Ability
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The truth is that Colombia lacks both the will and the
ability
to stem criminal activities and that the only effective cure for Colombia’s illness is a root-and-branch redesign of its civil institutions.
Given these parties’ success in the European Parliament election, Europe’s leadership will likely lack the
ability
– or the desire – to drive the EU forward.
Its membership remains restricted to OECD countries, even though surging demand from non-member countries like China and India is rapidly undermining the IEA’s
ability
to speak for, and coordinate responses among, oil importers as a group.
Likewise, Bhutto’s
ability
to play the Musharraf card and still maintain public support is fragile.
By requiring their diplomats to limit their contacts with “alternative” sources of information in a country, in order to avoid antagonizing despotic regimes, governments irremediably limit diplomats’
ability
to see change coming, even when it is so close that nothing can be done.
Diplomats, instead, should be judged by their
ability
to enter into a dialogue with all social actors: government representatives and business leaders, of course, but also representatives of civil society (even if it exists only in embryonic form).
Needless to say, the
ability
to comprehend change has become indispensable at a time when the world is experiencing tectonic geopolitical shifts.
But, while the Arab world’s governments have reached the limits of their
ability
to employ more people, raise public debt, and attract outside grants, members of these countries’ political and economic elite, whom the current rentier system privileges, will likely resist efforts at substantive reform.
Unlike Europe during the Cold War, it would have several nuclear powers, not just two; and some of them would lack the capacity for “assured destruction” – that is, the
ability
to absorb a nuclear strike and still inflict devastating damage on the attacker.
The Hidden Purposes of High FinanceBERKELEY – No one questions the usefulness of “low” finance: the
ability
to use checks, banknotes, and credit cards rather than having to cart around chests of silver, scales, and reagents to assay purity, and needing armed guards to protect the silver – and more guards to watch the first set of guards – has obvious efficiencies.
So does the
ability
of households to borrow and lend in order not to be forced to match income and expenditure every day, week, month, or year.
The Chinese public is growing restive and increasingly questioning the system’s
ability
to deliver on official promises that the country’s economic “miracle” will continue.
Most of his followers, who became known as Sunni Muslims, felt that the faithful should base their decision on ability, and supported the Muslim elders’ choice of Muhammad’s father-in-law, Abu Bakr.
In the process, attention is being diverted away from the issues that are central to Greece’s
ability
to recover and prosper – whether it stays in the eurozone or decides to leave.
He could not influence in any meaningful manner the national narratives that had sunk deep roots in other European countries and thus undermined those countries’
ability
to adapt.
The picture is no brighter in Europe, where countries' willful neglect of their military capabilities has undermined their
ability
to enforce the rule of law when international mechanisms break down.
For NATO, that leverage depends upon its members’
ability
to marshal the will and resources to intervene if necessary.
In financial markets, an unexpected collapse in real-estate securities and design defects in the derivatives and repo markets combined to damage core financial institutions’
ability
make good on their payment obligations.
When we resort to psychologically comforting but misleading assumptions about terrorism, we hamper our own understanding of political violence in general – and hence weaken our
ability
to avert or minimize it.
Four Magic Tricks for Fiscal ConservativesCAMBRIDGE – The United States is famous for its
ability
to innovate.
Addressing this two-fold challenge implies expanding the
ability
of local communities to manage the natural resources on which they depend.
At least in developed countries – but increasingly in underdeveloped ones as well – the problem is no longer one of access to information, but of the lack of
ability
to process and make sense of that information.
While legislators have many leadership skills, their management
ability
is usually unproven.
Organizational skill is the
ability
to manage the structures, information flows, and reward systems of an institution or group.
Or, in the words of Army General Wayne Downing, who worked in the White House, “over the years, the interagency system has become so lethargic and dysfunctional that it inhibits the
ability
to apply the vast power of the US government on problems.
In this broad sense, organization and management refer to leaders’
ability
to ensure an accurate inflow and outflow of information for making and implementing decisions.
In graying societies, the political clout of the elderly will steadily grow; and in rapidly changing economies, their
ability
to adapt will decline.
Although the Soviet Union no longer exists, Russia remains a formidable nuclear power, with the
ability
to project force anywhere in the world.
And it is total GDP that determines a country’s
ability
to spend on military power, to provide a strategically significant market for other countries’ exports, and to offer aid to other parts of the world.
And we still lack the
ability
to block such attacks or to identify unambiguously their sources.
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