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Well, yes, but the risk in failing to confront the Greek crisis is probably worse.

But Fang Hong, a resident of Chongqing who was sent to a labor camp because he had mocked Mr. Bo, said the court and government had erred in failing to confront Mr. Bo's broader misdeeds as that city's party secretary, especially the abuses he unleashed during his crackdown on alleged organized crime.

Yale University Press; 326 pages; $25 and £17.99An examination of the role of the UN secretariat and its relationship with the Security Council and of individual UN officials in confronting, or failing to confront, mass killing in Rwanda, the Balkans and Darfur, by our Budapest stringer.______________________________________________City of Oranges: Arabs and Jews in Jaffa By Adam LeBor.

Tens of thousands of people marched in Mr. Belaid's funeral, many expressing anger at the Renaissance Party (Ennahda in Arabic) for failing to confront periodic episodes of violence by hard-line Islamists, known as Salafis, and other groups.

But given all we've gone through after the last binge in the financial industry, failing to confront the too-big-to-fail question is a serious oversight.

Or will they give in to fear by failing to confront these terrorist groups?

The now-familiar version of our island story is that we all spent the 1970s in industrial chaos, with successive governments failing to confront the overbearing unions, until Margaret Thatcher arrived and set about deregulating markets, privatising public assets and generally encouraging citizens to work only for ourselves and our own self-interest.

In 1933, Franklin Roosevelt treated the economic situation as purely domestic, failing to confront both protectionism and the debt burden of Germany in the World Economic Conference in London.

In Britain, the fallout from the Weinstein revelations is taking place in a society that has been struggling, and for the most part failing, to confront institutionalized forms of sexual abuse for several years.

A poll on arabia.com, a site popular in the Gulf, found that 46% of respondents wanted to punish Israel's allies by cutting off Arab oil supplies.During an hour-long phone-in programme on the region-wide Jezira satellite television channel, every single caller berated Arab governments for failing to confront Israel.

"President Obama has spent 43 months failing to confront China's unfair trade practices," Mr. Romney said in a statement after Mr. Obama's announced that the government had filed trade complaints against China.