For a prostitute is a deep pit and a wayward wife is a narrow well.

For a whore is a deep ditch and a strange woman is a narrow pit.

New chasms surfacing, and the old deepening.

I began to yawn uncontrollably around Kempton Park, which apparently is what dogs also do when anxious they yawn uncontrollably.

They fall easily into violence, theft, and sabotage.

He who digs a pit may fall into it and whoever breaks through a wall may be bitten by a snake.

He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it and whoso breaketh an hedge, a serpent shall bite him.

This militarized approach is leading the world into a downward spiral of violence and conflict.

Many Africans will fall back into desperate poverty.

The big southern European countries, Spain and Italy, battered by austerity, are spiraling into recession.

Stop and go aid has left Haiti in an unmitigated downward spiral.

That pathetic contrast will inevitably lead to even greater inequality, because it will widen the existing disparities.

All of this changed abruptly when the American economy fell into a deep recession at the end of 2007.

In most cases, geography plays an important role in success or failure.

Third, successive governments widened the ethnic divide through catastrophically predatory governance.

Dialogue can identify and narrow the differences between the two countries on those bilateral issues that can be addressed.

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon s disabling stroke has thrown Israeli politics into turmoil yet again.

If today s globalization continues to widen income gaps, the waves of migration will grow.

With the press under control, other political rights were quickly curtailed and Indonesian democracy failed again.

For this difference in means, tactics, and empirical judgments rested on top of deep gulf in Keynes s and Friedman s moral philosophy.

After the collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008, the global financial system nearly melted down and the world economy went into free fall.

With the gap between the world s rich and poor increasing, the impoverished South seeks a home or a job in the developed North.

Without sanctions to police global imbalances, the French step forward will take us halfway across a yawning chasm.

It was the complete collapse of trade credit that sent global commerce into a tailspin for half a year after the failure of Lehman Brothers in September 2008.

Equal rights, according to this logic as socialist thought has emphasized imply public policies aimed at narrowing inequalities in the actual living conditions of all citizens.

They seem condemned by their heavy debt burdens to years of stagnation or slow growth, widening inequality, and possible social strife.

Their use of inquisitorial methods, double standards and politicization of human rights had undermined the work of the Commission on Human Rights and would doom the Human Rights Council to failure.

The government allowed employment discrimination to go unchecked, leaving the majority of Roma without jobs, and communities were plunged deeper into poverty.

The gap between rich and poor, already a challenge to our ideas of social justice, will become a chasm that mere equality of opportunity will be powerless to bridge.

As for the economic crisis, bailouts and stimulus packages on the order of billions of dollars, euros, yen, or yuan have been planned or implemented to stem the further slide of the global economy. But, while references to the Great Depression are justified, the lesson of that crisis, and of the New Deal, is that effective programs can at best cushion the fall and bring about stabilization.

Therefore, the political response to rising inequality whether carefully planned or the path of least resistance was to expand lending to households, especially low income households.

For example, while Iran may not be happy with the American presence in Iraq, it realizes how close the country is to full scale civil war.

Poverty is borne equally by men and women, yet despite this, there are several examples of gender inequality which deepen differences between men and women in relative poverty levels in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

A new policy is needed not only in order to halt America s drift into impotence as it tries to prevent Iraq from spiraling into full scale civil war, but also because the map of power in the Middle East has changed dramatically.

If today s globalization continues to widen income gaps, the waves of migration will grow. So the rich world will, in a knee jerk response, erect ever higher barriers to stem the human tide.

The most important determinant of income inequality today is wealth inequality, with the increasing concentration of asset ownership in recent years principally responsible for greater income inequality in most countries.

We cannot afford to delay in bringing about a radical change in the rules that currently govern economic relations among States, because, while in the United Nations we are slowly progressing towards equality and agreement, the world is rushing towards an abyss of inequality and disagreement.

If our behavior is based on fear, we will look with suspicion on all those who are different from us, deepening the alienation of the millions inside and outside our countries who believe that they cannot integrate into even the most open societies.

Even for those benefiting from the HIPC Initiative, the economic conditions on which their debt relief was based have considerably worsened, and several countries, including those few that received debt relief, have backtracked into further unsustainable debt.

With the gap between the world s rich and poor increasing, the impoverished South seeks a home or a job in the developed North. Legal and illegal migration triggers far right hostility in countries that customarily brag about their commitment to civil liberties.

I must specifically mention the International Monetary Fund, since it has irresponsibly encouraged and pressured least developed countries to implement policies that, far from improving their economic and social situations, have plunged them into still deeper poverty all this in the name of economic growth and free trade.

It was the complete collapse of trade credit that sent global commerce into a tailspin for half a year after the failure of Lehman Brothers in September 2008. At moments like these, financial crises look like a heart attack wreaking immediate and devastating damage to the whole of the economic body.

After the collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008, the global financial system nearly melted down and the world economy went into free fall. Indeed, the rate of economic contraction in the fourth quarter of 2008 and the first quarter of 2009 reached near depression levels.