PALO ALTO Elections often turn on the state of the economy, especially in hard times.

I don t mean sound bites about their love or hatred for America, or about their hijabs and subversive clothing styles.

While globalization occasionally raises difficult questions about the legitimacy of its redistributive effects, we should not respond automatically by restricting trade.

and Does it invoke curiosity?

Members of the Committee are aware that some Member States are questioning its raison d'être and that some are critical of its activities, which they deem to be imbalanced and partial.

Is there a sense of wonder?

Psychologists have stressed that there is a narrative basis to human thinking people remember and are motivated by stories, particularly human interest stories about real people.

The difficulties encountered in the implementation of the peace agreements call into question the feasibility of the presidential election planned for October 2005.

These links raise the question of the real objective of the Japanese police, a bureaucratic behemoth, in their investigation of the Sumo circle.

What is amazing is that, although these attacks on science have been wrong for 30 years, they still sow doubts about established facts.

Poor oil rich Russia.

Some blogs raise a lot of controversy when they first appear.

Principal areas of concern and recommendations

These frightening numbers raise doubts about the stability of the West s financial system, and they dwarf all measures, such as bad banks and government guarantees, that attempt to solve a mere liquidity crisis.

Developing countries' alleged gains from capital market liberalization have been widely discussed (although recent studies raise some doubts about these benefits).

These problems raise thorny questions What prevents more young people from attending secondary school? Is it because they are sometimes close to being illiterate even after primary school, or because it is unaffordable?

Some provisions still gave cause for doubt and argument.

A report called A World of Torture in 2013, assesses torture practices that continue to be alarming, from Pakistan to Italy, by way of South Africa, Saudi Arabia, Australia and Bolivia. From authoritarian regimes to democratic countries, none are exempt from criticism on the topic.

The evidence from Guatemala is particularly worrying.

The issue of confiscation raised many questions.

Various areas of concern for the future of Liberia

Unemployment estimates also are surprisingly misleading a serious problem, considering that, together with GDP indicators, unemployment drives so much economic policy debate.

The so called European Neighborhood Policy has, so far, been a curious thing.

Welby s death raises two questions, which need to be distinguished.

Those are things that arouse their interest, and it motivates them to read.

In addition, it should ensure that more security officers were deployed at the entry points at peak times and that there was separate access for commercial vehicles.

Recent developments with regard to freedom of speech give cause for concern.

It also evoked the discriminatory concept of the virgin woman.

This was an investment opportunity for someone that excited the imagination of people.

Considering that space debris is an issue of concern to all nations,

But these are not often the questions that trigger the most passionate interest.

The fight against international terrorism raises important legal questions.

The situation of children in Burundi remains extremely worrying.

Mainstream megabanks are puzzling in many respects.

Ordinarily, such pronouncements would provoke outcries of dismay, and of real or pretended indignation.

The mere presence of other people can evoke stereotype threat.

Articles 11 to 14 did not pose any special difficulties.

The Panel finds that these features give rise to a heightened risk of overstatement of the claims.

And even if moral pills are just science fiction, they raise deep questions.

Arms sales and technology transfers inevitably raise complex moral and ethical questions.

Some display separatist tendencies that worry, and frustrate, their electorates.

Christianity is also growing in odd ways and in surprising places.

And yet Turkey scares countless Europeans.

Third, Russia has been stirring up trouble in South Ossetia and Abkhazia for years.

By killing three Israeli civilians, these acts of murder represent an ironic tragedy.