Beating the Oil Barons

The battle was the last Swedish victory on Finnish soil.

I have that in me that can convert poverty to riches, adversity to prosperity.

The negative consequences of poverty and other forms of adversity are not inevitable.

The third stage extends the myth through heroic triumph.

The United Nations was born 60 years ago in the victorious aftermath of the anti fascist world war.

Societies with well functioning institutions allocate the burden of distress in predictable ways.

However, this popular triumph did not last long.

After many years of trials and tribulation, the people of Guinea Bissau have finally placed the country on a solid path to recovery, peace and development.

Putinism claimed victory after invading tiny Georgia in 2008.

The greatness of that event carries with it a truly fateful significance for all of humankind.

The war against terrorism cannot be won by military means alone we need a broad approach.

For the Haitian people, last year was supposed to be a year of celebration marking the bicentenary of its victory over slavery and colonization.

Francis Fukuyama s The End of History and the Last Man testified to this sense of triumph and historical duty.

Consider the declaration of victory over polio in India, which seemed impossible ten years ago.

The imminent indeed, inevitable victory of politics over recalcitrant economics may well be at hand.

23 April, he scored and helped in another in a 0 5 victory over Al Wasl.

The victory of 60 years ago was also the work of Poles.

Why do the benefits of growth seem to be easier to share than are the burdens of adversity? This is not a trivial question.

We knew, too, that its peaceful victory would be a lesson for the rest of the bloc.

The Soviets had their victory in World War II, followed by the creation of a global superpower. Putinism claimed victory after invading tiny Georgia in 2008.

They regard the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany as the highest achievement of the state and nation that they inherited from the USSR.

The victory over fascism, because so many of its participants remain active, is a living event in our memory.

It would lead first to the end of the Socialist Party created by François Mitterrand.

Declaring true victory over global warming will take a lot more pragmatism, and a lot more work.

The overwhelming victory of the British played a role in eventual loss of their thirteen American colonies.

And in any case winning the battle against perception is sometimes winning half the war.

The security situation is still volatile, and the fight against terrorism has not been won yet.

In advanced countries, programs that screen for adversity and respond to the specific health and developmental needs of individual children and families can yield benefits that far exceed their costs.

The actions of the Mugabe regime in the run up to Tsvangirai s decision demand a strong regional response to what is clearly a stolen victory.

A number of Syrian campaigns into Egypt were stopped short of total victory by the aggressive campaigning of Amalric I of Jerusalem.

To this day, and with unabated pain, Belarussians recall the victims who gave their lives for the sake of victory over Naziism.

Neuroscience and the biology of stress help us to begin to understand how poverty and other adversities are literally built into our bodies.

Let the United Nations, man's greatest multilateral institution, retool and revamp itself to be better able to confront calamities and, where it can, harmonize the relationship between man and nature.

The relationship between Central and Eastern European countries and the Jewish people has always been characterized by both triumph and tragedy.

Europe could change the course of this development only if it presented itself as a serious player and stood up for its interests on the global stage.

The victory over Nazi Germany 60 years ago will be commemorated and the human sacrifices to this end honoured. So far, so good.

Excessive state spending, heavy regulation, and dangerously high taxes have helped create the state s economic woes.

To be sure, this runs counter to the triumphalism emanating from Asia, in particular.

Ultimately, however, the war against terrorism could be won only through cooperation.

A victory over the Muslims at the Battle of Ourique in 1139 is traditionally taken as the occasion when the County of Portugal as a fief of the Kingdom of León was transformed into the independent Kingdom of Portugal.

We stand firm in the fight against terrorism and in our conviction that a sustained and permanent victory depends upon the success of each individual country in the struggle for social cohesion.

Matters may become even worse in the future, because so called vulture funds have learned how to take full advantage of countries in distress.

If sustainability is to triumph, it must be predominantly a bottom up process.

Popular among his subjects, he was an able military commander, most famous for the victory over the Turks in the 1683 Battle of Vienna.