If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness,

If I wait, the grave is mine house I have made my bed in the darkness.

Yahweh will sustain him on his sickbed, and restore him from his bed of illness.

The LORD will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness.

Globalization has paved the way to a world dominated by the dictatorship of emotions and of ignorance.

Wen s critique paved the way for China to face its rebalancing imperatives head on.

These traumatic events set the stage for Latin America s two decade long currency roller coaster.

This trend has been facilitated by deregulation and liberalization measures as well as specific policies to foster development.

MINUGUA hosted and provided technical advice during consultations, which paved the way for that key programme envisioned by the peace accords.

In the aftermath of defeat in WWII, family links provided a way for Japan and Germany to reconstruct business quickly.

So Clinton has set the stage for exploring a possible joint venture with China on meeting the challenge of climate change.

These developments ushered in the slow, imperfect return of an unbalanced multi polar system.

These past crises gave rise to a form of self insurance among developing countries through reserve accumulation.

Such a conjuncture set the stage for a new wave of imperialism (though the reluctance to use the word remained).

It was a very short lived republic that ended in 1961 but which marked the turn of Syrian politics and economy into the socialist thinking.

Historians of Europe will probably one day conclude that it is the Holocaust and Europe s relations with its Jews that paved the way for the opening of this process of repentance.

The organization also was intimately involved in the Preparatory Committee Meetings in Geneva and Santiago leading up to WCAR, through its representatives in both cities.

So feelings of injustice gave rise to resentment, envy, and a destructive energy focused on revenge against former enemies and old friends who seemed successful.

And European weakness, not to mention the treason of its liberal scribes, paving the way to an Islamist conquest of Europe ( Eurabia ) is seen as a ghastly echo of the appeasement of the Nazi threat.

If collective inaction prevails, we risk a return to the political and economic woes of the 1930 s, which paved the way to a devastating world conflict.

A new law on press freedom, drafted with help from international NGOs on August 28, 1998 and enacted on January 1, 1999, paved the way for media reforms.

To this end, Turkey s governments since 2002 implemented bold economic reforms that paved the way for sustainable growth and provided a firewall against the financial crisis that hit in 2008.

These studies paved the way to develop culture training modules, one of which focused on HIV AIDS, and a manual to engage faith based organizations in HIV prevention.

The democratic governance, energy and environment, and crisis prevention and recovery groups pioneered exercises involving training, portfolio review and analysis of funding criteria and capacities to mainstream gender effectively.

The ECHR has now cleared a path for the tens of thousands of other people in Russia who suffer abuse at the hands of the very mental health system that is supposed to help them.

Now that Manila has laid the groundwork, many Vietnamese civil society organizations are calling for the government to strengthen its position and bring its own case against China, and to vigorously protect Vietnamese fishermen who have faced harassment at sea.

The lost opportunity for women to be politically included at independence has set the scene for the struggle women are now experiencing (Molisa, 2001 quoted in Strachan Dalesa, 2003).

In Honduras, UNDP support to the adoption of the national policy on equal opportunities, which paved the way for new legislation such as the electoral law, which reserves 30 per cent of seats for women.

At the Battle of Taginae (also known as the Battle of Busta Gallorum) in June July 552, the forces of the Byzantine Empire under Narses broke the power of the Ostrogoths in Italy, and paved the way for the temporary Byzantine reconquest of the Italian Peninsula.

Under growing pressure to act, Gerhard Schröder s Social Democratic government decided in 2003 to deprive millions of Germans of their second tier unemployment insurance, thus paving the way for the creation of a low wage sector, in turn reducing the rate of inflation.

Much of this was due to an export led industrialization and urbanization strategy that opened up new opportunities in the rapidly expanding cities, where labor, capital, technology, and infrastructure came together to form supply capacities for global markets.

The successful holding of these elections has demonstrated the broad commitment of Afghan voters to democracy and freedom in their country, and the Council welcomes that the completion of the confirmation process has paved the way toward the timely inauguration of the new parliament and thus to the conclusion of the Bonn political process.

One reason that free trade defeated protectionism in Britain a century ago was that its supporters appealed to people s emotions and identities, not just their rational interest in more wealth and cheap food.

In a few months, talks between Communist bosses and their democratic opponents (often in the form of a roundtable) paved the way to free elections and new democratic governments in Budapest, Prague, East Berlin, and Sofia.

But in fact, it was the late President Chiang Ching kuo, the son of Generalissimo Chiang Kai shek, who instituted the unprecedented democratic reforms that paved the way for the eventual electoral triumph of Chen s formerly banned DPP.

These past crises gave rise to a form of self insurance among developing countries through reserve accumulation. This helped many of them weather the recent storm, but it also contributed to global payments imbalances.

But the United States in fact facilitated Iran s growing influence by toppling Saddam Hussein s regime and that of the Taliban in Afghanistan, thus removing two factors that had kept the Iranian regime hemmed in for the last two decades.

Why debt relief now? Liberia obtained its debt write off by initiating profound changes in its governance and economic management in order to provide the institutional capability to manage debt prudently and spend resources wisely in the future.

If China manages one day to follow the example of South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan, and join the mainstream of civilized nations by establishing a liberal democracy, then December 10, 2008, will go down in history as one of the key dates of its conception.

Timing the budget s release for just after the G 7 made for a harmonious London meeting in which both Americans and Europeans could claim that the US was taking care of business that is, its twin fiscal and current account deficits.

Cooler heads should look, instead, to Muslim Spain, Al Andalus, which shone in Europe from the eighth century until the fifteenth century a fertile period of cultural brilliance that paved the way for the Western Renaissance, as well as an inspiring paradigm of convivencia, or coexistence.

This thought paved the way for the concept of a genetic program, akin to a computer program a metaphor that became almost self evident when the structure of DNA was discovered, because DNA could be visualized as a linear string of symbols, which is exactly what computers read as a program.