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Conflicts are not temporary interruptions: they are structural, socio-economic catastrophes, and funding must be allocated accordingly.
Peter Maurer
Must
Temporary
Structural
Allocated
Accordingly
Conflicts
Socio-Economic
Funding
Interruptions
As conflicts last longer, as the scale of needs increase, we are having to adapt. There is an increasing blurring between immediate humanitarian assistance and long-term development needs.
Peter Maurer
Needs
Increase
Increasing
Immediate
Scale
Having
Development
Between
Long-Term
Longer
Conflicts
Humanitarian
Assistance
Last
Adapt
Humanitarian assistance, once conceived as a short-term relief effort, is increasingly the only substitute for long-term development work in protracted armed conflicts.
Peter Maurer
Work
Increasingly
Once
Relief
Only
Development
Long-Term
Conceived
Armed
Protracted
Effort
Substitute
Conflicts
Short-Term
Humanitarian
Assistance
The fragility created by protracted conflicts, resulting in destroyed cities and dramatically insufficient services, is not something that humanitarian organizations can address comprehensively. Only political solutions can end armed conflicts.
Peter Maurer
Political
Dramatically
Address
Destroyed
Cities
Solutions
Something
Only
Resulting
Armed
Insufficient
Protracted
End
Conflicts
Created
Organizations
Humanitarian
Services
Fragility
People living through armed conflicts need infrastructure and services which will last, and the last thing on their mind is which budget line applies.
Peter Maurer
People
Mind
Will
Living
Through
Budget
Armed
Line
Conflicts
Which
Infrastructure
Thing
Services
Last
Need
Attacks on health facilities, health workers, ambulances, is now a reality that we observe on the ground - not on a monthly but on a daily or weekly scale in most of the conflicts in which we are engaged.
Peter Maurer
Health
Daily
Reality
Monthly
Scale
Facilities
Attacks
Weekly
Observe
Most
Conflicts
Which
Workers
Engaged
Ground
Now
Most millennials have no problem standing their ground when asked to do something that conflicts with their personal values.
Punit Renjen
Problem
Values
Something
No Problem
Most
Personal
Conflicts
Asked
Ground
Standing
Millennials
Every father and son have conflicts.
Ram Charan
Son
Father
Every
Father And Son
Conflicts
I think most conflicts do end with negotiated settlements; some don't, but most do.
Richard Armitage
Think
Settlements
Some
Most
End
Conflicts
Sport is a great equalizer that can build bridges, transcend borders and cultures, and render even the fiercest conflicts temporarily irrelevant.
Richard Attias
Great
Build
Borders
Temporarily
Render
Sport
Equalizer
Cultures
Irrelevant
Transcend
Conflicts
Bridges
Even
There can be legal conflicts over whether registering intent is enough to qualify you as an organ donor or whether a doctor must still ask your family's permission.
Richard Thaler
Family
You
Legal
Doctor
Organ
Enough
Must
Over
Qualify
Permission
Still
Intent
Donor
Whether
Conflicts
Registering
Ask
Your
Success in past U.S. conflicts has not been strictly the result of military leadership but rather the judgment of the president in choosing generals and setting broad strategy.
Robert Dallek
Success
Leadership
Result
Judgment
Past
Military
Strategy
Setting
President
Strictly
Broad
Rather
Generals
Been
Conflicts
Choosing
The administration has a disturbing pattern of behavior when it comes to budgeting not only for the ongoing operations in Iraq and Afghanistan but also for military requirements not directly related to these conflicts.
Russ Feingold
Behavior
Military
Related
Administration
Disturbing
Ongoing
Only
Directly
Budgeting
Also
Operations
Iraq
Afghanistan
Conflicts
Pattern
Requirements
You may not like the way I deliver the truth - you may take umbrage with the way I handle most of my conflicts - but that's the way I do business.
Samoa Joe
Truth
You
Business
Way
Take
Deliver
Like
Most
Handle
May
Conflicts
People come and go, and I've certainly had experiences with overbearing figures and conflicts here and there, but for the most part I've found the dance community to be really supportive and I've formed some lifelong bonds, like with Ethan.
