Neighboring Lebanon, with its fierce Sunni Shia divide, is already being directly affected.

It heralds the definitive end of nearly four decades of brutal conflict. Hundreds of thousands of people have been killed.

Traditionally, contract manufacturers in China are scattered and fiercely competitive.

You will no longer see the fierce people, a people of a deep speech that you can't comprehend, with a strange language that you can't understand.

Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not understand.

The current regime in Syria, in its ruthless quest to remain in power, refuses to acknowledge peaceful protesters' demands for freedom and dignity.

Fierce competition for a shrinking water resources base is resulting in over extraction for industry and agriculture, falling groundwater levels and failing domestic water sources.

Scary stories sell newspapers, but in truth all of this sniping at the Fed is overdone. Historically, a 10 fall in the dollar translates into only a one percentage point rise in inflation.

Japan's grim outlook is bad news for the world because it is the globe's second leading economic power. Prospects for Japan acting as a global economic locomotive and of playing a role in poverty reduction and economic development are, for now, almost nil.

He ruled from Emain Macha (now Navan Fort near Armagh), and had a fierce rivalry with queen Medb and king Ailill of Connacht and their ally, Fergus mac Róich, former king of Ulster.

Over the past year the companies grew apart from allies to fierce competitors climaxing with Google's release of Nexus One, the smart phone that is touted as the only real threat to Apple's iPhone.

Some South Africans called for Nuremberg type trials, especially for perpetrators of those atrocities that were designed to maintain the vicious apartheid system.

A great deal of attention has been paid to the stratagems of John Bolton, the fiercely anti UN diplomat whom President Bush recently appointed US ambassador to the UN, and rightly so.

The current regime in Syria, in its ruthless quest to remain in power, refuses to acknowledge peaceful protesters' demands for freedom and dignity. If it did and if it met those demands Islamists would not be able to hijack the demonstrations.

But, while the OMT program s positive impact on financial markets is proof of its success, it has come under fierce attack by the German public, political parties, and economists.

I'm also hopeful because the technology for it all is now affordable and will become increasingly so this gives us, with our small economies, a fighting chance in the big bad sea...

Some South Africans called for Nuremberg type trials, especially for perpetrators of those atrocities that were designed to maintain the vicious apartheid system. There were demands that the guilty be brought to book.

More and more Palestinians, fed up with the futility of what is still called the peace process, believe that Fatah s fierce rival, Hamas, the Islamist movement that rules Gaza, has more effective ways to break the current impasse.

The result is that Berlusconi s supposed allies such as former Minister Gianfranco Micciche and current Governor of Sicily Raffaele Lombardo, are seriously thinking of setting up a Party of the South to ensure that Italy s southern regions have enough clout to withstand the Lega Nord s onslaught.

The result is that Berlusconi s supposed allies such as former Minister Gianfranco Micciche and current Governor of Sicily Raffaele Lombardo, are seriously thinking of setting up a Party of the South to ensure that Italy s southern regions have enough clout to withstand the Lega Nord s onslaught.

Historically, a 10 fall in the dollar translates into only a one percentage point rise in inflation. This means that the dollar s 5 fall so far this year will add only half a percentage point to the inflation rate.

Whereas Israel notoriously exacts grim retribution for every attack on its soil, India has endured with numbing stoicism an endless series of bomb blasts, including at least six major assaults in different locations in 2008 alone.