Their central metaphor is a loom.

They loom large in his legend.

They say, Upon this loom, I weave my life.

As US India defense cooperation broadens, this question will loom ever larger.

We meet at a time when a number of profound questions loom large over humankind.

It is a fact that conflicts in Africa continue to loom large on the Security Council's agenda.

11 Ibid., Bill 363 approved to dodge total shutdown , 2 October 2004, and Agency shutdown loom , 30 September 2004 (see www.guampdm.com).

The nineteenth century Luddites fretted over that. Inventions like the steam engine and the power loom destroyed some jobs but eventually created many more.

New kinds of challenges loom, even as the international community is falling behind in finding appropriate responses to existing challenges, which are getting worse.

In a region as volatile as the Middle East, no solid and durable peace can be achieved while a nuclear threat continues to loom over the region.

In this complex world in which threats to peace continue to loom, there can be no doubt that the Security Council has a significant role to play.

8. As the Taliban continued their military advances in northern Afghanistan, tensions between the Taliban and the Islamic Republic of Iran began to loom along the Iranian Afghan border.

It is worth mentioning that, between 1994 and 1999, 13,014 training courses were run in sewing, knitting, typing, silk drawing, glass and pottery work, floristry, hairdressing, cashmere embroidery, wickerwork, upholstery and loom work.

This could be seen to challenge our notions of personhood and moral agency. And the question will certainly loom that if functions can be restored for those in need, is it right to use these technologies to enhance the abilities of healthy individuals?

My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me like a shepherd's tent. I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life. He will cut me off from the loom. From day even to night you will make an end of me.

My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me like a shepherd's tent. I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life. He will cut me off from the loom. From day even to night you will make an end of me.

If the momentum of the peace negotiations is not maintained and the agreements that have already been reached not fully implemented, the spectre of the vicious circle of recurrent violence and conflict would loom over the whole area of the Middle East quot .

China s leadership, for its part, will want to know why free market champions in Washington are threatening more protectionism. For, as China s growth accelerates, trade imbalances heighten US frustrations, and elections loom, lawmakers of both US political parties will threaten punitive action against China on a variety of subjects.

In short, US foreign policy may be as active as ever, but it is downsizing and becoming more exacting about its priorities. As a result, many global challenges climate change, trade, resource scarcity, international security, cyber warfare, and nuclear proliferation, to name a few are bound to loom larger.

Not only has the bank just reported its first quarterly loss in more than a decade it has also agreed to a tentative deal to pay a fine of 13 billion to the US government as punishment for mis selling mortgage backed securities. Other big legal and regulatory costs loom.

The incidents loom substantially more dangerous to the political elite if they seem to have been mobilized by dissidents, are marked by some measure of violence, threaten to spread, or entail the obstruction of major transport trunklines. Indeed, the episodes that make it into the media beyond the Mainland are usually such protests.

The Asia Pacific region will loom larger in Obama s second term agenda, especially as the ongoing US troop withdrawal ends the Afghanistan war by 2014. But Obama will have to define a clearer US policy, addressing China s rapid rise under an authoritarian regime that aggressively pursues border claims and whips up nationalism at home.

Other problems loom for the NTC. In July, their military chief of staff, Abdul Fattah Younis, was killed in murky circumstances after the Council issued an arrest warrant for him. His tribe has demanded answers that the NTC does not have. People close to the case say that senior NTC officials were implicated in Younis s death.

Other problems loom for the NTC. In July, their military chief of staff, Abdul Fattah Younis, was killed in murky circumstances after the Council issued an arrest warrant for him. His tribe has demanded answers that the NTC does not have. People close to the case say that senior NTC officials were implicated in Younis s death.

Nowhere does this question loom larger than in developing and emerging economies, which are outside the main theater of the crisis, but are more precariously positioned than the advanced countries. Many had only recently begun to grow rapidly, and, with vast reservoirs of poor people, economic growth has a moral urgency that it does not have in rich countries.

Canada will continue to support countries in their efforts and hopes to be able to enhance that support in this sector. Fourthly, the issue of debt continues to loom over many of the poorest countries. In 1989, Canada forgave its debt loans to sub Saharan Africa and to some of the poorest countries of Latin America.

Today, three factors loom large in the avoidance of disaster the United States military presence in Europe, the progress of European integration, and Europe s abandonment of great power politics. Yet there is no point in fooling oneself Only as long as the Balkan countries believe in the European Union and the benefits of membership will today s precarious peace in the region become permanent.

Shortage of demand for currently produced goods and services and mass unemployment no longer loom as the region s biggest macroeconomic problems. Flooding their economies with liquidity, maintaining export friendly exchange rates, and spending to employ workers directly and boost the supply of safe savings vehicles have made the Great Recession in East Asia less dire than it has been elsewhere.

Furthermore, several major geopolitical risks loom, including military confrontation between North and South Korea and the lingering possibility that Israel or even the US might use military force to counter Iran s nuclear weapons program. There are also the political and economic turmoil in Pakistan and the risk of a rise in cyber attacks for example, in retaliation for criminal proceedings against WikiLeaks.

To believe that high oil prices are good because they serve the environment ignores some basic facts of international politics. First, in many of the poorest African and Asian countries, oil imports account for a significantly higher share of national expenditure than in industrialized countries, which means that economic growth and social development are being imperiled, while new debt crises loom.

Likewise, I wish to extend sincere gratitude to the new Secretary General of the United Nations, Mr. Kofi Annan, for the efficient and dynamic way he is discharging his duties. We are meeting at a critical juncture of history. After almost 50 years the dark and ominous clouds of world conflict no longer loom threateningly over the horizon. Those grim days are over.

Yet, despite all the odds against it, the United Nations has withstood the test of time. It has survived because it invested faith in humankind and dispensed hope where misery prevailed. It has gradually built the required tools to foster international cooperation. Obstacles may continue to loom large, yet at no time in human history has the potential been so great.

PRINCETON As US President Barack Obama begins his second term, he will have to devote much of his attention to figuring out how to get America s domestic finances in order. But foreign policy issues loom large as well, and, notwithstanding the ongoing conflict in Syria and the possible spread of war across Africa s Sahel region, the consensus in Washington is that 2013 will be the year of decision on Iran.

But it does mean that a rise in the dollar is not automatic or inevitable if the Fed raises interest rates next month. The globally disruptive effects of US monetary tightening a rapidly rising dollar, capital outflows from emerging markets, financial distress for international dollar borrowers, and chaotic currency devaluations in Asia and Latin America may loom less large in next year s economic outlook than in a rear view glimpse of 2015.

With governments in many developed countries now reaching the limits of their gap filling capacity, three undesirable possibilities loom large (in addition to the desirable possibility that they will have no choice but to undertake long postponed reforms that will create sustainable growth with less need for government buffers). One is that they intervene directly in markets, both domestic and across borders, to reduce competition and volatility while they rebuild their buffering capacity.

No effort must be spared to ensure universal adherence to and compliance with the relevant treaties covering not only nuclear weapons but also all weapons of mass destruction. The nuclear disarmament agenda must be kept on track. The dangers that loom are not limited to the possession and use of such armaments by nuclear weapon States. The spectre of nuclear terrorism haunts us as we combat illegal trafficking related to the possession, production and use of such weapons.

In the final analysis, the United Nations is merely the sum total of the joint political will of Member States. This sum total, be it positive or negative, is but an expression of the capacity of that political will to undertake joint international action. In spite of the apprehensions and risks that loom over the international horizon, the future for the third millennium is laden with promises, hopes and potentials that are worthy of sacrifice and hard work for the sake of a better future.