12 ordspråk av Gareth Evans
Gareth Evans
Bold action is needed to address this threat and, above all, to protect the civilian population
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Certainly [opposition candidate Edmund] Stoiber would have been better received by the market because of his plans for structural reform. The government has not got much of a majority so we can't expect much on reform going forward.
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He's a great performer and then he's got the greatest convening power of anyone now in the world, I think, and the greatest capacity to articulate things that matter.
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I'm gutted and feeling a bit lost, but I'm determined to get through it.
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One is tempted to think the fall is on the back of the Gedrman elections given it's not the best of outcomes with such a narrow majority,
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That did not just happen,
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The real alternatives to diplomacy are much worse: either rapid descent to a North Korea situation, with an unsupervised nuclear program leading inexorably to nuclear weapons and all their dangerously unpredictable regional consequences; or an Iraq-like preventive military strike, with even more alarming regional and global consequences.
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The stakes could hardly be higher. Neither side appears eager for a second war, but the situation is very fragile and to dismiss current tensions as mere saber-rattling would be a serious mistake.
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The trouble is that all of the steps that have been taken so far don't seem likely to produce an acceptable outcome.
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There is still evidence that analyst forecasts of corporate earnings were still too high considering the economic backdrop.
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This compromise should be compared neither to the fragile and unsustainable status quo, nor to some idealized, universally comfortable end-state.
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While peaceful efforts to bring about the disarmament and repatriation of the FDLR are crucial, the time has come to increase the military pressure against them
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