Colombia s Perilous Success

The Perilous Fantasy of Energy Independence

LONDON We live in perilous times.

Learning without thought is labor lost thought without learning is perilous.

GENEVA As post revolution Libya looks ahead, Iraq looms as a perilous example.

Regardless of their outcome, the new negotiations have put Khamenei in a perilous position.

But the fiscal road ahead looks increasingly perilous, with political consensus fraying badly in recent years.

Of prime concern is the fact that sea travel has been and will always be perilous.

As a result of that perilous precedent, Russia no longer feels bound by the unwritten agreement.

In the course of the summer, the prospect of a perilous fall has become only more likely.

Beneath even the richest soil, Dangerfield wrote, may lie the most perilous residue of discord and destruction.

Protests against the US led coalition's bombing campaign had roiled Indonesia for weeks, increasing the country's already perilous instability.

The alternative is the loss of the two state solution and the perpetuation of a terrible and terribly perilous conflict.

Syrian refugees risk all to make the perilous journey on boats and rubber dinghies to Greece, their foothold into Europe.

But the next few years will be especially perilous, because newness itself creates dangers as rules and red lines are redefined.

These feelings, it appears, are directly related to the violence gripping Iraq, and the role of foreigners in the country s perilous security situation.

That strategy has now been exposed as perilous, and the use by financial institutions of similar risk models can lead to greater instability.

Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark built Fort Mandan there, and then started interviewing people to help guide them on their perilous expedition.

Signs of the American economy s perilous condition are everywhere from yawning fiscal and current account deficits to plummeting home prices and a feeble dollar.

Precisely because so much emotion has been invested in QE, the psychological effects of returning to normalcy are going to be perilous and unpredictable.

Access to 60 million from the US government would undoubtedly be an exciting, albeit perilous, opportunity for Russia s many activists and journalists working online.

The image shows several identical messages that the blogger apparently sent to different foreign embassies, describing his perilous situation and asking for political asylum.

Recognizing that continued economic insecurity will exacerbate this perilous situation, the government has announced a new package of economic incentives aimed at attracting foreign direct investment.

Some of those who brought the world to this perilous point with their toxic financial instruments and unscrupulous speculation may even turn out to profit from these reforms.

In perilous times, when the emergence, timing, and diffusion of risks can have a paralyzing effect, what matters is not simply what we accomplish, but how we accomplish it.

The only option left was a coalition comprised of old oppositions, which, given the absence of a respected institutional framework, will make a return to stability slow, difficult, and perilous.

Isolationism, whether in Japan or the UK, is not only a short sighted choice especially for Japan, it may also be a perilous one, given the rise of China next door.

There are drug traffickers, politicians, businesspeople, journalists suspected of being on the payroll of the government or the cartels, a catalog of villains who make the job of covering Mexico's chaos perilous.

With the defeat of al Qaeda and the Taliban America s only visible goal, it is no surprise that the US remains enormously unpopular among Pakistanis, forcing Musharraf to maintain his perilous balancing act.

The most perilous outcome under this model is when neither the president nor the prime minister has a majority, which has never occurred in France, but has occurred in postcommunist countries such as Russia and Ukraine.

But their ranks include intelligent top rank officials led by the Pope s chief adviser, Cardinal Pietro Parolin who are experienced at working quietly for peace and social justice in some of the most perilous parts of the world.

Reliance on financial institutions internal models, the major focus of the Basel II agreement on banking regulation, should be discarded. That strategy has now been exposed as perilous, and the use by financial institutions of similar risk models can lead to greater instability.

Isolationism, whether in Japan or the UK, is not only a short sighted choice especially for Japan, it may also be a perilous one, given the rise of China next door. Both Japan and the UK, much as they may not wish to admit it, depend on the global market.

The Fed must always remember that no matter how calm and rational its analysis may be, it is dealing with markets that can be anything but calm and rational. Precisely because so much emotion has been invested in QE, the psychological effects of returning to normalcy are going to be perilous and unpredictable.

They've come thousands of miles on a perilous trip, risked life, health and property, spent months of the most arduous labor a man can perform and at length with expectations raised to the highest pitch have reached the coveted goal only to discover the fact that there is nothing here for them.