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Indeed, their serene patience stands in stark contrast to the anxious reticence of Russian leaders, who have yet to surmount the humiliation that Russia suffered as a result of the Soviet Union’s disintegration at the end of the Cold War.
If this continues, China’s partners will eventually lose patience.
He spoke of an “immediate threat,” declared an end to former US President Barack Obama’s “policy of strategic patience,” and said that “all options are on the table” – including military action.
Will they wait to see what happens to the new leader, and thus continue their policy of “strategic patience,” which focuses mainly on denuclearization, and not move on to other areas until the North moves first?
But defenders of that doctrine cautioned patience: one could make such judgments only with a longer-run perspective.
Unless Syria’s rulers, like other leaders in the Arab world, begin to appreciate that freedom is a fundamental human right, even the most quiescent people’s patience may wear dangerously thin.
I have also seen the need for ordinary Africans to embrace a set of values, like service for the common good, and commitment, persistence, and patience until a goal is realized.
Trump may be at a particular disadvantage in overcoming such disagreements, owing to his lack of patience.
This central bank patience risks de-anchoring inflation expectations downward.
Meanwhile, in Japan, the private sector’s patience with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s three-pronged strategy to reinvigorate the long-stagnant economy – so-called “Abenomics” – will be tested, particularly with regard to the long-awaited implementation of structural reforms to complement fiscal stimulus and monetary easing.
The Brazilian president asked for “more patience” in the talks with Iran.
The German chancellor replied that she was “losing” her patience” with Iranian leaders after “four years of negotiations in which no progress was made.”
Now it appears that China is beginning to lose patience.
Gandhi believed in “weaning an opponent from error by patience, sympathy, and self-suffering.”
At last, he lost patience and announced that for the moment the US had no intention of stabilizing the dollar.
Throughout the meeting, participants will be waiting for the moment when one of the leaders (maybe Angela Merkel) loses patience and makes the obvious and true remark that the process is a waste of effort.
Reformers often lack patience, and his plan for sweeping economic changes in just 500 days was as utopian as Khrushchev's promise of "Developed Communism" in 20 years.
Despite this progress, the West seems to be losing patience with China.
This will undoubtedly take time and patience, and it will require governments to determine their own destiny and deter regional adventurism by some Arab states.
But, after a year of economic sanctions and negotiations with no result, Israel’s patience on what it regards as an existential issue is wearing thin.
While voters wisely prefer that he and his cabinet, rather than the conservative opposition, implement a program that an overwhelming majority of Greeks detest, the reality of the austerity agenda will test public patience.
With a war-exhausted US having run out of patience, outside forces are in no position to prevent Afghanistan’s partition along Iraqi (or even post-Yugoslav) lines, with the bloodiest battles expected to rage over control of ethnically mixed strategic areas, including Kabul.
Attitudes will have to change, and this will demand great dedication and patience – traits that seem to be in short supply in the US today.
But it is difficult to imagine that market participants will have the required patience.
The patience even of free traders will wear thin in 2010.
Democracy promotion is better accomplished by soft attraction than hard coercion, and it takes time and patience.
In South Korea, with the required trip to the demilitarized zone on his mind, Tillerson intoned that President Barack Obama’s policy of “strategic patience” with the North was over.
Instead, Tillerson showed a great deal of patience with the Chinese, indicating a willingness to work with them on North Korea, even setting aside contentious issues to do so.
Tillerson is right to discard the notion of maintaining strategic patience toward a country committed to developing nuclear weapons and the means to deploy them.
I was involved in these talks, and I asked my colleagues to have patience and give Denmark’s leadership time to consider the situation.
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