Economic writing, however, conveyed a completely different world.

It is no secret that Britain s Ministry for Defense is facing a funding crisis.

This year, more than half of China s provinces had serious ATS related problems.

Globalization is often touted as the solve it all solution of the problems this world faces today.

Merkel s kill to cure remedy has run up against reality and democracy.

The island nation of Sri Lanka is currently facing the worst flooding and landslide disaster in a decade.

The Kirchner government faced a serious challenge to its credibility when it came under suspicion of manipulating the inflation rate.

Karimi does not reduce the challenges of Iranian society to a mere cultural conflict between tradition and modernity.

Discussing GDP and interest rates is not enough to apprehend the profound changes that Brazilian society has been facing recently.

At the same time, the movement faces new questions about its ability to take advantage of the diplomatic opportunities that it has gained.

Poland s new government faces several serious challenges, not the least of which will be to reconcile its liberal and populist tendencies.

Observers say that this is the most serious challenge the Ethiopian government has faced since they came to power in 1991.

Refusing international help in such instances would mean electoral suicide for any government that faces a major bank collapse.

Hugo Chavez's government faced a widespread opposition strike, whose intent was not only to demonstrate popular opposition, but also to starve the government of revenue.

Of course, the BJP is not alone in seeking to exploit India's religious and caste divisions.

But if China does not accelerate the renminbi s revaluation, the world might see a large burst of consumer inflation in China in the next two or three years. If so, the consequences will be a choice between the destructive runaway inflation familiar from much of post WWII Latin America and stagflation.

If so, the consequences will be a choice between the destructive runaway inflation familiar from much of post WWII Latin America and stagflation.

Shortly after international media celebrated Polish women for their achievement, the newly formed women's rights movement was confronted with another development directed at drastically tightening the existing abortion law.

In Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel lost a key state election after the rescue of Greece, and Japan has a weak and ineffectual government that seems in denial of the scale of the problem that it faces.

But it also faced opposition from a variety of other, far less democratically minded, forces, including holdovers from Hosni Mubarak s regime, who continue to wield influence in official institutions.

After months without pay, the government, headed by Hamas s Ismael Haniyeh, was confronted with a serious challenge in September, when civil servants went on strike, demanding to be paid.

Rand Paul enjoyed a period of buzz, but that seems to have faded, as his dovish brand of libertarianism clashes with a party that leans toward social conservatism and interventionism abroad.

In addition to the children left behind by parents working abroad, often in situations of poverty and material deprivation the state finds it difficult to make up for, another area of concern has been the flight of qualified medical personnel.

The five color theorem, which has a short elementary proof, states that five colors suffice to color a map and was proven in the late 19th century however, proving that four colors suffice turned out to be significantly harder.

After the previous government stepped down after similar protests in February 2013, the new government, elected in May, soon met with similar citizen dissatisfaction and new protests began on June 14, 2013.