This is a question Greece is facing as its people stare into the abyss.
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Overall, I believe the European economy is sinking further into the abyss rather than climbing out.
Far greater players than those of Epinel have lost their nerve and fallen into the abyss.
Now that the U.S. economy is no longer staring into the abyss, inflation concerns should be discussed.
"We will not allow you, your highness, to take Kuwait into the abyss of autocracy, " he said.
"We will not allow you, your highness, to take Kuwait into the abyss of autocracy, " he warned.
If the measure of a nation is how it treats its least fortunate, we are looking into the abyss.
Has the U.S. economy followed the options-driven new economy inexorably into the abyss?
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Being able to see the Undead Parish from Sens or looking down into the Abyss from the Giants Tomb is pretty spectacular.
Icahn, meanwhile, has amassed a more than 13 percent stake that he hopes will squeeze Ackman into the abyss of failed fund managers.
The CEO did talk a bit about the technology, then swerved the metaphorical bus off the road, through the guardrail, and into the abyss.
He had warned the Emir, Sheikh Sabah al-Sabah, in a speech that he would not be allowed to "take Kuwait into the abyss of autocracy".
As the depression deepened, policy-makers made mistake after mistake, tightening credit, raising taxes and following the orthodoxy of the day right into the abyss.
We are not going away because the problems that climate change presents are too dangerous too urgent for us to disappear into the abyss of cynicism and loss.
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Like all dystopias, the power of this play is that it shows how mundane and casual a descent into the abyss might look, and with what familiar bureaucratic language.
Mr. ASTON-REESE: I'm not a naysayer or anything but I just think that we could be on that - just on the precipice looking down into the abyss right here.
Colombia's neighbours, some of them fighting their own problems of instability, are looking into the abyss of violence and chaos that is Colombia, and praying they are not dragged into it.
For the first time in seven years, I felt like giving up on Russia - getting on a plane and abandoning a country which finally seemed to have stepped into the abyss.
Investors in gold-based mutual funds and ETFs like the SPDR Gold (GLD) continued their slide into the abyss last month, according to fund trackers at EPFR Global in Cambridge, Mass.
The purpose of it was to keep people from falling into the abyss, keep us from sliding into a literal depression, and begin to build a ladder to climb out of that hole.
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McCain, the top Republican on the Armed Services Committee and a leading advocate of last year's troop increase, said the United States is no longer "staring into the abyss of defeat" as a result.
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But after the state hits rock bottom, after the civil servants and pensioners are thrown off the gravy train, after the tourist industry evaporates and drives the rapidly shrinking economy into the abyss what then?
But from a business perspective, it usually requires staring into the abyss of post-deadline realities before 2 opposing parties with a history of mistrust and disdain ultimately do the right thing for the product they represent.
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The Saudis and their pals want to do what they can to maintain stability and help the world economy from slipping back into the abyss (if only because they have a lot to lose if it does).
During the 1970s, in the aftermath of the Nixon abdication and the Ford and Carter presidencies, the whole nation peered into the abyss, was horrified by what it saw and elected Ronald Reagan as President, which began a national resurgence.
The ECB, IMF, Sakozy and Merkel may as well forget their Greek problems as small fry now, as Italy and Spain are on the cliff top and about to tip into the abyss and, if they do, France will likely follow.
It is a function of social class and occupation as to why a man's capacity to stand and deliver, as it were, is reduced as youthful Romeos are dragged by Time's relentless claws of age into the abyss of the yawning grave.
To continue supporting dictatorship is to continue aiding and abetting the country's slide into the Islamist abyss.
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