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It is the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund that are better equipped to deal with aid issues.
Yet China’s economy is not equipped to generate sufficient resources to support the level of spending that victory on this front would require.
These include the DF-31 and DF-31A, which are equipped with nuclear payloads.
But, equipped with a popular mandate of her own, and with the vision, strength, and courage of her three namesakes, she could secure a deal with Europe that serves both Britain and the cause of global stability.
They all have a right to be equipped for survival, and they all have a right to contribute to keeping their communities safe from harm.
Leading a worthy life no longer demands the sacrifice it once did, and people are thus better equipped to be true to themselves in this important dimension of their existence.
Nouy (with whom I have worked) is a knowledgeable and capable supervisor, equipped with a formidable combination of determination and charm.
Nevertheless, Europe is reasonably equipped to defend itself against external threats.
Second, it was hoped that the euro would become a major international currency (particularly given how few countries are equipped with the necessary legal, market, and policy institutions).
Saddam's security system for Baghdad includes the Special Republican Guard, whose 16,000 men are Iraq's most disciplined, best equipped troops.
But in 1991, less than 150 aircraft were equipped to launch the precision weapons that did 90% of the useful bombing.
After all, South Korea’s conventional forces are far better trained, equipped, and motivated than their North Korean counterparts.
Persson's main advantages entering this year's campaign were that he was unencumbered by new promises and was well equipped to run a presidential-style contest based on his personal appeal.
Put simply, every new labor-force entrant would be equipped with a lifelong individual account, thereby accumulating points in the same way airline travelers accumulate miles.
Most governments are poorly equipped to deal with serious water challenges.
So income inequality emerged, not primarily because of policies favoring the rich, but because the liberalized economy favored those equipped to take advantage of it.
If the high-income non-OECD countries equipped their students at least with very basic skills, they would, as a group, benefit from added economic value equivalent to almost five times their current GDP.
If this trend continues, in 2050, governance systems will be even more poorly equipped to deal with the fundamental problems of perpetual population and consumption growth or wealth inequality.
Only with disciplined budgeting can staff be properly equipped and paid, hospitals stocked, and triage centers opened.
But the eurozone was not equipped to deal with this.
And, while the EFSF is not equipped to confront simultaneous crises in Spain and Italy, it has now been authorized to prevent such crises – or will be once national parliaments ratify the agreement reached on July 21 – by intervening on secondary debt markets to reduce interest-rate spreads on national bonds.
But, to help consolidate its democracy, Georgia now requires support of a different nature, which Europe is better equipped to offer.
It is clear that our current governance structures and dominant models of wealth creation are not equipped to meet current or, more important, future needs.
Unprecedented long-term monetary stimulus and massive spikes in public-debt burdens have left governments poorly equipped to manage the next economic downturn when – not if – it arrives.
Unlike emerging economies, Western countries are not well equipped to deal with structural and secular changes – and understandably so.
As then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton admitted in 2010, “We trained them, we equipped them, we funded them, including somebody named Osama bin Laden….And it didn’t work out so well for us.”
While we now have the ability to rent a car at a distant airport equipped with a Global Posting System to guide us unerringly to a hotel we have never seen, we still cannot put anywhere near the same of measure of reliance on any of our common economic measures.
But many observers believe that the veterans could easily be reactivated and equipped from hidden arms caches.
A key problem lies in the intricacy of the EU, which is poorly equipped to function amid chaos, much as Germany’s highly disciplined soccer team was ill-prepared to face their Mexican opponents’ frenetic play early in this year’s World Cup.
Because the PCC “was not equipped to deal with systemic and illegal invasions of privacy,” the committee set out proposals for a reformed regulator.
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