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But any strategy that aims to destroy Hamas as a political force, were it feasible, would only aggravate the crisis by transforming Hamas into a cluster of violent armed groups with which dialogue would be almost impossible.
In pursuit of protein-rich meals, Nkhoma is pushing her cluster of villages, representing a thousand households in all, to begin raising chickens for eggs and meat, cows for milk, and “exotic” vegetables such as cabbage for vitamins.
We now aspire to becoming the most significant health and life science research center in Europe, owing to a remarkable cluster of knowledge based 5,000 researchers, an excellent medical school, 11 university hospitals, and a thriving biotech business environment that already includes market leaders in diabetes and neuroscience.
A fourth cluster of issues involves the Middle East.
The strategy’s most promising prospects include the promotion of industrial upgrading, niche industries, and competitiveness-boosting cluster projects that aim to make Thailand a global and regional hub for food, fashion, tourism, automobiles, and healthcare.
Close analysis of the behavior of the Fed and Germany's Bundesbank between 1979-1995 reveals that central bank interventions tend to cluster over time.
Thus was born the concept of an “operon,” a cluster of genes whose expression is regulated by an adjacent regulatory gene.
This cluster of record-breaking events could be merely an astonishing streak of bad luck.
So, what if sanctions don’t work and the threat of exit is a cluster bomb that would hurt everyone?
But even as these efforts are gathering momentum, The Financial Times, which used to be a staunch supporter of multilateral free trade, dropped a cluster bomb on Doha, even congratulating itself that, in 2008 (when a ministerial meeting failed to reach closure), it “argued that leaders should admit the negotiations were dead.”
We must call a halt in the days (if not hours) ahead to the rain of steel, the cluster and phosphorus bombs, and the barrels of chlorine dropped from low-flying government helicopters on the last parts of Aleppo held by moderate rebels.
But if America can evade its guarantee of Ukraine’s territorial integrity, why should Japan’s leaders believe that it will do otherwise in the case of a far-flung cluster of uninhabited islands that are scarcely more than rocks inhabited by sheep?
In 2010, China’s State Council identified three major urban clusters as launch-pads for smart urbanization: the Yangtze River Delta (YRD), the Pearl River Delta (PRD), and the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei cluster (BTH).
It is also China’s most innovative urban cluster, generating more than 50% of the country’s international patent applications.
For example, beginning in 2013, China’s National Development and Reform Commission studied in-depth lessons from Foshan, one of the GBA’s most dynamic cities, in order to plan the further development of the cluster with better and more innovative strategies.
The declaration applies the CRPD in a specific geographic region (Europe), for a specific target group (children with intellectual disabilities), and for a cluster of specific rights (the rights to health and to live in the community with appropriate support).
Each has its cluster of component suppliers and professional service providers, with an infrastructure of transportation lines, communications networks, and research laboratories to support them.
McKinsey’s Internet Barriers Index for 25 countries classifies India as part of a cluster (along with Egypt, Indonesia, Thailand, and the Philippines) characterized by medium-to-high barriers in four key areas: infrastructure, affordability, incentives, and capability.
But states that specialize in a capability should do so as a part of a “country cluster” to minimize the risk of a nation facing a military challenge that its forces are unprepared to meet.
Simple computer programs can compare two or more strings of these units and evaluate degrees of similarity, search huge databases to match new sequences against known ones, and cluster groups of sequences in the form of a family tree.
As one senior European policymaker put it to me, the Trump administration’s new sanctions are like cluster bombs, falling on friend and foe alike.
An A-bomb is millions of times more immoral than a spear or sword, hundreds of thousands of times more immoral than a rifle, thousands of times more immoral than a machine gun, and hundreds of times more immoral than salvo systems or cluster bombs.
While each city appears to be imbalanced in its economic structure, the city cluster as a whole is well balanced and highly competitive.
We have also learned that only 20-40% of the breast cancers that cluster in families come from BRCA1 or BRCA2 germline mutations – genetic alterations that are present from birth in every cell of the body and can be transmitted to the offspring.
Norway’s $1 trillion sovereign wealth fund, for example, has strict policies against owning stakes in companies that make nuclear weapons and cluster munitions, or that are involved in production of coal or tobacco goods.
Airline pilots provide passengers with the latest scores; office-goers cluster around the nearest available television.
And when solar hits cost parity, Germany will have a well-positioned industry cluster.
Of course, just as some states refuse to join the conventions that ban cluster bombs and landmines, the nuclear-weapon states will not join a convention banning their arsenals.
Finally, instead of relying on the UN as a negotiating forum, countries should cluster around specific initiatives, from renewable power to sustainable agriculture.
Compared to similar firms outside the cluster, those in the KSEZ have already doubled their sales and value added and increased their staff by 18%.
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