Lights glaring in off the street, and we had to hire a security guard and all these things.

And those who annoy believing men and women undeservedly, bear (on themselves) a calumny and a glaring sin.

And those who annoy believing men and women undeservedly, bear (on themselves) a calumny and a glaring sin.

There is not much point in speaking of inclusiveness, transparency and democracy and leaving the Security Council as a glaring exception to those principles.

The most glaring weakness in the current methodology was the substantial scale to scale increase in the assessments of Member States, particularly developing countries.

The situation was most glaring in asylum countries, particularly developing countries, which assumed a heavy burden by receiving high numbers of refugees and asylum seekers.

Despite this progress, in the run up to the Srebrenica anniversary, the continuing freedom of Karadzić and Mladić and other major Tribunal indictees is glaring.

There is a glaring gap in overall international development policymaking, and in the capacity to secure coherence across the development, finance, trade and technology areas.

In her address to the Security Council on resolution 1325 (2000), she had highlighted the continuing situation in Darfur as a glaring instance of the pervasive violations women might suffer during conflict.

Belarus provides a glaring example. The European Parliament has consistently denounced Belarus as Europe s last dictatorship, yet EU member governments continue business as usual with Aleksander Lukashenka, the country s wayward and near lunatic despot.

In the run up to the Srebrenica anniversary, and with the airing by the Tribunal of a video showing a Scorpion detachment executing Bosniaks in the Srebrenica area in 1995, their continuing freedom is glaring.

I was about to start a robotic operation, but stepping out of the elevator into the bright and glaring lights of the operating room, I realized that my left visual field was fast collapsing into darkness.

This lopsided resolution underscores one glaring fact it is not international law and the Charter of the United Nations that govern the conduct of the Security Council but sheer power politics and the narrow interests of major powers.

At a time when the Islamic Republic has failed in its economic and political promises to the Iranian people, the regime s most glaring weakness may prove to be the absence of a credible religious authority that can justify its shortcomings.

In global terms, the contrast between what America says and what it does has become glaring. In February 2005, in a major speech in Paris during her first foreign trip as Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice stated America s ambition in the world.

The contrast between the IMF US Treasury advice to East Asia and what has happened in the current sub prime debacle is glaring. East Asian countries were told to raise their interest rates, in some cases to 25 , 40 , or higher, causing a rash of defaults.

While not discounting that State practice might well evolve in its responses to new forms of terrorist violence, it would appear that existing humanitarian law contains no glaring legal voids and, if observed and properly applied, adequately takes account of issues of terrorism during armed conflicts.

The similarities with the views of the Islamic State are glaring. In a video produced after the battle for the Mosul Dam in August, the group called for the end of Sykes Picot, and proclaimed the need to redraw the Western imposed political map of the Middle East.

It is no coincidence that much of Kenya s ongoing violence is occurring in the slums of its large cities. Had more attention been given to the country s most glaring inequalities in access to water, shelter, or jobs, this population might not have chosen violence as an instrument of change.

The silver lining in an amicable break up of the trade talks is that it would give negotiators a chance to focus on issues that are of much greater significance to developing nations. The next time around, trade talks should take up the two most glaring omissions to date

One of the most glaring features of this pattern is the disparity between China s GDP growth, which has averaged nearly 10 annually over the last few decades, and its employment growth, which has amounted to just 1 2 annually. Clearly, industrialization and export expansion alone cannot absorb China s massive labor force.

The ability of those who wield great public and private power to flout the law and ethical norms for personal gain is one of the more glaring manifestations of inequality. The poor get life sentences for petty crimes, while bankers who fleece the public of billions get invitations to White House state dinners.

His selection of Sarah Palin, a charismatic but spectacularly unqualified candidate, as his running mate, is just the most glaring of many examples of the real McCain. His bravery in combat attests to his patriotism, courage, and toughness, but his judgment has been found sorely lacking time and time again over his career.

But there is a glaring weakness in the arguments of the bill s opponents while they hint darkly at the unintended consequences of legalizing same sex marriage, they cannot spell out exactly what these consequences would be. It is not obvious that normal marriage, procreation, or child rearing would be threatened by this add on.

Fabricated evidence, secret witnesses, and flights of investigative fancy are the foundation of the show trials that Turkish police and prosecutors have mounted since 2007. In the infamous Sledgehammer case, a military coup plot was found to contain glaring anachronisms, including the use of Microsoft Office 2007 in documents supposedly last saved in 2003.

Yet, as the world s leading finance ministers and central bankers convene in Washington this month for the semi annual International Monetary Fund board meetings, policy paralysis continues. There is simply no agreement on how to address glaring problems such as America s increasingly fragile trade deficit, or financial dysfunction in a number of emerging markets.

But blanket distrust in government, framed by glaring examples of boondoggles and fueled by ideology, too often focuses on the wrong question How big should government be? The right question is how to develop innovative and efficient government programs to provide public goods and services that neither the marketplace nor the nonprofit sector can deliver on its own.

So a threat Iraqi weapons of mass destruction had to be created. As we now know, the threat was based on lies (aluminum tubes for a nuclear weapons program, for example, meetings between the 9 11 plot leader, Mohamed Atta, and Iraqi officials in Prague, and even glaring forgeries like supposed Iraqi orders for yellowcake uranium from Niger).

CAIRO Whether or not Egypt s first ever democratically elected president, Mohamed Morsi, was pushed aside by a military coup may be debatable, but it is undeniable that the June 30 protest that triggered his ouster was the largest mass movement in Egypt s history. It was also glaring testimony to the failure of the first phase of Egypt s revolution.

Most of the people over whom Obiang rules live in extreme poverty, with an average life expectancy of 49 years and an infant mortality rate of 87 per 1,000 live births (in other words, more than one child in twelve dies before its first birthday). Nigeria and Angola are other glaring examples of countries that have failed to use their oil wealth for the benefit of their people.

The most glaring injustice in this respect has been the failure of the US and the European Union to deliver substantially on their promises of market access to agricultural exports from poor countries. Bimal Ghosh, a former director of the UN Development Program, famously calculated that the daily subsidy for every cow in the EU currently amounting to 2.50 exceeds the daily income of millions of poor people around the world.

In American eyes, the Kosovo war in 1999 demonstrated NATO s glaring and myriad shortcomings, while the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, moved America still further away from the Alliance, particularly after President George W. Bush disparagingly rejected NATO s offer of help. Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld even tried to use divide and rule tactics by pitting New Europe against the Old Europe led by France and Germany, which opposed the Iraq war.