Other challenges loom.

Other constraints loom as well. Rapid economic expansion implies that supplies of energy and raw materials will increasingly limit potential growth.

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A showdown also looms over tax policy.

Moreover, several risks lie ahead.

The Republican leadership is making threats that are not credible.

Waving to the onlookers, she looked like Snow White.

Everyone feels that a seismic shift is under way.

Finally, serious geopolitical risks loom large.

The looming known unknowns are plentiful.

All of this amounted to a human and economic disaster in the making.

At the same time, huge opportunities beckon in times of far reaching change.

Many see currency wars looming.

Whoever wins, a fiscal cliff looms at the end of 2012.

This is how Anna describes the life of the village with World War II looming on the horizon

Elsewhere in the Middle East, tensions are either escalating or are brewing dangerously.

The dreaded inflationary endgame suddenly looms as a very real possibility.

As such, the currency debate looms as a major issue in the upcoming US presidential campaign.

And, after China, India looms as the next emerging coal based industrial superpower.

Now we are already at the second rung of intervention, and there seems to be no end in sight.

So I don't want somebody who's going to cut and run at the first opportunity.

Who wants to build up debt if there might be a financial crisis around the corner?

Instead, they will be blamed for not seeing an impending catastrophe that was staring them in the face.

But, as the opening of peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority shows, there are signs of hope.

So far, investors have been complacent about the risks posed by the looming budget fight.

Given recent technological developments, the possibility that space weapons could be deployed looms ever closer.

This is a hard won revolution in international affairs and a signal of hope for the weakest in our world.

That means that a period of legislative stalemate looms over many of the big issues.

The storm is on the horizon, but there may still be time to prepare to weather it safely.

For some years now, synthetic biology has been looming as the next big issue in bioethics. The scientists at the J. Craig Venter Institute expected to be told that they were playing God, and they were not disappointed.

Given the scale of the looming catastrophe, the world cannot afford to leave things as they are.

The looming accession process will be even more painful, but Turkey s people are firmly resolved to face this challenge.

But all of this can change rapidly when a crisis looms, especially if it threatens the integrity of the European project.

There are no signs of this impasse going away because there is no political will amongst key actors to remove it.

Twenty years ago, in the weeks that preceded Iraq s invasion of Kuwait, many observers saw signs of a looming crisis.

If and when the Union lifts the embargo, Europe will be refusing to take responsibility for the catastrophe that may be approaching.

And there is always the looming disaster of climate change, which may well be the most serious threat the world has ever faced.

There is an opportunity here to start developing pluralistic systems where not only Islamists, but also other parties and discourses can play a role.

Currency wars are thus on the horizon, with Japan and Switzerland engaging in early battles to weaken their exchange rates.

These are the major questions looming before us as the president elect prepares the American people for what can only be a rough ride ahead.

A major realignment of forces in the region is looming, and, with it, a new round of Asia s old Great Game.

Italy s armada of Guardia di Finanza boats would hardly forestall a massive exodus of wealth if Italians see a sizable wealth tax coming.

It seems that frustration with the performance of Egypt's ruling military council in leading the transitional period is mounting and some say that a confrontation is looming on the horizon.

What accounts for this apparent indifference also evident among European politicians to the looming political risks in Britain?

An EU Japan treaty is already in the wind, as is a Trans Pacific Partnership to liberalize trade among the US and major Asian and Latin American economies.