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It did this most famously in the case of smallpox, where the WHO led the successful campaign on global eradication of that long-dread disease.
But today's other EU members view the prospect of an ever-expanding Union to include Ukraine with fatalism and dread, for several reasons.
Ultimately, the spiritual gloom and existential dread that we have come to associate with Eastern Europe are merely an extension of our own.
The arrest of 17 people in Canada on terrorist charges underscores, across the West, a growing sense of dread and inevitability that is rooted in the homegrown nature of the threat.
Vaccines for all three of these dread diseases are within scientific reach, but will requires some billions of dollars to bring through the research and development stages to actual use.
By 2000, European senior bureaucrats began to dread the approach of each international meeting as the likely occasion for yet another lecture by the Americans on how Europe needed to become much more like America right now.
For those who dread the threat that automation poses to low-skilled labor, a ready answer is to train people for better jobs.
It ended in dread and mourning.
The Chinese people, unsurprisingly, regard politics with a mixture of caution and dread.
Most African wives dread the season.
KIEL - Now is the time of year when many people most dread stepping onto the bathroom scale.
But that fear does not compare to their dread of what might happen if they rock the boat.
There are not enough tents, blankets, and warm clothes to go around. Hundreds of tent clusters have come up, but thousands of families remain out under the skies, facing rain and hail, and with dread in their hearts.
Fear of terrorism is only one segment of what might best be described as a multi-level structure of dread.
Other minorities in Syria, such as Christians, Druze, and Kurds, have reason to dread a change for the worse.
Tudjman, long an object of dread, has vanished from the political screen, taking into oblivion the ideological clutter that made Croatia a pariah state.