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Desperate
for funds for reconstruction, that new regime could sell large amounts of oil, lowering global oil prices.
Most experts agree, and Deaton concurs, that at least a billion people on the planet live in
desperate
circumstances resembling conditions that prevailed hundreds of years ago.
Desperate
for more education, this fall she plans to attend graduate school for computer science – in China, not America.
We are now hosting approximately 200,000 Syrians who fled their country’s growing violence, and have already spent more than $400 million to accommodate these
desperate
people – with almost no assistance from the rest of the world.
How does one reconcile an isolated retrograde incident such as the disappearance of an elderly Chinese couple with the hopeful progress of the "Chinese economic miracle" that has so transformed this once seemingly desperate, backward land?
Europe is entering on a course from which Japan is
desperate
to escape.
Without a new burst of trade unionism in poor countries, the worldwide movement to insure human and labor rights will lose momentum and stall, turning hope into helplessness for millions of
desperate
workers.
So, when Merkel argues that European integration is threatened by the public’s negative reaction to the mass flow of
desperate
people, it is the fate of the post-nationalist vision that she has in mind.
The
desperate
plight of the world’s nearly 70 million displaced people and over 20 million refugees has just been recognized in new agreements hammered out in December this year.
Thanks to decades of hard work and sacrifice by millions of Koreans, the Republic of Korea rose from
desperate
poverty to prosperity in less than a half-century.
Such a move would be unprecedented, but
desperate
times call for
desperate
measures.
At the same time, there is a growing demand for energy and a
desperate
need for a long-term exit from the ongoing economic crisis.
Many of these
desperate
Syrians – consisting primarily of those who could not afford to flee sooner – will head toward Turkey and onward to Europe.
Desperate
to sustain their political and economic momentum, most have taken a wide variety of steps to prevent their economies from feeling the full brunt of the commodity price hikes.
Bouazizi’s
desperate
act sparked the Arab Spring.
Supported by an enraged and
desperate
public, this new alliance set out to achieve two goals: 1) to displace the Old Guard of the PLO, and 2) to use violence to end Israel's 35-year-old occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, using Israel's unilateral withdrawal from South Lebanon as a model.
Those of us who opposed Brexit but who are also
desperate
to see democracy revitalized cannot support a second referendum that, in essence, tells these people: “You made the wrong decision.
To avert this new crisis, the Indian authorities must recognize that with heat risks rising, the country’s poor – urban and rural alike – are in
desperate
need of climate-adaptation strategies.
Migrant MartyrsVIENNA – On October 3, in a
desperate
effort to reach the European Union’s shores, 365 African migrants drowned when their boat capsized near the Italian island of Lampedusa.
The real criminals are the smugglers who cram the
desperate
and the destitute onto rickety boats or hide them in suffocating trucks with little regard for their rights or safety.
If we are to learn from Lampedusa – and prevent similar tragedies in the future – the smugglers must not be encouraged by impunity, and the
desperate
men, women, and children who often become their victims are not the ones who should be punished.
Now, this rising region is
desperate
to hear Obama’s thoughts about America’s role in Asia, thoughts that are commensurate with Asia’s importance – and with the scope of his vision.
Musharraf is now
desperate
to beg, steal, or borrow any political legitimacy he can get – including from the two civilian political leaders he exiled.
So it is no surprise that central banks have become increasingly
desperate
in the face of the most severe crisis since the advent of financial globalization.
Local governments are particularly
desperate.
Amid the current focus on regime change, a transitional government, and negotiating delegations, there is a real danger that the
desperate
humanitarian situation will be overlooked.
These socially aware girls,
desperate
for education and careers, are globalization’s children, well aware of the opportunities that girls elsewhere enjoy.
The US has even spurned World Trade Organization Director General Pascal Lamy’s
desperate
attempt to get member states to support a wholly emasculated agreement – described by critics as Doha Lite and Decaffeinated – which is mainly confined to some concessions to the least-developed countries.
With legal migration channels choked off,
desperate
refugees have been forced to put their lives in the hands of unscrupulous smugglers.
The Hour of the TechnocratsCAMBRIDGE – Greece and Italy,
desperate
after their gridlocked political systems left them mired in debt and crisis, have both chosen technocratic economists – Lucas Papademos and Mario Monti, respectively – rather than politicians to lead new governments.
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