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Germany, in the grip of a massive export slump, firmly believes it has no alternative to export-led growth.

I'm tempted to go on and say something about being overrun by barbarians in the grip of an obscurantist faith, but I guess I won't.

Even during the last weeks, when it is clear that the Earth is in the grip of a passing planet, this will not occur.

Tokyo certainly does not feel like the capital of a country in the grip of terminal depression.

Britain is in the grip of an obesity epidemic, with just 35% of men and 24% of women taking regular exercise.

But the climate change lobby is in the grip of its own form of dangerous fantasy.

Reviving a little, he saw to his horror that he was in the grip of a Crann Inorganic.

Meanwhile, Cisa officials continue to maintain that spot markets are in the grip of speculators and thus do not reflect real demand.

Darwin was also in the grip of an idea so subversive that he would keep it under wraps for another two decades.

And Darwin, throughout, was in the grip of something very similar: a terrible, destabilising sense of wonder.

China was still in the grip of mass starvation less than half a century ago under Chairman Mao, which led to the death of 30 million people.

A FEW years ago Pierce county, in Washington state, was in the grip of a methamphetamine epidemic.

The world is in the grip of a swine-flu pandemic, which will probably infect 40% or more of the human race.

CHINA is in the grip of a severe drought. In contrast, its banking system is awash with liquidity.

With the US in the grip of an economic downturn, such policies are unlikely to be vote-winners.

She was in the grip of an insuperable longing to fall. She lived in a constant state of vertigo.

Meanwhile, the private sector is in the grip of a Great Correction.

It shows how oblivious to caution or bad news a market in the grip of a liquidity-driven boom can be.

Those attempting to improve the human lot worried that they themselves could be in the grip of internal cant.

The United States was then in the grip of a world-wide business depression.

As then, we are again in the grip of a revolution, or possibly two: a technological revolution accompanied by globalisation.

Much of the rest of western Europe is also in the grip of a heat wave.

France's railways are in the grip of a strike led by communist unions over new work practices and job cuts.

is in the grip of a "Reign of Terror" reminiscent of Nazi Germany.

When we're in the grip of fear, it seems endless. How long do you think fear lasts? You can actually do an experiment to see.

he followed and took pictures of her in the grip of another man.

Once again, society was in the grip of drastic social and economic change, resulting this time from the industrial revolution.

A cold dank dungeon, a man in the grip of a coma.

Shiller believes America is in the grip of an irrational mania.

THIS may seem an odd moment to make the claim, but Britain is a country in the grip of a modernising frenzy.

Swaths of India are in the grip of armed Maoist insurgency; Kashmir has long been under a bloody security lockdown.

Alas, "Hooligan" notes, the country was in the grip of a moral panic about rock and roll.

Pakistan is in the grip of multiple crises, the current tragic natural disaster being but one.

His "democratic security" policy has seen the government take control of territory that was in the grip of these illegal armies.

has promised change for America, but when it comes to environmental regulations, he's still in the grip of yesterday.

The entire city seemed to shake in the grip of a giant fist.

By July, much of Bolivia was in the grip of severe drought, particularly in the southeast.

With the exception of Germany and Japan, advanced countries have been in the grip of a housing boom since the mid-1990s.

One academic told me the country was in the grip of a 'piano fever'.

It could also not have come at a worse time for European banks, again in the grip of uncertainty.

America is in the grip of a recession that is crushing jobs and reducing demand at an alarming rate.

a drowning swimmer now safely in the grip of a lifeguard.

coated fabrics in the grip of the water and hold method is the same.

In 1907 New York markets were in the grip of an identical panic.

But the market is in the grip of the games of consequences.

WITH 6. 6m new subscribers a month, India is in the grip of an unprecedented mobile-phone boom.

A market in the grip of hysteria may briefly rise above its ceiling, but cannot stay there for long.

All China was in the grip of a deep cold outbreak.

Britain was in the grip of a nostalgia boom.

They're in the grip of the story, the persuasive content and the message that's reaching them.

To make matters worse, the city was in the grip of organised crime.

Alas, these are hardly normal times for the country, which is in the grip of a spectacular financial meltdown.

Many pundits see this vast region in the grip of inexorable decline.

I too used to live in the grip of this epidemic.

The first is that it provides vivid details of an administration in the grip of war fever.

She felt herself in the grip of sadness she could not understand.

So is Asia in the grip of a bubble or just enjoying a healthy reaction to excessive gloom and doom of the end of last year?

Just three decades earlier, IBM had quit India, which was in the grip of corporatist and nationalistic industrial policies.

Granted, it's hard to get 11. 5 extra wide shoes in China, but I was firmly in the grip of a frenzy.

In the grip of crushes I have learned Italian, sat through Godard films and bought a lot of expensive underwear.

He was in the grip of poverty.

When we resent somebody for having something we wish we had, we are in the grip of envy.

China has been in the grip of "English fever, " as the phenomenon is known in Chinese, for more than a decade.

They were not dull people but they were very much in the grip of life and circumstances.

But at that time, China was still in the grip of the Cultural Revolution, and war was raging in Vietnam.

The country, after all, has been in the grip of deflationary forces for over a decade.

Last year, in the grip of the recession, Europe's airlines lost $3. 8 billion.

Humanity is in the grip of three profound transformations: first, a far greater proportion of children reaches adulthood;

Europe's weaker economies are in the grip of a worsening credit crunch

The area is in the grip of an early summer hot spell,

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