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Many countries – Syria qualifies as a poster child in this regard – suffer under miserable, brutal governments.
But Primakov's so far cautious smack of firm government, weakened by the miserable condition of Russian state finances, might yet fail in tranquilizing today's disillusioned Russian masses.
Uribe, who left office after eight years in August 2010, is immensely popular in Colombia, and while he cannot run again for president, he can make life miserable for Santos.
This approach would enable all countries to be better prepared for and resilient to the continuing flows of millions of miserable and ultimately angry people.
The scale of China’s defeat stunned Deng, and historians often credit the PLA’s miserable performance with forcing him to take a hard look at China’s moribund Maoist system.
Extreme poverty bred illiteracy and miserable governance, which in turn intensified hunger, disease, and instability.
Given economists’ miserable record – reflected in the run-up to the crisis – for even three-year predictions, no one should have much confidence in a crystal ball that forecasts decades into the future.
Workers would possess only their own labor, which they would be forced to exchange for a miserable wage.
Greece need not continue to follow Argentina’s miserable example of ten years ago.
Using the (fairly miserable) past as a yardstick, it is hard to believe that French nominal GDP will increase by less than 0.5% annually over the next ten years: from 2005 to 2015, nominal growth averaged 2.1%.
It was a miserable experience.
Free-market economics leads to great outcomes for the rich, but pretty miserable outcomes for everyone else.
Consider, for example, the miserable results of the European Union’s trade and cooperation agreements around the Mediterranean.
The problem is that after so many years of miserable returns on dollar assets, will global investors really be willing to absorb another trillion dollars in US debt at anything near current interest rates and exchange rates?
Images of miserable refugee families drifting in the sea, at the mercy of rapacious smugglers and gangsters, can easily inspire feelings of pity and compassion (and not just in Germany).
Big lottery winners, it is claimed, end up miserable, though real-life research suggests that they are as happy as you and I would be with a check for a million dollars.
For many people, commuting can be miserable.
But despite all the lamentations over what a miserable event the debate was, the tens of millions of Americans who loathe him should celebrate his performance, displaying as it did the unvarnished Trump.
Structural shifts in the automobile industry, miserable productivity gains in advanced economies, shrinking spare capacity, and the build-up of financial fragilities would be sufficient causes for concern even in normal times.
On Friday, January 25, after five weeks of endangering thousands of travelers’ lives, and making millions of innocent people miserable, Trump caved.
Imagining a World Without CapitalismATHENS – Anti-capitalists had a miserable year.
But Rice was also following up on the 2002 Arab Human Development Report, which had highlighted the region’s miserable conditions, and made a clear case for long-term structural reforms.
'Then Anna was so happy and Kitty considered herself miserable.
Many were cheerful, many contented and happy, many were in ecstasy and many dissatisfied and miserable.
We husbands are the most miserable of creatures at those times.
The servants were also gazing at these miserable creatures with the pity and vague uneasiness of girls who are in no difficulty about their own dinners.
All sorts of confused questions came before him: Why are some miserable?
Seated near the miserable fire, which they no longer dared to keep up, Maheude, with her dress unbuttoned and one breast hanging out of her dress and falling to her belly, was suckling Estelle.
I have worked down below for twenty years, I've sweated down there with fatigue and misery, and I've sworn to make it easier for the poor beggars who are there still; and I know well enough you'll never get anything with all your ideas, you'll only make the men's fate more miserable still.
And, in fact, he tasted a certain comfort in the bottom of this hole; the heat was not too great, an equal temperature reigned here at all seasons, the warmth of a bath, while the rough December wind was chapping the skins of the miserable people on the earth.
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