The acts of the Lander are legislated by their parliaments ('Landtage'). The superior executive authorities are the governments of the Lander ('Landesregierungen').

Callousness, selfishness, ruthlessness.

A lover may bestride the gossamer That idles in the wanton summer air

Unfortunately we also find misunderstandings on this bookshelf and perhaps even wilful distortions.

Another explanation that you often hear for recklessness is hubris.

It was the greed and recklessness that led to the drilling explosion.

The old regimes opponents have demonstrated bravery without recklessness, and differences of opinion without bigotry.

And greed and hubris are intimately intertwined when it comes to recklessness.

And yet no farther than a wanton's bird That lets it hop a little from her hand,

The suffering and wanton destruction of people s lives, the despair and absence of human dignity in this region have gone on for too long.

The position of the European Union in the international community is that the wanton destruction of basic infrastructure and facilities is counter productive.

8.5 However, the Committee considers that some lack of clarity still persists on the term frivolous claims and on their prompt elimination.

When we talk of a policy on Iraq, Commissioner Patten spoke about the recklessness of the Iraq regime.

And this problem call it the perils of privilege brings us closer, I think, to the root of our collective recklessness.

Its acolytes deplore the grit and relativism of politics and issue futile appeals for moral revivals.

Overwhelmed by the Russian Army s ruthlessness, it is said, he and his teenage brother chose to spread the violence to US soil.

And this problem call it the perils of privilege brings us closer, I think, to the root of our collective recklessness.

When Kemal was visiting Akdamar Island in 1951, he saw the island's Holy Cross Church being destroyed.

It operates both passively and actively in Palestinian culture, demanding stubbornness and tolerating ruthlessness, violence, and duplicity.

The recklessness of Saddam Hussein and his regime has resulted in malnutrition, ill health and widespread degradation of the physical and social infrastructure of the country.

Nilai keanekaragaman hayati adalah menjadikan ekosistem kita lebih tangguh, yang merupakan prasyarat terbentuknya masyarakat yang stabil perusakan yang sewenang wenang terhadap keanekaragaman hayati sama dengan menyulut api pada sekoci penolong.

Whilst it is true that terrorism may have an environmental impact, for example the release of pathogens or the deliberate poisoning of water, this report goes much further than terrorism.

No sooner did this strategy pay off with a narrow re election victory one that strengthened Republican control of Congress than the dark realities of Bush s fiscal recklessness started to be recognized.

And comparable Orthodox ideas about communal solidarity (Russian sobornost ) make it difficult to accept capitalism, because competition and individual entrepreneurship are seen as a morally repulsive expression of ruthlessness and greed.

The wanton attack on the United Nations headquarters building in Baghdad on 19 August 2003 dealt a severe blow to the Organization's efforts at assisting Iraq's return to normalcy.

The trauma of the plague led to an increased piety throughout Europe, which manifested itself in the foundation of new charities, the self mortification of the flagellants, and the scapegoating of the Jews.

So we have greed, we've got overconfidence hubris, but since we're here at TEDWomen, let's consider one other factor that could be contributing in some small way to societal recklessness.

Personally, I see it as an historic necessity and opportunity, which must not be put at risk either by rashness, undemocratic procedures, and bureaucratic or national small mindedness, or politicians ' lack of consideration for the social dimension.

It's worth taking a moment to understand this practice, because I believe it speaks to recklessness and the path we're on like little else.

We must urge Israel to desist from denying medical services to those in need, to end the indiscriminate shelling of refugee camps, the humiliating treatment of prisoners and wanton destruction of public and private property.

Nevertheless, the tensions created by Sarkozy s recklessness threaten Europe s political stability, heightening market uncertainty relative to what a more prudent, coordinated rescue program would have implied.

President Hugo Chávez showed once again that he enjoys broad support among the nation s poor and desperate, and that he is miles ahead of his opposition in terms of political skill, cunning, and ruthlessness.

By sending its troops to South Ossetia, Georgia no doubt was politically reckless, but it did not breach any international rule, however nominal its sovereignty may be.

It took the courage or recklessness, depending on your point of view of US Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker to send the world into recession in 1981 2 in order to break the back of inflation.

But even more striking than the ferocious power emanating from that well was the recklessness with which that power was unleashed the carelessness, the lack of planning that characterized the operation from drilling to clean up.

The cavalier fashion in which the Foundation's administrative board has ignored the parliamentary and Court of Auditors' reminders to attend to living and environmental conditions has created doubts about the readiness of the board even now to mend its ways.

But even more striking than the ferocious power emanating from that well was the recklessness with which that power was unleashed the carelessness, the lack of planning that characterized the operation from drilling to clean up.

Henry Tang, unkindly nicknamed Pig by the Hong Kong press for his unimpressive intellect, and a heretofore supporting actor, C. Y. Leung, nicknamed Wolf for his perceived chilly ruthlessness, were the entire cast.

Since the annexation by Czechoslovakia supposedly only gives the Sudeten Germans hope for knowing the Czech national character brutality, disregard, lack of understanding, oppression and slavery, the authors of the letter ask the American president to take over the protectorate of Šumava forever.

However, to go into an outright confrontation based on a disagreement with what the Council is putting forward is not, I think, the best of grounds.

XXII 49, 65) enumerate ten defilements ( dasa kilesa vatthūni ) as follows greed ( lobha ) hate ( dosa ) delusion ( moha ) conceit ( māna ) wrong views ( micchāditthi ) doubt ( vicikicchā ) torpor ( thīna ) restlessness ( uddhacca ) shamelessness ( ahirika ) recklessness ( anottappa )The Vibhanga also includes an eightfold list ( aha kilesa vatthūni ) composed of the first eight of the above ten.

Madam President, this Parliament certainly lacks neither imagination nor brutality when it comes to consolidating, underpinning and protecting the closed circuit system it christens 'democracy' . Here we are, faced with another of its innovations

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the United States of America and the free world have been taken by surprise by the absolutely barbaric wave of attacks that has destroyed the lives of thousands of men, women and children from more than 60 countries, murdered in appalling circumstances of horror and brutality.

Omit either a market penalty now for behavior that may become reckless or the institutional levers that give a voice to future generations, and you run grave risks perhaps not today or tomorrow, but someday, and for the rest of your life.

It can thus be regarded as a positive development if the two committees, the Committee on Budgets and the Legal Affairs Committee, are now fully agreed in recommending that the Commission must withdrawn its proposal and, in accordance with Article 65 of the Staff Regulations, submit a proposal to the Council for a decision to be taken in line with the letter and spirit of Article 65 and of the Council's own decision of 1976 laying down the method of calculation for the review of salary levels.