries, globalization is a mixed
blessing.
The falling out over Iran follows America’s refusal to bomb Syria (another Saudi rival in the region) and its
blessing
of the removal in 2011 of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak (an important Saudi ally).
Had they been swifter and more effective in repressing the mass protests, they might still be in power today – with America’s
blessing.
It has been correctly said over and again that Arafat was a mixed
blessing
for his people.
The voters will enthusiastically elect anyone who has Putin’s
blessing.
Therein may lie a
blessing
in disguise, but the curses are more obvious.
Thomas Paine spoke for middle-class radicalism when he said, “We know that every machine for the abridgment of labor is a
blessing
to the great family of which we are part.”
It should be international, with the UN’s blessing, but it should not be a UN force.
American optimism became as much a curse as a
blessing.
But there is one potential obstacle that could turn out to be a
blessing
in disguise: the diverse demographic shifts that will take place in the coming years.
Why do oil riches turn out to be a curse as often as they are a
blessing?
What can countries do to ensure that natural resources are a
blessing
rather than a curse?
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