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Yes, these are relevant and, in a
handful
of cases, urgent.
In a
handful
of countries, poor governance can also be blamed for unsustainable debt practices.
This explains, at least partly, why a
handful
of mega-banks in the US – namely, Citibank, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, and Morgan Stanley – handle the bulk of derivatives trading.
In the meantime, depreciation or devaluation (which has been even more dramatic in the black market) will not boost exports much, because a single or
handful
of commodities – prices for which remain depressed – dominate these countries’ tradable sectors, while public and private debts are denominated in US dollars.
Only a
handful
of them really will be.
On May 28, a
handful
of Turkish environmentalists started a peaceful protest against a redevelopment plan for the park that would replace the greenery with a replica of an Ottoman-era army barracks, a shopping mall, and apartments.
People who used to buy rice by the bag now do so by the
handful.
The challenge of responding to those movements does not belong exclusively to a
handful
of governments.
Once the preserve of a
handful
of scholars, the Ibn al-‘Alqami story now plays a prominent part in today’s Sunni- Shia disputes.
In fact, since the Industrial Revolution, efficiency through innovation has revolutionized just a
handful
of core energy-conversion inventions: the internal combustion engine, the electric motor, the light bulb, the gas turbine, the steam engine, and, more recently, the electronic circuit.
The value of inherited government debts remains intact, and, aside from a
handful
of obligations to so-called junior creditors, bank debts also remain untouched.
What Girls WantWASHINGTON, DC – Last month, as I watched dozens of students at the Kakuma refugee camp in northwest Kenya learn computer skills, I was impressed by their enthusiasm – especially that of the
handful
of girls in the room.
They arguably add little to three prior sanction resolutions that ban the export of nuclear and ballistic-missile technology and conventional arms, and that freeze the assets and travel of a
handful
of Iranian officials.
Surely, the technical challenges of exploiting such shale-gas reserves are huge, and only a
handful
of firms in the world have the necessary knowhow.
So as negotiators – and a
handful
of government ministers – arrived in Durban, expectations could not have been lower.
AQIM’s history can be traced directly to the coup staged by a
handful
of Algerian generals against President Chadli Bendjedid in January 1992.
In Italy, a curious rule that provides for the grouping which has a
handful
of votes more than the other to get a bonus of several dozen seats in the lower house.
During World War II, the prohibition on rape by soldiers was well established in international law, but the post-war Nuremberg and Tokyo war crimes tribunals prosecuted only a
handful
of cases.
The Nobel laureate economist Michael Spence has pointed out that after WWII, only a
handful
of countries were able to grow to a fully-industrialized level of development.
Despite overfishing, a
handful
of countries – including the United States, Japan, and China, as well as the EU – are artificially supporting industrial high-seas fishing.
A
handful
of bioengineering startups and aid groups, such as Engineers Without Borders, have begun to tackle health-related problems in refugee communities.
Yet, in all but a
handful
of cases, the response of Europe’s governments has been tentative, at best: acknowledging the need to do more, while fearing the implications.
As a result, Prodi has won a large margin in the lower house, but he has only a
handful
of extra votes in the Senate.
Now Germany is trying to devise a form of restricted EU membership which would exclude eastern Europe from the common agricultural market in order to protect a
handful
of Bavarian farmers.
Amid rising Islamist influence and shifting political allegiances among the
handful
of powerful families that dominate the Maldives’ economy and politics, finding reliable allies committed to – much less capable of – protecting democratic freedoms would prove a daunting challenge.
More than 10,000 people are killed every year by gun violence in the US – all but a
handful
for reasons having nothing to do with Islam.
But even a relative
handful
of Muslim refugees is too dangerous to contemplate.
My own state, New York, already bans assault weapons, as do a
handful
of other states.
Dangote has described how thousands of college graduates applied for a
handful
of truck-driving vacancies in his factory.
In fact, the modest measures implemented in response to the changing distribution of global power have been limited to the economic realm, with the hard core of international relations – peace and security – remaining the exclusive preserve of a
handful
of countries.
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