The Mexican Muddle

Japan u0027s Leadership Muddle

No muddle up, yes? !

These people muddle up their senses.

Clearly, the eurozone s muddle through approach no longer works.

Or is this just another example of incompetence and muddle?

'Why do you muddle it? I never was a communist.'

Strangely, Putin seems as trapped by this muddle as everybody else.

Hardly know where to begin, the place is such a muddle.

It is important that there be no muddle or confusion between them.

Consider the muddle in the United Nations Security Council over Syria s civil war.

'A nice muddle their slates'll be in before the trial's over!' thought Alice.

But, like any muddle, it is succeeding only in confusing Russians about themselves and their country.

So the government will prefer to muddle through the crisis, rather than risk any decisive reform.

But the spectacularly muddle headed argument nowadays that too much austerity is killing Europe is not surprising.

America, too, will manage to muddle through again leaving even higher levels of debt for the future.

Outside of Libya, where violent stalemate could continue for some time, embattled North African regimes also will muddle through.

On each front separately, he might manage to muddle through together, they look likely to cement France s loss of competitiveness.

And if the muddle of motives in Afghanistan is not bad enough, there is Pakistan to add to the confusion.

But Sweden s current political muddle is also rooted in longer term changes, which to some extent reflect broader European trends.

In reality, no recruitment agency wants to handle that sort of business, so you are going to muddle by, understaffed.

That mistake was made by the Japanese, who tried, unsuccessfully, to muddle through, only to end up with 18 years of stagnation.

The recent chaos in Greece and Italy may be the first step in this process. Clearly, the eurozone s muddle through approach no longer works.

But the very ideas that helped them to survive continue to muddle the thinking of people who really ought to know better by now.

The eurozone s current muddle through approach is an unstable disequilibrium kicking the can down the road, and throwing good money after bad, will not work.

But, rather than welcoming the opportunity to recapitalize, perhaps with government help, the banks seem to prefer a Japanese style response we will muddle through.

Without a grand reorganization of the major political parties along ideological lines, Japan s domestic and foreign policies including relations with the US will remain a muddle.

LONDON As Syria s civil war has progressed, the West s views on arming the opposition have become increasingly confused, which reflects the growing muddle on the ground.

And in the course of the ensuing muddle, his beloved friend, Patroclus, is killed and killed in single combat by one of the Trojan princes, Hector.

People who speak about hunger and environmental crises are viewed as muddle headed moralists, as opposed to the hard headed realists who deal with war and peace.

Given the many divisions inside the Union, Europeans will probably muddle on, until a serious crisis forces them to act, by which point it could well be too late.

Both europhiles and eurocrats shudder at the prospect that rejection in several member states, particularly in a large one, might kill the project, leaving the Union to muddle through with the Nice Treaty.

Had it not been for the world economic crisis, or if it ends up being short and shallow, many observers, including me, remain convinced that Mexico can continue to muddle through, as it has done since 1996.

This is a war in which the interplay of informational conflict and physical violence is especially evident, in which disinformation and propaganda muddle motives, deny unmistakable violence, and seek to confuse both fighting forces and key populations.

'I know how you'll do it all,' answered Dolly. 'You will tell Matthew to do something that cannot be done and will go away yourself, and he will muddle everything,' and as she spoke her usual ironical smile wrinkled the corners of Dolly's mouth.

Both europhiles and eurocrats shudder at the prospect that rejection in several member states, particularly in a large one, might kill the project, leaving the Union to muddle through with the Nice Treaty. On the other hand, if the protagonists are patient, the winds of democracy could lead to a stronger constitution, free of the risks of economic and judicial nightmare that some aspects of the present draft entail.