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Lake Chad, once an immense reservoir of fresh water, has lost around 90% of its surface area since 1963 and is at risk of drying out permanently.
Germany’s immense current-account surplus – the excess savings generated by suppressing wages to subsidize exports – has been both a cause of the eurozone crisis and an obstacle to resolving it.
But it would make an immense difference for Germany’s chances if the US actively supported what is, after all, a reasonable objective of one of its most important allies.
Yet the potential is immense.
In fact, to its immense credit, Sinn Féin has gone out of its way to adopt a progressive stance on the issue of immigration from the EU and elsewhere.
But if the contrast between the two sides of the Atlantic, between the continent of “Yes, we can” and the continent of “Yes, we should,” is so immense, it is for reasons that Europeans are refusing to face or even to discuss.
The Kosovo intervention was also notable in another way: its legitimation was entirely moral in character, responding to the Milosevic regime's ethnic cleansing campaign, which had created a real threat of yet another immense humanitarian disaster.
Nothing else ultimately explains lenders’ immense willingness, in the boom up to 2006, to lower their credit standards on home mortgages, regulators’ willingness to let them do it, rating agencies’ willingness to rate mortgage securities highly, and investors’ willingness to gobble them up.
During the Industrial Revolution in Western Europe in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the pioneers and innovators in textiles, steel, and railroads were not, on the whole, rewarded with immense riches: their profits were competed away.
Zimbabwe’s military and political elite has appropriated the diamond field’s immense wealth for itself, with no benefits for the millions of desperately poor Zimbabweans who need the kind of services that the country has the resources to provide.
Rebels know that if they succeed, they will gain immense personal wealth, be able to reward those who backed their coup, and have enough arms to keep themselves in power, no matter how badly they rule.
The BRICS, and developing countries generally, have immense infrastructure needs.
This “demographic dividend” has immense potential.
In its quest to rebuild Russia’s geopolitical power and influence, Presdient Vladimir Putin has the support of the immense majority of the population.
The challenges that face Prime Minister Prachanda, the incoming coalition government, and the Constituent Assembly, are immense, and trust is fragile.
Yesterday, intelligence without power led to immense suffering.
But today, power without intelligence creates immense dangers not only for the Israel, but for the Jewish people at large.
The scale of the challenge is immense, with the flow of refugees extremely difficult to monitor and channel, let alone limit.
If, as some Russian officials have proposed, Russia begins an identity-defining large-scale project to develop its immense territory east of the Ural Mountains, including Siberia and the Far East, it would have a unique opportunity to deepen these connections further.
But transition costs would be immense, and there are serious doubts about whether such a country could remain in the EU, or even re-enter it in the short term, if it had just seceded unilaterally from another EU member state.
Cyber attacks may also interfere with financial markets and cause immense economic loss by closing down commercial Web sites.
But, in view of her immense popularity at home, including within her own party, Merkel is underestimating the options at her disposal.
In Cuba, Fidel Castro’s eventual passing from the scene represents an immense challenge.
Ending the Tragedy of DarfurThe critical conditions that continue to prevail in Darfur are causing immense suffering to its people.
A Tale of Two Currency AreasPALO ALTO – The United States and Europe are two giant free-trade areas, each wealthy but with serious short-run problems and immense long-run challenges.
Curie faced immense gender barriers during her career.
The commercial stakes are growing as it becomes possible to test for predisposition to common diseases such as breast cancer and heart disease where the potential market is immense.
Russia has immense territory but only 140 million people.
Santos may be less willing to avoid confrontation, if only because the personal antipathy between the two leaders is immense.
With modest up-front financing, impoverished and traditional rural communities that had not considered educating girls suddenly see the immense value to the community of educating both boys and girls.
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