Britain's refugees come from the world's most unsettled countries, including, most frequently, Somalia, Afghanistan, the Czech Republic, Sri Lanka and the former Yugoslavia, and many have survived horrific treatment at home and showed extraordinary cunning and resilience in making their way here.
It did not, as it did in 1993, try to sweeten the bid by releasing high-profile political prisoners.In the next few years, China will become an increasingly unsettled country as it implements sweeping economic changes.
Now, as Mr. Anwar poses a new type of challenge to his government, many questions loom for him — and indeed for this relatively prosperous but unsettled country of about 30 million people.
Ten years ago I spent considerable time roaming about Russia, reporting on a three-part series for The New York Times on the state of cultural life in that vast and unsettled country.
BAGHDAD — Christopher R. Hill, the ambassador to Iraq charged with reshaping the American role here, on Thursday ended his 16-month tenure in an anxious, unsettled country, with a military withdrawal afoot but a key task not done: the formation of a government that will inherit the country.
She was only chosen the previous evening due to the unsettled state of the country; the Athenian girl who was trained for the ceremony was unable to travel to Olympia.
Initial Allied plans had contemplated exacting heavy reparations from Japan, but the unsettled state of other Asian countries that were to have been recipients brought reconsideration.
But while it revels in Coplandesque rhapsody, its rhythms remain subtly unsettled, and the country fair ambience of its upbeat moments has infectious appeal.
Casual observers blame the lack of attention to cultural institutions on Belgium's unsettled politics — the country has been without a government since April 2010 — but the trend runs deeper.
Germany's chancellor is also under pressure from her own Christian Democrat party, as well as their Social Democrat coalition partners, to back Juncker, while Renzi does not want the issue to remain unsettled when his country takes the EU reins.
Nonetheless, Europe's politicians, and global investors, have become deeply unsettled about other European countries with huge debt and deficits, including Spain, Portugal and Ireland.
