Even as we grapple with the immediate relief operations, we are preparing ourselves for rehabilitation and reconstruction.

As the Member States grapple with different facets of revitalization, they come to understand the essence of modern public administration, particularly its homogenizing, supra sector and multidisciplinary thrust, and, consequently, its complexity.

And even harder experience has led us to grapple with the fact that no legal principle not even sovereignty should ever be allowed to shield genocide, crimes against humanity and mass human suffering.

And I do believe that this interaction with the history, with history that is often very difficult, to grapple with it, to create a position that is beyond our normal expectations and to create a critique.

In recent years, however, the longer standing members of the Union have had to grapple with complex public policy challenges, not the least of which is the reconciliation of citizen expectations with fiscal and budget constraints.

I've been working on issues of poverty for more than 20 years, and so it's ironic that the problem that and question that I most grapple with is how you actually define poverty. What does it mean?

We are only beginning to grapple with how big data s tremendous potential for learning can be harnessed while protecting students privacy. In some cases, data collection technology is outpacing our ability to decide how it should be collected, stored, and shared.

BEIRUT Revolution across the Arab world has forced the region s peoples and governments to grapple with the need for change. Years of sclerosis have given way to a frantic push for reforms to match the aspirations and discontent of millions.

MELBOURNE In April, Germany s parliament placed limits on the use of genetic diagnosis. Is the new German law a model for other countries to follow as we grapple with the ethical issues posed by our growing knowledge of human genetics?

Peoples in transition from authoritarian rule peaceful in Poland in 1989, bloody in Libya today grapple with decisions that determine their fate for decades. How should the former regime s worst wrongdoers and security police, with their insidious archives, be treated?

A particularly intense and destructive hurricane season has left many thousands homeless as countries in the Caribbean as well as Central and North America continue to grapple with the effects of severe flooding and mudslides that those storms left behind.

I thought to myself, why not take the individual cells out of the pancreas the cells that secrete insulin to cure diabetes and transplant these cells? technically a much simpler procedure than having to grapple with the complexities of transplanting a whole organ.

As we grapple with our joint water future, we will face a time of trial and error in finding workable solutions. But humanity already seems to be making more progress on matters related to drinking water than other global threats, such as climate change.

China s economic growth is likely to continue to face stiff headwinds this year as well, at least when compared to previous decades. As policymakers draw up the country s 13th five year plan, they will grapple with a fundamental question How fast can China expect to grow?

Yet it is on this bottom board that we find most of the greatest challenges we face today. The only way to grapple with these problems is through cooperation with others, and that requires the soft power of attraction as well as the hard power of coercion.

And so I'm going to try to talk to you over the next few minutes about my career in terms of how I'm able to actually try to study music and really try to grapple with all these questions of how the brain is able to be creative.

Racism and anti immigrant sentiments are an important part of the attack on the poor, or at least the reason why so many are willing to heed the propaganda against helping the poor. As other societies grapple with their own increasing diversity, they may follow the US into crisis.

Now a spate of scientific analyses, based on brain imaging technology and new anthropological and evolutionary discoveries, suggests that we may have had our heads in the sand, and that we must be willing to grapple with what seem to be at least some genuine, measurable differences between the sexes.

What is true of cars applies to the economy arcane issues are for specialists. Yet in recent years, topics about which most people had never heard or cared for example, securitization, credit default swaps, and the European payment system known as Target 2 have imposed themselves on public debate, forcing ordinary people to grapple with their intricacies.

In order to redeem the liberal project, American and European leaders will need to reformulate it in such a way that it can provide convincing solutions to problems such as environmental degradation and economic inequality. This will be no easy task, and one that may be far from policymakers minds as they grapple with the current crisis.

Indeed, in many ways, the article is a litmus test of where individual countries are in their own evolution toward full equality for men and women. India and Britain, for example, have had strong women prime ministers in Indira Gandhi and Margaret Thatcher, but now must grapple with the woman as man archetype of female success.

China s government finally appears to be acknowledging the urgent challenges presented by the country s aging population. On December 12, it released a cabinet level White Paper on the problem the first of its kind in an effort to grapple with the prospect of rising social security and healthcare costs, a tightening labor market, and other potential obstacles to continue rapid economic growth.

CAMBRIDGE As the world watches the United States grapple with its fiscal future, the contours of the battle reflect larger social and philosophical divisions that are likely to play out in various guises around the world in the coming decades. There has been much discussion of how to cut government spending, but too little attention has been devoted to how to make government spending more effective.