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Christians believe that despair is a mortal sin, so one might as well try to find a glimmer of hope.
Globalization has not received a mortal blow – at least not yet.
Even President Barack Obama, of whom miracles were expected, turns out to be no more than a very talented mortal.
This conclusion echoes then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s warning in 2009 that Pakistan “poses a mortal threat to the security and safety of our country and the world.”
When should the EU tap its triple-A credit if not at a moment when it is in mortal danger?
Yeltsin’s choice of Putin – encouraged, ironically, by Boris Berezovsky, the prominent Russian oligarch and Yeltsin advisor who is now exiled in London as Putin’s mortal enemy – was based on his belief that the quiet apparatchik, even if a former KGB spy, was a democrat at heart.
But, with the decline of secular nationalism and Islamism’s rise, the hidden electoral power of the Muslim Brotherhood poses a mortal threat to the regime and its strategic alliance with the West.
From the first day of school, Syrians are taught that America and its ally, Israel, are mortal enemies seeking to keep Syria weak.
Europe, for him, is a simply a practical and geographic reality -- neither a shining vision nor a mortal threat.
And yet, in fighting for their lives against the Islamic State, the Kurds have won new legitimacy; once the fighting has ended, they will not simply forget their national ambitions – or the mortal threat they faced.
Indeed, some extreme Sunnis in the Arab world consider Shia power a mortal threat.
When a state or association of states is in mortal danger, it is better for its leaders to confront harsh reality than to ignore it.
Worse, our fragile democracy risks falling victim to extremists who pose a mortal danger not just to Syria, but to the wider Middle East and the world.
The idea that markets are self-regulating received a mortal blow in the recent financial crisis and should be buried once and for all.
The Age of Sustainable DevelopmentNEW YORK – A half-century ago, John F. Kennedy observed that, “man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life.”
Still, as the world’s largest economy leads the way into uncharted political waters in 2017 and beyond, it would be foolhardy for a mere mortal to attempt a forecast, other than to state the obvious: the waters will almost certainly be choppy, and many – if not most – pundit ships will sink along the way.
Quite the contrary: Saddam’s regime and militant Islam were mortal enemies.
Joseph Goebbels, Hitler’s propaganda minister, famously gloated after the Nazis’ legal Machtergreifung (seizure of power): “It will always remain one of the best jokes of democracy that it provided its mortal enemies with the means through which it was annihilated.”
We may thus have to learn how to exploit these synergies and use the weapons that microbes provide us, rather than look at them only as mortal enemies marked for peremptory extermination.
If you are not living in mortal fear of rape and beatings at home, you can organize your community to dig a new well.
And for a truly frightened few, Brussels and Mecca have both come to be seen as mortal threats.
Following the Minotaur’s mortal wounding, America has not only the Fed and the Treasury to thank for helping to avoid a new Great Depression.
Trump believes that Israel and Sunni Arab countries are actually allies in a mortal struggle with Iran, and that they should unite around that cause, rather than allow such issues as the Palestinian territories to keep them apart.
As Paz warned: "We live, as the rest of the planet, a decisive and mortal moment, orphans of the past and with a future to invent."
Yet when thousands or hundreds of thousands of people were exposed to mortal threats that he had the authority and duty to avert, alleviate, or at least announce, he failed abjectly.
Far from reflecting careful deliberation over an ambiguous choice, “at the same time” is the credo of someone suspended in fear and trembling before the unsolvable and terrifying mystery of the double nature – physical and spiritual, mortal and resurrected – of the tormented body of Christ.
This has created a greenhouse in which corruption grows and flourishes, posing a mortal threat to Africa.
The US has found it much safer, it seems, to focus on mortal threats that remain more notional than real – be it Saddam Hussein or Iran’s Shia mullahs.
Morsi’s autocratic inclinations may have damaged democracy; taking him out in a coup deals it a mortal blow.
The region’s Sunni powers, emboldened by Trump’s approach, have now closed ranks against both ISIS and Iran, even though they themselves are often mortal enemies.
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