Other challenges loom.

Moreover, several risks lie ahead.

Everyone feels that a seismic shift is under way.

Finally, serious geopolitical risks loom large.

The looming known unknowns are plentiful.

A showdown also looms over tax policy.

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

And when there's bad news in store, there's a cloud on the horizon.

Many see currency wars looming.

So after 129 hours of being buried alive, at last, freedom seems in sight.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Prospects for sustainable development appeared farther away, as a massive corporate land grab accelerated daily.

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.

The European 20 20 20 plan is an amazing breakthrough, something that should make all of us feel that hope is on the horizon.

Presently two oblongs of yellow light appeared through the trees, and the square tower of a church loomed through the gloaming.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Meanwhile, across the Atlantic, the political polarization in Washington is distressing, with another debt ceiling debacle looming.

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

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.

South Korea s leaders do not have to look far to find out what will happen if they fail to address looming challenges quickly and resolutely.

BRUSSELS Guido Mantega, Brazil s finance minister, aptly captured the current monetary Zeitgeist when he spoke of a looming currency war.

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.

Thus, while the Likud referendum seems to have left the Israeli Palestinian dispute at yet another impasse, both sides are on the verge of enormous changes.

As a consequence, chaos looms in Greece, as does the prospect of subsequent bank runs in Spain, Italy, and France and thus a financial avalanche that would bury Europe. And then?

If the economy grows rapidly, there will be no problem if it does not, a pension crisis looms.

But the potential for more tears for taxpayers still reeling from the cost of rescuing the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) looms large.