Amira said it was a nightmare.

For many, the American dream has become a nightmare.

The Franco German axis is proving a nightmare for European unity.

In fact, 2010 was a nightmare.

But it should be a nightmare scenario for all European states.

The first few months in New York were a nightmare.

What, then, will they do when faced with a political nightmare?

A nuclear arms race in a region characterized by long term instability would be a global nightmare.

Red meat and chocolate may sound like a nightmare for your digestive system.

Under such circumstances, it is no wonder that doing business in Iran is a labyrinthine nightmare.

Do you want to know which video clip will soon be scaring the daylights out of policymakers throughout the world?

But the prospect of Arab democracy has now become a nightmare for Israeli leaders.

France under President Jacques Chirac is quickly becoming united Europe's biggest nightmare.

But policies of gene selection that may reduce the burden of disease border on the nightmare of eugenic controls.

CHICAGO The biggest financial nightmare looming over the world economy is the insolvency of a large international bank.

Mainstream economists would call it an inferior equilibrium I call it a nightmare one that is inflicting tremendous pain and suffering that could be easily avoided if the misconceptions and taboos that sustain it were dispelled.

Conflict on the Korean peninsula, nourished by the vitriolic language often employed by Kim Jong il's regime, is China's nightmare.

The mandatory visits to the Jordanian Department of Followup and Inspection became a nightmare for Palestinians living in the country.

Unfortunately, in the international arena these two conditions are almost never met. Empowering the IMF to take over failed international banks would fill this gap and chase away our worst nightmare.

Empowering the IMF to take over failed international banks would fill this gap  and chase away our worst nightmare.

Finally, a military attack on Iran would also mark the beginning of a regional, and possibly global, military and terrorist escalation a nightmare for all concerned.

All elites young and old see China as Asia s natural leader and America as a recent interloper. But, for the third and fourth generation leaders, giving America and its allies and partners an excuse to contain China and restrict its economic development remains the great nightmare.

With two ongoing domestic rebellions, a large population, and the rapid disappearance of oil and water resources, Yemen is quickly emerging as a Western policymaker s nightmare.

But, for the third and fourth generation leaders, giving America and its allies and partners an excuse to contain China and restrict its economic development remains the great nightmare.

For the small, economically still fragile states of East Central Europe, a Europe of national states, once again fighting ruthlessly for their own interests, is a nightmare.

With two ongoing domestic rebellions, a large population, and the rapid disappearance of oil and water resources, Yemen is quickly emerging as a Western policymaker s nightmare.

What little the world beyond Uzbekistan knew of Karimov, who reigned over Uzbekistan for 27 years and tolerated no opposition, was the stuff of nightmares.

If the answer is no, it may be best to restore the sovereignty of individual European nation states, give up on the common currency, and abandon a dream that is threatening to become a nightmare.

That could prove to be devastating, because all of Russia s fiscal assumptions were based upon high oil prices continuing for years to come.

But temporary deflation need not be the terror that central bankers fear, at least if the banking system is recapitalized and if interest rates in the industrial countries fall sharply.

It is time to give up the fantasy of an Islamic Bomb, and it is past the time to rein in Pakistan's rogue bomb makers. Their illegitimate nuclear commerce has created a nightmare for the reputation, safety, and security of their country.

Now, with CISPA, the clampdown on Internet freedom comes in the guise of a bill aimed at cyber terrorism that should give Internet entrepreneurs and all business leaders nightmares. And yet, this time, major Internet and technology companies, including Facebook and Microsoft, supported the bill, on the grounds that it would create a clear procedure for handling government requests for information.

Now, with CISPA, the clampdown on Internet freedom comes in the guise of a bill aimed at cyber terrorism that should give Internet entrepreneurs and all business leaders nightmares.

History in the hands of manipulative politicians and incorrigible ideologues can be either a dangerously inebriating weapon to mobilize the masses, or, as James Joyce put it in Ulysses, a nightmare from which it is difficult to wake.

The two state solution might not be particularly attractive to either party anymore but a binational solution, at least as it is unfolding these days, would be a living nightmare.

What makes this possibility the financial nightmare of choice, worse than the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008, is the fear that many sovereign states have already shot all their bullets and would thus be powerless to intervene.

It is little wonder, then, that US Energy Secretary Steven Chu, who two years ago described the expansion of coal fired power plants as his worst nightmare, now calls coal a great natural resource.

The combination of an anti status quo foreign policy and nuclear weapons and missiles is a nightmare not only for Israel, which at least has second strike capabilities, but also for Iran s non nuclear Arab neighbors and Turkey.

The decision sparked interest from Warner Bros., Paramount Pictures and 20th Century Fox in optioning the film rights, but Burton accepted an offer from Walt Disney Studios, who had previously produced The Nightmare Before Christmas .