Blessing
in sentence
302 examples of Blessing in a sentence
As in 1978 and 1992, British obstructionism today may be a
blessing
in disguise for the rest of Europe.
Moreover, Iraq's possession of oil is a mixed blessing, because few oil-based economies have proven hospitable to liberal democracy.
Many in the Canadian energy sector will follow Trudeau’s climate agenda with trepidation; but his push for environmental reform may turn out to be a
blessing
in disguise for the country’s energy companies.
Turkey's seeming fall from grace with the US may turn out to be a
blessing
in disguise.
Indeed, avoiding continuous competitive devaluations is more a
blessing
than a curse.
Its dismantling would be a
blessing.
Given the need to mobilize idle resources in the short run in order to maintain productive potential in the long run, a larger national debt would be, as Alexander Hamilton, the first US treasury secretary, put it, a national
blessing.
Though Ayatollah Khomeini’s Islamic revolution in 1979 disrupted Israel’s old alliance with Iran, the two countries continued to conduct business with America’s
blessing.
A mixed
blessing
of not doing then what needs to be done now has been to expose the failings of Germany’s welfare state even more starkly.
But opening those markets to foreign investors, which has been the dominant strategy for developing them, was a mixed
blessing.
As long as appropriate governance and revenue-administration mechanisms are put in place – particularly to avoid rent-seeking behavior – natural-resource availability may turn out to be a
blessing
rather than a curse for these countries.
Good health is a
blessing.
With the Fund’s blessing, the government goes on a shopping spree, taking out costly loans for expensive projects, thus building up even more debt and adding new inefficiencies.
Hence, the WTO ruling, at least in this case, may be a
blessing
in disguise.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has given his full
blessing
to a negotiated settlement, and, similar to 2004, Turkey supports the Turkish Cypriots’ willingness to find a viable solution to the division of Cyprus under the UN umbrella.
Slouching Toward Fanaticism in PakistanPresident Bush's comparison of the capture of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed (reputed to have planned the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon) to the liberation of Paris in 1944 was certainly hyperbolic, but the arrest was a political
blessing
for the US President all the same.
If they succeed, the death of the two-state solution might prove to be a
blessing
in disguise.
The close bond between Israel and Bush’s America can in retrospect be seen as a mixed
blessing
– a special relationship that contributed to the declining attractiveness of both countries.
But this is hardly a
blessing
for these countries.
Unfortunately, this seems likely to come about only with the
blessing
of Russia and Iran, both of which appear more inclined to increase their support for President Bashar al-Assad than to work for his removal.
After all, it is a narrative that, while demanding a suspension of one’s critical faculties, bestows an unmitigated
blessing
upon those purportedly fighting on the side of light.
The best that can be said is that farm reform in rich countries would be a mixed
blessing
for the world’s poor.
That is not much different from the current situation, in which any important decision must have Germany’s
blessing.
Of course, Clinton added, these technologies are not an unmitigated blessing, and can be misused for darker purposes.
Judging by the criticism, one might consider zero inflation a
blessing.
The question before Germany’s Constitutional Court is whether that arrangement, which has already received the
blessing
of the European Court of Justice, is compatible with the country’s Basic Law – specifically, whether OMT undermines the Bundestag’s budgetary authority.
An American initiative to bring peace to Syria might even be a
blessing
in disguise for Russian President Vladimir Putin, as it would enable him to escape a trap of his own making.
Modi’s victory is likely to turn Indo-Japanese ties – Asia’s fastest-developing bilateral relationship – into the main driver of India’s “Look East” strategy, which, with America’s blessing, seeks to strengthen economic and strategic cooperation with US allies and partners in East and Southeast Asia.
But tweed jackets and the like also spread around the globe – a mixed
blessing
for which one can thank (or blame) the British Empire.
Finally, America’s global hegemony has proven to be a curse as well as a
blessing.
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