Economic destruction causes immense and intolerable human misery.

Although sanctions clearly create suffering in many places, how often have they achieved the desired goal?

Renewed pain for yourself, and pain for the child!

His poem was shared widely on social media this year as a tribute to the country's suffering

For the state official who turns his back on suffering, his country s citizens lack consequence.

In the past, those dreams brought only underdevelopment, dictatorship, nationalism and untold amounts of suffering.

Both involved terrible earthquakes that resulted in tremendous human suffering and large scale physical damage.

The welfare state resisted its critics and the pain of stagnating economies by making collaborators of the middle class.

The EU must respond with a genuinely European asylum policy that will put an end to the panic and the unnecessary human suffering.

She imagined him now calmly conversing with his mother and the Princess Sorokina, and rejoicing at her sufferings.

'No one has declared war, but people sympathize with their suffering neighbours and wish to help them,' replied Koznyshev.

Nor does Israel listen to the anguish of its own Ciceronian Zionists, perhaps best represented by the novelist Amos Oz.

That still fails to explain why an all powerful and all good god would permit it.

The aim is to draw attention to the suffering of Syrian people and the lack of action in the corridors of world powers.

Lenin and communism have passed away, but that cynical indifference to suffering when profits are involved remains.

Although sanctions clearly create suffering in many places, how often have they achieved the desired goal?

For the first time in history, the rich are so rich, and the poor so poor, that a tiny effort by the rich could end massive suffering.

A leading journalist, Cristian Tudor Popescu, reproached animal rights defenders for their moral relativism and insensitivity to human suffering.

In doing so, I recognized that the best place to start would be where current policies have created the greatest human suffering Greece.

Starting a direct and serious dialogue with the higher authorities to put an end to the suffering of citizens in neighbourhoods the government claimed will be relocated to better places.

The G 8 could end the suffering of the world's poorest billion people if it adopted realistic measures to solve their problems.

But it is another matter altogether to encourage technocrats to run countries, seemingly circumventing democratic processes, and foist upon them policies that lead to widespread public misery.

It is about official arrogance and indifference to suffering, and a cult of secrecy that allows information to be shared only among a narrow elite obsessed with stability.

For to end friction and suffering the crisis ridden Middle East needs more than troops a reality that has been recognized in previous conflicts around the World.

Bearing in mind that 2005 marks the sixtieth anniversary of the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, and that humankind should never again be exposed to such horrific devastation,

Staying the course, as Summers warns, will lead only to needless suffering before that course inevitably collapses, bringing Greece and much else crashing down.

But with new or better vaccines for malaria, TB, HIV, pneumonia, diarrhea, flu, we could end suffering that has been on the Earth since the beginning of time.

Although much of The Lucifer Effect examines how easy it is for ordinary people to be seduced into engaging in evil deeds, or to be passively indifferent to the suffering of others, the deeper message is a positive one.

If real estate prices were to fall dramatically, a chain reaction could occur, taking down big and small investors alike, and over time causing wide suffering to ordinary Africans.

They do not know what havoc their missiles have caused. They are unaware of the suffering they create for our families.

Although it may be painful to offer a safe exit to war criminals and human rights abusers, the prospect of ending the suffering of civilians can take priority over a principled stand for justice.

While DeBakey is glad to be alive, how many people should we subject to the grueling treatment that he endured for the chance of a few more weeks or months of life?

(c) The intensification of armed hostilities in Afghanistan and the complex nature of the conflict, including its ethnic, religious and political aspects, which have resulted in extensive human suffering and forced displacement, inter alia, on the grounds of ethnicity

When he said in Davos, we cannot be indifferent to the pain and suffering of our fellow brethren in the region, he might as well have been referring to the Assad regime and its partners in crime.

As much as one might wish otherwise, every other policy option canvassed so far is wrong in principle, nonviable in practice, unlikely to be effective, or bound to increase rather than diminish suffering.

Noting with satisfaction the work undertaken to implement the Convention and the substantial progress made towards ending, for all people and for all time, the suffering caused by anti personnel mines, as well as regular reporting of this progress,

As former French Prime Minister Pierre Mauroy put it in 1981, when he refused to cancel a gas deal with the USSR over the imposition of martial law in Poland, Should the suffering of French people deprived of gas be added to the suffering of Polish people deprived of freedom?