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In 2009, it is still the first force in the new parliament, with 267 deputies out of a total of 736: the decrease in its membership is also due to the stated commitment of the British Conservatives and the Czech right party to defect from the EPP to create their own party, with a stronger right-wing line.
Subsequently, the heavily indebted member countries were treated as if they were solely responsible for their misfortunes, and the structural defect of the euro remained uncorrected.
Most notably, the Tlas brothers – Firas, a businessman, and Manaf, a general and personal friend of Assad – were the first members of the regime’s inner core to defect.
The incompetence of the governments that implemented the agreement exacerbates that defect by sidelining structural reforms and enacting only the terms concerning austerity.
If the proposed subsidies in France and Germany have a defect, it is not that they are unnecessary, but that they do not go far enough.
And the list should be rolled out gradually (and perhaps at random), to give the henchmen time to defect and the regime to crumble.
The US Congress had a chance to fix this design defect in the major financial overhaul that it enacted last summer via the Dodd-Frank bill.
The essential defect of the NPT is now visible in the nuclear dispute between Iran and the United Nations Security Council: the Treaty permits the development of all nuclear components indispensable for military use – particularly uranium enrichment – so long as there is no outright nuclear weapons program.
Addressing the MMOA would contribute to reversing the low productivity of target-based discoveries, because merely knowing the identity of a part involved in a defect may not be sufficient to repair a malfunctioning machine.
A wave of fatwas from the Islamic world might even embolden less radical factions within al-Shabaab to defect or take action against the small circle of extremists at the top of the group.
(The defect results in a single aberrant amino acid being inserted into the hemoglobin protein.)
But with new, highly precise gene-editing techniques, such a molecular defect could be repaired; such procedures already have been performed successfully in monkeys.
This fact – a defect inherent in the system – contradicts the generally accepted theory that financial markets tend towards equilibrium and deviations from the equilibrium occur either in a random manner or are caused by some sudden external event to which markets have difficulty in adjusting.ampnbsp;
This defect could have been corrected by replacing individual countries’ bonds with Eurobonds.
Those cases tend to lean on the 1988 National Constitution, which guarantees the right to abortion in case of rape, danger to the mother’s life, or anencephaly, another birth defect involving the brain.
The regime even dispatched two spies to Seoul to assassinate Hwang Jang-yop, the highest-level North Korean official ever to defect to South Korea.
But, whatever the reason (or reasons) for the rise in their occurrence, we also know that between 5% and 10% of breast cancers are due to an inherited defect that affects the BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes.
Both research teams describe how the use of a chemical inhibitor can kill tumor cells that have either a BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene defect causing hereditary breast cancer.
Clearly, couples carrying a transmissible genetic defect and otherwise requiring IVF should be offered the option of PGD, and if necessary, referral to a center that can perform this specialized procedure.
The second defect is that geopolitics does not recognize a common interest beyond the national interest.
Of course, when the other player is cooperating, it might be tempting to defect, in order to increase your own payoff and potentially even secure a windfall.
But, according to the TFT strategy, the other player would then also defect, creating losses that, whether immediately or over time, would offset whatever gains you had secured.
In Brazil, a television program on the role that folic-acid supplementation could play in the prevention of spina bifida (a congenital neural tube defect) immediately grabbed politicians’ attention.
They are also less likely than other graduates to defect and leave violent Islamism behind.
For most of the parents, the random bad luck of their child’s genetic defect had stolen their lives, turning their days into a series of endless visits to medical specialists.
Others must cope with results showing that they carry defects that significantly increase their risk of developing a hereditary form of cancer or dementia, or of transmitting a defect to their children that could, in turn, cause a serious defect in their grandchildren.
Europeans can supply this defect.
The only way to reassure them (and to encourage them to defect) is with an opposition that becomes truly national and articulates principles that appeal to all Syrians.
The fact that they didn’t not only shocked the moral sentiments of many, but also revealed a fundamental defect in sovereign debt markets’ institutional architecture.
The failure to clarify the relationship between the euro and the EU reflects a broader defect: the assumption that various member states may be moving at different speeds but are all headed toward the same destination.
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