Two other developments will greatly aggravate these weaknesses.

This threatens to aggravate the damaging contraction of global trade.

The scenes of exultant West Bank settlers only aggravate this.

Higher oil prices and lower trade turnover aggravate the problem.

The ensuing losses will aggravate the financial turmoil and economic contraction.

In some cases, good intentions may even aggravate the status quo.

Overburdened prisons due to Thailand s harsh drug laws aggravate the current situation.

A sclerotic, atavistic, nationalist, and inward looking Japan can only aggravate the situation.

This persecution will admittedly aggravate their difficult struggle, but they will naturally survive it.

Allowing this conflict to fester will only aggravate our peoples insecurity and our region s instability.

With China retaining its under valued currency policy, dollar depreciation can aggravate global deflationary forces.

And can anyone believe, even fleetingly, that Russia s intervention will lessen, rather than aggravate, Syria s refugee crisis?

Perhaps most importantly, the drive for greater competitiveness, regardless of the cost, will only aggravate the crisis.

Welfare programs in war ravaged countries often aggravate joblessness by reducing work incentives and creating a culture of dependency.

Short term flows not only wreak havoc with domestic macroeconomic management, but they also aggravate adverse exchange rate movements.

The combination of gender, race and ethnicity, along with social class has only served to aggravate the oppression they have faced.

To the Kremlin s rulers, this may seem an acceptable cost for retaining power, but postponing reform will only aggravate Russia s countless problems.

If not, will expansion aggravate the problem because the biases of ECB members will become even more divergent than they are today?

Devastatingly high unemployment rates among European Muslims (three times higher than the national average in most countries) aggravate their social marginalization and cultural self segregation.

Four years of deflation and a drawn out banking crisis offer little prospect of economic stimulus. Higher oil prices and lower trade turnover aggravate the problem.

In the process, markets take investors on a wild rollercoaster ride, with the European crisis (riddled with even more confusion and volatility) serving to aggravate their queasiness.

In the long run, the growing expectation gap would aggravate the inevitable setbacks, and political leaders who championed closer relations could even be replaced by hard liners.

This solution is rendered more urgent in Nigeria by the prospect of exploiting the country's vast reserves of natural gas, which may aggravate and prolong the resource curse.''

Prudential controls on capital flows make a lot of sense. Short term flows not only wreak havoc with domestic macroeconomic management, but they also aggravate adverse exchange rate movements.

If so, the huge increase in the national debt and the realization that even 700 billion is not enough to rescue the US economy will erode confidence further and aggravate its weakness.

Some of these countries are either in conflict or are fragile states, so a diminishing flow of remittances will aggravate their instability, and perhaps increase the flow of migration to other countries.

Either scenario would greatly aggravate Europe s crisis soaring oil costs or another US recession would harm even the strong northern European economies, to say nothing of the already depressed countries in Europe s south.

Perhaps most importantly, the drive for greater competitiveness, regardless of the cost, will only aggravate the crisis. After all, export led growth policies can succeed only if other countries are willing to run deficits.

The Obama administration had been pressing Abe not to aggravate regional tensions by visiting Yasukuni an entreaty reiterated by Vice President Joe Biden during a recent stopover in Tokyo on his way to Beijing.

Everything we know about the Assad regime s approach to reconstruction confirms that it will aggravate the factors that drove millions of Syrian citizens into the streets in 2011, and then into an armed uprising.

But any strategy that aims to destroy Hamas as a political force, were it feasible, would only aggravate the crisis by transforming Hamas into a cluster of violent armed groups with which dialogue would be almost impossible.

It is time to face reality the Kurdish region in the north is functioning in a reasonable way, and it has even been able to allay Turkey s fears that its existence will aggravate that country s own Kurdish problem.

But it is also true that Iran s emergence as the ninth nuclear power would provoke a regional and global upheaval, dangerously aggravate fears and suspicions, and confront the international community with a profound crisis of vision and policy.

It is time to face reality the Kurdish region in the north is functioning in a reasonable way, and it has even been able to allay Turkey s fears that its existence will aggravate that country s own Kurdish problem.

But expanding the reach of monetary union raises two equally fundamental questions for current euro members does formal political independence for the European Central Bank deliver truly independent judgements about policy? If not, will expansion aggravate the problem because the biases of ECB members will become even more divergent than they are today?

As a child, the future Saint Rose of Lima suffered from an illness that made it impossible for her to move her legs, Her mother wanted to offer her some relief with a local remedy, and covered Rose's legs with vulture skins, something that would eventually aggravate the little girl's woes, which she suffered in silence.