That step, together with the accelerated settlement activity, does not bode well for the peace process.

In the long run, this does not bode well for their global reputations, which depend on users trust in the openness and independence of their products and services.

Such controversy, including the alleged abuses of human rights of detainees, does not bode well for the efforts of the international community to assist the Government of Afghanistan to secure and stabilize the country.

The EU s position as a climate change champion is in danger. Greenhouse gas emissions may have dropped as a consequence of reduced production amid the economic recession, but the coal resurgence does not bode well for future targets.

And We caused the Mount to tower above them at (the taking of) their covenant and We bade them Enter the gate, prostrate! and We bode them Transgress not the Sabbath! and We took from them a firm covenant.

And We caused the Mount to tower above them at (the taking of) their covenant and We bade them Enter the gate, prostrate! and We bode them Transgress not the Sabbath! and We took from them a firm covenant.

Concerted efforts to resolve the crisis in Côte d'Ivoire will also be important for Sierra Leone, as the presence of armed combatants in any country in the West Africa subregion does not bode well for the stability of all.

In the long run, this does not bode well for their global reputations, which depend on users trust in the openness and independence of their products and services. One day, perhaps, censorship will no longer make good business sense anywhere.

Piñera has said that he will emphasize technical competence in his cabinet appointments, with a bias towards the young. This may bode ill for traditional politicians of the right who have been waiting two decades for a chance in office.

Tensions at the ECB and between the euro zone countries do not bode well for the stability of the common currency, both externally, vis à vis other currencies, and internally, in terms of inflation. The ECB will be scapegoated for that.

Against this background, Brazil is preparing for its most important presidential election since its transition from dictatorship to democracy in 1985 and the polls do not bode well for Rousseff. Despite higher incomes and lower inequality, 70 of Brazilians have expressed a desire for change.

With the euro crisis likely to continue unabated, America s continuing malaise does not bode well for global growth. Even worse, in the absence of strong American leadership, longstanding global problems from climate change to urgently needed reforms of the international monetary system will continue to fester.

The failure to reach agreement under such apparently auspicious conditions does not bode well for the coming talks. But Netanyahu has said that once negotiations start, we will surprise everyone, and the Palestinians have gone further than ever before in building the institutions needed for national independence.

The kind of reaction we have seen recently to expressions of views that are offensive to some does not bode well for the future of liberty. It is as if a new wave of counter enlightenment is sweeping the world, with the most restrictive views dominating the scene.

In China and in Russia (and partly in Brazil and India) state capitalism has become more entrenched, which does not bode well for growth. Overall, these four countries (the BRICs) have been over hyped, and other emerging economies may do better in the next decade Malaysia, the Philippines, and Indonesia in Asia

Although Asia is the world s most dynamic region, it has a paucity of institutional mechanisms for resolving or at least mitigating international disputes of the type that are ratcheting up tension across the region. Because the now annual trilateral summits offer real hope for creating an institutionalized dialogue among Northeast Asia s Big Three, China s unwillingness to participate this year does not bode well.

The fears of China s rulers, I suspect, do not bode well for reaching a peaceful resolution of its territorial disputes in the South and East China Seas. A country that is unstable at the grass roots, dejected in the middle strata and out of control at the top, as a group of Chinese scholars recently put it, may see adventurism abroad as the best means of maintaining unity at home.

Whether the Mubarak regime is running scared because of the mounting challenges from within and without to hold a free and fair election, or is simply incapable of ridding the party of cheating as a way of life, the present signs do not bode well for next Wednesday s polls. Meanwhile, Egyptians for the first time are experiencing the thrilling taste of defying tyranny, and enjoying some newly found space for freedom.

In China and in Russia (and partly in Brazil and India) state capitalism has become more entrenched, which does not bode well for growth. Overall, these four countries (the BRICs) have been over hyped, and other emerging economies may do better in the next decade Malaysia, the Philippines, and Indonesia in Asia Chile, Colombia, and Peru in Latin America and Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, and Poland in Eastern Europe and Central Asia.

More to the point, it did not bode well for a supposedly democratizing project to reject democratic processes at the UN. The US had made it clear that it would abide by only one outcome at the UN a principle under which no democratic body can operate, for to insist that a decision must accord with the wishes of one member is dictatorship. Subsequent events have shown how difficult it is even for the strongest country in the world to impose a stable democratic regime.