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The unpopularity of Hong Kong's incompetent and sycophantic Chief Executive, chosen by China for a second five-year term that will only end in 2007, creates a grave dilemma for the country's communist rulers.
It is, of course, an honorable act for a government to take responsibility for so grave a failing and resign.
It was a grave political miscalculation that made this political tragedy possible.
This visit is not only a lost opportunity, given Russia’s need to modernize its economy and the help Japan could provide, but a grave strategic error in view of Russia’s increasing worries about China’s ambitions in Asia, which includes Russia’s lightly populated Siberian provinces.
This is not an exhaustive list of reforms, but they would go a long way toward allowing the central government and the states, working together, to confront successfully the grave potential peril that globalization holds in store for India.
In the short run, declining oil prices create grave challenges for those who, having invested in expanding production when prices were high, now face large costs and failing businesses.
Debt and America’s DeclineMILAN – Italians and other Europeans have serious problems addressing their own national debts, public and private, so it may seem immodest for a European to discuss America’s growing and grave debt problem.
After several grave political errors, when the Church got involved in politics in counterproductive ways (the return to power of the postcommunists in 1994 was viewed by many as a direct rebuke to Church highhandedness), bishops now mostly avoid direct political involvement.
It is a view that carries the grave implication that a peaceful solution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is almost impossible.
What to do about it poses a grave dilemma for the Organization of American States (OAS).
Complex technologies, regional trends in the style and decoration of tools, use of pigments, abstract and representational depiction, burials, grave goods, and personal ornaments are among the more common long-lasting creations that attest to the complex symbolic nature of ethnographically recorded human cultures.
It referred only to “the grave violations of human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, particularly due to the recent Israeli military attacks,” and called for a mission to investigate “all violations of international human rights law and international humanitarian law by the occupying power, Israel, against the Palestinian people.”
But it would be a grave mistake to embark on that course.
For a while, borrowing hid the extent of the problem; but today the extent of the burden that the accumulated debt that resulted from this borrowing is placing on future generations - a grave injustice in its own right - is clear.
The old notion that large companies are responsible for their employees' welfare from cradle to grave - providing not only wages and bonuses, but sports facilities, cheap holidays, and generous retirement benefits - fell into desuetude.
He has taken on a grave responsibility in history.
Having ushered scientific socialism into its grave at the Cold War’s end, we quickly found ourselves embracing another Science of Man.
Nor is it clear how we all knew that LTCM’s failure or the post-September 11 malaise posed grave risks to the system, but could seriously doubt that the dot-com craze was a bubble.
That is a grave mistake, because progress in the negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program would create a more propitious climate for resolving the region’s other problems.
The grave realities that confront China-for example, corruption and the ever-widening social gap-will not be raised as matters for debate.
This debate may soon heat up again, now that the US, no less than Europe, is faced with grave budgetary problems.
For a country positioning itself as a leader in the global knowledge economy, neglecting investment in education was a grave error, with other countries now staking a claim to the role to which India aspired.
Bush and Blair made four claims:Iraq possesses weapons of mass destruction;those weapons pose a grave, immediate threat;UN inspections were not eliminating that threat;the threat could best be eliminated by war.
Bush and Blair must show that any weapons of mass destruction that are recovered posed a grave and urgent threat.
Scientists agree that climate change poses a grave danger to the planet.
The Arab Spring upheavals have given rise to grave new challenges to cultural and religious diversity in the Middle East.
But what really happened is that a grave disequilibrium surfaced: the new elite reinforced its political powers by getting access to and control over the country's finances, but nothing had really changed in the economic structure.
On the contrary, it would be a grave mistake to assume that fanatical Islamism fully defines Saudi attitudes toward religion.
And since both India and Pakistan have nuclear weapons, the risk of military action spiralling out of control is too grave for any responsible government to contemplate.
This is an especially grave risk for Muslim-majority countries such as Indonesia.
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