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Mischief can always be made by those who want to gain political ground by picking at old wounds.
Reconciliation may not heal all wounds, nor may recognition satisfy the quest for justice.
Today, the growing strength of the region’s democracies is helping to heal the wounds of that violence, but the difficulty of incorporating global factors into national political analysis continues.
Due to our recent efforts, the wounds of the Bosnian war are being healed, facilitating peace and stability among Balkan peoples.
The TRC helped to open festering wounds, cleanse them, and pour balm on them to help in healing all of South Africa’s people.
When the vicious sectarian war between Muslim rebels and Christian militias flared across the country, tearing apart the community he served, he treated the wounds of fighters and hid victims from both sides without fear or prejudice.
These five steps will not heal all wounds or end every grievance.
The damage from the financial crisis is still ongoing, but stronger growth can heal many wounds, especially debt-driven wounds.
The Truth About the Yugoslav Truth CommissionWhen dictatorships fall, how can societies heal the wounds?
It is women as well who are helping to calm tensions and heal Africa’s terrible wounds of conflict and violence.
In this context, the billions of dollars the CAR receives from donors and aid organizations each year amount to little more than humanitarian Band-Aids on gaping wounds.
If the wounds of Brexit are ever to heal, voters will have to move past transactional, tribal politics and embrace leaders who are willing to reach out to the other side and speak honestly about policy tradeoffs.
The wounds of the 1962 war never healed, yet annual bilateral trade has grown to almost $100 billion, albeit overwhelmingly in China’s favor.
The other spearhead of communism – the Soviet Union – was facing an increasingly evident crisis, while China was still licking its wounds in the aftermath of the Tiananmen Square protests.
And as with attacks on international institutions, unilateral import tariffs and export restraints will yield only self-inflicted wounds.
I know that there are open wounds, and that there is pain and frustration.
For starters, the Biden administration will be consumed by the daunting tasks of healing the domestic wounds that Trump has inflicted and correcting America’s critical weaknesses, laid bare by the pandemic.
Although the country’s rifts have grown too large to be healed overnight, there is some truth in the cliché that “time heals all wounds.”
On top of these self-inflicted wounds, an overly “financialized” business sector has been siphoning value out of the economy by rewarding shareholders through stock-buyback schemes, rather than shoring up long-run growth by investing in research and development, wages, and worker training.
Failure to pass this solidarity test would leave deep psychological wounds in left-behind countries, paving the way for all manner of extremism and new crises – from pandemics to conflicts – that would threaten everyone.
These invisible wounds of war cut deep, undermining recovery.
Trump’s tweet suggests that his entire Iran policy is rooted deep in the past, as if actions taken today represent a belated response to wounds inflicted long ago.
If so, his administration has something in common with the Iranian regime, which has long dwelled on the real and perceived wounds of bygone eras.
COVID-19 will deepen existing wounds in all of the world’s fragile states.
He knew that the only way of escape from men was to hide his wounds from them.
Do I not see how you are suffering, how this has reopened all your wounds!
And again hope and despair, alternately chafing the old sores, lacerated the wounds of her tortured and violently fluttering heart.
It was a necessary lesson: and they were all affected when the Grégoires added that it was now the duty of all to go and heal the wounds in the settlements.
Neither the captain nor the workers were dead, but they were covered by awful wounds which gave out an odour of grilled flesh; they had drunk of fire, the burns had got into their throats, and they constantly moaned and prayed to be finished off.
Blood was pouring into the waves from its wounds.
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