"Unfortunately, in recent years the [Eels] club has been beset by instability, caused by governance failure, and there is a clear and urgent need for this situation to be rectified".
Most of them are from Syria, Afghanistan, and Iraq, all countries beset by instability and civil war.
SIX months after the "tulip revolution" that saw the overthrow of President Askar Akaev, Kirgizstan is still beset by political instability.
"Beset by political instability for decades, Yemen today appears increasingly chaotic," contends an editorial in Lebanon's Daily Star.
Like her counterparts in Sri Lanka and Nepal and elsewhere she already suffers from living in a country beset by political instability, and has to bear the additional burden of frequent cyclones and floods.The effect of the quota eliminations may not, however, turn out to be as bad as some fear.
We see that dynamic echoed today: Beset by economic instability and unable to reach the grand promises of prosperity which dominate our culture, many find it easier to transfer that pain to a defenseless victim in the tradition of modern-day suck-up, kick-down American conservatism.
I could see the effectiveness of inclusive institutions in a study we conducted at MIT on "urban resilience," the ways in which communities beset by poverty and instability cope with violent actors and try to lead normal lives.
Long beset by corruption, terrorism and political instability, Pakistan has never seen so much foreign investment.
But her reality will also be beset by obstacles: growing social and political instability, widening economic inequity, rising incidence of natural disasters and increasing epidemics of non-communicable diseases, among them.
Shine (1996) was based on the career of the Australian pianist David Helfgott, beset by struggles against family pressures and mental instability.
In a place that has experienced decades of instability and war, and has been beset by corruption, his was a voice of integrity relied upon by international aid agencies to carry out their work.
