Ability
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The
ability
to create new livers, spinal cords, hearts, kidneys, and many other tissues or organ-based systems could radically decrease hospitalization time, relieve suffering, and prolong life.
Although the 49-year-old professor remains formally uncommitted to running for office, his frankness and tolerance aids his
ability
to communicate a clear political message of the need for fundamental change.
Using this approach, it is possible to argue that the future of many Western economies, and that of the global economy, will be shaped by their
ability
to navigate four inter-related financial, economic, social, and political dynamics.
Simply put, the stronger a country’s
ability
to generate additional national income, the greater its
ability
to meet debt obligations while maintaining and enhancing citizens’ standards of living.
House Democrats oppose the bill and invited me to the hearing, where I explained that the proposed constraints would, in my view, greatly hamper the Fed’s effectiveness – including its
ability
to help the economy return to full employment and to prevent the financial system from spinning out of control again.
And it imperils the Fed’s future
ability
to take action as needed.
The biggest difference today is that rapid technological change, coupled with emerging environmental and inter-generational challenges, is directly affecting governments’
ability
to act.
The Fed’s
ability
to pay interest is the key to what it calls its “exit strategy” from previous quantitative easing.
But Abe’s central objectives – improving Japan’s
ability
to respond to threats that do not amount to armed attack; enabling Japan to participate more effectively in international peacekeeping activities; and redefining measures for self-defense permitted under Article 9 – are actually relatively modest.
The US lacks the
ability
to identify, locate, and destroy all three categories of nuclear targets: warheads, bomb production infrastructure, and delivery vehicles.
For example, if Trump decertifies the Iran nuclear deal on May 12, ahead of the summit, the move would almost certainly call into question America’s good faith and
ability
to honor negotiated international agreements.
Trump’s
ability
to reverse himself and deny having done so could be equally advantageous.
Europeans and Americans alike recognized the need to limit and manage their differences in order to conserve their
ability
to deter and, if necessary, to defeat the Soviet Union.
Some would argue that successful negotiators require only tact – the
ability
to use principles to conceal one’s true interests.
Central Europeans must understand that moving to Europe’s periphery will harm their own vital interests, by undermining their
ability
to influence the future of the continent.
Khrushchev had placed enormous hope in the Soviet Union’s
ability
to build more positive relations with Europe, particularly after the U-2 spy plane incident in 1960 (when the American pilot Gary Francis Powers was shot down over Soviet territory) had poisoned relations with the US.
The demand that the ECB should be the central supervisory authority in an integrated capital market met strong resistance, above all from Germany’s Bundesbank, which worried that a role in maintaining financial stability might undermine the Bank’s
ability
to focus on price stability as the primary goal of monetary policy.
Long frozen suspicions limit the
ability
of both leaders to more fully change course.
In America, Congress restrains the White House’s
ability
to craft a new Iran policy.
While we now have the
ability
to rent a car at a distant airport equipped with a Global Posting System to guide us unerringly to a hotel we have never seen, we still cannot put anywhere near the same of measure of reliance on any of our common economic measures.
Ultimately, Israel will be judged by its
ability
to live in peace with its neighbors.
Time to Untie the ECB’s HandsZURICH – The European Central Bank’s recent announcement that it will try to end asset purchases by this December means that it has confidence in its
ability
to achieve price stability.
Psychologists have long studied the effects of prejudice on the
ability
to identify bias in images.
This hypothesis is supported by the findings of a 2013 study that tested people’s
ability
to predict male sexual orientation by looking only at photographed faces.
But, like the 2008 photo study of anti-Semitic views, the
ability
to predict sexual preference appears to operate in the subconscious.
So the summer attack on the Russian oligarchs may turn out to be a litmus test that reveals not only Putin's
ability
to control the oligarchs, but also the retrograde interests of his closest aides.
The
ability
to determine the principal genes that account for our variable response to prescription drugs has been advanced by a technique known as a genome-wide association study (GWAS).
To be sure, our predictive
ability
is far from complete.
At its core, globalization entails the increasing volume, velocity, and importance of flows – within and across borders – of people, ideas, greenhouse gases, goods, dollars, drugs, viruses, emails, weapons, and a good deal else, challenging one of sovereignty’s fundamental principles: the
ability
to control what crosses borders in either direction.
The strategy formulated by the Pope for the Catholic Church, and his
ability
to mobilize millions of believers in its cause, meant that no one could ever again repeat Stalin's question: "How many divisions does the Pope have?"
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