In these tough economic times, we are all acutely aware that security comes at a price.

With tougher economic times inevitably come tougher positions toward foreign competition and outsourcing.

My delegation is fully aware that the safety of navigation in such straits is a key and vital element in promoting foreign trade.

Having family on which one can rely is very important in times of economic hardship especially if there are children involved.

For China is a country of enormous hidden tensions and cleavages, and these may erupt into open conflict in difficult economic times.

Charity in Hard Times

Admittedly, the country s dire economic condition and its urgent need for energy made the agreement venal in a way.

Easy travel plus hard economic times means that immigration rates may accelerate to the point where social friction exceeds general economic benefit. Similarly, hard economic times may worsen relations among governments, as well as domestic conflicts that can lead to violence.

In tough economic times, there is a tendency to sacrifice human rights, but preventing institutionalization of children or adults with disabilities is no longer open to negotiation.

Like all Iranians, younger voters are focused on economic issues, particularly the difficult combination of high inflation and high unemployment.

Hard economic times are correlated with protectionism, as each country blames others and protects its domestic jobs.

In tough times such as these, money matters.

The increase in child labor reflects families dire economic situation children are frequently a family s only breadwinners, and they work cheap.

The Republic of Korea, which is losing jobs for the first time in more than five years, has also spotted the green lining to grim economic times.

Hard times tend to concentrate minds.

They are in fact secretly wishing that in these tough economic times, at least part of the culture of hope incarnated by Obama would reverberate on them and transform them for the better.

Reaching this uneasy state has not been easy.

Attempts to build a serious rainy day fund have failed badly.

At this difficult time, we affirm our solidarity towards our Jordanian friends.

This approach would automatically take account of different growth rates and give countries a powerful incentive to run surpluses in good times in order to increase the scope for maneuver in bad times.

In these cynical times, that is encouraging.

Heartier crop varieties are helping farmers to weather tough conditions.

But in East Timor, that rainy day is now.

Europe is not about to turn fascist yet it would be dangerous to ignore that it is going astray, or to attribute recent developments solely to economic hard times and high unemployment.

PARIS In difficult economic times like these, one principle should be given the same prominence as the headline grabbing issues of high deficits and austerity packages.

Please sum up your experience covering the Iraqi blogosphere at such a difficult time.

Forecasting is always difficult, but especially so in troubled times.

It is also possible to see in the politics of both parties mounting concern about globalization. With tougher economic times inevitably come tougher positions toward foreign competition and outsourcing.

In these difficult economic times, Switzerland serves as a handy scapegoat, enabling financially challenged states to discharge their frustrations and divert their citizens attention from shortcomings in their own complicated and inefficient tax systems.

Energy policy has been pro cyclical the opposite of saving for a rainy day.

We owe him our deepest gratitude and unreserved support in these trying times.

There is no quick or easy way out of this problem, especially in bad economic times.

The negative consequences of poverty and other forms of adversity are not inevitable.

Thus, one might infer that we face another seven years or so of bad times.

The adoption by the Council of this resolution is proof of the Council's commitment to helping Lebanon in the very difficult circumstances in which our country finds itself.

The success of Christopher Caldwell s recent essay Reflections on the Revolution in Europe is indicative of this growing fear of Islamization a fear heightened by the destabilizing impact of economic hard times.

But the challenging strategic environment and legacy of failed negotiations call for a more daring approach The EU should take the initiative in persuading its partners in the European Economic Area to offer Israel membership, conditional on the completion of a peace agreement.

Fortunately, Russians know how to survive hard times.

PALO ALTO Elections often turn on the state of the economy, especially in hard times.

We express our solidarity with them throughout this difficult period of rebuilding homes and the devastated areas.

Against that difficult background my country has incorporated the Millennium Development Goals into its anti poverty strategy.

Europe is not about to turn fascist yet it would be dangerous to ignore that it is going astray, or to attribute recent developments solely to economic hard times and high unemployment. More fundamental causes, political as well as ethical, are at work.

Even South Korean newspapers have been full of praise for the self discipline of ordinary Japanese in dire circumstances.

Younger leaders are more likely to be able to cope with the chop and change of difficult times.

She had a great influence on the sultan, which helped her people, country, and family survive the turbulent times.