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Misery in sentence

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Economic destruction causes immense and intolerable human misery.
The anger there, fueled by misery and insufficient food, is popular, not bourgeois.
But if we are not to compound the world’s misery, we have to take away the right lessons from that intervention.
He is reported as saying that the Libyan intervention “didn’t work,” that the country “is not at the core of our interests,” that “we can’t relieve all the world’s misery,” and that “there is no way we should commit to governing the Middle East and North Africa.”
But these women rarely find the opportunities they seek; instead, they find only more misery, sold as wives to Chinese men.
The world's high- and middle-income countries should not imagine that the relatively rich can fence themselves off indefinitely from poverty and misery in the poorest countries.
Contrast this current condition of extended misery with the only sensible long-term solution: a pooling of IMF quotas by all eurozone countries.
Today, however, disruptions to their health systems have compounded the trauma and misery that have arisen from the region’s many conflicts.
For example, in the wake of the vast misery brought by flooding to the people of Pakistan, the US and other governments have risen to the occasion with emergency aid.
So let me add that I do not claim that things are good in Russia, nor that American and Western policy had much positive effect there, nor that there isn’t corruption, misery, and their like in abundance across Russia.
The lambs may have lost out on a few weeks of life, but they were also spared the distress of separation from their mothers, the misery of transportation, possibly for hundreds of kilometres, and the crowding and terror of the slaughterhouse.
The past is being abridged and sugarcoated in order to portray it as superior to the widespread tumult and misery of today.
Most Chinese once lived under conditions of high equality and high misery; today, they live in an unequal society where the income of the poorest 10% grew by almost 65% between 1980 and 2015.
The resulting stagflation heaped misery on ordinary Iranians, with GDP contracting almost 6% in 2012 and inflation averaging 35% the following year.
On condition that the scheme does not replace civil-service jobs, carry tenure, or replace existing benefits, it would establish an alternative to choosing between misery and emigration.
Yet Western governments are neglecting an opportunity to reduce the great misery caused by mental illness, even though the net cost would be nil.
When Layard’s team analyzed the results, they found that the biggest factors affecting misery were all non-economic: mental health, physical health, and whether someone had a partner.
Overall, the researchers claim, eliminating depression and anxiety would reduce misery by 20%, whereas eliminating poverty would reduce it by just 5%.
If we want to reduce misery in the developed world, then mental health is the biggest challenge we need to overcome.
So why is mental health, not poverty, the biggest cause of misery?
In contrast, people do not adapt to poor mental health; nor does your neighbor’s misery make you feel better.
Given that mental health has the greatest impact on life satisfaction, we still need to ask if addressing it is the most cost-effective way for governments to reduce misery.
They concluded that mental health would be the cheapest of the four options: around 18 times more cost-effective in reducing misery and promoting happiness than targeting poverty.
In effect, the UK government would be able to reduce misery at no cost.
Increasing their spending on mental health could reduce an immense amount of misery – and at no cost in the long run.
It does not help that when many Russians recall the country’s experiment with democracy in the 1990s, they remember nothing but misery and humiliation.
In Haiti, however, misery deepened.
This late-summer curse now precedes a “December of misery” – at least for democracy activists.
By broadening access to existing treatments and investing in research to develop new therapies, we can aspire to eliminate one of the oldest and most widespread causes of human misery.
While climate, geography, and the colonial past share some of the blame for today’s misery, most of the responsibility belongs to those African governments that have behaved so badly.
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