Pains
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It was not the kind of ceremony that should have taken such
pains
to plan, particularly given that the Chinese had nothing substantial to say; yet, as was so often the case, it was the product of a struggle.
The North Korean announcement took
pains
to differentiate the Pyongyang regime’s program from the Iranian one, and fell back on shopworn lines that nuclear weapons were necessary to counter the United States’ “hostile polices.”
This probably contributes to a host of health-related problems: 15% of the workforce complain of headaches, 33% of backache, 23% of fatigue, and 23% of neck and shoulder pains, plus a host of other illnesses, including life-threatening ones.
The economic powerhouse that for decades confidently provided hegemonic stability to the global economy seems at
pains
to continue doing so.
The officials stressed how the government has taken
pains
to ensure that the power grid and transportation network reaches every village in China.
The Spanish and the Chinese Civil Wars, World War II, the depth of depression in the United States, Stalinist purges, the political dependence of Asia and Africa, and the
pains
of decolonization in India and elsewhere could be viewed by Brazilians and Mexicans as remote events that could not happen here any more.”
Keating believed that the fighting at Kokoda represented the real birth
pains
of an independent Australia, not some colonial appendage of Britain created to serve imperial purposes in the Far East.
He has also announced plenary indulgences – time off from “the
pains
of purgatory” – for those who follow his visit to the Catholic youth festival in Rio de Janeiro on the Internet.
Russia’s future is even more uncertain; so far, it has been unable to rid itself of the phantom
pains
over its lost empire, much less arrest the deterioration of its society and economy.
He should take
pains
to present Japan as a strong country that looks forward rather than backward, and that wants to contribute to economic development, peace, and security around the world – and especially within Asia.
Bulgaria's government is at
pains
to sell this loss-making plant even for the symbolic price of 1 Bulgarian Lev.
Most of the big Latin American debtors took extraordinary
pains
to avoid an explicit default.
But it is impossible to ascertain the perpetrators, and the Maidan nationalists – the Svoboda party, which has five members in the new government and idolizes wartime leader Stepan Bandera, and the even more extreme Right Sector – have taken
pains
to stress that anti-Semitism is not part of their program today.
Both the ICD classification of mental disorders, and its American counterpart, the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) efforts have taken
pains
to make diagnostic classification accountable as examples of public policy.
The troika has proved functional, and Europe would have been at
pains
to provide conditional assistance to eurozone countries without the IMF’s participation and support.
Netanyahu, however, has imbued the Israeli state’s existence with all of the Jewish people’s past anxieties, pains, and struggles.
The first question that any would-be Russian reformer should ask nowadays (and which we did not ask during Gorbachev's perestroika) is the following, is society prepared to endure the short-term
pains
of reforms, and how willing it is to endure the pain?
The countries of North Africa and the Middle East should learn from East Asia and Northern Europe, and take
pains
to avoid the failures of the US.
As a committed Atlanticist and multilateralist, it
pains
me to admit that he is right.
To be sure, Europe gave Obama very little back for his pains, whether in terms of help in Afghanistan or support in stimulating the global economy.
South Korea’s Looming CrisisSEOUL – Twenty years after the Asian financial crisis, South Korea seems to have learned its lesson, having taken great
pains
to strengthen its economic resilience.
The Birth
Pains
of Arab StatesTEL AVIV – Caught off guard by the unraveling of the Iraqi state – spurred by the rapid advance of militants from the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) – Americans and Europeans have reverted to their penchant for self-flagellation.
But such teething
pains
are inevitable in any new group, and the seeds of future cooperation have already been sown.
But they are also necessary
pains
on the path to supply-side reform aimed at eliminating excess capacity, improving resource efficiency, and jettisoning polluting industries.
But it strains the imagination to link Africa’s colonial-era
pains
with the willingness of African leaders to spend a fortune to equip their countries with state-of-the-art settlement systems, and then proceed to exclude their citizens from using them.
As the movement has gained support in the US and Europe in recent years, Netanyahu has been at
pains
to portray it as a global juggernaut hellbent on destroying the Jewish state.
Since the latest massacres, he’s been at
pains
to present himself as a reasonable fellow who can get behind gun reform (and perhaps mollify suburban women, his most dangerous foes on this issue).
It
pains
us to say it, but US President Donald Trump is right: “We cannot let the cure be worse than the disease.”
You must aim to be elegant, you know, and take
pains
to create the impression that women are devoted to you.
And later in life, she resisted the crippling
pains
of old age by reciting from memory poems by Dante, Heine, Keats, Kipling, and Wordsworth.
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