Asia has been gripped by election fever all year.

And she looks back at recent history to compare the terror that has gripped her hometown

With Allende s victory, Chile s stock exchange and markets were gripped by financial panic.

In January, Hong Kong was gripped by its second longest cold spell since 1885.

I chatted with him this summer during the World Cup fever that gripped Brazil.

Europe, gripped by a tremendous banking and debt crisis, is not an attractive destination, and loose monetary policy in the US has produced ultra low bond yields there.

The emergence of the Chadian army in support of the Cameroonian and Nigerian military appears to be decisive, given the panic moves that has seemingly gripped Boko Haram.

So the punishment of the day of gloom gripped them . It was the punishment of a great day .

So the punishment of the day of gloom gripped them . It was the punishment of a great day .

The expression of this desire is especially important now that the world is gripped by a terrifying economic crisis.

The eurozone is gripped by an existential crisis that is slowly, but inexorably, destroying the monetary union s very foundations.

I've kept fairly silent on the latest wave of protests and revolutions that have suddenly gripped the Arab world.

If you could see when they are gripped by terror without any escape , and are seized from close at hand

We have already gripped them with suffering , but they did not surrender to their Lord , nor did they humble themselves .

If you could see when they are gripped by terror without any escape , and are seized from close at hand

We have already gripped them with suffering , but they did not surrender to their Lord , nor did they humble themselves .

This part of China s southwest, known for its abundant rainfall, mountains, underground rivers and caves, and tropical flora, has recently been gripped by a drought that many say is the worst since the Ming Dynasty.

We know this because it lies at the core of the murderous environment that gripped the Balkans in the 1990 s.

It leads to the conclusion that war is inevitable, that mankind is doomed, that we are gripped by forces we cannot control.

On the contrary, financial and economic insecurity has gripped Chinese households since the iron rice bowl the cradle to grave support that the socialist state offered workers and their families was discarded in the late 1990 s.

The street euphoria that greeted Bachelet s victory felt very much like the emotions that gripped Santiago back in 1970, when Allende was elected.

It was not the US that was gripped by this wave of racist paranoia, but France, the cradle of liberté, egalité et fraternité.

In both the US and Europe, government leaders are gripped by one overriding fear that their economies will slip back into recession or worse.

And had not a command of your Lord been passed , then the punishment would have gripped them and had a term not been appointed .

And had not a command of your Lord been passed , then the punishment would have gripped them and had a term not been appointed .

In this quintessential failed state, this sort of elders wisdom may be the only option to start dealing with the quagmire created by the lawlessness that has gripped the country since the departure of the dictator Said Barre in 1991.

Over a century ago, a nation that originated modern democracy was gripped by a political fever that led ordinary people to choose sides based on racist demagoguery.

Twenty years ago, we were gripped by fear that Japan would overtake our economic leadership a concern that was unfounded then and, in hindsight, looks profoundly mistaken.

And We had gripped them with suffering as a warning , but they did not yield to their Lord , nor did they humbly supplicate , and will continue thus

And We had gripped them with suffering as a warning , but they did not yield to their Lord , nor did they humbly supplicate , and will continue thus

Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, and others, now gripped by sectarian fighting, risk fragmenting into ethnic sub states, transforming a region whose political geography was drawn nearly a century ago.

That would not be possible until the inertia which had gripped the Conference on Disarmament, the sole multilateral organ for disarmament for more than seven years, had been overcome.

The paradox of Akihito s tour for which Singh has appointed a special envoy with ministerial rank to oversee preparations is that Japan is investing substantial political capital to build a strong, long term partnership with India s government at a time when India is gripped by policy paralysis.

It was not the US that was gripped by this wave of racist paranoia, but France, the cradle of liberté, egalité et fraternité. And the hated, treasonous religious minority was not Muslim, but Jewish.

Malaysian society is now gripped by a fundamental question is the country, which is more than half Muslim, an Islamic state? In practice, various religious and ethnic groups give Malaysia a distinctly multi cultural character.

In the face of a Black Protest movement that has gripped the Polish Internet and several city squares throughout the country, the Polish Parliament voted in favor of moving ahead with legislation that would outlaw abortions in nearly all circumstances, introducing prison sentences for both women having the procedure and doctors who perform it.

Americans have been through this type of debate before. Twenty years ago, we were gripped by fear that Japan would overtake our economic leadership a concern that was unfounded then and, in hindsight, looks profoundly mistaken.

Then in high school, I was gripped by the stories of the Allied soldiers soldiers who left the safety of their own homes and risked their lives to liberate a country and a people that they didn't know.

Today, the country is gripped by an important debate about how to reform the chaebol, the mammoth industrial conglomerates that did so much to lift the country out of poverty and into the front ranks of the world s economies.

The military political crises which gripped the country throughout the 1990s and on into the early part of the twenty first century are largely responsible for the impoverishment and growing vulnerability of a large cross section of the population.

The whole earth will be gripped in His hands on the Day of Judgment and the heavens will be just like a scroll in His right hand . God is too Glorious and High to be considered equal to their idols .

It is easy to take the TRC s work for granted, until one looks at the Middle East and the chaos of Iraq, where revenge, reprisal, and retaliation are fueling a ghastly, inexorable cycle of violence. Likewise, South Africa was spared the horrors of genocide, as in Rwanda, and the endless conflict that has gripped Sri Lanka, Burundi, Sudan, the Ivory Coast, and many other countries.

But when good ( times ) came , they said , This is due to us When gripped by calamity , they ascribed it to evil omens connected with Moses and those with him ! Behold ! in truth the omens of evil are theirs in Allah 's sight , but most of them do not understand !

A noble cause, but one that was overshadowed this year by the last minute cancellation of the screening of 'The Open Sky', a 20 minute documentary film about a friendship between a Buddhist woman and a Muslim woman amidst the communal violence that gripped the town of Meikhtila last year.

Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaints? Who has needless bruises? Who has bloodshot eyes?