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After decades of instability, a handful of Latin countries - in particular, Chile and Mexico - have become an example of prudence, austerity and macroeconomic stability.
If the price for France's continued willingness to act as a major promoter of European integration is a handful of nuclear tests, it is a price worth paying.
In October, the International Monetary Fund updated its global outlook to predict that only a handful of small countries will suffer a recession next year.
The Warriors of God is one of a handful of radical, al-Qaeda-inspired groups to have appeared in the Gaza Strip in recent months, first coming to public attention in June after claiming responsibility for a failed horseback attack on Israel from Gaza.
In the Netherlands, voters were asked to approve or reject an agreement that runs to more than 2,000 pages, which surely no more than a handful of voters have actually read.
For that, Daoud has been saddled with a double fatwa: one from his “assassin brothers,” to borrow the Algerian-French journalist Mohamed Sifaoui’s phrase, and another from a handful of supposedly progressive and anti-racist French intellectuals who accused him of “recycling the most hackneyed clichés of Orientalism” when he urged Arab men to respect the dignity of women.
Securing the consent of only a handful of local residents simply is not good enough.Because Target Malaria’s Burkina Faso experiments are among the first of their kind, they will serve as a powerful precedent for similar experiments worldwide.
Securing the consent of only a handful of local residents simply is not good enough.
Dr. Suritiri Fola, one of a handful of AIDS experts in Nigeria's Federal Ministry of Health, was, at age 32, directing the national ARV program.
Specific estimates of casualties in the combat area were compiled by a UN team in Colombo from early 2009, based on regular radiophone contact with a handful of reliable sources – NGO, medical, and local UN Tamil staff – still on the ground.
Only a small handful of international bonds are denominated in SDRs, because banks and firms do not find this option particularly attractive.
Many key figures are from a handful of villages in just one valley, the Panjshir.
But then came the smartphone, which transformed all media and effectively put Facebook, Google, and a handful of others in control of the information flow to users.
Efforts by just a handful of major players will not be sufficient to keep the world safe.
The United States is one of a handful of advanced countries with a growing workforce, owing to its relative openness to immigration.
While only a handful of schools will be affected, the hardest hit include major centers of research like MIT, the University of Chicago, Harvard, and Stanford – the very institutions the US must rely on to maintain a competitive advantage.
Of the 50 best universities in the world, according to the Shanghai list and the Times Higher Education Supplement list, some 30 are American, six or seven are British, and only a handful are to be found in continental Europe.
This failure to follow through reopens old wounds and raises troubling questions about the legitimacy of an institution that, reflecting the long shadow of history, is dominated by a handful of advanced countries.
Under these arrangements, the Fed stands ready to provide dollars to this handful of favored foreign central banks – an acknowledgment of the dollar’s unique role in international financial markets.
Toddlers learn the concept of a cat by being shown just a handful of exemplars.
And, as usual, a handful of economic studies have been found to justify the concept.
The document, "Al-Qaeda In Southeast Asia: The Case Of The "Ngruki Network," is an exhaustive review of reliable public data, and identifies a handful of individuals with possible direct or indirect links with Al-Qaeda.
The party retained control of the Senate, even though more than twice as many Republican seats were up for reelection than Democratic seats, and it lost just a handful of House seats, far fewer than the 20 predicted.
India, China, and a handful of other Asian countries are also witnessing remarkable growth in local alternative energy companies and the use of renewable energy.
In fact, only a handful of potentially useful quantum algorithms are known at present.
Grasping a handful of dirt from a riverbank does leave one’s hand more oily than tarred, and the greasy dirt is somewhat sandy.
The vaccine field was dominated by a handful of multinational pharmaceutical companies in rich countries, and the entire sector suffered from a lack of competition.
This was clearly intended to provoke the US, Canada, and a handful of other countries opposed to his presence.
The ICC has only completed a handful of prosecutions in Africa, but its actions seem to have significantly curbed violent crimes in several countries.
Likewise, empathy with a handful of children who are, or are believed to be, harmed by vaccines largely drives popular resistance to vaccinating children against dangerous diseases.
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