Ability
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Without an accurate picture of the state of the labor market, governments are hamstrung in their
ability
to respond to the challenges afflicting it.
But the most important – and the most worrying – qualities they share is an
ability
to substitute salesmanship for substance, a willingness to tell bald-faced lies in pursuit of publicity and advantage, and an eagerness to intimidate critics into silence.
On the other hand, with the help of the military-industrial KGB complex – the “ siloviki ” – he has systematically weakened or destroyed every check on his personal power, while strengthening the state’s
ability
to violate citizens’ constitutional rights.
Whether China’s economy can continue to grow rapidly will depend far more on its
ability
to reform than on how its stock markets perform.
They must demonstrate their efficiency, capacity to innovate, and
ability
to invigorate the continent with renewed dynamism and drive.
Once it became clear that the epidemic would not be rapidly contained, several firms quickly arranged for clinical trials of potential treatments and vaccines, indicating that they already had the
ability
to produce plausible candidates.
But pharmaceutical companies would have been considering such products – as well as other treatments to save lives or improve health anywhere in the world, regardless of people’s
ability
to pay.
Such a pilot program would benefit poor patients and would test scientists’
ability
to measure health impact fairly and accurately.
What Trump lacks in rhetorical skill, he makes up for with his
ability
to manipulate an audience, with Twitter as his favorite tool for connecting to the masses.
Trump’s cluelessness has been on display since day one, undermining the confidence of US allies and impeding the Republicans’
ability
to enact their agenda.
Turkey’s real strengths are its flourishing economy, secular democratic system, and
ability
to mediate between its Western allies and a region that is struggling to join the mainstream of the twenty-first century.
Unfortunately, the two policies have often worked at cross purposes, diminishing America’s long-term influence in the region and at times hurting its
ability
to conduct the war.
“Visibly flustered, (the Chinese ambassador) temporarily lost his
ability
to speak Russian and began spluttering in Chinese to the silent aide diligently taking notes right behind him,” according to a confidential US diplomatic cable obtained by the Web site Wikileaks.org.
Inflation, if not addressed now, could seriously compromise the region’s
ability
to meet those challenges.
Could it help us to appreciate that many things are more central to our happiness than our
ability
to spend money on fashion, expensive watches, and fine dining?
It may sound archaic in high-tech politics of the new millennium, but the
ability
to deflate the ideological boasts of nationalist prophets by old-fashioned and straightforward opposition is the key to change.
Ensuring that research and development is part of the world’s climate change response portfolio would make mitigation efforts more efficient and significantly enhance their
ability
to reduce carbon emissions over the next century.
Another common measure used to judge a Chinese official’s “merit” is his
ability
to deliver economic growth.
Because of their relatively short tenure in one position before promotion (less than three years, on average, for local mayors), Chinese officials are under enormous pressure to demonstrate their
ability
to produce economic results quickly.
Savers gained the
ability
to diversify, while the largest borrowers could tap global pools of capital.
The new wave of innovation is attributable to three key factors: the
ability
to personalize therapy, the capacity to get treatments to market faster, and improved engagement with patients.
First, major advances in our knowledge of genomics – specifically, the way diseases manifest and develop in the body at the genetic level – are improving our
ability
to target illness at each stage and improve the patient experience.
Add to that our
ability
to analyze data more quickly, and to make more precise decisions about dosing, and the clinical trial timeframe shrinks considerably.
Finally, many governments explicitly or implicitly restrict parent banks’
ability
to use government funds to back up their East European subsidiaries, many of them critical to the stability of the local financial systems.
Cheerleaders of the private sector, however, failed to reckon with the
ability
of company bosses to indulge in corrupt practices on an almost unfathomable scale, something American corporate capitalism has demonstrated amply of late.
Creditworthiness is generally understood to depend on two things: willingness to pay and
ability
to pay.
The
ability
to offset the crisis in a constructive manner through expanded public-private partnerships will determine the subsequent success of countries and regions.
But if the global trading system remains open to competition, skilled workers’
ability
to forestall labor-saving technology indefinitely should prove little more successful than such attempts by unskilled workers in the past.
But their will and
ability
to translate this view into policy are limited.
Theirs is a nationalist international – a classic creature of a deflationary period – united by contempt for liberal democracy and the
ability
to mobilize those who would crush it.
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