Western Politics Locust Years

Every village shares this plight.

The Colombian people have risen against adversity.

Dozens have died as a result of their ordeals.

When these average Israelis pushed their government to war, Hamas was ready for it, despite the terrible, awful losses that resulted from Operation Cast Lead.

None of the lurid tales about Bo s wife have been proven.

South Korea is troubled for two key reasons.

Al Tariq wishes the people of Kuwait patience in dealing with this calamity.

Mexico, Australia, Germany, India, China, all have massive problems of obesity and bad health.

The question now is how bad that distress will become.

Governments and civil society forged a unity in the face of such stupendous adversity.

The problems that brought us the terrible crisis of 2007 08 have not been fixed.

And there are the crimes of human history. The horrible crimes.

The catastrophic consequences of a nuclear war make it imperative to prevent one from ever taking place.

Voters, they assumed, would focus only on the current economic malaise.

It is up to all of us to make sure this horrible famine is the last.

Demographic expansion in these countries is set to dramatically worsen their predicament.

Neither of us knows how we survived this ordeal.

This support persists despite the terrible humanitarian cost more than 1.5 million internal refugees.

What should be of greater concern is the potential plight of countries in the last group.

We wish Brian, Omar, and the rest of the AIB staff the strength to live through this.

Of course, Afghanistan does not bear sole responsibility for its plight.

But America's misfortune and Iraq's is inimical to European interests.

But the oil producers woes are not necessarily bad news.

I dearly hope you will make it out alright and that the ordeal will make you stronger.

1.11 The Agency will continue to provide emergency assistance to Palestine refugees in situations of acute distress.

The killing of nine civilians by those commandoes was a terrible consequence.

But we ought to pay equally close attention to another jailed Chinese activist, one whose plight at the hands of China s justice system is just as troubling as Liu s and far more revealing of the boundaries of permissible dissent.

Perhaps even in the depths of Mongolia, you would have heard the dire warnings emitted by journalists.

It is women as well who are helping to calm tensions and heal Africa s terrible wounds of conflict and violence.

The horrible computerized telephone answering systems that we all now suffer with might actually improve.

The rest of the world, however, has marveled at the admirable, dignified manner in which ordinary Japanese are dealing with terrible adversity.

Millions of men, women and children, citizens of many nations, saw their lives engulfed and crushed by the horrific machinery of war.

But the euro also seems surprisingly resilient in the face of this woe.

This is a clear illustration of how everyday actions, done collectively and with common goals, can provide a counterbalance to adversity.

Despite scientific critics of the Club of Rome s methods, the public was ready to believe the dire forecast.

The international community, for its part, should respond to that dire humanitarian situation by stepping up its assistance and engaging with the Government with a view to promoting dialogue.

After all, the passion that the Palestinians plight evokes among ordinary Egyptians is a dangerous source of instability.

Emerging markets were initially tied to this distress only when foreign investors began pulling out their money.

Detainees inside the prison have been sharing their ordeal, and calling on human rights groups to intervene to stop a possible massacre.

The plight and the painful picture of our fellow human beings afflicted by these weapons of small destruction must come to an end.

But, whatever Mao s terrible failings, during his years of absolute power there was a sense of common purpose and solidarity that went with shared hardship.

A year ago, the leaders of the world s richest countries committed themselves to alleviating the plight of the poorest.

In the world of old, the West s economic malaise already would have pulled the rug from beneath most emerging market countries.

There is also a moral and practical case for doing more to ease the plight of refugees and internally displaced persons.