Yet no one seriously contemplates a Europe in the grips of war.
The EU is in the grips of a major financial crisis with out-of-control PIIGS debt and deficits, especially with Greece at the moment.
Everywhere people wonder when the aftershocks to the stock market will cease and whether the nation is in the grips of recession--or something worse.
Since the terms will inevitably mean cuts in public budgets, countries already in the grips of deep recessions will not want to agree to it.
As if in the grips of a death wish, Japan has, since the late 1980s, repeatedly raised taxes, with new levies of all kinds imposed.
The economy as a whole provides a somewhat better environment than it was during the 2009 talks when we were still fully in the grips of a recession.
Back then, the nation was in the grips of another Iran-related oil crisis, and to many, this highway through the Utah desert seemed like the road to energy security.
At our first meeting, in London, with the world in the grips of the worst financial crisis of our time, we acted boldly and swiftly to bring our economy back from the brink.
My own opinion, and I stress that this is personal opinion, not something the result of deep academic study, is that the Portuguese economy is in the grips of the professional upper middle classes.
Not to mention that these record margins on record sales would be achieved in a global economy in the grips of an extended deleveraging process with much of the developed world entering recession or battling depression.
But what impressed me most about Ferzat is that he's maintained his wit and cheer despite the darkness that has fallen on him and on his country, which is in the grips of an intractable two-year war that's killed an estimated 80, 000 people.
Much of this comes in the language of the game, in the syntax of grips and spins, and in the vocabulary of volleys and lobs.
Even in the sort of murky postcommunism that grips much of the country today, many Chinese still see skiing as an elite sport in the same category as horseback riding, golf and tennis.
She is in no mood to answer such a question early in her visit, not until she comes to grips with the complexity of what is in store for her.
That's why we will continue to fight for the cause of clean energy, an economy that will free ourselves from the grips of foreign oil and generate millions of good jobs and good wages in the process.
Removing it clears the way for the real work of getting to grips with the causes of the underrepresentation of blacks and Hispanics in higher education.
The intellectual fever to come to grips with IW has also spread to China, resulting in similar degrees of disagreement over the meaning of IW. The conceptualization of IW in the Chinese context has been even more confused given that Beijing, by the nature of its opaqueness, has not published any official documentation of IW as a guide for national policy.
That is, us, ourselves, in voluntary association, getting to grips with the errors and omissions of the universe around us.
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Far harder, however, has been the task of getting to grips with violent crime in the banlieues.
He will use his businessman's skill at setting broad targets to get to grips with the long list of things that need doing in California, from improving its schools to building more houses.
"The Ministry of Defence has made a good start in trying to get to grips with its budget but its deep-seated problems cannot be solved overnight, " said Margaret Hodge, the Labour MP who chairs the committee.
Policy makers and business leaders in both the U.S. and Europe need to come to grips with the dynamics of the new global economy.
The international group of researchers, who have published a series of articles in The Lancet, said no country had yet got to grips with the problem.
In a speech at an annual steel conference in New York, he said that further consolidation in the industry would be required to allow steelmakers flexibility to get to grips with the cyclical nature of the market.
With just over two months to go before the season starts in Melbourne, McLaren, Renault, Toyota, Toro Rosso and Williams arrived in Portugal intent on getting to grips with huge rule changes governing several major parts of the cars.
Given the choice, diplomats and international officials almost always prefer to have the devil they know in charge of a major country, not to have to get to grips with someone new.
In the absence of a federal role, it has fallen to state and local authorities to come to grips with the terrorists in their communities.
Well, the gap in attainment between pupils in Wales and England hit some time ago and the Education Minister is getting to grips with his particular bit of that snowball.
Two weeks after the team's double third-lap retirement in Malaysia, Button could not get to grips with the circuit, though he did finish one place ahead of team-mate Takuma Sato.
The FCC needs to come to grips with the fact that its policies are in conflict with these technological trends and the associated economies of scale in the supply of wireless services.
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