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Regardless of their outcome, the new negotiations have put Khamenei in a perilous position.
Only new, honest and democratic leadership in Russia, combined with a real commitment to help Russia from the West, can help to correct this perilous situation.
Officials and opinion shapers must understand that this perilous state of affairs will worsen if they fail to take their responsibilities more seriously, tone down their rhetoric, and adopt a balanced approach to Israel.
Even leaving aside Trump’s hostility to the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement – which adds yet another source of risk to an already perilous situation – there is now a real and present danger that Syria will become the site of a conflagration even more destructive than the one raging there since 2011.
In some cases, such a course can be so perilous that it should not be wished upon any society.
Indeed, the most perilous phase of Xi’s purge may now be underway, given the recent arrest of the deputy commander of the Sichuan Military District – a key post, given the district’s large and restive Tibetan population.
They are also reflected in the continuing flow of refugee families making the perilous journey to Europe, driven by the hope that their children will have educational opportunities there.
As a result of that perilous precedent, Russia no longer feels bound by the unwritten agreement.
Ukrainians hope that Poroshenko, with his moderate approach and willingness to negotiate, will be better equipped to resolve the country’s perilous security situation than his more ardent rivals.
For most of the relevant actors, highly perilous geopolitical competition is overshadowing vast economic opportunities.
Reactions to this perilous momentum came without delay.
But the fiscal road ahead looks increasingly perilous, with political consensus fraying badly in recent years.
Consider the determination of North Korean refugees, who suffer the most perilous journeys to freedom in the world, but keep making them.
Ukraine, in particular, is in a perilous state, but financing public works that would create jobs in eastern Ukraine, where the steel industry is in distress, could make a major difference both politically and economically.
The Pope’s Dangerous Sex AppealNEW YORK – Human sexual behavior can be perilous, as the ghastly rape of a 23-year-old woman by six men on a Delhi bus in December once again showed.
The most perilous outcome under this model is when neither the president nor the prime minister has a majority, which has never occurred in France, but has occurred in postcommunist countries such as Russia and Ukraine.
The journey to a new country is often perilous, but it promises far greater economic opportunity: average per capita incomes in advanced economies can be more than 50 times higher (in terms of purchasing power parity) than those in the developing world.
After an arduous four-day journey that included evading militias and making a perilous river crossing, they reached safety in neighboring Bangladesh.
America’s Scorched Earth ManagementSigns of the American economy’s perilous condition are everywhere – from yawning fiscal and current-account deficits to plummeting home prices and a feeble dollar.
America’s Exploding DeficitCAMBRIDGE – Two recent pieces of budget news are a grim reminder of the perilous state of fiscal policy in the United States.
Real appreciation could also be caused by inconsistent macroeconomic policies that put the country in a perilous position, as in Argentina and Venezuela.
The alternative is the loss of the two-state solution and the perpetuation of a terrible – and terribly perilous – conflict.
Its government bonds are tax-exempt everywhere in the US, and hence particularly attractive to US investors, who, despite the increasingly perilous state of the island’s finances, have gorged on them.
A year later, more than 30,000 others made the same perilous journey, and an estimated 6,000 drowned.
The smugglers’ reassurances of a safe and successful journey mean little; they care only about being paid, not about whether these perilous journeys end in death.
Preparing for the Unknown UnknownsLONDON – We live in perilous times.
In perilous times, when the emergence, timing, and diffusion of risks can have a paralyzing effect, what matters is not simply what we accomplish, but how we accomplish it.
That strategy has now been exposed as perilous, and the use by financial institutions of similar risk models can lead to greater instability.
In the past year, some 4,000 men, women, and children have lost their lives in this perilous crossing.
Beneath even the richest soil, Dangerfield wrote, may lie the most perilous residue of discord and destruction.
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