Coming to Grips with History

The sooner it comes to grips with its problem, the better.

Their leaders seem unable to come to grips with the eurozone s debt crisis.

The US will find it equally urgent to come to grips with a very different China.

The opposition parties, too, paid the price for their failure to come to grips with reality.

Home values have soared to high levels in many countries as irrational exuberance grips the markets.

But, in addition to supporting Liu s achievements by making certain that they are represented at the ceremony in Oslo, world leaders need to come to grips with the Chinese government s reaction.

The sooner it comes to grips with its problem, the better. Unfortunately, the appropriate sense of urgency is missing.

We must somehow come to grips with the fact that we no longer have negotiating partners on the Republican side.

Financial markets are having a hard time coming to grips with the new policy mindset in the world s two largest economies.

For weeks, central Russia has been in the grips of its worst ever heat wave, which has caused probably thousands of fatalities.

They need to come to grips with the reality that national regulations and international markets are inextricably linked with and in need of each other.

Indeed, its realistic use of profanity and its depiction of the spiritual vacuum that grips China got it banished from one of Beijing s TV channels.

In a normal world, the dollar s weakening would be welcome, as it would help the United States come to grips with its unsustainable trade deficit.

The unbelievable crimes. Our history grips us like a nightmare, for the crimes of the past scar the present and induce yet more crimes in the future.

The unbelievable crimes. Our history grips us like a nightmare, for the crimes of the past scar the present and induce yet more crimes in the future.

That is the American Dream that Nadya Suleman bought into, and, in their obsession with her, Americans are coming to grips with how seriously they went astray.

Such forecasting also requires an understanding of how advanced economies are coming to grips with that shift, and how the international monetary system will adjust as a result.

They not only demonstrate a willingness and a determination to come to grips with the question of expansion but also demonstrate that the question can no longer be put off.

And we are only just coming to grips with the cooling costs of thermal power plants in terms of finite water resources let alone the future price of unchecked climate change.

Unfortunately, President Bingu died shortly thereafter, leaving behind a shattered economy in the grips of serious shortages of foreign exchange, electrical power and fuel, with Joyce Banda taking over as president.

France is only now beginning to come to grips with the crisis of its Republican model of equal citizenship. A newly created Minister of Social Cohesion has begun to commission studies documenting discrimination.

But it is also essential, because China s new leadership seems determined to come to grips with a vast array of internal imbalances that threaten the environment, promote destabilizing income inequality, and exacerbate regional disparities.

Those who would aim to emulate US productivity trends must come to grips with how they feel about big box stores sprouting across their countryside s, driving down wages and plowing under smaller scale retailers.

NEW YORK It is hard for international observers of the United States to grasp the political paralysis that grips the country, and that seriously threatens America s ability to solve its domestic problems and contribute to international problem solving.

And I think it's particularly painful for us now in the West in the grips of what I sometimes think of as a Control Z culture Control Z like the computer command, We're incredibly used to not having to face life's hard realities, in a certain sense.

But we haven't witnessed a big asteroid impact, so this is a type of neo catastrophism, and it took about 20 years for the scientific establishment to finally come to grips yes, we were hit and yes, the effects of that hit caused a major mass extinction.

That is the American Dream that Nadya Suleman bought into, and, in their obsession with her, Americans are coming to grips with how seriously they went astray. Indeed, a strange sense of relief is now creeping into Americans consciousness as the consumer economy grinds to a halt.

Whether we actively believe them or consciously reject them, our culture remains in the grips of certain archetypal stories about our supremacy over others and over nature the narrative of the newly discovered frontier and the conquering pioneer, the narrative of manifest destiny, the narrative of apocalypse and salvation.

But in fact, if you look around the world, not only are there hope spots for where we may be able to fix problems, there have been places where problems have been fixed, where people have come to grips with these issues and begun to turn them around.

Note with concern the continuing and diverse dimensions of human trafficking for various forms of labour and sexual exploitation in the Asian and Pacific region, both within countries and across international borders, and the difficulty in coming to grips with the magnitude of the problem due to its clandestine nature

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Were you at school at that time?

Were you at school at that time?

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