Mr Krugman sees a great threat in this:Major economic powers, realizing that they have an important stake in the international system, are normally very hesitant about resorting to economic warfare, even in the face of severe provocation — witness the way U.S. policy makers have agonized and temporized over what to do about China's grossly protectionist exchange-rate policy.
Luther's understanding came to him after a long inner conflict in which he agonized, even despaired, over his inability to marshal his will adequately to do good works.
And where are we heading to?" For much of the year, the EU agonized over how to impose controls on big banks in the euro zone.
Ten more years passed before that symphony's completion, and during that time Beethoven agonized over the composition's every note.
He did not require the experience of the new birth, which is so inward and intangible, though to be sure later Calvinism moved away from him on this point and agonized over the signs of election.
He agonized over its slide toward an angry rejection of American society and deplored the Administration's role in stoking that anger.
Talk about old-fashioned!" At the California Democratic Party convention, in mid-January, members agonized about how to handle the popular Governor, and left the decision about the Party's stance on the ballot measures to the party chairman, Art Torres.
He frankly preferred the busy, confident Lupita — the one who laughed when he contended that a Friday night of sin made one saintly for the rest of the week — to the one who agonized over finding a job.
At the ELWA hospital, Lance Plyler, with the drug now in his hands, agonized about whether he should give it to Writebol or to Brantly.
He is agonized by time's nasty habit of protracting itself in moments of anguish or tedium.
We agonized over it, in the modern manner.