Sascha Radetsky
People
Dance
Community
Some
Lifelong
Had
Part
Supportive
Come
Like
Come And Go
Most
Go
Experiences
Conflicts
Formed
Really
Certainly
Figures
Found
Here
Bonds
If you have children, you cannot feed them forever with flags for breakfast and cartridges for lunch. You need something more substantial. Unless you educate your children and spend less money on conflicts, unless you develop your science, technology and industry, you don't have a future.
Shimon Peres
Future
You
Technology
Science
Money
Breakfast
Lunch
Unless
Spend
Something
More
Develop
Feed
Industry
Educate
Forever
Flags
Substantial
Children
Cannot
Conflicts
Them
Your
Less
Less Money
Need
When superpower countries like the United States and the former Soviet Union contemplated moving their conflicts to outer space, there was justifiable fear and dread.
Steven Levy
Fear
Space
States
Dread
Outer
Outer Space
Superpower
Countries
Contemplated
Like
Soviet
Soviet Union
Conflicts
Former
Moving
Union
United
United States
Like other conflict-affected regions, Africa continues to see religious, ethnic, and politically motivated conflicts. Extremist violence is now entrenched in several parts of the world. Armed conflicts are leading to protracted refugee crises to the scale that has not been seen since World War II.
Tedros Adhanom
War
World
Seen
Other
Several
Extremist
Crises
Scale
Religious
See
Entrenched
Leading
Since
Armed
Like
Parts
Protracted
Motivated
Been
Politically
Refugee
Africa
Conflicts
Regions
Ethnic
Now
Violence
World War
World War II
Indeed, Russia and the U.S. were allies during the two tragic conflicts of the Second and the First World Wars, which allows us to think there's something objectively bringing us together in difficult times, and I think - I believe - it has to do with geopolitical interests and also has a moral component.
Vladimir Putin
Together
World
First
Believe
Difficult
Think
Indeed
Moral
Component
Russia
Objectively
Something
Allies
Also
First World
Geopolitical
Were
Tragic
Times
Conflicts
Which
Us
Interests
Wars
Second
Bringing
Two
Difficult Times
World Wars
I have a way of synthesizing. That's what I would encourage any young person to do: take in the ideas, the conflicts, and the world. Watch and listen and live before you go public.
William Hurt
You
World
Before
Young
Live
Way
Would
Take
Ideas
Go
Encourage
Person
Any
Listen
Conflicts
Public
Young Person
Watch
We have to return to a foreign policy of restraint, one that develops our capabilities and our potential in communities across America, and not become bogged down in unwinnable conflicts that lead to greater resentment of the United States, and that don't advance American interests.
Ro Khanna
Become
Down
Our
States
Restraint
Potential
Lead
Advance
Develops
Return
Policy
Greater
Foreign
Foreign Policy
America
American
Conflicts
American Interests
Capabilities
Interests
Across
Communities
Bogged
Resentment
United
United States
Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal.
Xun Kuang
Nature
Will
Society
Criminal
Way
States
Rules
Follows
Gives
Thus
Quarrels
Go
Led
End
Up
Anybody
Conventions
Conflicts
Against
Who
This is a time when the United States should be standing tall. There is no other leader in the world today. We shouldn't be approaching conflicts as a team sport. We either get in an we lead and we do a good job, or you don't get in at all.
Jon Huntsman, Jr.
Today
Time
Good
You
World
Good Job
Approaching
Job
Leader
Other
States
Lead
Sport
Tall
Get
Conflicts
Either
Should
Team
Standing
Team Sport
United
United States
India supports a rule-based order in Asia, as in the rest of the world. But we confront unavoidable challenges such as terrorism, conflicts, trans-national crimes and maritime threats.
Subrahmanyam Jaishankar
Terrorism
Challenges
World
Rest
Maritime
Crimes
India
Unavoidable
Threats
Supports
Order
Conflicts
Confront
Asia
Mitt Romney said many years ago that he thought Russia was the single biggest geopolitical threat to the United States and their presence in a variety of conflicts of one type or another have borne out much of what Mitt Romney said.
Charlie Baker
Thought
Single
Type
States
Out
Threat
Borne
Russia
Variety
He
Another
Said
Mitt
Mitt Romney
Geopolitical
Years
Years Ago
Biggest
Conflicts
Romney
Much
Many
United
United States
Presence
There is socialism in the family that conflicts with meritocracy. And that bothered me.
Uday Kotak
Family
Me
Socialism
Bothered
Conflicts
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