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Global challenges are multiplying, and the international order as it has existed since the end of World War II is under grave threat.
The US is in grave danger of this now.
This instability also makes it difficult to address other grave problems affecting the global financial system.
The first type of reform will likely only exacerbate the Arab world’s grave problems; the second offers hope for positive and sustainable change.
If this attitude prevails, there is a grave risk that the European Project will become paralyzed.
His interventions diverted attention from the grave policy error being made at the time: deregulation of credit, which led to a deep financial crisis in the 1990s and anticipated the global crisis that erupted in 2008.
Even where the US supported regimes that committed grave violations of rights--or served as an apologist for them because other national interests took precedence--it was often possible for the human rights movement to embarrass Washington by making it the surrogate villain for its clients' abuses.
Much international attention has focused on the USA Patriot Act's sanctioning of grave violations of civil liberties, and on the subsequent treatment of thousands of immigrants--particularly south Asian Muslims--who have faced secret detention and deportation.
But debt remains a grave challenge for southern Africa as a whole.
As First Lord of the Treasury Sir Robert Peel wrote: “If it be necessary to assume a grave responsibility, I dare say men will be willing to assume such a responsibility.”
The Mediterranean Sea has long been a watery grave for those fleeing war, poverty, and hopelessness to the east and south.
India’s future will face grave risks if its leaders drive these communities to overt hostility toward their own country.
That would be a grave error, given that any kind of cooperation with Russia wouldn’t contain or end the war in Syria: In fact, there is reason to fear the opposite: Any military cooperation with Assad – which is Putin’s aim and price tag – would drive a large majority of Sunni Muslims into the arms of radical Islamists.
Unfortunately, the great sociologist Ralf Dahrendorf was right to conclude that, “The currency union is a grave error, a quixotic, reckless, and misguided goal, that will not unite but break up Europe.”
That is a grave mistake.
But the growing belief that the global financial system has escaped collapse, and that we are slowly returning to business as usual, is a grave misinterpretation of the current situation.
For Germany, Europe’s largest economy, the consequences of Brexit could be grave.
But there is fierce resistance to this by those who say they are fighting grave mental disorders, for which medication is the only viable treatment.
So, leaving responsibility solely to political leaders and policymakers this time would be a grave mistake.
With the state and government acting with such alacrity, covering up nothing, this is no grave scandal that should threaten a government.
True, across Europe, even in corporate boardrooms, there remains an unwillingness to go to the US extreme of "perform or perish" Politicians of all stripes are committed to the cradle to grave welfare state, no mater its expense and debilitating effects on the economy.
This is a grave error.
But this is a grave mistake – based on a failure to understand how big banks can damage the economy.
As shown by the exile of the former media tycoons Boris Berezovsky and Vladimir Gusinky, and the imprisonment of oil magnate Mikhail Khodorkovsky, three fates await Putin’s enemies: exile, imprisonment, or the grave.
Trump, like Nixon, may well be guilty of grave impeachable offenses – even graver offenses than Nixon’s.
One can only imagine the grave consequences if operations that are already spread thin are cut.
Trump is making a mistake that will have grave repercussions for his own country, and for the world.
Apart from the immorality of such public behavior (imagine a German chancellor paying his respects at Goebbels' grave!), the fact that both China and the US have veto power at the UN suggests that it is stupid even from the standpoint of Realpolitik .
Here, India bears a grave responsibility: it must assuage Pakistan’s valid security concerns convincingly.
On the other hand, the Court cannot charge – or refrain from charging – a senior political or military official responsible for grave crimes solely to avert negative political repercussions.
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