Example collocations logo

Individual in sentence

3461 examples of Individual in a sentence

At present, the Council meets under the Presidency of an individual member state for a period of six months, at the end of which the Presidency rotates to another member state.
The Middle East needs the opportunity to govern itself, protected and supported by the UN Charter, not by any individual great power.
But under the international rules that America is supposed to follow, wars should not be undertaken based on the judgment of one individual and his cabal.
If an individual does not have a cell phone, they almost surely know someone who does.
The problem for governments, more often than not, is that in attempting to respond to and reconcile often conflicting individual, family, and national needs, their ability to deliver results efficiently and effectively has declined.
This stands in marked contrast to the United States Federal Reserve, and also the Bank of England, where individual votes on the Monetary Policy Committee are routinely revealed.
The argument against transparency has been that, in the unusual circumstances of the ECB, to expose the votes of individual members of the Governing Council would put pressure on them as representatives of member states.
The weight of individual national members of the Governing Council is much greater.
And, since each member state has one vote, there is a massive imbalance between the voting weight and the GDP weight of individual countries.
Even if the major advanced economies’ current monetary strategies do not lead to rising inflation, we may look back on these years as a time when official policy led to individual losses and overall financial instability.
Given this, it is difficult to justify Europe’s failure to agree on a system of relocation and resettlement for a total of, say, 20,000 refugees this year, distributed among 28 countries according to individual quotas.
The second reason that a million US women have filed for bankruptcy is that legislation enacted in 2005 now pits individual women – who can’t afford costly legal advice – against credit-card companies in terms of who gets paid first when ex-husbands owe delinquent credit-card payments and child-support payments.
But there are also significant differences in levels of entrepreneurship within individual countries.
To be sure, much more aggressive policy action (massive and unconventional monetary easing, larger fiscal-stimulus packages, bailouts of financial firms, individual mortgage-debt relief, and increased financial support for troubled emerging markets) in many countries in the last few months has reduced the risk of a near depression.
Individual farmers do not need any bureaucratic directive to decide whether to plant more potatoes: an increase in prices creates an incentive to plant more potatoes; a decrease in prices is a signal that they should plant less.
Another stumbling block is that India prefers bilateral arrangements with individual member states to dealing with the EU collectively.
This web of contracts – often taken for granted in mainstream economics, to the extent that it becomes almost invisible – embodies the formal and informal rules embedded in the market system that shape and constrain individual and social behavior.
This “top-level governance architecture,” as it is known in China, has been essential for coordinating and orchestrating the different supply chains and the overall web of contracts to achieve the delicate balance among individual, family, corporate, social, and national objectives.
There was a time when privatization – allowing individuals to set up individual savings accounts – seemed better than Social Security, which invests in lower-yielding Treasury bills.
Today, an individual hacker using malicious software can cause chaos in far-away places at little cost to himself.
Individual buying of gold goes far beyond the airport shops and other places where gold coins are sold.
Social Choice and Social WelfareCAMBRIDGE – Human beings have always lived in groups, and their individual lives have invariably depended on group decisions.
As leading Russian military expert Alexander Golts argues, the problem in Russia is not a lack of central power, but of power exercised incompetently and without individual initiative.
Russia's traditional army cannot fight terrorists effectively because it disdains the ability of soldiers to work in small groups, and does not encourage individual initiative on the part of officers.
But it is individual training and the ability to make split-second decisions in a fluid situation that are required in anti-terrorist operations.
To meet today's threats, troops must be able to take individual responsibility and initiative, and need to be trained to react resourcefully and at a moment's notice.
Without major reform of all security and military forces - reforms that provide incentives for individual officers to show initiative and take responsibility - Russia's war on terror will remain one-sided: the terrorists will be doing all the attacking.
The trouble is that complexity can be overwhelming, so people often prefer to break down complex systems into individual components.
Because all countries are members, the UN enjoys a global standing that gives its decisions and actions a degree of authority that no individual government enjoys beyond its own borders.
Her death would have added just one more individual to the tens of thousands who have already been killed in terrorist attacks across the country.
BackNext