And that makes failure seem much more crushing.

Weak national unity has underpinned an even more damaging pattern. Since the 1990 s, many of the world s armed conflicts have taken place in SSA countries.

Weak national unity has underpinned an even more damaging pattern.

After 14 years of devastating war, we faced enormous challenges.

The long term consequences of the resulting surge in fiscal deficits are serious.

The loss of life is devastating, and millions are rendered homeless.

Indeed, critics of the government believe that its incendiary rhetoric might lead to a devastating war.

According to the US Energy Department, America s annual oil imports from Africa will soon reach 770 millions barrels, bringing an estimated 200 billion to the continent over the next decade.

As a result, elaborate systems of laws are needed to ensure that competition is open and fair, that monopolies and trusts do not destroy competition itself.

Fortunately, there is hope that the region can resist the West s destructive neo liberal agenda.

Similarly, capitalism depends on competition, but competition can be brutal and destructive.

Absent international coordination, the opportunities for destructive regulatory competition will defeat regulatory reform.

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So, in all likelihood, the world has been spared a policy that would be as futile as it would be destructive.

It will pay still more if policymakers remain passive about China s destructive currency policy.

Any blockage or delay in their efforts could lead to a new and devastating attack on the financial markets.

VIENNA Nuclear power has become safer since the devastating accident one year ago at Fukushima, Japan.

There is a real danger that religious conflict replaces the ideologically based struggles of the last century in an equally devastating form.

Croats The Croats arrived after the devastating Ottoman war in 1532, when the Ottoman army destroyed some settlements in their ethnic territory.

In fact, there is no scientific consensus that global warming makes hurricanes more destructive, as he claims.

Yet far more devastating than the housing bubble was the financial panic that gripped capital markets worldwide after the collapse of Lehman Brothers.

At the same time mining is a highly disruptive activity with considerable negative impacts on the environment and the livelihoods of local communities.

Indeed, early privatization is likely to be destructive in its own terms, because property rights will remain in question for some time.

Once upon a time, the Fund had scores of programs across the Continent (as Rong Qian, Carmen Reinhart, and I illustrate in new research on graduation from sovereign debt crises.)

What is at stake is Europe s capacity to avoid another financial meltdown one that could be even more devastating than the 2007 crisis.

If so, they should choose an issue for their campaign that would be less damaging to the poor and hungry in developing countries.

Israel s exploits in Gaza were a Pyrrhic victory, and the country is now bound to change its war doctrine of offensive defense. A show of devastating force, with limited Israeli casualties at the price of an unlimited number of Palestinian civilian casualties, is no longer internationally sustainable.

Since the council s legitimacy stems exclusively from Libyan good will and blind faith, rather than from success at the ballot box, this could be devastating.

A show of devastating force, with limited Israeli casualties at the price of an unlimited number of Palestinian civilian casualties, is no longer internationally sustainable.

Suppose that a tsunami as destructive as the one in the Indian Ocean last year occurs on average once a century and kills 250,000 people.

Proponents of democracy and economic expansion have missed their best chance to outmaneuver Germany and end the self destructive austerity that Germany has imposed on Europe.

How can we be sure that the FN wave, having receded, will not regain strength and break with even greater destructive force in the upcoming presidential election?

Hokkaido is famed for its dairy farms, and in recent years Japanese livestock farmers in other parts of the country have had to deal with disastrous outbreaks of foot and mouth disease, which can be introduced to farms by human visitors.

While it is true that Germany and Japan became democratic after American occupation, it required their total defeat in a devastating war, and a seven year occupation.

He was, of course, right in his judgment that the only way to prevent any modern industrial war from becoming a destructive tragedy for all was to quickly conclude a ceasefire. Governments that view aggressive war as a means to prosperity have been rare since the end of World War I the Imperial Japanese government that launched World War II in the Pacific and Saddam Hussein's two grabs for oilfields are examples that spring immediately to mind.

Unless a mechanism is introduced that facilitates the rapid disbursement of EU funds, thus insulating the budget from destructive politicization, these funds cannot be used to stimulate growth in times of crisis.

He was, of course, right in his judgment that the only way to prevent any modern industrial war from becoming a destructive tragedy for all was to quickly conclude a ceasefire.

Since the nuclear disaster in Fukushima following the 2011 Earthquake in Japan, the long believed myth of 'safe' nuclear power has lost its support, resulting in anti nuclear protests all over the country.

No wonder that most of them employ a ghost, like the one in Robert Harris s excellent thriller of the same name, which is really a devastating critique of Britain s former premier, Tony Blair.

No one, not even Maazel, pretends that one concert by a great Western orchestra can blow a dictatorship away, but authoritarians wariness of the subversive power of music dates back to Plato s Republic .

But it is not naïve to be concerned about the most indiscriminately inhumane weapons of destruction ever invented 23,000 of which still exist with a combined destructive capability of 150,000 Hiroshima bombs.

In exchange for laying down their arms and ending a pointless and destructive war, Tiger soldiers should be encouraged to take part in politics, but on exactly the same terms as any other Sri Lankan.

This is what makes today s beggar thy neighbor policies so destructive though some countries will eventually have to absorb the surpluses and capital, each country is trying to avoid them.

But it is not naïve to be concerned about the most indiscriminately inhumane weapons of destruction ever invented 23,000 of which still exist with a combined destructive capability of 150,000 Hiroshima bombs.

His is a rather sober reading of reality the austerity plan has become a highway to social hell for his countrymen, and would likely condemn Greece to long years of ruinous depression within a permanent debt trap, and possibly to a breakdown of democracy.