Then slashed his lifeline.

Then slashed his lifeline.

A Lifeline for European Solidarity

A society that cuts itself off from its youth severs its lifeline .

I was also asked to leave the organization, a cartoonists' organization in America, that for me was my lifeline.

General Secretary Xi Jinping profoundly pointed out that abandoning tradition and discarding the root is equivalent to cutting off one's own spiritual lifeline .

3. Stresses the need for Operation Lifeline Sudan to be operated and managed with a view to ensuring its efficiency, transparency and effectiveness, with the full involvement and cooperation of the Government of the Sudan, taking cognizance of the relevant Operation Lifeline Sudan agreements reached by the parties, as well as consultations in the preparation of the consolidated annual inter agency appeal for the Operation

Urging United Nations agencies, non governmental organizations and donor countries to continue contributing and channelling their humanitarian assistance to all affected populations in the Sudan through Operation Lifeline Sudan,

Today, European leaders are unlikely to throw even that slender lifeline to Bush. The reality behind such a declaration is that Europe would deliver low level military and economic involvement in Iraq.

It had lost traditional allies in Syria, Iran, and Hezbollah. Most damaging, the ouster of former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi s Muslim Brotherhood government had deprived Hamas of its lifeline of supplies and armaments.

Yemen is mired in crises that it cannot solve alone. Unless its international allies throw it a lifeline, it risks being swallowed by a sea of disorder that could imperil the entire region.

And our translation of that, using a lot of the thinking built up over the 40 years, is to say, what if that, instead of being just a pipe, what if it is a lifeline?

China s economic ties to Burma s rulers are strategically important for both sides. Annual bilateral trade, estimated at 1.1 billion a huge figure, given Burma s total GDP of 9.6 billion provides an economic lifeline for the Burmese government.

The northern border with Turkey is their lifeline to the outside world. As a result, Turkey no longer considers a federalized Iraq a threat to its security, as long as each federal unit maintains a measure of ethnic diversity.

15. Requests the Secretary General to continue to mobilize and coordinate resources and support for Operation Lifeline Sudan, and to report to the General Assembly at its fifty eighth session on the emergency situation in the affected areas and the recovery, rehabilitation and development of the Sudan.

Governments around the world cannot stand by and watch that game play out across the world s energy lifeline. It is time for third parties to step in and facilitate solutions that allow Iran to save face while significantly and credibly reducing its supply of enriched uranium.

Noting with appreciation the contributions for the inter agency appeal for Operation Lifeline Sudan and the progress made in the Operation, and noting also that considerable relief needs still remain to be addressed, including assistance to combat diseases such as malaria and assistance for logistic needs, emergency recovery, rehabilitation and development,

4. Recognizes the need for Operation Lifeline Sudan to be conducted in strict adherence to the principles of neutrality and impartiality and within the principles of national sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Sudan, and within the framework of international cooperation, in accordance with the relevant provisions of international law

China, India, and the Philippines are the three largest recipients of remittances, while Bangladesh, Indonesia, Pakistan, and Vietnam are also in the top ten. The money is often a lifeline it is estimated that 10 of Asian families depend on payments from abroad to obtain their food, clothing, and shelter.

Even the oil sector the lifeline of the Libyan economy, accounting for 95 of the country s foreign currency earnings suffers from a shortage of professional managers. According to an American diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks, Libyans put forward for employment with foreign (oil) companies often lack formal qualifications or applicable practical experience.

Why would the North Korean regime jeopardize its relationship with China, the only country that could bring it down immediately, just to execute one official? Assuming that Kim is rational, he must have had good reason to believe that the Chinese lifeline would be sustained, even if he executed China s favorite North Korean interlocutor.

Yemen is strategically important, not only for Saudi Arabia, but for the world, because it is the only country on the Arabian Peninsula from which oil can reach the open seas without passing through a narrow strait either the Strait of Hormuz or the Suez Canal. To endanger this passage is to endanger the world economy s energy lifeline.

10. Stresses the imperative of ensuring the safety and security of humanitarian personnel, as well as safe and unhindered access for providing relief assistance to all affected populations, and the importance of strict observance of the principles and guidelines of Operation Lifeline Sudan, and of international humanitarian law reaffirming the necessity for humanitarian personnel to respect the national laws of the Sudan

The European Central Bank has provided a monetary lifeline that has provided much needed liquidity within the financial system and helped the government to stem the crisis of confidence created by the banking collapse. Government ministers and EU representatives repeatedly cite the example of Iceland in pointing out what might have happened to Ireland if it had been outside the EU.

Last week, 101 leaders from 163 countries met to chart the next steps toward December s all important UN climate change conference in Copenhagen. They recognized the need for an agreement that all nations can embrace in line with their capabilities, consistent with what science requires, and grounded in green jobs and green growth, the lifeline of a twenty first century global economy.

12. Urges all parties involved to continue to offer all feasible and necessary assistance, including facilitating the movement of relief supplies and personnel, so as to guarantee the success of Operation Lifeline Sudan in all affected parts of the country, with special emphasis on national capacity building in the humanitarian field for governmental and non governmental organizations, as well as on meeting emergency relief needs

China patiently bore this pattern of intermittent brinkmanship and timid reform, largely owing to its belief that the risks posed by the Kim dynasty could be controlled as long as China did not cut off the regime s lifeline of oil, food, and other necessities. More important, China s leaders believed that by shielding the North from US pressure, it was acting in the interest of its own national security.

In deciding that her People s Party would participate in the January parliamentary election, Bhutto threw a lifeline to Musharraf, who has been beset by multiple insurgencies, a nationwide terrorist threat, and rock bottom legitimacy. Both Musharraf and his supporters in Washington hoped that mainstream parties participation in the election would end Pakistan s governance crisis and provide popular support for a decisive confrontation with the Taliban and al Qaeda.

The American economy will likely return to growth late this year and next, especially with all the monetary and fiscal stimulus (growth would have initially been slower and then much stronger without it), but it will still be an economy on a government lifeline. The big questions left unanswered are how far Obama wants to push the US toward a European style social welfare state, how he intends to pay for it, and how much long term economic damage will result?