Asia has been gripped by election fever all year.

Fear gripped me.

Suspense gripped the country.

He gripped my hand.

He gripped my hand.

A cold spell gripped Europe.

He gripped the tennis racket tightly.

I gripped your arm until it reddened.

I m trapped, gripped by this nameless aggression I don t understand.

With Allende s victory, Chile s stock exchange and markets were gripped by financial panic.

Though QE cannot produce long term growth, it can do much to end the ongoing recession that has gripped the eurozone since 2008.

For the moment NATO initiated its air strikes against Serbia what can only be called a bout of Serbomania has gripped the country.

But the subject that has probably gripped his readers the most is his shock about the racism he's encountered, since crossing the Atlantic.

In January, Hong Kong was gripped by its second longest cold spell since 1885.

In January, Hong Kong was gripped by its second longest cold spell since 1885.

Worries about Japan the world s second largest economy, gripped by stagnation for years are high.

The FIFA World Cup 2014 is about to begin in Brazil on June 12 and 'World Cup fever' has gripped Bangladesh, like it does, every four years.

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.

Likewise, South Africa was spared the horrors of genocide, as in Rwanda, and the endless conflict that has gripped Sri Lanka, Burundi, Sudan, the Ivory Coast, and many other countries.

But the picture of the boys had gripped their memories and they kept coming back to it. 'How charming!

Again an agitation, similar to that which he had felt at the moment of the birth, gripped his heart.

Of these, 300,000 were in Russia which, gripped by revolution and civil war, had little interest in their fate.

Malaysian society is now gripped by a fundamental question is the country, which is more than half Muslim, an Islamic state?

Media stories have focused on the paralysis that is said to have gripped EU decision making, but the reality is different.

We know this because it lies at the core of the murderous environment that gripped the Balkans in the 1990 s.

It was not the US that was gripped by this wave of racist paranoia, but France, the cradle of liberté, egalité et fraternité.

The street euphoria that greeted Bachelet s victory felt very much like the emotions that gripped Santiago back in 1970, when Allende was elected.

Yet far more devastating than the housing bubble was the financial panic that gripped capital markets worldwide after the collapse of Lehman Brothers.

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.

But Japan urgently needs such a debate if it is to respond to a world exposed to the threat of terrorism and gripped by fear.

It s a question that has gripped Sara Zewde since she was a grad student, and learned about the excavation of what is believed to be the biggest slave port in the Americas Valongo Wharf, in downtown Rio de Janeiro.

Since Burhan Muzaffar Wani died during a brief gunfight in South Kashmir, undercurrents of resistance have gripped the mountains and the vales of this Himalayan region.

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.

Over a century ago, a nation that originated modern democracy was gripped by a political fever that led ordinary people to choose sides based on racist demagoguery.

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.

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.

While on 16 December late as the misty cold gripped the night Warsak Road reverberated with the sounds of battle and detonating mines, the funerals had already begun.

It is a state of being involuntarily gripped by something that is difficult to ward off and for which, since one cannot act otherwise, one is accountable only in a limited sense.

(He s able to find the children amidst all the explosions thanks to the wooden cross Ivan received in Greece, which, it turns out, glows brightly like, really brightly when gripped during prayer.)

The jihadi movement that gripped Pakistan crossed into the neighboring Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, where the two countries have repeatedly fought for control, even, recently, threatening an exchange of nuclear weapons.

Since the Yanukovych regime fell in February 2014, one of the most popular explanations for the political violence that gripped the south and east of Ukraine is nostalgia for an idealized Soviet past.

For the moment NATO initiated its air strikes against Serbia what can only be called a bout of Serbomania has gripped the country. What I mean by Serbomania is an extremely unbalanced, biassed, almost neurotically emotional pro Serbian attitude, one completely lacking in any serious or reasoned critique of NATO' military action.

These gangs, which had a huge impact in the civil war that gripped the region for a decade, are often seen as a refuge from the violence and homelessness that many young people's lives are defined by.

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.

We know this because it lies at the core of the murderous environment that gripped the Balkans in the 1990 s. For decades (and in some cases much longer), Serbs and Croats, indeed, Orthodox, Catholic, and Muslim Yugoslavs had lived together as neighbors.