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And the failure of the most recent round of Israel-Palestine peace talks, spearheaded by US Secretary of State John Kerry, has underscored America’s
inability
to lead the peace process alone.
Moreover, the EU’s image as a defender of human rights around the world will be tarnished by its
inability
to hold member states to its own standards.
But they do underscore its
inability
to react quickly and decisively.
According to the Argentine scholar Roberto Bouzas, MERCOSUR is in a critical state of affairs, owing to the
inability
of its institutions to maintain “the common objectives which drove its member states to engage in the process of regional integration and the consequent loss of focus and capacity to prioritize underlying political problems.
These difficulties are exacerbated by the OAS’s
inability
to address complex situations such as the coup d’état in Honduras, the conflict between Ecuador and Colombia, or broader regional problems.
Perhaps if Turing were alive today, he would define artificial intelligence as the
inability
of a computer to tell whether another machine is human!
The debt crisis in the euro area has highlighted the unwillingness or
inability
of politicians to maintain a fiscal policy consistent with the stability requirements.
The obstacles hindering its success included Russia’s
inability
or refusal to transform itself in line with the European model, as well as Europe’s lack of the ambition and imagination needed to launch a new project for the genuine unification of the whole of Europe.
Now, in response, the European Central Bank (ECB) has stepped up its stimulus, joining the Bank of Japan and a couple of other central banks in showing that the “zero lower bound” – the
inability
of interest rates to become negative – is a boundary only in the imagination of conventional economists.
But its weakness is its
inability
to influence how the message is perceived in different cultural settings.
More generally, lack of pluralism and the
inability
to share power are holding back the transitions.
To speak of Sarkozy as a substitute for Tony Blair in Europe would be premature – and unhelpful, given Blair’s
inability
to exert significant influence on US policy.
While the Iraq quagmire has made it difficult for America to project force around the world, America’s growing debt, conflicts with friends and enemies alike, absence of any perceivable strategy for changing times, and its political system’s seeming
inability
to take action to address these challenges have combined to turn America into a struggling giant.
Its report on the
inability
of the intelligence services, notably the CIA and the FBI, to prevent the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks also contained a series of recommendations for restructuring these services to render them more effective.
But that will not help Putin to overcome the source of Russia’s weakness, which lies in his
inability
or unwillingness to see the Soviet Union for the failure that it was.
The lesson is simple: We should worry less about debt ratios and thresholds, and more about our
inability
to see these indicators for the artificial – and often irrelevant – constructs that they are.
A traditionally friendly and predictable gathering of like-minded countries was marred by finger-pointing and disagreement, resulting in an
inability
to achieve consensus on a final communiqué.
Americans see a total
inability
by Europe to handle immigration in ways that encourage dynamism and diversity instead of antagonism and higher state spending.
But these criticisms reflect an
inability
to contemplate the current nature of armed conflict, which no longer follows the classical logic of military victory or defeat.
But the participants’
inability
to reach a common position on their hosts’ nuclear program or the violence in Syria – two of the fundamental questions that confronted the summit – obviously undermined Iran’s effort to demonstrate that, despite facing severe economic and diplomatic sanctions, it remains an effective international player.
He can expect little if any help from his own party which, preoccupied by the need to find a new leader to succeed the unfortunate Juppe, is now paying the price of Chirac's
inability
to communicate effectively with the French people and is not inclined to consult him about its new choice.
The
inability
of Europe’s politicians to contemplate this scenario is placing a huge burden on the European Central Bank.
Issuing a statement of regret at the
inability
to reach a negotiated solution, offering clear short- and long-term plans to manage the default, and outlining a compelling strategy for recovery and growth would be far preferable.
Not only does that explain the
inability
of the British intellegentsia to reach consensus about the issue; it also leaves the Brexit question at the mercy of last-minute developments.
The
inability
to access electricity has become a defining feature of urban poverty, with just 58% of city dwellers in Africa having reliable supplies in 2012.
Considering the damage Japan's disastrous macroeconomic performance has done to Asia and the world, along with the apparent
inability
of the Japanese to enjoy spending money on themselves, perhaps Japan’s government should unilaterally transfer bundles of yen to other Asian countries, or to poor countries everywhere, for development projects and relief of poverty, requiring only that these yen be spent in Japan.
This is a retreat from the usual fixations of the earlier sustainable development pressure groups, such the supposed exhaustion of raw materials for growth, or the sheer technical
inability
of the world to feed its expanding population, or biodiversity.
The attempt by opposition parties to impeach South Korea's President Roh Moo Hyun on the flimsiest of excuses;Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian's
inability
to pass legislation through a parliament controlled by the opposition Kuomintang;Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's stalemated first term and the logjam over the fiscal reforms needed to prevent a predicted Argentine-style meltdown early in her second: each bears testimony to democratic paralysis in Asia.
Not surprisingly, given the EU authorities’ obvious
inability
to end the malaise, many member states are losing patience with austerity.
The
inability
to organize rapid relief is killing tens of thousands more.
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