Africa was gripped by poverty, disease and war.

If you could see when they are gripped by terror without any escape, and are seized from close at hand

If you could see when they are gripped by terror without any escape, and are seized from close at hand

We have already gripped them with suffering, but they did not surrender to their Lord, nor did they humble themselves.

We have already gripped them with suffering, but they did not surrender to their Lord, nor did they humble themselves.

But they denied him. So the punishment of the day of gloom gripped them. It was the punishment of a great day.

But they denied him. So the punishment of the day of gloom gripped them. It was the punishment of a great day.

And had not a command of your Lord been passed, then the punishment would have gripped them and had a term not been appointed.

And had not a command of your Lord been passed, then the punishment would have gripped them and had a term not been appointed.

The expression of this desire is especially important now that the world is gripped by a terrifying economic crisis. Widespread economic distress is never without political consequences.

And We had gripped them with suffering as a warning , but they did not yield to their Lord, nor did they humbly supplicate, and will continue thus

And We had gripped them with suffering as a warning , but they did not yield to their Lord, nor did they humbly supplicate, and will continue thus

But that is a dangerous, defeatist belief. It leads to the conclusion that war is inevitable, that mankind is doomed, that we are gripped by forces we cannot control.

That would not be possible until the inertia which had gripped the Conference on Disarmament, the sole multilateral organ for disarmament for more than seven years, had been overcome.

Americans have been through this type of debate before. Twenty years ago, we were gripped by fear that Japan would overtake our economic leadership a concern that was unfounded then and, in hindsight, looks profoundly mistaken.

Then in high school, I was gripped by the stories of the Allied soldiers soldiers who left the safety of their own homes and risked their lives to liberate a country and a people that they didn't know.

The military political crises which gripped the country throughout the 1990s and on into the early part of the twenty first century are largely responsible for the impoverishment and growing vulnerability of a large cross section of the population.

Conditions in Libya, Russia, Venezuela, and Nigeria are already so bad that further damage to their oil output is hard to imagine. On the contrary, with so many of the world s most productive oil regions gripped by political chaos, any sign of stabilization can quickly boost supplies.

Each evening, it gets turned off as if it were a garden fountain. This part of China s southwest, known for its abundant rainfall, mountains, underground rivers and caves, and tropical flora, has recently been gripped by a drought that many say is the worst since the Ming Dynasty.

Europe, gripped by a tremendous banking and debt crisis, is not an attractive destination, and loose monetary policy in the US has produced ultra low bond yields there. As a result, many emerging countries, with their higher interest rates and promising growth prospects, have become irresistibly attractive to investors.

ISTANBUL Conflict in the Middle East threatens not only the security of many of its states, but also their continued existence. Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, and others, now gripped by sectarian fighting, risk fragmenting into ethnic sub states, transforming a region whose political geography was drawn nearly a century ago.

They have not paid due respect to God. The whole earth will be gripped in His hands on the Day of Judgment and the heavens will be just like a scroll in His right hand. God is too Glorious and High to be considered equal to their idols.

They have not paid due respect to God. The whole earth will be gripped in His hands on the Day of Judgment and the heavens will be just like a scroll in His right hand. God is too Glorious and High to be considered equal to their idols.

But when good (times) came, they said, This is due to us When gripped by calamity, they ascribed it to evil omens connected with Moses and those with him! Behold! in truth the omens of evil are theirs in Allah's sight, but most of them do not understand!

But when good (times) came, they said, This is due to us When gripped by calamity, they ascribed it to evil omens connected with Moses and those with him! Behold! in truth the omens of evil are theirs in Allah's sight, but most of them do not understand!

Yet far more devastating than the housing bubble was the financial panic that gripped capital markets worldwide after the collapse of Lehman Brothers. The decision by the US Federal Reserve and the US Treasury to teach the markets a lesson by allowing Lehman to fail was a disastrously bad call.

Media stories have focused on the paralysis that is said to have gripped EU decision making, but the reality is different. Far from suffering an irreversible decline in its fortunes, the EU has been has been conducting business as usual, quietly getting on with the job of constructing new policies and projects.

On the contrary, financial and economic insecurity has gripped Chinese households since the iron rice bowl the cradle to grave support that the socialist state offered workers and their families was discarded in the late 1990 s. Fearing for the future, households have hoarded incremental income, rather than spending it on consumer goods.

Though QE cannot produce long term growth, it can do much to end the ongoing recession that has gripped the eurozone since 2008. The record high stock market levels in Europe this week, in anticipation of QE, not only indicate growing confidence, but are also a direct channel by which monetary easing can boost both investment and consumption.

LONDON At the height of the Arab uprisings last spring, many Europeans were gripped by nightmare visions of a tsunami of migrants crashing against the continent s shores. The wave never hit, but its specter fed a tenacious anti immigrant populism that has concealed an important new trend migration to Europe and to the United States has largely stalled.

If only such practices were used to tackle the vast majority of the problems that overwhelm Somalia. In this quintessential failed state, this sort of elders wisdom may be the only option to start dealing with the quagmire created by the lawlessness that has gripped the country since the departure of the dictator Said Barre in 1991.

The violence and instability of North Africa is now spreading into Sub Saharan Africa, with the Sahel one of the world s poorest and most environmentally damaged regions now gripped by jihadism, which is also seeping into the Horn of Africa to its east. And, as in Libya, civil wars are raging in Iraq, Syria, Yemen, and Somalia, all of which increasingly look like failed states.

Sadly, Malaysia may soon become prone to the same type of violent protest and economic decline that have gripped Thailand in recent years. Here, it seems clear that UNMO s political interests have been allowed to dictate that the country s key opposition leader should be tried on charges that no real democracy that embraces the rule of law would even consider leveling, and convicted on evidence that no truly independent court would accept.