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This task requires time, patience, hard work, and luck.
Although supporters’ expectations were high, so was their patience – a dynamic reinforced by the ANC’s liberation mythology and early successes in expanding housing, electricity, and social grants.
Nearly 20 years later, this patience has worn thin.
The ANC no longer has sufficient credibility with poor South Africans to ask for continued patience in achieving “a better life for all.”
Astonishing patience has been shown by the Pakistani state, which on other occasions freely used air and artillery power to combat such challengers.
The problem with this omnipotent presidency is that the qualities needed in order to be elected are not necessarily those required to master the art of government, with its mixture of distance, patience, serenity, and modesty, in addition to energy and activism.
In this context, it seems that former President Barack Obama’s policy of “strategic patience” toward North Korea may be about to be replaced.
Musharraf and his political allies tried to adjust to this new reality, but their patience ran out when the Supreme Court took up petitions against Musharraf’s decision to run for president.
When, after the 2007 election, Kibaki was declared the winner under questionable circumstances, Kenyans’ patience ran out.
But precisely because they have a hard time making ends meet, middle-class citizens have little patience for leaders who cause inflation and interest rates to skyrocket.
But G-20 policymakers are best advised not to bet on it, and to counsel patience, particularly in epicenter countries.
Russian leaders (as do ordinary Russians) like drama; they lack patience.
Strategic patience, the approach toward North Korea that has characterized successive US administrations since the early 1990s, has run its course.
With a smart strategy, underpinned by patience and commitment, Africa can build a cashless economy, with high levels of financial inclusion supporting economic prosperity and security.
As the Arab proverb puts it, patience is the key to happiness.
Unfortunately, Western leaders have repeatedly shown that they lack the patience and dedication needed to engage consistently and humbly with communities in crisis-stricken countries or to provide the reliable, incremental, and prolonged governance assistance needed to prevent state collapse.
Instead, they have drawn on a patience rooted in their traditional political apathy.
Reforming Italy, and changing the narrative in Europe, is a huge task that requires the careful formulation of an agenda containing detailed, feasible objectives, as well as the patience to engage other EU governments in a constructive policy dialogue, not horse-trading.
After all, the only way fully to defeat a movement that thrives amid chaos is to build strong and competent states, a task for which Trump lacks both the inclination and the patience.
As Turkish casualties have mounted, the military’s patience has begun to wear thin and Erdogan has come under growing internal pressure to take unilateral military action against the PKK.
The Arab Spring has upended assumptions about popular patience in the region.
But after 17 years with troops on the ground in that country, Americans have lost patience, with many embracing US President Donald Trump’s “America First” isolationism.
In this complex context, there is little patience for added uncertainty.
For starters, it highlights North Korea’s sudden emergence as Trump’s main foreign-policy challenge, suggesting that the strategic patience pursued by former President Barack Obama could well be replaced by a more accident-prone policy of strategic tetchiness.
Unfortunately, this will take longer than the country's interests demand -- but perhaps no longer than the patience of Japan's friends can endure.
The patience of Japan’s middle-class, rocked by economic crisis, finally cracked.
Caution and patience might not be his best advisors.
Success requires diplomacy and patience, and the UN’s latest summit continued the march forward in the creation of a community of nations responsible for the well being of all.
After five years of global financial-sector scandals on a grand scale, patience is wearing thin.
Though some candidates and civil-society groups opted for a show of force with the regime, the majority of the population decided to defeat Wade at the ballot box – a patience and respect for electoral tradition that must be understood historically.
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