Speaking outside the Senate chamber, Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) tried to put the best face on the latest version of the war-funding bill.
Two decades after the end of the Cold War, we face a cruel irony of history -- the risk of a nuclear confrontation between nations has gone down, but the risk of nuclear attack has gone up.
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Some 22 months into the war -- and despite the world's sympathy -- they face a winter of freezing temperatures and uncertain food.
Logically, to suggest that Shariah is opposed to the defense industry is on its face absurd given the history of Shariah-based empires waging war against their enemies.
If he becomes defense secretary, Hagel will face the challenge of ending that U.S.-led war and overseeing a smaller training force in the country.
The irony of the labour market in Japan is that, despite unemployment being near a post-war record, Japanese companies will soon face a shortage of young workers.
Most important of all, the nature of most conflicts has changed over the past decade, from cold-war face-offs between well-supplied proxies to regional free-for-alls.
In 1993, in Geneva, the leaders of Bosnia's Serbs, Croats and Muslims met face to face for the first time in three months to press rival plans for the division of their war-ravaged state.
Garner and his team face a daunting task which ranges from restoring power and water to establishing the rule of law in the war-shattered country.
In the face of record deficits, ballooning entitlement costs and an indefinite war, the government plans to subsidize part of the analog-to-digital switch.
"We face the prospect of NHS services being placed in the middle of a costly bidding war with private companies, discrete services cherry-picked for profit while the NHS is left to run the more complex and expensive services but with less money, " the Labour peer added.
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