Of course, soft power is no panacea.

Today, they are seen as the best way to concentrate and perpetuate many of those ills.

Humanity had suffered numerous maladies throughout its history, the most dangerous of which had been caused by man's contempt for man based on racial, gender, religious, linguistic and other grounds.

On the one hand, pundits criticize it for not solving all the world s ills.

There is, alas, no immediate cure for the kind of social ills exposed by the Swiss referendum.

But a consumption tax hike is no panacea, particularly given the government s lack of a growth strategy.

In the Middle East, Obama faces an almost impossible task of redressing historical and political ills.

When it comes to analyzing what ails Africa, it is customary to dwell at length on the continent s traumatic past.

Chinese leaders blame Taiwanese leaders for cross straits tensions, and blame the Dalai Lama for all that ails Tibet.

Urbanization is blamed for a wide variety of modern social ills, ranging from crime and incivility to alienation and anomie.

There are still huge inefficiencies in international financial markets, which remain beset by herding behavior and other pathologies.

From my point of view, we are saying that we don't need the World Cup at this moment, in the face of so many problems with transportation, education, health.

Chávez also repeats,ad nauseam, the idea that others are to blame for Latin America s ills.

Now, Merkel must consider whether export led recovery can cure the country s longer term economic ills.

Unfortunately, while a wealth tax may be a sound way to help a country dig out of a deep fiscal pit, it is hardly a panacea.

For too long there has been international dismay at the state of governance in Africa corruption and at times a complete lack of accountability are blamed for all of Africa s ills.

Ending the American occupation in Iraq and imposing an Arab Israeli peace would help, but they are no panacea.

A second reason is that Germans are fed up with being Europe s scapegoat blamed for their neighbors ills while being asked to take on risks and provide generous financial transfers.

Nonetheless, addressing the sources of human rights abuses and the creation of an environment in which the population can enjoy the full respect of human rights will require sustained efforts over the long term.

That was what the conclusion of the Dartmouth Atlas of Healthcare was about, was saying that we can explain the geographic variations that occur in disease, in illness, in wellness, and how our healthcare system actually operates.

The Palestinian issue is not the source of all the Middle East s ills, but its resolution would dramatically improve America s standing among Arabs.

This challenges the Washington Consensus, with its one size fits all formula of privatization, deregulated labor markets, financial liberalization, international economic integration, and macroeconomic stability based on low inflation.

The Bush administration continues to have no plans to sew up the veins it has opened with its medieval economic policy, which holds that bleeding revenue from the government cures all economic problems.

Devaluation is the tried and true remedy for such ills. But a 2 change in currency values is too little to make much of a difference, given that wages in Chinese manufacturing are rising at an annual rate of 10 .

(a) Regarding all forms of primary health care as a right the services of which are to be enjoyed by all members of society without distinction and making it clear that the eradication of poverty depends on the elimination of its causes, and that the chief benefit is the enjoyment by members of society of a healthy life free from illness and disease.

So we need materials in closed cycles, but we need to analyze them down to the parts per million for cancer, birth defects, mutagenic effects, disruption of our immune systems, biodegradation, persistence, heavy metal content, knowledge of how we're making them and their production and so on.

There has never been a shortage of snake oil merchants Donizetti wrote an opera, L Elisir D Amore, about one of them advertising a love potion in a nonsensical patter.

Labor market flexibility is always touted as a panacea, but even the highest degree of it cannot transform unemployed realtors or construction workers into skilled manufacturing specialists.

Whatever the emerging world does to sustain domestic demand and reorient exports from advanced countries to other emerging countries, the European and US elephants (not to mention Japan) are just too big for their illness to have no effect on world growth.

While always emphazing that elections were not, in themselves, a panacea, I reminded my interlocutors that it was inconceivable to resolve the Ivorian crisis without credible elections whose conduct and results would command the respect of both national actors and the wider international community.

Recognizing that malaria related ill health and deaths throughout the world can be eliminated with political commitment and commensurate resources if the public is educated and sensitized about malaria and appropriate health services are made available, particularly in countries where the disease is endemic,

Further recognizing that malaria related ill health and deaths throughout the world can be eliminated with political commitment and commensurate resources if the public is educated and sensitized about malaria and appropriate health services are made available, particularly in countries where the disease is endemic,

That may not be the sort of outside intervention that could cure the ills of centuries of repression and underdevelopment overnight, but we need to stop searching for a non existent panacea, and instead do something better than feeding the Egyptian military.