Ability
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The PLA intrusion, by threatening that Indian base, may have been intended to foreclose India’s
ability
to choke off supplies to Chinese troops and workers in Pakistan’s Gilgit-Baltistan region, where China has expanded its military footprint and strategic projects.
We have the
ability
to ensure that every person on the planet has the food, water, shelter, education, health care, and energy needed to lead a life of dignity and opportunity.
It draws on the best science to identify the key planetary processes regulating the earth’s
ability
to sustain Holocene-like conditions.
Moreover, Europe’s
ability
to exert pressure on China is extremely limited at best, and may be least potent where Chinese domestic matters are concerned.
Israel is now led by a prime minister who has the
ability
to make historic choices and a government inclined to support him.
Latin America’s recent
ability
to avoid sudden stops in external financing is good news, and it seems likely to endure.
Libraries could be filled with books about how the United States has benefited from its
ability
to transform people from around the world into American citizens.
But central banks’
ability
to create and destroy money is theoretically unlimited.
In the absence of rebalancing, any one of several potential tipping points could seriously compromise the economy’s
ability
to pull off another soft landing: deteriorating credit quality in the banking system; weakening export competitiveness as wages rise; key environmental, governance, and social problems (namely, pollution, corruption, and inequality); and, of course, foreign-policy missteps, as suggested by escalating problems with Japan.
The
ability
to revoke citizenship without presenting any evidence in public is one reason why a government may prefer this course to arresting and trying terrorism suspects.
Investors will now dissect the implications of his departure for the
ability
of the monetary authorities to ensure price stability and encourage growth, or rebuild a banking system beset with non-performing loans.
African countries are at particular risk: Jihadist groups have repeatedly demonstrated their
ability
to exploit disorder and weak state structures.
Al Qaeda and ISIS may have global aspirations, but their
ability
to penetrate a society is strongly influenced by local conditions.
Targeting government officials with the incentives and
ability
to make a difference in regulating emissions on the ground yields results much more quickly than negotiations on an international treaty.
The stick – punishment of misconduct – requires stricter enforcement of legal and ethical requirements, whether concerning tax avoidance and evasion, or the
ability
to hide behind subsidiaries.
Traditional media companies resent their reliance on Google to direct traffic to their sites and its
ability
to sell advertising based on snippets of their content.
But Europe’s last chance to be a credible actor in a multi-polar world rests precisely on its
ability
to present a single, united, responsible voice.
Confrontation and brinkmanship have become the new watchwords of American politics, even when the US government’s legal
ability
to pay its debts is on the line, owing to the Tea Party’s ideological rigidity.
But such a policy diminishes, and may even eliminate, financiers’
ability
to take the easy route by riding the duration yield curve for profits.
This heuristic, in turn, leads us to overestimate our
ability
to predict the future under what we perceive to be “similar” circumstances.
So lagging countries’ growth potential is determined by their
ability
to close the gap with the technology frontier – not by how rapidly the frontier itself is advancing.
The social status of parents often determines their children’s
ability
to access higher education.
Critics of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, for example, acknowledged that his
ability
to articulate a vision was one of his great strengths as a leader, but complained about his lack of attention to detail.
In Western culture, its study began with Socrates in the fifth century BCE, but it was Aristotle who argued that human nature was characterized by unique attributes – particularly, people’s need to socialize and our
ability
to reason.
It must be said that there are intellectuals who possess a very special
ability
for committing this evil.
While simultaneous interpreters – who occupy a high-paid profession – may scoff at the notion that machines will threaten their positions any time soon, the success of machine learning in highly complex strategic games like Go suggests that machines’
ability
to learn should not be underestimated.
The sitting governors have demonstrated the
ability
to do that.
More recently, new technologies developed in the US greatly increase the
ability
to extract oil and natural gas from underground formations.
But Ukraine’s
ability
to resist, and the international community’s
ability
to prevent brute force from having free rein, depends on whether world leaders understand that appeasement begets only further aggression.
The markets for these products are still small, but they have strong growth potential, and their further development would enhance insurance companies’
ability
to cover risks of major international disasters.
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