This trend is symptomatic of the damage caused by prolonged, violent conflict.

They are symptomatic of many grave threats the people of the world face today.

And this is, in 2004, the FDA has approved MR guided focused ultrasounds for the treatment of symptomatic uterine fibroids.

We diagnose the disease eventually, once it becomes symptomatic, and then we treat the symptom for 10, 20, 30, 40 years.

Why couldn't we just inject the pancreas with something to regenerate the pancreas early on in the disease, perhaps even before it was symptomatic?

But Cowen s actions were symptomatic of a broader failure the fundamental link between the liability of citizens and taxpayers and the responsibilities of government had been broken.

If you've got a harmful organism, a high proportion of the people are going to be symptomatic, a high proportion of the people are going to be going to get antibiotics.

But basically, nothing much is going on until you start to get symptomatic AIDS, and by that stage, you're not looking great, you're not feeling great, you're not having that much sex.

But there is more reshaping to come, again fostered by mutual self interest, rather than by fiat. The Olam and Wilmar joint venture is, in a sense, symptomatic of the combination of assets from across Asia that can catalyze productive change in Africa.

But China s vulnerability to these factors, as serious as they are, is symptomatic of deeper institutional problems. Until these underlying constraints are addressed, talk of a new consumption based growth model for China, reflected in the government s recently approved 12th Five Year Plan, can be no more than lip service.

Weighty minds will probably see the IPL s tawdry underside as emblematic of post liberalization India s crony capitalism and business short termism. But it is always dangerous to find in sports large metaphors for national decline, so the temptation to view the IPL as symptomatic of everything that is wrong with today s India must be resisted.

Enhancing our understanding of globalization s problems will help us to formulate remedies some small, some large aimed at both providing symptomatic relief and addressing the underlying causes. There is a broad array of policies that can benefit people in both developing and developed countries, thereby providing globalization with the popular legitimacy that it currently lacks.