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In response to one development expert’s heartfelt despair that unfair trade treaties and unfulfilled promises of aid have cost the developed countries their moral authority, he retorted: “The West never had any moral authority.”
In a conflict as bitter, protracted, and complex as the war in Syria, it is all too easy to become overwhelmed by despair.
With anemic growth, unemployment stuck between 9% and 10% for more than 20 years, and immigrant ghettos that vacillate between lawlessness and despair, France is indeed one of the sick men of Europe.
The answer need not be all despair.
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,” Dickens writes, “it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, … it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.”
Complacency Will Be Tested in 2018NEW HAVEN – After years of post-crisis despair, the broad consensus of forecasters is now quite upbeat about prospects for the global economy in 2018.
In Libya, Syria, Yemen, and elsewhere, the hopes unleashed by the Arab Spring have similarly turned into an often-violent despair.
So deep is the despair and desolation felt by the girls’ parents that they are now considering whether to declare their daughters “presumed dead.”
At this point your author runs away, in despair, in search of the few remaining Russians who still converse in their native language.
Since then, stability and hope have begun to return to a region affected by the destruction of war and the widespread despair of social displacement.
Few people expect Corbyn to win a national election in Britain, either; that is why his parliamentary party is in such despair.
These changes have created a new kind of hope and despair among the generation of Chinese now coming of age.
But the fear, if not despair, of the poor and not-so-poor has increased tremendously.
One may well despair about getting these points across in China, but as outsiders we must insist on not betraying ourselves - at least.
The worst were those with blank stares of deep despair.
So there is no reason for despair in the Rhineland - or for gloating by the enemies of its economic model.
During the Great Depression, such targets were not used on a large enough scale, merely fueling public despair that stimulus policies would ever work.
Many find only reason for despair in the global rise of powers like China and India, whose elites were socialized in opposition to the Western-led order from which R2P emerged.
But is the picture really so bleak as those who despair of an emerging “Eurabia” would have us believe?
Nonetheless, we must not submit to panic and despair, or allow ourselves to be drawn into a vortex of negative inertia.
As he spoke, his chief of staff, retired US Marine Corps General John Kelly, who was appointed in July to bring order and a degree of stability to Trump’s White House sanitarium, could be seen with his head in his hands, as if in shock or despair.
Third, prolonged misery and hopelessness for millions of Arab young people will create a new generation of desperate jihadists who blame the West for their despair.
But waning interest in the Arab uprisings reflects a deeper shift: hope for new, more representative political systems has given way to despair, as expectant revolutions have morphed into counter-revolution, civil war, failed states, and intensifying religious extremism.
It might even enable us to avoid the kind of disappointment and despair that the Arab Spring has brought.
It is to be hoped that Ukraine’s Russian-speaking citizens, having witnessed the economic despair – and sometimes the bloodshed – caused by the Kremlin’s manufactured pro-autonomy movements, will realize that they are being turned into Putin’s pawns.
Were Gandhi alive to witness today's communal violence between Hindus and Muslims in Gujarat, he would sink into despair.
Despair not only for the victims of violence, but for the cynicism of those politicians, such as Gujarat's Chief Minister Narendra Modi, who seek to justify lawlessness, violence and even murder of minority members by the majority Hindus.
The EU, other advanced countries like those in the Gulf, and the UN must do much more to protect those fleeing conflict and despair.
The popularity of these "new model" Nazis grows in proportion to the despair incited by unpaid wages, unheated apartments, vanishing supplies of food, and the increasingly ugly and public squabbles around the decrepit occupant of the Kremlin throne.
Russia's fate will, in some ways, be decided that day - it will either sink into more chaos and despair, the streets increasingly ruled by brown-black fascist youth, or Russia will receive a little breathing room, maybe its last, to find a viable course, somewhere in between the extreme archipelagos of Gulag and Gucci.
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