The terror spawned by market sentiment was once the bane of poor nations alone.

They pray to him whose bane is more imminent than his boon How bad the protector and how bad the associate !

That lower price would be a bane to investors but a boon to Japanese, compensating them for the losses that they have suffered.

Fauna from ChinaSMACK translated a feature story showing German photographer Michael Wolf's collection of Architecture of Density which reflects the living condition of ordinary Hong Kong people in high rises.

Even government deficit spending long the bane of Africa seems positively puny compared to the massive debts that the US and some European countries face.

Fukuyama argues that patrimonialism defined as the natural human propensity to favor family and friends is the bane of the rule of law and accountable government.

Southeast Asian countries appear to be especially immune to the bane of severe mental illness in other regions, poverty, or lack of development, seems to offer a protective barrier.

Nima Shirazi notes that the Israeli Prime Minister called Hassan Rouhani, Iran s new president, a wolf in sheep s clothing and tweets For Netanyahu Iranians are either wolves in wolf's clothing or in sheep's clothing who can't wear jeans.

Bountiful resources such as oil are a bane for democracy in developing countries, because when a government gets the revenues it needs by selling oil, it doesn t need to collect taxes.

And many of you out there are the heads of Macromedia and Microsoft, and in a way those are my bane I think there's a great homogenizing force that software imposes on people and limits the way they think about what's possible on the computer.

When the end of ideology was celebrated first in the 1950 s and then, more emphatically still, in the 1990 s no one foresaw that religion, the bane of politics in the first half of the twentieth century, would return to that role with a vengeance.

Even government deficit spending long the bane of Africa seems positively puny compared to the massive debts that the US and some European countries face. The new Obama administration is proposing spending plans that would create a record US deficit of more than one trillion dollars and this coming on top of the outgoing Bush administration s record deficit.