For us the question of territorial integrity is a painful one.

You can feel the worm as a painful strand under the skin.

The process, she says, is painful but positive.

Under his leadership, the long standing and painful Aceh conflict was peacefully resolved.

It requires a sense of social responsibility that accompanies and cushions the painful process of modernization.

But this is the most painful way out, and it generates intense social and political instability.

If one examined her features, she was good looking rather than plain, despite her unhealthy complexion.

Hu told Bush that the Taiwan issue was very sensitive, and that China would absolutely not tolerate Taiwan independence.

Pada awal tahun 1990an, trauma atas ambruknya Mekanisme Nilai Tukar Mata Uang Eropa hanya menguatkan tekad pemimpin di Eropa untuk meningkatkannya.

But not only is it painful, it kills lots of babies, it kills lots of mothers, and it's very expensive to produce.

Questions of equality are always a source of debate especially when it comes to viral videos that attract more than 137,000 comments.

This would be a painful recession, but far short of the 10 15 output drop normally associated with a full blown depression.

Painful choices about how to close the long run fiscal gap should be decided now and implemented promptly once the economy has recovered.

They know that they cannot run deficits forever, but they do not want to say when the painful exit should begin.

Obligatory consultation with independent and informed people may be annoying, but it can avert misunderstandings and accelerate the painful process of correcting blunders.

Perhaps the most encouraging aspect of my visit to Burma was a willingness to open up and learn from other countries that have navigated the painful transition from dictatorship to democracy.

Indeed, like so many post communist countries over the past 20 years, Libya is now making the gradual and at times painful transition to a market economy.

But a UK decision to leave, should it come to that, would initiate a painful and complicated process of negotiating an exit and agreeing on some sort of new relationship.

Unlike the peaceful secession of Montenegro in 2006, the loss of Kosovo represents a damaging blow to Serbia, given its place in the national consciousness. Kosovo serves as the source of the foundation myth of Serbian statehood and the repository of its cultural and historical lore.

But that painful and risky process will have to be launched eventually, and it will be better served by Obama s brand of caution than by the tough talk of his critics.

Unlike the peaceful secession of Montenegro in 2006, the loss of Kosovo represents a damaging blow to Serbia, given its place in the national consciousness.

But the doctrine of preemptive war has been badly tarnished, and I remain hopeful that Congress and the American people have learned a painful lesson.

In short, QE3 reduces the tail risk of an outright economic contraction, but is unlikely to lead to a sustained recovery in an economy that is still enduring a painful deleveraging process.

Such a coordinated response will need to address immediate short term problems as well as provide medium term solutions without plunging the world economy into another painful recession.

Without that prospect, no candidate country would go through the painful process of adopting the tens of thousands of rules and regulations contained in the Acquis Communautaire (the body of EU law).

Notwithstanding its bitter conflict with Israel, Turkey, unlike Iran, is not an unconditional enemy of the Jewish state, and would not discard an accommodation with Binyamin Netanyahu s government.

And Karen Armstrong, I think you would also say that it was some of your very wounding experiences in a religious life that, with a zigzag, have led to the Charter for Compassion.

The said transition period is going to be long, expensive and painful, as it will consume so much in terms of financial, emotional and intellectual strength from society, that the historical and cultural effect of the Latin script could be rendered completely ineffective.

That turned out to be wrong, as a painful process of balance sheet deleveraging reflecting excessive private sector debt, and then its carryover to the public sector implies that the recovery will remain, at best, below trend for many years to come.

The traumatic experience of western disunity over Iraq in the UN Security Council with the governments of Jacques Chirac and Gerhard Schröder leading the resistance to the US UK led invasion of Iraq demonstrated that Franco German bilateralism has destructive side effects.

We Czechs know something about this, as the wrenching economic transition that we underwent in the 1990 s taught us much about how the right policies can break the grip of hopelessness.