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PARIS – Despite the frequency with which the phrase “international community” is invoked, its precise meaning – like its origins – is difficult to discern.
They don't want a job that will solve their problems for three years, but rather a precise path to residency in the US that will solve their problems forever.
Without more precise terminology, the world’s democracies will have little hope of countering these states’ increasingly multifaceted influence.
In the United States, “organic” has a precise meaning established by the US Department of Agriculture.
Outside the world of manufacturing, where mass-produced goods may still have a substantial cost advantage over custom-printed ones, 3D printing will have far greater impact downstream, in the market for spare parts and replacements, where demand is less predictable but more precise.
With that, it becomes more difficult to pursue longer-term policy objectives, which merely adds further uncertainty about the precise path of European economic and financial integration.
Never before has mankind been able to understand the functioning of cells, tissues, and organs, the precise molecular mechanisms of evolution, and where and how our species originated and spread throughout the world.
Of course, the precise policy approach taken in one country cannot be imitated elsewhere.
Physics, as summarized in a handful of mathematically precise laws, indisputably works.
Their beauty is rooted, first, in the laws’ symmetry, here meaning the possibility of change without change – a precise yet almost mystical concept.
For example, the “Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium Model of the Euro Area,” developed by Frank Smets of the European Central Bank and Raf Wouters of the National Bank of Belgium, is very good at giving a precise list of external shocks that are presumed to drive the economy.
By contrast, plants constructed with less precise techniques such as hybridization or mutagenesis generally are subject to no government scrutiny or requirements (or opposition from activists) at all.
To be precise, there is no solution of any sort.
Here, Owen was less precise, listing several factors that could have put Litvinenko in Putin’s crosshairs, including his defection to the UK in 2000, his close relationship with Putin’s arch-enemy, Boris Berezovsky, and his allegations of FSB complicity in the terror bombings that propelled Putin to power in 1999.
It is always difficult to assess what is going on in North Korea, which seems to regard its opaqueness as a national-security asset – routinely keeping foreign observers guessing about even mundane issues like the precise date of current leader Kim Jung-un’s birthday.
It can fruitfully be extended to internal security, where it is possible to define a precise mission for EU policymakers, exploiting the Commission and designing appropriate technical guidelines to achieve clearly defined operational goals.
And while there is some evidence that sudden deep recessions produce temporary fertility dips, followed by rebounds, cross-country comparison provides no evidence of any correlation – positive or negative – between medium-term economic success and precise fertility rates within this range.
So far, the impeachment debate has focused on politics, rather than on this precise economic and institutional concern.
But, while the crisis in Venezuela undoubtedly has far-reaching implications, the precise motivation behind Obama’s decision remains unclear.
But it also makes economic sense – $160 trillion worth, to be precise.
Inequality’s precise impact on individual well-being remains controversial, partly because of the complex nature of the metrics needed to gauge it accurately.
If we are to draw in the countries with illiberal regimes, we could foster the active support of civil society, while using precise and calibrated instruments to put pressure on the governments in question.
But, instead of providing a precise delineation, the legal frontier between constitutional and ordinary provisions creates political confusion.
Whatever the precise location of Burma’s riches, these hoards enable the junta to spend at its whim.
But these figures are nearly a decade old; the Commission will update these estimates and make them more precise.
The government has not yet decided on a precise course of action for spending, although Macron and his team are looking closely at the reforms carried out by Canada and Sweden in the 1990s.
Continuing disputes in Congress about the precise details of reform could, therefore, have an economic cost if a perception that the system will not be overhauled gains ground.
In other words, when high-tech companies pay their workers with stock options, as many are increasingly doing, the gap in taxable revenue is significant – 17% in the UK, and 19% in the US, to be precise.
This cannot be done by some cosmetic clause; instead it requires a precise date when serious negotiations will start with Romania and Slovenia; the "second wave" does not have to include all other potential candidates but it does have to demonstrate that the process of enlargement will not stop.
To understand the precise problem, you must dip into the latest details of the Prudential Regulatory Authority’s “capital shortfall exercise” with eight major UK banks.
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