Misery
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Consider what the Greek Cypriot community has achieved - a thriving economy, no one living under conditions of
misery
and humiliation in camps, membership in the European Union - compared to the catastrophe the Palestinian choice has brought to their own people.
But then again, the Republic of Cyprus is a democracy, while the Palestinians have not been able to emancipate themselves from the violent militarized option that has brought them such
misery.
Continued isolation will mean generations of
misery.
The clean emerald field and freedom of the game must be opposed by the howling mob in the darkness of the stands, burning red torches and jerking between ecstatic joy and hellish
misery.
One of the Middle East’s most powerful countries is directly responsible for widespread death, destruction, and
misery.
But it is another matter altogether to encourage technocrats to run countries, seemingly circumventing democratic processes, and foist upon them policies that lead to widespread public
misery.
In short, Greece has gone from being Ground Zero of the eurozone crisis, and the best example of its mismanagement by the EU authorities, to a perfect example of how financial exuberance can ride on the back of economic
misery.
If the professionals fail to capitalize on them, the pandemic will offer no silver linings – only more dread, division, chaos, and
misery.
And while that
misery
could initially benefit consumers in rich countries, a surge of low-price imports would simultaneously pose a threat to domestic manufacturing jobs, creating political pressure for protectionist measures.
But there is an obvious difference: that earlier crisis of democracy was inextricably linked to the economic
misery
of the Great Depression, whereas today’s crisis has arrived at a time of historically high levels of employment.
The Arab Spring ended in bitter disillusionment, via repression, civil war, misery, and death.
Walking through big-city slums in developing countries, witnessing the squalor and
misery
of the poor and homeless in rich countries, and looking at the homes and lifestyles of the rich anywhere, the need to address the current situation becomes clear.
The fall of Muammar el-Qaddafi’s authoritarian regime in 2011 did not lead to the social improvements that many had hoped for, but rather to misgovernment and
misery.
Until now, however, regime cronies have been expropriating and exploiting traditional land, generating conflict, misery, and food insecurity.
To save the country – and its surroundings – from a new wave of chaos and misery, the international community must mobilize rapidly to support the Sudanese people’s aspirations for better governance.
And blocking people at the border can rob a society of talent and needed workers, while contributing to the
misery
of those forced to flee as a result of political or religious persecution, war, gangs, or hunger.
Greek voters elected us in January 2015 to end the unnecessary
misery
imposed on them by ridiculous policies that turned an economic recession into a humanitarian crisis.
History has repeatedly shown that debt-fueled financial bubbles result in economic and social
misery
once they burst.
Sure, the United States and the rest of the world may bungle the transition out of the lockdown phase, setting the stage for an extended period of political turmoil and social
misery.
Only by implementing credible consequences for corrupt-related disruption of COVID-19 responses can we ensure that government officials and business elites respond to the urgent needs of people, rather than profiting from their
misery.
On the southern border of the United States, refugees fleeing
misery
and conflict don’t know if they will be met with sanctuary or bolted gates and tear gas.
To tap this potential, AfDB President Akinwumi Adesina has called for turning rural areas “from zones of economic
misery
to zones of economic prosperity,” which requires “new agricultural innovations” and the transformation of agriculture into “a sector for creating wealth.”
The deep
misery
caused by the transitional recessions remains a fresh memory for many citizens and will influence political and economic choices in the region for decades to come, just as the experience of the Great Depression still animates public policy in the US.
Anything would be better than continual shame, misery, infidelity!'With his heart full of despair and bitterness toward every one, toward himself and her, he left the hotel and went to her.
He felt that he could not divert from himself people's hatred, because that hatred was caused not by his badness (had it been so he might have tried to be better) but by his disgraceful and repulsive
misery.
She knew that, though he was the chief cause of her misery, the question of her seeing her son would seem to him quite unimportant.
He needed society, and so he had placed her in this terrible position, the
misery
of which he would not understand.
Nothing but
misery
in the country; every one is being sent away; workshops closing one after the other.
She will die of misery, sure enough."
The
misery
was too great; and he spoke of the workshops that were closing, the workers who were going away.
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