词汇 | 无疾而终 |
释义 | 无疾而终 “ We had so many demonstrations on the streets, but with no results, ” he says. The Palestinians are joined by Israeli peaceniks but for a long time it looks a hopeless cause. Talk of Palestinian reconciliation is once more in the air. But is it real? A recent proposal to tax sugary drinks, for example, went nowhere. Unfortunately, history suggests that big-picture debates on the future of the international monetary system rarely yield results, while diverting attention from smaller, practical goals. But that plan fell apart on Sunday, all but assuring that Lehman would be forced to liquidate. There is another side to the story, of course. Attempts to collect damages for libel and costs from people outside Britain are rare and often fruitless. Their enormous decline over the past decade has many scientists worried about biodiversity and the health of the oceans, but in part because of their negative image, many conservation efforts fail. Several cherished proposals, including one to institute more checks on the president, went nowhere. Witness the dismantling of the financial supermarket that Citigroup tried and failed to build. At the end of this year temporary tax cuts and other measures, worth around2% of GDP, are set to expire— which could push America back into recession. Lehman Brothers has tried unsuccessfully to sell a pile of iffy securities backed by commercial mortgages all summer. Yet so far there has not been much debate about its economic fallout— probably because the “ new economy” ended badly and the newest one is currently doing even worse. You may even begin imagining ways you could painlessly end your time here on earth to avoid the task at hand. On both occasions, the reforms led nowhere and there was ultimately a backlash by hardliners within the regime. If you are looking for sameness between two people, the relationship will always fall apart. Despite a longstanding commitment to improving road safety, Brazil’s numerous initiatives have suffered from weak enforcement. They suspect that their real crime is to threaten a cosy status quo, in which a half-dozen big law firms advise on the Brazilian end of most big deals. Many analysts say the peace deal is all but dead, with both sides trading charges over who has acted in bad faith. That, increasingly, is how the Japanese are dying. His“ Kurdish opening” in 2009 promised still more, including an amnesty for PKK guerrilla fighters based in the mountains of northern Iraq, but the opening now seems to have shut. Questions linger about how such a large number of searchers could not find the boys and why an investigation team failed to identify murder weapons despite evidence of scars on the bodies. The set-piece came to nothing. There had been far more apprehension at a free-kick from the right. The relationship hinged on the notion that Britain's demise as a colonial power could be in some way mitigated by its role as an interlocutor between the US, Europe and the former empire. |
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