Nein merely brings calamity closer.

Curtailing freedom merely polarizes society.

That route will lead only to moral and political decay.

Perseverance in error does not correct the error it merely exacerbates it.

Defending a status quo that is unworkable only makes matters worse.

But delay only offers more room for Kostunica to find ways to make a Security Council decision more difficult.

Muddling through as before would only escalate and prolong the crisis.

Delay will only retard terrorism s disappearance.

Likewise, the undue emphasis on consensus only serves to confuse and obfuscate the issue.

In fact, arguing over grievances merely drives the sides further apart.

More threats will only push the international community further along the spiral of escalation and, possibly, into military action.

But a political vacuum in Lebanon only makes violence more likely, which Hezbollah doesn t want.

Threatened aid cutoffs in Kenya, Chad, and elsewhere would make desperately bad situations worse.

A bailout, then, would simply delay the inevitable at a huge cost to taxpayers.

As we know from bitter experience, waiting only makes a peace settlement harder to achieve.

With moderates being marginalized, the long term effect will be to undermine democratization efforts in the region.

In general, the use of double standards would inevitably be detrimental to the ongoing efforts to protect and promote human rights.

But failure to act now will only raise the price of delayed action at some moment in the future.

Allowing this conflict to fester will only aggravate our peoples insecurity and our region s instability.

As a result, new infrastructure would only mitigate the impact of scarcity on richer countries.

A change of tack by Merkel now would merely reinvigorate the devastated SPD.

To deny this, to threaten to undo Polish German reconciliation, is to harm Poland s fundamental national interests.

Military intervention would merely further complicate the issue, while creating new layers of conflict in our region and beyond.

We'll never work for them.

This might be advantageous for Bush s domestic purposes, but as a foreign policy, it will only escalate the risk of a Middle East explosion.

Given all this, more deficit spending will only stoke fears of higher future taxes and inflation.

But now many Bangladeshis fears for their livelihoods, owing to unlimited Chinese textile imports following the end of quotas last year.

Otherwise, the referendum to ratify the government s proposed MAS (Movement for Socialism) constitution will only fuel more strife.

They believe that boosting allied forces will only increase the sense of occupation and give the Taliban more targets.

But silencing these people by force, and calling them foreign backed terrorists, can have only one result more violence.

By taking an essentially passive position, this approach might merely prolong the Age of Terrorism needlessly.

For that will only exacerbate the already fragile political and security situation in many of the hardest hit countries.

On the contrary failure to build mutual trust now would only compound the already existing difficulties.

But will this only be available for the super rich, for those that can afford it? Are we headed for a new eugenics?

Marine cloud whitening would not lead to permanent atmospheric changes, and could be used only when needed.

So, while Savulescu s bold suggestion may reduce drug use, it will not end it.

Picking and choosing which challenges to care about only increases the risk that they will become intractable problems instead.

It doesn't work, right? Don't read your speech.

Today, peace with Syria might facilitate an Israeli peace with Lebanon down the road, but that will not be an automatic outcome.

Allowing European debt problems to fester and grow by sweeping them under the carpet through dubious theatrics can only make those problems worse.

The key word for political reform of the United Nations is prudence , because our failure to reform will only create a bad image that will give ammunition to the Organization's enemies.

The creation of a human rights council as a kind of select club will therefore merely increase the use of double or arbitrary standards against States that are in the wrong.

Furthermore, cross borrowing from the accounts of closed peacekeeping operations could only slow down the reimbursement of debts to Member States in respect of peacekeeping operations.

But it also suggests that maintaining the current siege would merely punish a peace loving population while strengthening the grip of its worst elements on society and public life.

Otherwise, outsourcing merely reduces demand for domestic labor, just like other efficiency gains.