Or fester like a sore

They fester. He must be in bed.

The High level Panel report, in its considered assessment, said that such disputes continue to fester and to feed the new threats we now face .

The situation creates a security vacuum that, if left unattended, will continue to fester and will put in question the credibility of this premier multilateral institution.

America s strategic pivot to Asia adds more tension. The longer these frictions fester, the greater the risk of an accident or miscalculation leading to a military response culminating in the ultimate break up nightmare.

We agreed we'd speak up in our own communities when we witnessed the kind of otherizing talk that can wound and fester into paranoia and then be used by those on the fringes to incite.

Obviously, as these examples suggest, new does not necessarily mean better, but simply different and more modern. Indeed, modernization by no means implies a solution to the conflicts that continue to fester in the region.

Netanyahu thinks that he can build a fence and let the problem simply fester forever. But one should heed the words of Langston Hughes famous poem, which became a refrain of the US civil rights movement.

NEW YORK In the shadow of the euro crisis and America s fiscal cliff, it is easy to ignore the global economy s long term problems. But, while we focus on immediate concerns, they continue to fester, and we overlook them at our peril.

The war in Afghanistan bleeds more lives and treasure into the inhospitable terrain of that sad land, with little immediate chance of whatever might constitute sufficient success to allow America and its allies to quit. And the problems of Pakistan fester next door.

As old wounds fester, new issues have begun roiling bilateral relations. For example, since 2006 China has initiated a new territorial dispute by claiming the eastern sector (the Austria size Arunachal Pradesh state), from which its forces withdrew in 1962, describing it as Southern Tibet.

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.

All of this calls for courageous and visionary economic leadership otherwise, our problems will fester and grow, and the solutions will become even more complex. Already, too many of our economy s difficulties, including worrisome trends in youth joblessness and long term unemployment, risk becoming structurally embedded.

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. Nonetheless, we should be grateful it is better to be standing still than it is to be heading in the wrong direction.

My delegation therefore believes that the best way to control the arms race is to work on resolving the protracted political problems that have been left to fester in the world, and to convince parties to conflicts to turn to dialogue and to speedily settle their differences by political means before the situation becomes exacerbated.

As you know, the many conflicts that continue to fester throughout the world, particularly in Africa, have given rise to many flagrant violations of human rights and of humanitarian law committed against civilian populations and refugees. It is for this reason that we call for an end to the flow of weapons to those regions of the world.

EU leaders are weak, divided, and seemingly incapable of setting out a credible vision of the future benefits that European integration could provide, without which they cannot rally popular support and convince recalcitrant governments to bear their fair share of current costs. In the absence of an effective, common response, Europe s crises fester, feed on each other, and foment unilateralism.

Reconciling in the first two decades following the Nazi Occupation of France, these countries leaders understood that their security and economic ties were far too important to their citizens wellbeing to allow the old hatreds to fester. They knew that the unimaginable violence of WWII was a direct result of the antagonisms that had festered since the Napoleonic Wars and that were allowed to persist after 1918.

This illiterate, armed, Wahhabi brand of ideology was imported as US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton admitted recently before House Appropriations Committee by the US from Saudi Arabia and other Middle Eastern countries in order to undermine the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980 s. Once the mission was accomplished and the Soviets vanquished, the Wahhabi virus was left to fester in Pakistan s border areas.

Their reasons also seem to have a pragmatic ring they don t want to cause North Korea to collapse by being too harsh they fear losing influence in Burma to India or the United States no one is doing much about Darfur, so to jeopardize the supply of Sudanese oil by pushing the regime in Khartoum appears futile. But pragmatism has its limits, particularly when it permits dangerous situations to fester.

European history during the past 60 years makes clear that the most promising approach to meeting the challenge of national reconciliation and stability is not to focus on specific contingencies, but to establish procedures that encourage orderly change. A singular vision has always animated this process animosity between neighbors must not be allowed to fester, and the rule of law must reign not just within countries, but also between them.

Finally, a core component of democracy is a set of rules and procedures designed to require public officials to justify their policies with reasons that can be accepted or countered in public debate. When contemplating foreign military intervention, leaders must explain their actions in ways that make clear how their country s strategic and moral interests are at stake for example, how unbridled aggression and hideous suffering can fester and spread.

Banks have been saved, but the underlying problems were left to fester no surprise there, given that, in both Europe and America, the task of fixing them was assigned to the policymakers who had caused them. In Europe, it was politics, not economics, that drove the creation of the euro and it was politics that led to a fundamentally flawed structure that created ample room for bubbles, but little scope for dealing with the aftermath.

The open wounds that still afflict the region demand renewed engagement lest they continue to fester and degenerate into volatility that would risk spilling over to broader areas. The Cyprus question has long been one of these open wounds, having political and stability repercussions that go beyond the geographic dimensions of the island itself. A solution in conformity with the resolutions of the United Nations can have enduring positive effects for all the parties concerned in the dispute.