But when painful reforms are necessary, there is no alternative.

But continuing to use energy inefficiently will not mitigate the painful effects of the global economic crisis.

It is, of course, always much easier to encourage others to undertake painful reforms than to look inward.

Only a strong Israeli government can make the painful decisions necessary for negotiations with the Palestinians to succeed.

As a result, painful policy dilemmas arise, and they can divide even the closest allies.

According to unofficial figures, subsidies already represent 5 of GDP, and only painful adjustments can reduce them.

Successful experience notwithstanding, most people interpret incentives as painful kicks in the butt, and they want none of it.

Now comes the painful number Mauritius s GDP has grown faster than 5 annually for almost 30 years.

Successful experience notwithstanding, most people interpret incentives as painful kicks in the butt, and they want none of it.

I often feel a great deal of sympathy for Fed officials, because they must make close calls in an environment of considerable uncertainty.

Sad to say, Japan continues to teach us that some of history's most painful episodes do repeat themselves.

In at least one area, liquidity management, many investors learned painful lessons from the crisis.

This worked in postwar Germany, but then traumatic memories of the Nazis and the relative weakness of antidemocratic movements helped.

Developing countries were told, once again, to get their houses in order, to address issues of governance, and to undertake painful structural reforms.

Why should the French undertake painful reforms when their newly elected leader has just promised to protect them from a strong currency and further interest rate increases?

Turkey s bureaucrats, politicians, and citizens united to fulfill the Copenhagen criteria for EU membership and tolerated the pain of the IMF directed structural adjustment programs.

To reduce public debt, which stands above 120 of GDP, while minimizing painful adjustments, Italy needs economic growth something that has eluded policymakers in recent years.

Painful concessions will be required from both sides if the Geneva conference is even to convene, let alone reach agreement on a cease fire and transitional administration.

Indeed, as of July 13, Greece s staunchly anti austerity government has been obliged to impose even tougher austerity and pursue painful structural reforms, under its creditors close supervision.

On the contrary, with their large external deficits, the PIIGS need a sharp depreciation to restore growth as they implement painful fiscal and other structural reforms.

It may well be that such painful deviations from agreed principles will be reflected in an eventual comprehensive settlement, but prejudging these issues before the beginning of negotiations denies the Palestinians some of their most important bargaining chips.

Similar housing booms in many other countries are now ending, and they may face the pain and the moral dilemmas that the US economy is now experiencing.

But only in illnesses like schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, and depression do we find disease processes that directly and profoundly transform a person s self, identity, and place in the community.

Yet this prosperous and peaceful Europe is not idyllic sometimes Europe is not at all an easy place for its citizens to live, as the tumultuous Balkan Wars and painful postcommunist transitions of the past decade demonstrated.

Disagreement in Europe is not limited to that between solution providers (the troika of the European Central Bank, the European Union, and the International Monetary Fund) and countries now implementing painful austerity measures (Greece, Ireland, and Portugal).

But a weaker euro would not eliminate the need for structural reforms otherwise, the benefits would go mostly to countries like Germany that undertook painful reforms to restore competitiveness via a reduction in relative unit labor costs.

The decision has reignited painful memories for Perth mother June Corteen, who lost her 39 year old twin daughters Jane and Jenny in the destruction unleashed by Patek and his co conspirators almost a decade ago.

Then she recalled Petrov's thin, emaciated figure in his brown coat, with his long neck, his thin, curly hair, his inquiring blue eyes which had at first seemed to her terrible, and his sickly efforts to appear vigorous and animated in her presence.