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One relatively well-known example of the digital revolution’s impact on the workings of markets is the
ability
to earn huge returns in high-speed trading by being a microsecond “ahead” of everyone else.
Its lobbyists told the SEC commissioners that current rules already did everything possible to ensure safety; that retail investors want money-market funds’ steady value; that change would hurt all investors; and that the recent Dodd-Frank financial-reform legislation disrupts regulators’
ability
to bail out money-market funds next time.
Ever since its bloody repression of the Igbo secession bid in the late 1960’s, Nigeria’s military has prided itself on its
ability
to “neutralize” ethno-religious insurgency and preserve the country’s unity.
It is not the intention of civil society to circumvent parliament or political parties: it aims to enable them to work to the best of their
ability.
But it is not just a matter of willingness; the US has lost its
ability
to intimidate other countries, even allies and clients like Israel and the Palestinian Authority.
At the beginning of the 21st century, these two forces increased American power, particularly the
ability
to influence others through attractive, or what I call "soft" power.
The risk, of course, is that their voices become drowned out by larger entities, impeding their
ability
to do what is best for their own citizens.
In fact, because they hurt economic growth, further reducing countries’
ability
to service external debts, higher interest rates can be counterproductive.
Both candidates are United States senators with little experience as executives, so their
ability
to manage the crisis has become a central issue in the election.
But, as in other cases of successful development, what distinguishes them is not the external advantages they possess, but their
ability
to exploit these advantages.
America’s
ability
to reaffirm its centrality in global affairs depends on the answer.
The products that are not excluded face complex health and safety regulations, further hampering Africans’
ability
to export agricultural products to the US.
After all, what good is credibility today when it means sticking tenaciously to a policy that deprives you of the
ability
to do your job properly tomorrow?
And EEA negotiations should begin on the basis that our membership would include a protocol on migration and the
ability
to use the safeguard clause if pressures grow.
But wresting power back from regional and international institutions – however shadowy and distant they may seem – would only compound the problem, for it would reduce the
ability
to guide the supranational trends that are shaping the world’s future.
Moreover, China’s increasingly strong commitment to limit and then reduce its emissions is more important than any American backsliding, and Germany’s
ability
to combine stunning export success with rapid growth of renewables proves the absurdity of the claim that building a low-carbon economy threatens competitiveness.
But there was something about the Chinese government’s
ability
to stage-manage so many thousands so precisely that set this show apart from anything undertaken even by Cecil B. DeMille or Las Vegas.
Indeed, rejection of the EU Constitution is a sure way to kill European dynamism and weaken Europe’s
ability
to defend itself.
Other tools, aside from schooling, can help women improve their income-earning
ability.
All of this has given the US an extraordinary
ability
to tell stories that are more persuasive and attractive than those of its rivals.
The Southern Strategy NATO NeedsISTANBUL – For almost seven decades, NATO has amply demonstrated its
ability
to fulfill its core mission of deterring a conventional attack against its member countries.
This week’s NATO summit in Warsaw will amount to a litmus test of the Alliance’s
ability
to adapt to the new more complex security challenges that it faces.
NATO’s
ability
to transform its strategic outlook and develop an effective southern strategy will depend on its leaders’
ability
to reconcile the interests of these two groups of members.
“True merit,” Franklin wrote, consists in “an inclination joined with an
ability
to serve mankind, one’s country, friends, and family; which
ability
is…to be acquired or greatly increased by true learning; and should, indeed, be the great aim and end of all learning.”
But, against a background of declining confidence in the
ability
of “experts” to explain, let alone predict, economic developments, that faith has deteriorated.
But policymakers have been largely oblivious to the shift – a failing that has undermined their
ability
to develop effective global solutions.
To be sure, Hezbollah is still grudgingly respected for its
ability
to stand up to Israel.
Without the
ability
to resupply itself, Hezbollah would emerge from any future war a significantly weakened force.
If its Christian ally, Michel Aoun’s Free Patriotic Movement, does poorly, or if the ever-shifting Druze leader Walid Jumblatt returns his Progressive Socialist Party to the anti-Syrian alliance of which it was once a part, Hezbollah would lose its parliamentary majority, and hence its
ability
to form and topple governments.
Strategically, Hezbollah fears that if Assad falls, and if it loses the
ability
to resupply itself rapidly and effectively as a result, Israel will take advantage by unleashing another war against it.
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