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Bubble CPAP delivered with the ultra-low cost apparatus was shown to be as effective as the standard low- and high-flow oxygen therapies.
But not even when they controlled the entire apparatus of Ukraine’s justice system were they able to make any criminal charges stick.
Likewise, in Russia, President Vladimir Putin rules a state apparatus designed and run by elements of the country's old intelligence services and its new mafia.
China’s diplomats were urged to bear in mind that they are first and foremost “party cadres,” suggesting that Xi is likely to push the foreign policy apparatus toward greater activism, to give full effect to his emerging global vision.
There will be plenty of time to debate a new Bretton Woods and the construction of a global regulatory apparatus.
Corruption is rife, owing to organized-crime networks that grew out of the communist-era security apparatus.
America’s global IT leadership, after all, can be traced directly to its national security apparatus.
The CIA’s Silicon Valley venture-capital operation, In-Q-Tel is meant to ensure that the interests of America’s national security apparatus are implanted in technology startups.
But Egypt’s revolution is one whose initial stage ended with power fully in the hands of the old regime’s repressive apparatus.
Egypt was ruled as a police state, and, with a gigantic and all-pervasive security apparatus, the army might be tempted to assume the role of guardian of order and stability if democracy proves too messy.
As the numbers of journalists covering major political events suggests, the size of the communications apparatus has increased to a point where quantitative change becomes qualitative change.
So their natural tendency in a test apparatus is to find areas that are poorly illuminated or close to walls.
While Ahmedinejad continues his verbal attacks on the US, he does not control the policy-making apparatus that will decide about Iran’s nuclear program and its relations with the international community.
If it does, unfortunately, Trump’s under-staffed, over-militarized, and politically untouchable national-security apparatus will be frighteningly unprepared to meet the challenge.
The Syrian regime of President Bashar Assad retains huge influence over key levers of the Lebanese state, including the security and intelligence apparatus, the army, and the judiciary – not to mention an alliance with the militarily powerful Hezbollah.
Coming from Stalin’s lips, the phrase, backed by the full and fearsome force of the Soviet state’s internal security apparatus, was a death sentence for millions.
When the same words are uttered by Trump, an object of suspicion for much of the US security apparatus, they become just another part of the narrative spectacle by which he channels the loyalties and antipathies of his supporters.
The transparency and consistency of official figures lags well behind the authorities’ hyped promises about government reform, streamlining of the bureaucracy, and the retreat of the Party apparatus.
Partly as a result of this demobilization, but mostly due to the strengthening of the security and justice apparatus, there has been a 50% reduction in Colombia’s homicide rate and a 70% drop in kidnapping in the country, making Colombia’s major crime rate equal to that of peaceful Brazil.
The gigantic apparatus for managing transfer prices and tax credit claims with foreign tax authorities could be dismantled.
In all likelihood, the law would also prevent ordinary citizens from obtaining information about the state security apparatus that is supposedly protecting them.
It has already reacted furiously to attempts to curb its powers and rein in the activities of its intelligence apparatus.
Irani’s growing influence over the Syrian security apparatus is well established, and Iran is funding an effort to create Syrian Shia militias to compensate for Assad’s sagging support in the army and in the minority Alawite community.
The group soon grew to seven, and later broadened in scope and membership – including Russia and a vast bureaucratic and press apparatus – to become the G-8.
His trouble was with powerful opponents in Iran’s security apparatus, who sabotaged his pragmatic foreign-policy initiatives by staging terrorist attacks in France, Germany, and Argentina.
At the same time, many key positions in the US diplomatic apparatus remain unfilled.
This strategy emphasizes the maintenance of an extensive law enforcement apparatus designed to eliminate any incipient organized opposition.
That is why so-called “system liberals,” or loyalists who stand for Kremlin-backed change, want to control the protest movement and use it as a lever in an ultimate fight with the “siloviks” (Putin’s military and security apparatus).
The current trend is for countries to consolidate their financial regulatory apparatus into a single agency, with Britain's Financial Services Agency (FSA) a leading example.
The incumbent’s advantage in Latin America owes much to the feeble regulations restricting the government’s use of the state apparatus for campaign purposes.
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