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True, America’s role in NATO – that ingenious device through which America retains, with Europe’s blessing, an institutionalized influence over the continent – would diminish.
In this respect, the Asian financial crisis amounted to a blessing in disguise for South Korea.
From Resource Curse to BlessingKAMPALA – New discoveries of natural resources in several African countries – including Ghana, Uganda, Tanzania, and Mozambique – raise an important question: Will these windfalls be a blessing that brings prosperity and hope, or a political and economic curse, as has been the case in so many countries?
Newly enriched countries need to take several more steps in order to increase the likelihood of a “resource blessing.”
Resources should be a blessing, not a curse.
Indeed, the “double dividend” is a curse rather than a blessing, because it confines women to the home.
In the 1950s, it was launched beneath the US security umbrella and with America’s blessing.
At first, falling fertility rates were an economic blessing, as households saved more and invested in children’s development.
Even most Americans were reluctant to enter Iraq without the UN’s blessing.
So, in both cultures, sexuality channeled into marriage and family life is seen as a source of great blessing, sanctioned by God.
How it copes with these problems – and those that have yet to arise – will determine whether America has given its blessing prematurely.
Unfortunately, this blessing can turn into a curse.
But, in the longer term, a turn toward protectionism by the United States could well be a blessing in disguise for China.
Such profanity does not deserve and should not receive the judicial blessing its authors seek.
If intolerant bullies, now enjoying the blessing of elected BJP governments, are allowed to get away with their acts of intolerance and “lawful” intimidation, India would suffer violence to an ethos profoundly vital to its survival as a civilization, and as a liberal democracy.
To confront today’s global crises, we must come to grips with the mathematical power of compound growth, which is both a curse and a blessing.
It must not be viewed as a chance for the planet to “breathe,” or an environmental blessing in disguise.
As the Washington Post’s editorial board pointed out, “The president has in essence conducted a shakedown, threatening a shutdown and then providing his blessing to a private business deal once it pleased him.”
What stood out about the call, Sulzberger recalls, was that the official had made it without the blessing – and, potentially, against the wishes – of the Trump administration, because the State Department had apparently decided, uncharacteristically, not to intervene.
Indeed, the Christchurch gunman, Brenton Tarrant, claims to have received the blessing of the perpetrator of the Norway attack, Anders Breivik, who killed 77 people that day.
Alexander Hamilton, America’s first Secretary of the Treasury, offered an answer in 1781: “A national debt,” he wrote, “if it is not excessive will be to us a national blessing.”
But not even the most talented engineers could achieve such a target unless they manipulated reported CO2 emissions downward with the authorities’ blessing.
Most problematic, though, with China challenging the United States both economically and militarily, the old hegemon no longer views China’s growth as an unmitigated blessing.
The Blessing was not a success.
He looked wearily and sadly at the bride and bridegroom, sighed, and disengaging his right hand from the vestments, held it up in blessing over the bridegroom, and then over the bride; only in his manner when he placed his fingers on Kitty's bowed head there was a shade of tenderness.
She had now called Varenka only to give her a silent blessing for the important event which, according to Kitty, was to happen in the woods that day after dinner.
Of course his misfortune...''Yes, a misfortune which has turned into a great blessing, because his heart became new and is filled with Him,' she said, glancing at Oblonsky with lovesick eyes.
'Is it possible that those hundreds of millions of people are deprived of that highest blessing, without which life has no meaning?' he pondered, but he immediately corrected himself.
As for me, I shall never forgive the cure.'CHAPTER 3 The Bread of the PoorA virtuous priest who does not involve himself in intrigue is a blessing for the village.
This education in love, given by an extremely ignorant woman, was a blessing.
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