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BEIJING – Donald Trump is running out of patience with North Korea.
Looking further out, US fiscal policy's long-run problems will become increasingly visible and urgent: there is not even a hint of a plan for reconciling the long-term costs of the social insurance state with American taxpayers' limited patience with high taxes.
Without patience and foresight, Bell Labs could not have reaped the tremendous long-term benefits of these breakthroughs.
Americans find their patience tried by Europeans who are free with their advice and criticism yet reluctant to shoulder risks.
Building democratic structures requires time, discipline, pain, and patience.
Cameron’s central proposition is that Britain is in a state of “crisis,” and that getting through it will require fortitude and patience.
For this reason, we need to continue to engage our Russian partners with patience, transparency, and a view to enhancing mutual trust and confidence.
Democracy promotion is better accomplished by attraction than coercion, and it takes time and patience.
Above all, we need to show patience with the new governments of the countries we hope to see evolving toward democracy, and avoid the tendency to expect instant gratification.
Young Palestinians – the third generation to live under occupation – have run out of patience.
Or perhaps we have just witnessed a serious step towards global ruin through our failure to cooperate on a complex and difficult challenge that requires patience, expertise, goodwill, and respect for international law – all of which were in short supply in Copenhagen.
But this will take time and patience - and it will need to be accompanied by policy changes on Iraq, Palestine-Israel, and the regional economy.
But its behavior is testing the limits of regional and global understanding and patience.
Otherwise, not only will Europe’s global political ambitions become untenable, but its allies on the other side of the Atlantic will lose patience with Europeans’ refusal to shoulder their share of the security burden.
Sometimes patience truly is the companion of wisdom.
But young people in Iran, as everywhere, are not known for patience.
What the Wolfowitz debacle tells us most clearly is that the time for patience with the status quo is over.
Only when Iran’s voters lost patience with Ahmadinejad’s incompetence and elected Hassan Rouhani in 2013 could the Islamic Revolution be said to be over.
What is clear is that Kim wants to be in charge, and has no patience for anyone who would suggest otherwise.
In his historic Cairo speech in June of that year, he described the Palestinians’ situation as “intolerable” and promised to pursue – “with all the patience and dedication that the task requires” – a policy of “two states, where Israelis and Palestinians each live in peace and security.”
Ensuring that it is the latter will require the patience and discipline – in both domestic and foreign policy – befitting the major transformation now underway.
But, even if the ECB has limitless patience, the rest of the world does not.
Dealing with Ukraine will take patience and perseverance, but there is too much at stake to choose any other path.
Confronted with daunting obstacles and a disloyal opposition, Funes may well decide to cater to FMLN hard-liners and pursue his reform agenda with no patience for democratic checks and balances, as other leftist leaders in Latin America, such as Ecuador’s Rafael Correa and Bolivia’s Evo Morales, have done.
As a result, the US showed little patience with Japan on the question of Okinawa, and has barely concealed its contempt for the DPJ government, feeding popular disappointment with its performance so far.
Many Russian officials will lose patience with Russia’s remaining a status-quo power, and one hopes that they will not seek confrontation.
It requires patience, development of models, and willingness to undertake long-term studies.
His charisma made him friends everywhere, and his patience rivaled that of a saint.
It took extra steps in not being openly critical of China’s currency policy, launched the high-profile US-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue, delayed a meeting with the Dalai Lama prior to Obama’s China trip, and showed substantial patience with China’s concerns at the Copenhagen conference.
For elected leaders, the dilemma is that there are no simple solutions – and little public patience for more complex ones.
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