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The demarche with Lebanon, to which US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice devoted most of her recent surprise visit to Beirut, has much to do with America’s
desperate
attempt to revive its role as the main regional peace broker.
Europe is in
desperate
need of growth, and achieving it will require bold leadership from the EU’s most important member state, Germany, and its most important leader, Chancellor Angela Merkel.
The two Security Council resolutions on Libya in February and March were textbook examples of a phased response to an increasingly
desperate
situation.
This strategy is not only desperate; it is also delusive, for it seems obvious that, if the planet is to remain habitable, competition in economic growth must give way to competition in quality of life.
They did so, but they could not shut out the knowledge that other children were in
desperate
need of a good home – children who were unlikely to be adopted because of a disability or their race, age, or a history of violence.
After two years of civil war, with no decisive military victory by either side in sight, the situation could not be more
desperate.
But the “temple of democracy,” as Indians have long hailed their parliament, has been soiled by its own priests, and is now in
desperate
need of reform.
In the ongoing round of negotiations, the two key players, Iran and the United States, have seemed willing – if not
desperate
– to bring the talks to a successful conclusion.
Are today’s rich countries prepared for an era of co-dependency, in which they are just as
desperate
for commodities as developing countries are for industrial imports and technology?
On the other side of the debate, Europe's
desperate
reformers see no way to trim, roll back or blow up the Continent's obsessive bureaucracies and consensual politicians.
In their
desperate
pursuit of contentment, the French express a profound existential malaise.
What We Owe Refugee ChildrenBEIRUT – Last year, images of
desperate
refugees, many of them children, stirred our collective conscience and prompted world leaders to take action.
Actions by Assad’s supporters have so far caused more than 270,000 deaths, displaced over seven million people internally, forced nearly four million people to flee, and left close to 12 million in need of
desperate
assistance.
Mainstream parties,
desperate
to remain relevant, are caught in a vice, forced to choose between pandering to extremism and the risk of being overwhelmed by populist, anti-establishment movements.
Yet donors continue shipping expensive food aid while ignoring Malawi’s
desperate
need to grow more food.
To do so, Varoufakis has been resorting to increasingly
desperate
measures, such as seizing the cash in municipal and hospital bank accounts.
Images of
desperate
people on the move – whether trying to cross the US-Mexico border or packed onto rickety boats crossing the Mediterranean Sea – have heightened tensions and forged a narrative that migration has no upside.
On the contrary, while the migration challenge became apparent to many Europeans only in 2015, when German Chancellor Angela Merkel opened the door to a million
desperate
asylum seekers, the issue has long plagued southern Europe and is now mutating in dangerous ways.
In some sense, his sudden death seems to symbolize the helplessness of a
desperate
leader confronting overwhelming challenges.
India’s octogenarian prime minister, Manmohan Singh, has recently awakened to the
desperate
need for renewed momentum.
Given the reluctance of underrepresented countries to sign up for the IMF’s precautionary credit lines, central banks
desperate
for dollars can obtain them only from the Federal Reserve.
Whether they are being exposed to refugees firsthand, or just seeing images of them splashed across newspaper pages, Europeans are well aware of the vast numbers of
desperate
people trying to enter European Union territory by any means possible.
At present, there are quotas for individual countries, though some, like Italy, have more than exceeded them, as
desperate
refugees continue to flow across their borders, while others, such as Hungary, have refused to accept refugees at all.
This dead-end strategy will feature vain attempts to game Germany and
desperate
economic expedients, such as the essentially coercive capture of domestic savings to finance government debt.
Media reports of Iraqi bloodshed focus overwhelmingly on Baghdad – where the large majority of foreign journalists are based – creating the impression that the
desperate
security situation there is representative of the country as a whole.
For
desperate
Palestinians, however, Trump’s impending presidency seems to offer a slight reason for hope.
With that,
desperate
Venezuelans took their opposition to the streets.
More immediately, it would give the desperate, starving, and repressed Venezuelan people their country back.
When a caravan of
desperate
Central American asylum-seekers began walking all the way to the United States border before the recent US midterm elections, it was a ploy by Soros to win a Democratic majority in Congress.
Add to that MBS’s ham-fisted political purge, and the escalation in Lebanon may be viewed as a
desperate
gambit.
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