Europe s Poisoned Chalice of Growth

Koizumi had relied on the bureaucrats to implement his reforms, but he did so at the price of postponing an overhaul of the civil service, which became a poisoned chalice that he passed on to Abe.

Fadil poisoned Layla's food.

Sami poisoned his dog.

Tony Blair s Poisoned Legacy

Sami might have been poisoned.

Weimar Germany blindly poisoned itself.

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In this case, justice comes with poisoned arrows.

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The global economy is overrun with such poisoned packages.

Once a cockroach eats poisoned bait, it either dies, or returns to the harborage. If it dies, its poisoned corpse is eaten by other cockroaches, who then die themselves.

In both countries, deep and mutually paralyzing suspicion has poisoned relations for three decades.

Maduro himself invoked the rumor that the Israelis poisoned former Palestinian President Yasser Arafat.

Poisoned arrows are also still used in the jungle areas of Assam, Burma and Malaysia.

Mary Blandy (1720 1752) poisoned her father, Francis Blandy, with arsenic in England in 1751.

Poisoned weapons were used in ancient India, and war tactics in ancient India have references to poison.

Chávez himself always maintained that his idol, Simón Bolívar, was poisoned by his enemies in Colombia in 1830.

The majority were not surprised by the allegations that Arafat was poisoned, something that has long been claimed by many.

The food that contains cadmium is chronically poisoned food, which under normal circumstances will not lead to major food safety incidents.

This inevitable process poisoned political life and the media, which led to a strange state of limited freedom and a mafia like environment.

Our economy is global and so are the pollutants it generates. You are one of the poisoned poor, without voice and without hope.

The results confirmed that organic mercury had spread all around the inland sea and that people were still being poisoned by contaminated fish.

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Meanwhile, the local population has remained impoverished and beset by diseases caused by unsafe air, poisoned drinking water, and pollution in the food chain.

America s national politics is so poisoned by provincial partisanship especially among Republicans, who have hated Obama from the beginning that democracy itself looks damaged.

Sadder still has been the reaction of some parents in Bihar, who have withdrawn their children from school rather than risk their being poisoned.

Think of collateral debt obligations (CDOs) as poisoned sausages, says the economist Nouriel Roubini, with sub prime mortgages as the rat meat in them.

He died in Paris on 11 November, 2004 and the documentary alleges that rather than dying of natural causes, Arafat was poisoned with polonium.

In Darfur, recurrent drought has poisoned relations between farmers and nomadic herdsmen, and the war we are helplessly witnessing today follows years of escalating conflict.

Singapore has invested enough in its military defense to make itself seem as indigestible as a poisoned shrimp to neighbors that it wishes to deter.

And I commented Everyone is now wondering what new information was given in the Al Jazeera documentary, when the whole nation knew he was poisoned.

Consider, for example, that, because GM crops require less chemical pesticide, fewer farmers and their families risk being poisoned by runoff into waterways and ground water.

So will transatlantic relations remain as poisoned as they are now if Kerry wins? Is Texas swagger merely to be replaced by the distinguished disdain of a Boston Brahmin?

Besides keeping the kitchen clean and living spaces free of clutter, the final element of my defensive strategy was setting out poisoned bait along the cockroaches' known transit routes.

And Bassem Sabry warns protesters not to eat or drink anything offered by strangers, after protesters in Alexandria reportedly got poisoned from drinking contaminated water handed out at a protest

It was later claimed that he was poisoned on the orders of King Philip, especially by William the Silent in his Apology , a 1581 propaganda work against the Spanish king.

The global companies operating in the delta have spilled oil and flared natural gas for decades, without regard for the natural environment and the communities impoverished and poisoned by their actions.

The American invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, regardless of their relative merits, have unquestionably poisoned America s standing among Asia s 900 million Muslims, from Pakistan to the Philippines and all points in between.

The children were poisoned by their midday meals a vital part of a government run nutrition program in schools which apparently were cooked in oil that had been carelessly stored in used pesticide containers.

Rubbish and summer did not go hand in hand, and as the waste bags continued to pile up along the streets of Beirut, the appalling stench poisoned the air, rubbing Lebanese people in the nose.

In this country, we rise or fall as one nation, as one people. Let's resist the temptation to fall back on the same partisanship and pettiness and immaturity that has poisoned our politics for so long.

It is almost tempting to think that America s great Cold War opponent, the Soviet Union, with its sudden disappearance 15 years ago this month, left its own Trojan horse for America the poisoned gift of unilateralism.

Did Lenin die of syphilis, a massive stroke, or poisoning by Stalin? Given the bizarre circumstances of Stalin s own death, was he poisoned by his secret police chief, Lavrentiy Beria, or perhaps by his archenemy, Yugoslavia s Josip Broz Tito?