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With much of the water in its rivers, lakes, and aquifers unfit for human consumption, pristine water has become the new oil for China – a precious and vital resource, the overexploitation of which risks wrecking the natural environment.
His interior minister, Zine el Abidine Ben Ali, having been named Prime Minister, soon managed to certify Bourguiba as medically unfit and ousted him from the presidency.
But the fact remains that, like previous governments, the new administration will consist mostly of politicians unfit to hold ministerial office.
And we should remind Paul Ryan that he made a mistake by going along with the Bush administration’s discredited economic and foreign-policy initiatives between 2001 and 2008, and that it is a disservice to the country to show unconditional partisan support for an administration that is so obviously unfit.
Is it not true that values which the West believed universal are rejected as unfit by Asia's confident new leaders?
More ominous than the potential actions of the ex-communists is the bitter fact that half of the Polish population, the half that fought so hard to establish democracy in Poland, may see in the new democratically elected president a representative of dictatorship and national dependency and thus consider him morally unfit to hold his office.
The only exceptions would be if a newspaper has reasonable grounds for believing that the individuals concerned are breaking the law, or that, even if they are not breaking the law, they are behaving in such a way as to render them unfit to perform the duties expected of them.
But the water had become unfit for human consumption long before the quake.
UN member states should use the occasion to pledge a radical increase in funding for TB programs around the world, and to overhaul an R&D model that has proved unfit for purpose.
In exchange for voting to pass over the unfit Crown Prince, Kuwait’s parliament is now demanding even more political and economic reforms, including the formal legalization of political parties, the separation of the position of prime minister from that of crown prince, and even for the prime minister to be chosen from outside the Al Sabah family.
If rich countries blame unlucky countries - claiming that they are somehow culturally or politically unfit to benefit from globalization - we will create not only deeper pockets of poverty but also deepening unrest.
Its infrastructure, both material and intellectual, was poorer, and its economic structure was unfit for the new challenges, owing both to firm size and their specialization in traditional sectors, as well as low levels of education and R&D.
But, with the right focus and much more modest resources, they could dramatically improve the quality of grain silos where more than 30% of food – typically located close to the rural poor – spoils to the point of being unfit for human consumption.
While the Muslim Brotherhood has such an organizing principle, its internal rigidity – at least with Morsi at its helm – made it unfit to govern.
In fact, by choosing to remain on Trump’s councils for so long, these business leaders implicitly endorsed his authority, which, as he showed time and again, he was unfit to wield.
In 2011, more than half of China’s largest lakes and rivers were deemed unfit for human consumption.
Likewise, Pakistan’s National Assembly was informed last year that 72% of samples collected from the country’s water-delivery systems were unfit for human consumption, with 77% of groundwater in urban areas and 86% in rural areas deemed hazardous.
Trump could also be removed from power by a complicated process, spelled out in the 25th Amendment to the US Constitution, in which he’s deemed unfit to serve.
In its current state, the global economy is unfit to serve today’s collective needs, let alone tomorrow’s.
Two factors explain Trump’s hold over Republican members of Congress, many of whom are smarter than he is, don’t like or even despise him, or consider him unfit for the office: his feral cleverness and his capacity for striking fear into potential opponents, either by turning loose his bewitched base on a dissident Republican or backing a primary challenger in the dissident’s next election.
Needless to say, Moore is wholly unfit to serve in the office to which he is being nominated.
The fact that Trump even considered such an unfit candidate for the job suggests how much he wants to bring the intelligence services to heel.
In August 2016, 50 primarily Republican former national security officials argued that Trump’s personal temperament would make him unfit to be president.
He is certainly unfit to confront Ukraine’s warring oligarchs, who are eager to loot the state’s coffers under the absent supervision of a useful idiot.
And the community includes about 135,000 yeshiva students, who refuse military service and study only scripture – an education that leaves them unfit for modern life.
As Marx foretold, they form a supremely powerful minority that is proving unfit to preside over polarized societies that cannot guarantee non-asset owners a decent existence.
The short answer is that the US has a president who is fundamentally unfit for the job, both intellectually and temperamentally.
The shirt Levin had been wearing since the morning was crumpled and quite unfit to wear with the fashionable low-cut waistcoat.
"That's perfect, Captain Nemo, but the air you carry must be quickly depleted; and once it contains no more than 15% oxygen, it becomes unfit for breathing."
He thinks me unfit to be a priest, at the very moment when I imagined that the sacrifice of an income of fifty louis was going to give him the most exalted idea of my piety and my vocation.
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