Attacking French Hopelessness

It is revealed in feelings of hopelessness and an almost total loss of confidence.

By displaying despair, helplessness and hopelessness, the media is telling the truth about Africa, and nothing but the truth.

And in general, I got this sort of idea that the poor in the world lived lives that were wrought with suffering and sadness, devastation, hopelessness.

I believe that the best strategy is to address the root causes of terrorism, such as armed conflict and occupation, intolerance and repression, humiliation and hopelessness.

That was the silver lining in the cloud of 26 December it opened the eyes of both sides to the hopelessness of the situation without peace.

Lastly, to indicate that the road map was doomed was a rebuff, a sign of hopelessness, and such words should not be uttered in the Third Committee.

Underdevelopment is, first, the underpinning of political dependence and helplessness, then the source of personal hopelessness it thus creates the pool from which potential terrorists are drawn.

These statements, which either attack the Palestinian leadership and doubt its intentions or discredit the internationally endorsed road map, spread hopelessness and increase animosity among the Palestinian population.

Fueling this violence is growing hopelessness in the absence of a diplomatic agreement. While international leaders fill the airwaves with talk of peace, they have failed to address the conflict boldly and resolutely.

And my panic at not having a self that fit, and the confusion that came from my self being rejected, created anxiety, shame and hopelessness, which kind of defined me for a long time.

Expressing its concern that, more than fifty years after the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the unacceptable situation of absolute poverty, hunger, disease, lack of adequate shelter, illiteracy and hopelessness remains the lot of over one billion people,

When the crisis in Syria erupted, nobody predicted how serious, protracted, and complex it would turn out to be. For starters, observers underestimated citizens' ever deepening sense of hopelessness, which has driven them to support jihadi groups or the Assad regime.

Third, prolonged misery and hopelessness for millions of Arab young people will create a new generation of desperate jihadists who blame the West for their despair. Some will undoubtedly find their way to Europe and the US and stage terrorist attacks.

Unemployment and reduced sales then feed back into new losses in banks loan portfolios, further weakening the battered financial sector. As a result, anxiety, hopelessness, and anger are spreading, as what was a financial crisis becomes an economic and human crisis.

The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote that humans would rather will nothingness than not will anything at all. The leaden despair of lifelessness, impotence, and hopelessness is vastly less appealing than intensity even if that intensity is found in violence, death, and destruction.

It is a severe and prolonged state of mind in which normal sadness grows into a painful state of hopelessness, listlessness, lack of motivation, and fatigue. But, however well defined, clinical depression is many things to many people, varying from mild to severe.

The point was that the whole situation the destruction, humiliation and hopelessness made it impossible for the refugees to forget the realities of their existence. There were always two sides to any conflict, however asymmetrical they might be in terms of power and legitimacy.

It will fall to the Union, once again, to help transform despair into hope. We Czechs know something about this, as the wrenching economic transition that we underwent in the 1990 s taught us much about how the right policies can break the grip of hopelessness.

Consider depression, the most common mental illness, which must be distinguished from the sadness, disappointment, or frustration we all experience in our lives. William Styron s 1989 memoir, Darkness Visible, rightly calls depression a weak word for a debilitating condition that is marked by hopelessness, helplessness, and dread.

Moreover, the north s troubles are only part of a wider national story of surging unemployment, restless young people, endemic corruption, and a growing sense of hopelessness. Jonathan appears to be incapable of tackling the official corruption that, as the US report emphasized, pervades all sectors, from the police to the courts.

The African boat people in the Mediterranean are often not even sure whether they want to be in Italy, Germany, or Britain. Even those who are certain, like North Africans in Spain and France, or Turks in Germany, had as their priority escaping the hopelessness of their home countries, not arriving at a particular destination.

The appeal of groups like the Islamic State to young people reared in democratic countries highlights these societies growing disparities in educational and economic opportunity, which are breeding cynicism, resignation, and anger among those who find themselves locked out of the social elite. Feelings of hopelessness and despair at the center incite extremism at the fringes.

Recent popular demonstrations, from the Middle East to Israel to the UK, and rising popular anger in China and soon enough in other advanced economies and emerging markets are all driven by the same issues and tensions growing inequality, poverty, unemployment, and hopelessness. Even the world s middle classes are feeling the squeeze of falling incomes and opportunities.

Deeply concerned that extreme poverty persists in all countries of the world, regardless of their economic, social and cultural situation, and that its extent and manifestations, such as hunger, trafficking in human beings, disease, lack of adequate shelter, illiteracy and hopelessness, are particularly severe in developing countries, while acknowledging the significant progress made in several parts of the world in combating extreme poverty,

Europe s economic struggles are reflected in its political situation, with many European electorates now mired in a sense of hopelessness and sliding toward ideological extremes. But a forthcoming report by two highly respected economists Jean Pisani Ferry, the French government s Commissioner General for Policy Planning, and Henrik Enderlein, a key leader of a reformist group of German economists will propose a way forward.

Deeply concerned that extreme poverty persists in all countries of the world, regardless of their economic, social and cultural situation, and that its extent and manifestations, such as hunger, trafficking in human beings, disease, lack of adequate shelter, illiteracy and hopelessness, are particularly severe in developing countries, though acknowledging the significant progress made in several parts of the world in combating extreme poverty,