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With such severe shortages of food and basic medicines, there is little doubt that if and when the autocrat is finally deposed, there will be some eerily familiar horror stories.
The disturbance to so elemental a part of this region’s natural architecture is a measure of only one of the many kinds of severe weather aberrations – from floods and droughts to unseasonal blizzards and massive dust storms – that have been unsettling China of late.
Central Banking DefloweredFLORENCE – After the European Central Bank announced on May 9 that it would buy the government bonds of Mediterranean countries experiencing severe fiscal strains, critics complained that the Bank had “lost its virginity.”
Setting aside the external impact on the global economy, the damage to domestic stability and growth from anything other than a short-term technical default would be so severe that the political system (and both parties with it) could not withstand the backlash.
Indonesia and Ecuador, among other countries, succumbed to financial crises in 1997-98 that were linked (in part) to agricultural crises caused by the severe El Nino.
For example, how would Greece (or any country) exit the euro in order to cushion the extreme downward wage adjustment required to regain competitiveness, and to avoid the severe social unrest that could result from reining in debt too rapidly?
The efforts of reformist governments in the region to integrate such movements into the public sphere have been dealt a severe blow.
A New Chance for DarfurNEW BRUNSWICK, NEW JERSEY – As the crisis in Sudan’s Darfur region worsens and negotiaitions to end it drag on, an international consensus is emerging around a “muscular” policy based on public denunciation, severe economic sanctions, and, increasingly, threats of military force.
But the mismatch is less severe than some observers believe.
The giant skeleton of a whale – possibly Leviathan itself – is beached on the shoreline, along with the carcasses of old boats, beneath a severe gray sky that frames a human landscape of political abuse, adultery, lawlessness, and the cynicism of all-powerful priests.
Ever since, Japan has witnessed a severe confrontation between Constitutional revisionists and those who want to protect the Peace Constitution as it was written.
The economic impact of the current system already is severe.
The destruction of the Chinese satellite produced roughly 300,000 pieces of debris, causing severe pollution and putting many other spacecraft in the Earth’s orbit in grave danger.
During the early 1930s, a period of severe economic distress, many Germans were willing to overlook the Nazis’ anti-Semitism, because they were attracted to other aspects of the party’s message.
Under these circumstances, revaluation of the exchange rate will not have a severe impact on an economy’s development.
The lack of sex education has caused severe harm to Ghana’s youth.
This year, Beijing has experienced repeated bouts of severe air pollution, with two smog “red alerts” having been issued this month.
Many Chinese, on the other hand, tend to think that the US is suffering from severe case of conceited superpower syndrome.
The second scenario resembles Argentina’s experience: a severe socioeconomic crisis triggers unrest and ultimately prompts reform.
But if this were true, one would need to argue that the mis-measure of productivity growth is more severe today than in past decades of technological innovation.
In Eastern Europe, Poland’s governing Civic Platform outperformed the nationalist opposition, while voters in the Baltic states, where the economic effects of austerity were the most severe in the entire EU, endorsed centrist European Parliament candidates.
Together in RecoveryNEW YORK – The United Nations’ recently released World Economic Situation and Prospects mid-year report warns that the global economy is at risk of a severe downturn, unless world leaders’ short-term mindset gives way to a focus on medium- and long-term policies.
More important, even though the severe sanctions regime led by the United States is bound to be imperfect – it only hardens further Iran’s resistance to “America’s designs.”
But we are now in the worst of all possible worlds—prices so high that they are damaging the global economy, but uncertainty so severe that the investments needed to bring prices down are not being made.
Today's instabilities may be unusually varied and severe, but human life is one of ceaseless uncertainty at all times.
According to the WHO’s 1996 classification, the disease is deemed mild when the victim does not need to use walking aids regularly; moderate when one or two sticks or crutches are used; and severe when he or she is bedridden or unable to walk without support.
Europe does face severe demographic problems, but size of population is not highly correlated with power, and predictions of Europe’s downfall have a long history of failing to materialize.
Loss of biological diversity is one of the most severe such threats.
Her internal injuries from the iron rod that her attackers used were so severe that doctors had to remove her intestines in their effort to save her life.
Joining a rally can be risky in countries like Turkey, where democracy is already under severe threat.
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