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Neither can spend its way out of crisis if they want to meet the qualification targets, and public patience with the governments of President Chirac and Chancellor Kohl, both committed to monetary union, is strained.
And now the Kingdom has made it clear that it has reached the limits of its patience.
Time is needed, she says, to build a state and construct a democracy – time and a mixture of pragmatism and faith, of patience and audacity, of respect for others and regard for oneself.
Just as some European politicians during the Greek debt crisis advocated amputating the “infected limb,” a growing number may lose patience as the UK’s economic situation deteriorates.
Its enforcers were beyond the civilized pale, and the world’s patience with them had run out.
Either the eurozone’s members find agreement on an agenda of governance and political reforms that will turn the currency union into an engine of prosperity, or they will stumble repeatedly from dispute to crisis, until citizens lose patience or markets lose trust.
America’s policy of “strategic patience,” like China’s policy of “friendly persuasion,” has succeeded only in allowing North Korea to advance its nuclear ambitions.
Doing so will require patience, which is not Trump’s strong suit.
But the danger is that those who are attracted to inspirational rallying cries and sweeping proposals will lack the patience required to identify which side to support in the numerous complex battles over financial regulation that take place every year.
On the contrary, trade representatives had to display impressive endurance and patience – for more than five years, for some countries.
Doing so will require knowledge, patience, and, above all, open minds and hearts.
Nevertheless, drawing Libya deeper into international discourse, despite the possibility of roadblocks along the way, is a strategic decision that, now that it has been taken, the West must pursue with patience, perseverance, and constant nurturing.
Whatever US President Barack Obama’s administration means by the phrase “strategic patience,” there has probably been a little too much of it in recent years.
In the meantime, the US needs to do all that it can, including showing some uncharacteristic patience, to help Europe emerge from its crisis.
No sane politician will commit to another decade of structural reforms that will test the patience of ordinary Latin Americans beyond the limits of electoral survival.
On October 17, despite pleas for patience and restraint from Iraq and the US, Turkish lawmakers voted 507-19 to authorize Erdogan to order cross-border military strikes into Iraq at any time over the next year.
That task requires patience and strategic perseverance.
But patience is essential, because, once the conference begins, it must end in success.
The best way to do that would be to forgo “strategic patience” and begin informal contact with the North to probe Kim’s intentions.
After all, with a regime as volatile as North Korea’s, patience is never a virtue.
Even China, North Korea’s main patron, is losing patience with its client state.
He was tipped to be Nelson Mandela’s deputy when Mandela became South Africa’s first post-apartheid president, but he stepped aside when asked, demonstrating pragmatism and patience.
With Israel refusing to accept a nuclear-armed Iran, and its patience wearing thin, the drums of actual war will beat harder.
The Chinese, in particular, appear to have lost patience.
His thinking had a strong normative foundation, but his keen understanding of the world led him to approach foreign policy with a sense of humility and strategic patience.
Palestinian patience is not infinite.
His patience, civility, and politics of reconciliation provided me a better example of democracy and good governance than any civics class could have done.
Not surprisingly, given the EU authorities’ obvious inability to end the malaise, many member states are losing patience with austerity.
As for the rise of Japan’s giant neighbor, the liberal vision urges patience and tenacity in encouraging China to move toward greater transparency, the rule of law, and democratization, as well as adhering to international rules governing world order.
A lot of patience will be needed but now at least the political will to confront Israel's domestic divide, and its long divide with the Palestinians, is there.
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