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Moreover, US accounting standards have been
unable
to cope with bookkeeping's uncharted frontiers of off-balance sheet transactions, structured financing methods, and Byzantine contract valuations.
While the Council eventually agreed to cover the difference in the 2012 budget, an even greater shortfall is forecast for this year – and many member states are
unable
to oblige the Commission’s request for an additional €11.2 billion to cover these outstanding liabilities.
Here are two democracies, both among America’s closest allies,
unable
to overcome the burden of the past.
Or Egypt could become paralyzed and
unable
to rectify its dire economic situation and restore order, without which no progress is possible.
If we are
unable
to use the knowledge we have gleaned from past experience to prevent them from taking the stage, they will continue to take aim at audiences.
Two months into her new role,
unable
to depend on being escorted by family members to the bus depot daily, she gave up the job and returned to a lower position at the nearby school.
But, with the role of political Islam still unanswered, none of the country’s fundamental problems has been addressed seriously, and its leaders have been
unable
to take advantage of promising opportunities (for example, in contrast to Egypt, Algeria has large oil and gas reserves).
And he was describing himself as well when he cited Bloch: “Attached to my country, fed with her spiritual heritage and its history,
unable
to imagine any other country where I could breathe freely, I loved and served it with all my strength.
North Korea,
unable
to reach an agreement with the South about how to share the event, ended up boycotting it altogether.
But Iraqiyya was
unable
to forge a government coalition; indeed, it failed to attract a single additional MP, let alone the 72 that would be necessary to control a 163-seat majority in the 325-seat legislature.
Moreover, two of every five workers worldwide are
unable
to find a job, while rampant youth unemployment, coupled with a quickly growing pool of young laborers – more than one billion are expected to enter the world’s workforce between 2012 and 2020 – is further complicating labor-market recovery.
The first months of official negotiations will coincide with national elections in the Netherlands, France, and Germany, meaning that the European side will be
unable
to afford anything but a tough position.
Our girls and young women are
unable
to relax.
Yet the pogrom at the Sakharov museum provoked a chain reaction of similar attacks on contemporary art by Orthodox fundamentalists whom the church has been
unable
to control.
Given that the eurozone probably would be
unable
to provide its non-competitive members with such large annual transfers, such a strategy would be even less likely to work there.
Europe’s problem today, though serious, is different: a significant subset of countries does not have fiscal space to act and would therefore be
unable
to support demand.
An honest appraisal would further show that the poorest countries are
unable
to raise sufficient funds to solve such problems on their own.
But it has also guaranteed that, in the longer run, the Ukrainian state will be reconsolidated around anti-Russian sentiment and policies – meaning that Russia will be
unable
to normalize its relations with Ukraine for decades.
The “surge” will end sooner or later, and the Iraqis, crippled by violence and corruption, will still be incapable of uniting their polity, and, with their military still
unable
to take over from the Americans, jihadi and inter-ethnic violence is bound to erupt again.
In response, they agreed to establish an international mechanism to address climate-change-related “loss and damage,” to be applied in countries that are
unable
to adapt or protect themselves from the worst effects of global warming.
Many borrowers,
unable
to get funding on reasonable terms domestically, were forced to take hard-currency loans from abroad, creating disastrous burdens when the ruble collapsed.
Most believe that Putin is
unable
to intervene in his defense.
It is also possible that a new president turns out to be incompetent, or is in a permanent minority position and
unable
to pass legislation.
The frightening state in the region is the United States, which, following the terrorist attacks of September 2001, was anxious to bring about democratic regime change – a failed policy that now appears to have left the US
unable
to leave.
Imagine if Wall Street closes down because systems fail; no one trades, debts don't get paid, payments are not received leaving would-be recipients without liquidity and
unable
to meet their obligations.
With the liberal opposition apparently
unable
to create a political organization capable of challenging the Brotherhood within a recognized framework – and, indeed, largely supporting the military coup – Egypt’s fate is increasingly being decided on the street.
The more fundamental problem is that Japan seems unable, as a nation, to manage the kind of collective psychological shift that has transformed Germany, with which it is inevitably compared.
But they are
unable
– or unwilling – to draw on other development finance, notably loans from the World Bank and regional development banks.
Unable
to find common ground with the Republican opposition, he cut deals with the other powers that immediately surround the presidency: the military and security apparatus, big pharmaceutical companies, big banks, and big media.
First, governments and parliaments may be politically
unable
to take responsibility for distributional choices and prefer to keep them hidden.
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