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The public, disillusioned by the kleptocratic regimes of Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif that preceded Musharraf, is far too wretched and ambivalent to rise up.
As Cicero wrote: “O wretched and unhappy was that day.”
Because it is, we must un-learn the wretched habit of thinking that truthfulness resides in the messenger rather than the message.
LONDON – In Britain these days, one can’t avoid hearing and seeing more and more about the wretched campaign to spit in the face of the world (and of reality) and quit the European Union.
Above all, the Congo matters because of the continuing violence, wretched poverty, and misery of most of its nearly 70 million people.
For starters, leaders of destination countries – whether in Europe, Africa, the Americas, Asia, or Oceania – should not turn their back on the desperate and wretched.
Argentines are left to endure wretched hours languishing in economic and political chaos.
It may annoy the Polish to recognize this, but if they make such a choice they will be condemned to a perpetual third rate status, scarcely above the most wretched places on earth and without any illusion of progress.
In 1900, when the global human population was 1.5 billion, almost three million people – roughly one in 500 – died each year from air pollution, mostly from wretched indoor air.
Similarly, it would have been much better to let Wilders show his wretched film in Britain than to ban him.
In the face of this British socialism of fools, which some portray as inoffensive support for the wretched of the earth in Palestine, Khan has had no trouble voicing strong condemnation.
Like other trafficked North Korean women, my new life was wretched.
Such struggles are impossible to imagine for today’s wretched of the earth because no one exploits them.
A Post-Referendum Agenda for BritainLONDON – The end of the wretched campaign to take the United Kingdom out of the European Union against the advice of our friends around the world is less than a month away.
And it offered a touch of Byronic cosmopolitanism to instill compassion for Greece during its crisis, and solidarity for the wretched of the Earth more generally.
Cities for the PeopleSINGAPORE – Dante’s Divine Comedy describes one level of hell (the City of Dis) as“Satan’s wretched city … full of distress and torment terrible.”
Wretched refugees were referred to by government ministers as “illegal invaders,” precipitating the illegal and murderous order given to Greece’s Coast Guard to repel into stormy seas flimsy vessels overladen with desperate men, women, and children.
But why should I make you wretched?
She is as wretched as a woman can be, and you cannot refuse such a...''As far as what I promised is possible.
It put no bread into your cupboard to go and vote for fine fellows who went away and enjoyed themselves, thinking no more of the wretched voters than of their old boots.
It was a pity to look on this last degeneration of a wretched race, this mere nothing that was suffering and half crushed by the falling of the rocks.
She had never dreamed of anything else; violence behind the pit-bank, a child at sixteen, and then a wretched household if her lover married her.
When the inhabitants of Montsou saw them arrive, gloomy and wretched, occupying the whole width of the road, they shook their heads anxiously.
Besides, he dreamed of a prison as of a refuge in the midst of the torment of his defeat; but they did not trouble him, and he dragged on his wretched hours, not knowing how to weary out his body.
Is it possible to make oneself so wretched through wanting justice?"Sighs swelled her breast, and her voice choked with immense sadness.
And in her everlasting resignation, in that hereditary discipline under which she was again bowing, a conviction had established itself, the certainty that injustice could not last longer, and that, if there were no good God left, another would spring up to avenge the wretched.
So it was essential to hurry and empty the galleons before the allied fleets arrived, and there would have been ample time for this unloading, if a wretched question of trade agreements hadn't suddenly come up.
The river, that makes of this quarter of Rouen a wretched little Venice, flowed beneath him, between the bridges and the railings, yellow, violet, or blue.
"But the most wretched thing, is it not—is to drag out, as I do, a useless existence.
See!"And she went to the writing-table, ransacked all the drawers, rummaged the papers, and at last lost her head so completely that Charles earnestly begged her not to take so much trouble about those wretched receipts.
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