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Muslim, Hindu, and Jewish relief groups are active the world over in combating poverty and disease.
A Good Fight for Hard TimesVIENNA – Of the many problems that weak global economic conditions have brought into relief, corruption is among the most persistent.
But this is no time for a sigh of relief and business as usual.
Europe’s African Growth EngineRIVERSIDE, CALIFORNIA – The eurozone crisis is taking a toll on its citizens: low growth, soaring unemployment, and tough austerity measures, with no relief in sight.
This approach – which could be pursued only within a centrally planned economy like China’s – provided temporary relief.
The EU can heave a sigh of relief that the UK’s membership will not be a political football to be kicked around in an unruly melee of coalitions, and that British voters apparently favor the status quo rather than the unknown.
During the fighting in Gaza, he publicly demanded a halt to the warfare and requested that Israel open Gaza’s borders to relief aid.
There is the growing clout of Muslim-majority countries, such as Turkey, the Gulf States, and Indonesia, which means that global problems – from security to the economy to humanitarian relief (where I will be devoting my energies starting in September) – can no longer be addressed without powerful partners in the Muslim world.
I saw this in Brussels two weeks ago, when my new colleagues from the International Rescue Committee and I discussed the crisis in Syria and other Arab countries, humanitarian relief in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Myanmar, and Thailand, and initiatives across Africa.
These are ambitious hopes, but even if the UN Security Council adopts and implements a resolution that would lead to such an eventual solution, it will provide just another band-aid and temporary relief.
The emerging stew of Weltpolitik thickened even more with Israel’s pre-emptive move in international waters to stop a flotilla supposedly bringing relief aid to blockaded Gaza.
This is a good moment for NATO, but one that evokes more a sense of relief than of celebration.
North Korea eventually regained its money, but this so-called “sanctions relief” was in no way equivalent to the billions in question in Geneva.
What is on offer to Iran is not just relief from economic sanctions;Iran is being offered membership in the international community – an outcome that some Iranian leaders (though obviously not all) clearly want.
Radical Islam's Challenge to IndonesiaWith the Taliban on the run, sighs of relief can be heard as far away as Indonesia.
Bureaucrats must not be allowed to spend the huge donations collected and state relief funds allotted in an arbitrary manner.
Greece’s recent financing package, overseen by the Troika, gave the country much less debt relief than it needed.
But, even with significantly more public-debt relief, Greece could not return to growth without rapidly restoring competitiveness.
Even Sharon ventures a few favorable comments, and American diplomats express visible sighs of relief that progress toward peace can at last be made.
Again, CBD seems to offset the addictive effects of cannabis, and seems to provide relief from withdrawal symptoms.
Trump’s North American Trade CharadeWASHINGTON, DC – When the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) was announced, it was met by a sigh of relief around the world.
Thus, as it stands today, EMU could be compared to a pressure cooker without any relief valve built in.
British relief forces made three separate attempts to reach Kut.
Without hope of relief, the garrison surrendered on April 29 th , 1916, after a siege of almost five months.
In return, Iran would receive substantial relief from the removal of those sanctions imposed in response to its nuclear program.
Europe, however, is unable to do much to gain relief.
The Mansehra to Balakot road, finally forced open by huge army bulldozers, is now lined with relief trucks bursting with supplies that were donated by people from across the country.
Even the armed bandits who waylay relief supplies – making necessary a guard of soldiers with automatic weapons, standing every few hundred yards – cannot destroy this moment.
Some bring relief supplies; others simply harangue those who have lost loved ones and livelihoods, lecturing that their misdeeds brought about this catastrophe.
Their visibility makes relief choppers terrific propaganda, for good or for worse.
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