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Is it really possible to obtain significant economies of scale by using the Internet to distribute information about groceries?
Can Greece, with the EFSF’s help, obtain debt relief while avoiding default?
Berlusconi carefully followed all of Machiavelli’s teachings on how to obtain and maintain power – all but one, and that lapse sealed his fate.
Because UHS data are not freely available, different people obtain results for different years and provinces from the various sources they could access.
In our own research at Fudan University in Shanghai, my two PhD students, Liheng Xu and Huihui Zhang, and I managed to obtain a reasonably broad supply of official statistics: the 2005-2012 data for four provinces, the 2005-2009 data for three provinces, and monthly data for 2010-2012 for four of these seven provinces.
And they need supportive spaces where they can hone these skills, build networks, and obtain support.
For about eight years after the crisis began, banks simply used their massive stocks of government bonds as collateral to obtain liquidity from the BOJ, which they then used to finance loans to weak companies.
This approach has helped Maduro obtain the support of the Union of South American Nations – a new regional bloc that issues harmless pronouncements.
In 1990, with unification, the irrepressible desire of East Germans to be incorporated into the Federal republic stemmed from their determination to obtain what their relatives in the West had acquired long before -- not just democracy but material well-being as well.
It must be clear by now that Pyongyang is determined to keep its nuclear weapons program in order to obtain a credible assurance from the US that its bizarre and repressive regime will be allowed to survive.
There is a dramatic discrepancy between the courage and tenacity of the demonstrators and fighters in Homs, Idlib, and Deraa, and the Syrian National Front, whose people and factions have failed to formulate a coherent political program, build an identity, and obtain name and face recognition.
Imagine a WFP that is no longer arranging the logistics, procurement, storage, and distribution of 3.2 million metric tons of food, and taking 120 days to obtain and move food to recipient countries.
Terrorists can obtain microbes and viruses from inadequately protected foreign laboratories, or by bribing underpaid scientists in the remnants of the Russian biological warfare system, or from natural sources.
But most instances of corrupt actions involve bribes or other illicit payoffs to officials to obtain government contracts, for laws to be passed that keep out competition, for loans on favorable terms, or to ease the enforcement of pollution and other costly regulations.
Indeed, the HDP seemed at risk of failing to obtain the 10% of the vote it would need to enter parliament, an outcome that would have provided the AKP with a majority large enough to amend the constitution on its own.
According to the Indian Supreme Court, the country’s amended patent law still places greater weight on social objectives than in the US and elsewhere: the standards of non-obviousness and novelty required to obtain a patent are stricter (especially as they pertain to medicines), and no “evergreening” of existing patents – or patent protection for incremental follow-up innovations – is allowed.
They were what powerful US corporate and financial interests – the same ones that support Trump – demanded and managed to obtain.
Bannon was seeking to shake up the Republican “establishment” by backing similar “outsider” candidates in this year’s midterm elections, which, if successful, could make it all the harder for Trump to obtain victories in Congress.
His aim is to obtain and maintain calm along the border.
The immediate challenge is to obtain the most change possible within the existing framework of European institutions and treaties.
Bothered by what he regarded as problems in Zambia’s national statistics, Morten Jerven, an assistant professor at Simon Fraser University, spent four years examining how African countries obtain their data and the challenges they face in turning them into GDP estimates.
As Jerven argues, national statistics offices across Africa need more support so that they can obtain and report timelier and more accurate data.
They then sued Argentina to obtain 100% of that value.
One speaker at the National Gathering noted that it is easier to obtain funding for capital equipment than for daily food purchases.
Nestlé scores better, because its guidelines for suppliers – used for the sourcing of sugar, soy, palm oil, and other commodities – require that they obtain the free, prior, and informed consent of indigenous and local communities before acquiring land.
The question is whether Syria’s rulers can make the political choices necessary to obtain them.
Far ranging efforts were deployed to obtain technology transfers.
The developing countries, therefore, have an interest in calling for multilateral dialogue on investment conditions in order to obtain certain collective guarantees.
Saleh has regularly employed the danger of Al Qaeda to obtain additional financial and security support from both the West and Saudi Arabia.
And yet Meles is irreplaceable – unmatched intellectually as an African leader (he dropped out of medical school, but went on to teach himself impeccable English and obtain European university degrees by correspondence), and unmatched politically at home, with no obvious successor groomed to replace him.
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