A related concern is measurement.

It's easy to be consumed by fears and dark notions.

Not the old fear again. We aren't there now.

But now, as back then, fear and doubt won the day.

China s dizzying increase in its military capacity is another obvious source of concern in Asia.

Climate change is as much a matter of security as it is an economic and human concern.

Americans and Chinese must avoid letting exaggerated fears create a self fulfilling prophecy.

Israel, as the territorial answer to the old Jewish fears , tends to take decisions only on the basis of worst case scenarios.

BRUSSELS August was quieter than feared on the European bond markets.

Some worry about reciprocity if Chinese firms are allowed to invest in US and EU firms, shouldn t US and EU firms be allowed to invest freely in any Chinese firm?

Given energy security concerns, any Azerbaijani conflict would also seriously affect Europe.

This means that EU governments must respond to popular anxieties and make the Union more transparent and democratic.

From 2010 onwards, governments started to raise taxes and cut spending in response to growing fears of sovereign default.

In the Philippines, the small political party Alliance for Rural Concerns introduced House Bill 4747 in 2008 with the aim of having aspartame banned from the food supply.

Redistribution prior to 1977 was done without independent input and subject to the partisan concerns of the government of the day.

Politicians want to respond to their constituents legitimate concerns, but do not know what to do.

Powerful countries know that it is dangerous to be seen to flinch, because enemies take heart and allies knees begin to knock.

The most wounding criticism of the ALP government until now has been that no one has really known what it stands for. It has initiated visionary national policies in areas like broadband access, disability support, and education, but it has struggled to maintain a coherent and consistent overall story line.

65. With regard to the proposal by Liechtenstein, in view of the apprehensions and concerns expressed, further consultations should be held before it was discussed.

And the recent bungling of the Cyprus rescue does not help. No wonder some have called the recent market rally one of the most unloved in history.

Given concerns about security and the fate of the democratic transition, economic issues were essentially put on hold in both elections. Now it is time for Tunisia s leaders to put the economy at the top of their agenda.

In the US, by contrast, local residents benefit handsomely from being able to sell their ownership rights to gas companies a strong counter balance to fears of environmental costs.

If fears of deflation were to recede, and if output and employment were to grow more vigorously, the pressure for a protectionist response would dissipate.

The expectation that life will continue along familiar lines is being overtaken by anxiety that the shifts underway will mean huge shocks and difficult adjustments in many parts of the world.

17. The fear of inflationary pressures emerging from debt swap programmes and other concessional flows in favour of diversification programmes is not justified as these flows would help to boost production.

Since then, the IMF and the Bank have kept franc zone budget deficits under tight surveillance, which has limited the direct impact of sovereign debt worries on these countries.

Contrary to concerns that foreign banks would cut and run at the first sign of trouble, in the current crisis they maintained a remarkable degree of support for their subsidiaries in emerging markets.

. In view of the concerns raised by the phenomenon of removal of and trafficking in human organs and in response to the dangers posed by transnational criminal activities, we would like particular attention to be paid to the issue of trafficking in human organs, and we call on the Secretary General to submit to the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice reports focusing on developments at the international level concerning this serious problem.

In the same vein, conscious that concerns have been raised that these initiatives might reduce commitments to traditional development assistance, all reports stress that the proposals should be seen as strictly additional to existing ODA commitments and targets.

But the EU s old members have brought on an enormous sense of disappointment by ignoring its new members security concerns in favor of preserving their own ties with Russia, particularly in cutting energy deals that they think will assure them of supplies.

With this and other elements of a disheartening employment report now suddenly raising widespread worries about the underlying health and durability of America s recovery, it is important to understand the positive factors and why they are not enough as yet.

First, we need a clear message from Europe the immediate source of global economic concern that it is taking decisive steps to stabilize and strengthen its banks, and that it is focused on restoring growth while credibly committing itself to fiscal consolidation.

Pressure from parents seeking to prevent their children and grandchildren from suffering will undoubtedly overwhelm concerns about the possibility that others will use the same technology to attempt to build superkids and rightly so. The sick should not be held hostage to worries about possible dangers or abuses.

More fundamentally, such solutions require abandoning the false dichotomy of liberty and security. If security concerns trump basic rights and freedoms, fanaticism will have scored a victory and the same thing will happen if expressions of Islamophobia and xenophobia increase.

Both sides must take care that an incident concerning Taiwan does not lead in that direction. Americans and Chinese must avoid letting exaggerated fears create a self fulfilling prophecy.

Above all, the French and Dutch referendums confirmed that politics in the Union is now conducted on the street, and that it is no longer possible to construct Europe at a distance and by stealth. This means that EU governments must respond to popular anxieties and make the Union more transparent and democratic.

Since the patient s duration of survival is calculated from the time of diagnosis, more sensitive screening starts the clock sooner. Survival times can thus appear longer, even if the earlier diagnosis had no real effect on survival.