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Yet, even if these massive and environmentally damaging structures were installed, they would be
unable
to produce enough energy reliably.
Because the DPJ has neither an upper-house majority nor the two-thirds lower-house majority needed to override upper-house votes, his government will be
unable
to pass budget and/or appropriation bills by the end of the current fiscal year, March 31, 2011.
Even if a prosecutor were inclined to do so, the ICC’s jurisdiction is complementary to national jurisdictions: it can investigate only if a national government is
unable
or unwilling to do so.
They have high overall unemployment (and alarmingly high youth joblessness), and are
unable
to grow on their own power.
Outsiders watching these shifts, and the Pakistani government’s handling of them, have been
unable
to discern a consistent pattern that would explain Pakistani policy.
These new military-grade weapons, which criminal cartels purchase easily in the United States, have rendered the police, who already lack appropriate military training,
unable
to make any real headway in the drug war.
Yet the Red Crescent and other relief agencies have been
unable
to relieve Falluja’s civilian population.
But both models are
unable
to describe or analyze the actual behavior of key market participants.
Unable
to facilitate balance-sheet repair or stimulate real economic activity, QE has, instead, become a dangerous source of instability in global financial markets.
The Gallup Index dropped sharply between the first week of July and the first week of August – the period when US political leaders worried everyone that they would be
unable
to raise the federal government’s debt ceiling and prevent the US from defaulting on August 2.
In the meantime, Japan will drift,
unable
to take any significant foreign policy decision at a time when Asia’s security landscape is changing rapidly.
And it may happen that the EU, too, will be
unable
to maintain itself on such a tiny budget.
The current government, however, is
unable
to supervise free and fair elections.
But cities are simply
unable
to cope with the influx of migrants on the current scale.
Municipalities, often owing to corruption or poor management, are
unable
or unwilling to impose rigorous planning regulations.
So why have the Europeans been
unable
to sustain improvements in both foundations of growth – employment and productivity – at the same time?
It is a sad reflection on the state of the EU that it seems
unable
to agree on the one clear productivity-advancing piece of legislation when improving productivity is held out as a shared goal.
But Europe will be
unable
to provide many new jobs in the private sector until it levels the playing field by reducing the heavy tax and regulatory burden which is discouraging companies from adding employees.
Unable
to gain much return from deposits, and faced with high property prices, Chinese savers viewed the protracted growth in domestic share prices as an opportunity to boost yield.
Unfortunately, demographic trends make the latter scenario more likely, since young people will be a minority,
unable
to win power through democratic channels.
So far, Obama and Brown seem
unable
to fully grasp the fact that Yemen’s problems go well beyond Al Qaeda’s presence in the country.
If not – if the risks compelling the end of QE are left vague – they will be
unable
to counter investors’ belief that a taper today will mean a new path for interest rates tomorrow.
In the midst of all of this, national leaders commit to more of the same harsh austerity measures that they have been
unable
to implement for two years.
Clashes between these organizations put peace at risk nine months after the Chapultepec agreement, when the government proved
unable
to start the arms-for-land swap that was a key part of the accord.
Without proper protections, suppliers will not send technical specifications of products over the Internet, and customers will be
unable
to complete Internet deals.
Some crisis-prone countries such as Latvia are already
unable
to sell any more debt.
UNESCO estimates that at least 250 million of the world’s children of primary-school age are
unable
to read, write, or do basic arithmetic.
While local governments have been
unable
to borrow, locally controlled state-investment companies can.
Even the smartest authoritarian rulers are
unable
to manage complexity on this scale – not to mention the corruption that inevitably breeds in the protected shadows of autocracy.
The EU may be
unable
to return Crimea to Ukraine, but its legal actions should put Putin on notice that his strong-arm tactics will not work for much longer.
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