I breathed a sigh of relief.

If they succeed in driving ISIS out of Iraq, journalists may breathe a sigh of relief.

When he goes, dangerous elements on Wall Street will no doubt breathe a sigh of relief.

Some observers, including those most fearful of a trade war, will be relieved.

I have forgotten the details of their conversation, but I can still hear my grandmother s sigh of relief when she said Thank God we lost that war!

The rise in equity prices has not come with a contagious new era story, but rather a sigh of relief story.

NAIROBI Kenya heaved a collective sigh of relief when the four day siege at Nairobi s Westgate shopping mall finally ended.

One day, in the middle of the war, I heard shelling nearby at 11 00pm. However, I took a long deep breath and continued my studies.

Policy wonks and interested Asians alike often say that when Republicans are in power in America, Asians breathe a confident sigh of relief.

The world sighed with relief after the end of a devastating war, but that war was replaced by new threats and challenges, first and foremost terrorism in all its forms and manifestations.

Especially after the 1973 Yom Kippur War, many Europeans, I suspect, sighed with relief that Jews could be aggressors, too.

LONDON Markets around the world were relieved by the US Senate s confirmation of Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke s reappointment.

PRINCETON No doubt many people around the world, if not most, breathed a sigh of relief over the re election of US President Barack Obama.

In late 2010, I was relieved somewhat when a key Chinese leader, State Councilor Dai Bingguo, announced that China would adhere to the path of peaceful development.

After 133 days of war against ISIS, the Kurds of Kobane, a border town in northern Syria close to Turkey, finally heaved a sigh of relief this week, as ISIS fighters fled their territory.

Not only did AKP supporters celebrate after the decision, but those in the West who view it as a prototype Muslim Democratic party also breathed a sigh of relief.

But those who breathed a sigh of relief at the weakening of Netanyahu s Likud and the country s extreme right wing parties should be as anxious as ever.

Even Sharon ventures a few favorable comments, and American diplomats express visible sighs of relief that progress toward peace can at last be made.

Seeing the economy hurtling toward a brick wall, they are holding their collective breath, while evidence that the government is serious about stepping on the brake can induce them to exhale.

NAIROBI Kenya heaved a collective sigh of relief when the four day siege at Nairobi s Westgate shopping mall finally ended. Yet the aftermath of the massacre is in many ways turning out to be as dramatic and grisly as the event itself.

At that point, the world breathed a collective sigh of relief. But, in the early 2000 s, globalization triggered the second unfreezing by facilitating rapid economic growth in Asian countries that, for two centuries, had been constrained by Western dominance, Cold War rules and institutions, and rampant poverty.

Of course, there are grounds for a sigh of relief. Although we may not know how much recent technological innovations are contributing to our wellbeing, at least we know that, unlike the wave of financial innovations that marked the pre crisis global economy, the effect is positive.

When he goes, dangerous elements on Wall Street will no doubt breathe a sigh of relief. Let s hope that by then he will have helped move the consensus permanently among his colleagues preparing the ground for further congressional action aimed at a serious tightening of safeguards over the financial sector.

Global agreements such as the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty (NPT), along with the general sense of goodwill immediately following the Cold War, may have led to the perception that such a weapon would never be used in combat. But there is an increasing realization that we cannot breathe easy just yet.