Indonesia Tsunami and Quake Devastate an Island, Killing Hundreds

Think of strokes that can devastate your mind or render you unconscious.

She said, When kings enter a city, they devastate it, and subjugate its dignified people. Thus they always do.

She said, When kings enter a city, they devastate it, and subjugate its dignified people. Thus they always do.

She said, Indeed when kings enter a town, they devastate it, and make the mightiest of its people the weakest. That is how they act.

She said, Indeed when kings enter a town, they devastate it, and make the mightiest of its people the weakest. That is how they act.

Reaching a peaceful solution to this conflict, which continues to claim lives and devastate communities, however, will require that both sides follow through with those commitments.

Certainly, in the rest of the world, your choice is to devastate the place, turning everything that will burn into heat, or drink the water that's available.

The outbreak has so far remained regional, but it serves as a reminder that in an age of air travel by millions, no one is safe from the spread of infectious disease. Containing a disease or a terrorist threat by curtailing international travel or transport would devastate the world economy.

So far, the only lesson Israel seems to have drawn from its failed strategies is that it must extend and intensify the use of unilateral force re invade Gaza, devastate Lebanon, and threaten Syria and, by implication, Iran, which the Israeli government hints, had a hand in orchestrating the recent crisis.

SINGAPORE After years of debate, India s government recently announced that will open the country s retail sector to foreign investment. The move was met with howls of protest from those who argue that the entry of large hypermarket chains like Carrefour and Walmart will devastate the small shops that currently dominate India s retail sector.

Back in 2009 and 2010, the world s governments agreed to keep the rise in global temperature to below 2 Celsius relative to the pre industrial era. Yet warming is currently on course to reach 4 6 degrees by the end of the century high enough to devastate global food production and dramatically increase the frequency of extreme weather events.

But history has not been kind to major trade blunders. Just as the Smoot Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 sparked a global trade war that may well have put the great in the Great Depression, Congressional enactment of enforceable currency rules today could spark retaliatory actions that might devastate the free flow of trade that a sluggish global economy desperately needs.

A Russian attack on, say, Mariupol, eastern Ukraine s second largest port (accounting for roughly one third of the country s exports), would devastate an economy that is already tanking. Though several factors including Western sanctions, a lack of public support for war in Ukraine, and the Russian economy s rapid decline should discourage the Kremlin from taking such a step, they may not be enough.

In the 1990 s, following its atrocities in Bosnia, Slobodan Milosevic s Serb regime abolished Kosovo s long standing autonomy, suppressing the rights of the province s overwhelming Albanian majority. Instead of simply watching in horror, as it did at the start of the Bosnian war, NATO decided to intervene before Milosevic s forces could again devastate one of the constituent ethnic groups of the former Yugoslavia.

Over the last quarter century, rapid technology driven globalization characterized by the physical and virtual integration of the global economy, including the opening of world markets has contributed to the fastest increase in incomes and population in history. But, while globalization has created unprecedented opportunity, it has also unleashed a new form of systemic risk one that threatens to devastate political institutions and national economies.