That is what we are up against.

And that s what we are currently facing.

The greatest risk we face lies in continuing down this path.

The paralysis we are facing should be enough reason to take action.

The needs are urgent. The challenge is one of morality and vision.

The second key challenge that we will face during our European presidency is that of Russia.

But go back to 1912, 100 years ago, and look at that point what we, our country, was faced with.

The needs are urgent. The challenge is one of morality and vision.

I want to do so because, in my view, the most important issue we face is how we respond to this question.

We d like to tell lawmakers what we face on the ground. But they no longer come to us, said Mung Ra.

And while Africa may be dark, the thing that brought the message home to me was that this is the challenge we are facing, but it's also the opportunity.

The greatest risk that we run is erosion of the Security Council s credibility, and, with it, a diminishing capacity to confront grave threats to peace.

Somebody said the test we're facing now, a scientist told me, is whether the combination of an opposable thumb and a neocortex is a viable combination.

It is a challenge we must meet if we are to fulfil our responsibilities to those who are most vulnerable and to whom we owe the highest duty of care.

Heads of State and Government must therefore agree on the nature of the threats and opportunities before us and take decisive action.

There are problems of sewage overflow and contamination, but I would also argue that almost every city has this exact condition, and it's a condition that we're all facing.

And I would suggest to you that actually what we are dealing with here, in the Chinese context, is a new kind of paradigm, which is different from anything we've had to think about in the past.

But the third challenge we have and probably even bigger one, the biggest challenge is that, in contrast to smallpox where you could always see your enemy every single person almost who was infected with smallpox had this telltale rash.

First, world leaders are uniting to address the greatest challenge we face as a human family the threat of catastrophic climate change. Last week, 101 leaders from 163 countries met to chart the next steps toward December s all important UN climate change conference in Copenhagen.

The size of the challenges that we face was made clear at the beginning of this year, when a measles outbreak killed more than 300 children in Pakistan most of whom had not received vaccines.

The sorry state of wind and solar power shows the massive challenge that we face in trying to make today s technology competitive and efficient.

The regular black humor in our house was about what we would do if the army broke in. As with every terrifying thing, we needed to face it with humor to silence the fear.

Protection of civilians, including women and children, in armed conflicts, especially from the threats of non State actors, remains the primary challenge for us to address effectively.

That much is clear. But the decision we are actually faced with is much more fundamental global monetary and economic reform, or war and revolution.

I ve been wanting to write up some articles about basic arguments we have to face as feminists every day, dealing with stupid questions that are often sexist comments disguised as questions.

But what if the situation we face is not a single threat but is actually more like this, where there's just so much stuff coming in, it's just, Start shooting, come on, everybody, we've got to just work together, just start shooting.

But, faced with the need to manage climate risk for our investors and our descendants, we believe the Blueprints outcomes provide the best balance between economy, energy, and environment.

There's a lot of research and a lot of failure, trial and error I guess, more error that goes into each and every dish, so we don't always get it right, and it takes a while for us to be able to explain that to people.

Reaffirming also the need to strengthen the United Nations with a view to enhancing its authority and efficiency, as well as its capacity to address effectively, and in accordance with the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, the full range of development challenges of our time,

Experts in government, industry, academia, and elsewhere agree that a long list of questions needs to be addressed if we are to develop nanotechnology as safely as possible. The challenge we face is to find answers that will enable producers and regulators to make sound, science based decisions, and to develop an oversight system that inspires consumer confidence.

Only a minimum of introspection shows that our difficulty in answering the question, Who am I?, arises from the complexity we face in distinguishing between our many identities and understanding their architecture.

Greater sensitivity to the interests of women will also make a vital contribution to the challenge we face in addressing sexual exploitation and abuse by peacekeepers which is not being done urgently enough.

The challenge we face in our own African led peace initiatives is gaining the necessary political, moral and material support from the international community to ensure an effective transition from immediate security and humanitarian needs to long term development, which is a prerequisite for sustainable peace.

If in the course of the coming negotiations none of the current proposals gains acceptance as a starting point for an agreed solution, Costa Rica will be ready to offer an alternative model that would move us away from the extremes and lead us out of the impasse on Security Council reform that we now face.

In this case, what is bad for economists is good for the world economy we may be facing a mere episode of financial distress in the US rather than sky high long term interest rates and a depression.

But would that have been worse than what we face now? The failure to sacrifice the subsidiary objective of keeping the private sector private meant that the Fed and the Treasury lost their opportunity to attain the principal objective of avoiding depression.

With the recent murders of more innocent victims from Australia, Indonesia and other countries in Bali, closely coinciding with the sad anniversary of the 2002 bombings on that island, we have again been given a stark reminder of the ever present and deadly threat we all face.

A new Partnership and Cooperation Agreement (PCA) between the EU and the Russian Federation must be negotiated. Those negotiations should have begun seriously last year, but the war in Georgia intervened to put them on hold.