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Fortunately he did not, because he had little patience for bureaucracy, long meetings, and the need to toe an official line.
The US, for its part, is counseling patience and advising skeptics not to demand too much of North Korea too soon.
Success will require both sides’ patience and willingness to compromise, bolstered by confidence-building measures.
I would sit in such meetings watching Maliki glance over at me, wondering why I had previously warned him of diminishing US government patience with his autocratic rule and dire consequences.
As is the case with North Korea, Syria, and Iran, strategic patience has given way to impatience, with the nationalistic Trump administration leading the charge against China.
It will require a sustained effort and enormous patience, but could be hugely beneficial to US strategic interests.
For the sake of both European stability and Turkish democracy, the EU must confront Turkey’s crisis with patience and pragmatism, based on its own democratic principles.
You can ask for greater sacrifices and require greater patience from people whose trust and full support you have managed to gain.
Fortunately, citizens in Europe and America have lost patience.
This will require considerable patience from governments and publics in the core and periphery alike – in the former to maintain large-scale financing, and in the latter to avoid a social and political backlash against years of painful contraction and loss of welfare.
But societies may lose patience in the meantime.
He is not naive, and knows that patience, compromise, and a policy of small steps are often needed.
While unequivocally commending America's tough stance in pressuring Iraq, Japan should not hesitate to deliver a clear message to the US: exercise patience to avoid war.
I fear that the French and Germans have now lost patience with the troublesome British, and are reluctant to cut a deal.
To be sure, the Syrian crisis is exceedingly complex – so complex that trying to understand it exceeds the American public’s patience.
And it isn’t just citizens of the large creditor countries, such as Germany, who have little patience for Greece.
With so little respect being shown for the LDP’s leaders, it is no surprise that Japanese voters lost what little patience they had left for the party and its antiquated practices.
Time will tell if Trump and his team develop the skill and patience to work effectively within the system they ran against, accepting compromises to achieve success.
It is up to the chastened nations of Western Europe, which broadly share American values but have learned something about political patience, to rein in the American fantasy of re-making the world in its own image.
But all of this would require extraordinary patience on the part of the Workers' Party and its supporters, whose hopes must be deferred as immediate priority is given to appeasing the bond market.
The less determination the West demonstrates in Syria, the more the Iranians become convinced that they can play with the international community’s nerves and patience indefinitely.
Identifying synergies between Trump’s “America first” and Modi’s “Make in India” approaches will require creativity, patience, flexibility, and most important, a strategic focus.
By establishing a no-fly zone – which could be defended using sea-based missile systems – the US and its partners would demonstrate to Assad that their patience has finally run out, and that they are prepared to defend Syrians within Syria.
Some require financial investments that are not possible in a period of fiscal retrenchment, and some place too high a demand on voters’ patience.
Admittedly, this process will take time and patience.
But, in tackling the issue, Chinese officials would do well to heed the proverb: “With time and patience, the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.”
Historically, attempts at modernization in Russia, even when they look real, as with Stalin’s industrialization or Yeltsin’s market reforms, ultimately result in a Potemkin village-like state of affairs, because Russian society cannot change fast enough or with the patience necessary to see the changes through.
But our young conservatives have no patience for such arguments.
Though the Fed may no longer be promising patience, the current financial environment implies that investors should not, for the time being, anticipate a major hike.
Sometimes they simply lose patience with the difficulty of agreeing on changes in negotiations that involve 28 countries, which seems especially true of financial reform, given that many of these countries are not home to systemically important banks and probably never will be.
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