The idea alone is terrifying and debilitating.

Armed conflict had also had a debilitating effect on social integration.

In the late 1970 s, the country faced a debilitating fiscal deficit.

Poverty has an overall debilitating effect on the realization of all rights.

Facing worrisomely high and debilitating inflation, Volcker declared war against it and won.

Continuing to stumble forward, however, would inevitably lead to a debilitating, if not fatal, fall.

Such brazen corruption would be laughable if its effects were not so debilitating to the country.

Then, too, Muslim intellectuals focused on the decadence of Muslim societies, their debilitating political and social corruption.

But, as the boom recedes, a deep, debilitating weakness is becoming increasingly apparent the region s inadequate education systems.

A substantial minority of the population suffers from these diseases, which are often chronic, debilitating, and life threatening.

That will create opportunities for employment, the transfer of know how and markets to combat the debilitating poverty.

One could argue that this system facilitates more efficient governance, and thus could potentially save Italy from its debilitating gridlock.

The problem is that the men under his care are suffering from an excruciating and debilitating condition that Archie doesn't really understand.

The often debilitating impact of the traditional foreign aid model on developing countries nascent private sectors has led to a fundamental reconsideration.

Children were spared not only death but also debilitating infections, enabling them to attend school and lead more productive lives in the future.

Iran would find itself the bogeyman of the Arab world s Sunnis, while Hezbollah could be swallowed up by another debilitating Lebanese civil war.

Diabetes, cancer, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, heart failure, lung failure things that we know are debilitating diseases, for which there's relatively little that can be done.

This debilitating and difficult to diagnose illness could thus be introduced to Costa Rica inadvertently by something as simple as an asymptomatic eco tourist.

When big US banks are in trouble or Americans are having another debilitating political fight over their public finances, global investors scramble into US Treasuries.

Children (and adults) living with HIV AIDS, because of their weakened immune systems, are especially susceptible to the debilitating effects of persistent bouts of diarrhoea.

Everyone seems keen to prove that the city s air will be a decisive and debilitating factor for one of the world s most high profile sporting events.

There is also the unresolved question of how much the periphery countries really should be asked to pay on their debilitating debt burdens, whatever the tax instrument.

The conclusion that Greece needed official loans to repay its private creditors ensured that Greek debt remained large, compelling eurozone leaders to demand economically debilitating fiscal austerity.

The CARICOM States were concerned about the deteriorating terms of trade for commodities and the debilitating impact of that trend on the performance of commodity dependent developing countries.

And the debilitating corruption tax that seems inevitably to accompany economic revolutions must be curbed, as it was in Britain during the nineteenth century and America during the twentieth.

It is among the fastest growing regions in the world, but it is also home to the largest concentration of people living in debilitating poverty, conflict, and human misery.

I'm telling you this story because Archie Cochrane, all his life, fought against a terrible affliction, and he realized it was debilitating to individuals and it was corrosive to societies.

Diarrhoea morbidity rates are increasing children in developing countries average four to five debilitating bouts of diarrhoea per year, which can cause and exacerbate malnutrition and result in long term growth stunting.

To advance the world s geographic knowledge, explorers used to have to head out to sea, enduring inclement weather and debilitating disease, unsure of where they were going or whether they would ever return home.

Community health workers could be trained in a matter of months to extend basic health care throughout rural areas, which could then be better mobilized to fend off the debilitating results of future hurricanes.

Lastly, measures to prevent the spread of HIV are crucial in forestalling the potentially devastating effects that the HIV AIDS epidemic, by debilitating or reducing the agricultural labour force, can have on agricultural productivity.

There is no evidence that US assets are susceptible to a space Pearl Harbor' scenario of debilitating attack and, referring to Grego's speech, ASATs and other space weapons are neither the effective answer nor the only solution to reducing such vulnerabilities.

Efforts should be intensified to help countries achieve social development goals through the provision of resources both technical and financial and to eliminate the debilitating debt burden in order to allow countries to redirect their scarce resources to social expenditures.

Recognizing also that diabetes is a chronic, debilitating and costly disease associated with severe complications, which poses severe risks for families, Member States and the entire world and serious challenges to the achievement of internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals,

Unfortunately, it is not easy to weigh breast cancer s dangers against the cumulative effects of radiation from dozens of mammograms over the years, the invasiveness of biopsies, and the debilitating impact of treating slow growing tumors that would never have proven fatal.

Last summer, in response to the UN decision, 78 Nobel laureates signed a petition discouraging the adoption of an international ban on human cloning, because it would condemn hundreds of millions of individuals afflicted by debilitating diseases to a life deprived of hope.

WASHINGTON, DC The Obama administration s decision to withdraw the bulk of United Sates troops from Iraq over the next 19 months has sparked fears that Iraq will once again plunge into the wide scale and debilitating violence that it endured from 2004 to 2007.

Today, thousands of children continue to be abducted to serve as soldiers with armed forces and groups throughout Africa and I urge the international community and African Governments to give the utmost priority to addressing the critical issues of youth and unemployment, and in particular the debilitating problems of child soldiers.

And what I want to lay out for you today is a different way of thinking about how to treat debilitating disease, why it's important, why without it perhaps our health care system will melt down if you think it already hasn't, and where we are clinically today, and where we might go tomorrow, and what some of the hurdles are.