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Success needs to be defined narrowly.

The problem is where to draw the line.

President Barack Obama s pragmatism and refusal to embrace the Bush administration s war on terror will also be a key determinant of the outcome.

No one should underestimate the difficulty of assessing Iran s real intentions.

This is reflected in the definition found at Vukajlija, an online dictionary of Serbian slang.

Persistent optimism reflects a serious misdiagnosis of the global economy s troubles.

Manganese nodules are expected to exist in the Southern Ocean.

The practical difficulty is in recognizing when political profes sionals are distorting reality.

They even invented a new term the people's revolution to define a coup d'etat.

So we re very good, when acting out a solution, at spotting whether something lacks authenticity.

The superior power in an asymmetrical conflict always has a problem defining its objectives.

Pakistan will most likely prove critical in determining the future prevalence of terrorism.

A fine line must be drawn in defining Western policy towards Russia.

External factors will be critical in determining where Turkey ends up.

Thus, the role of the market in price discovery is inextricable from that of the government.

Decisions taken during the next few years will be crucial to determining the outcome.

So further reforms will be decisive in determining the Chinese economy s future performance.

Given the evidence of widespread capital flight fueled by external borrowing, African governments can rightly insist that creditors have the responsibility of establishing that their loans were used forbona fidepurposes.

In both groups social mobility is higher than among Sunni Muslims. Another mark against the notion of Islam's overwhelming power to determine a society's prevailing conditions.

But there is more to finding a solution than simply identifying those nations that are capable of feeding the rest of the world.

China claims that it is entitled to play a role in setting the rules that govern the international system.

What these examples show is that domestic efforts trump everything else in determining a country s economic fortunes.

Indeed, the US China relationship will be the most significant bilateral engagement in shaping the course of the twenty first century.

The challenge for the EU now is to refocus itself on the priorities of today and tomorrow.

But is the question one of monetizing nature, or of valuing nature?

It's a form, if you like, of ecological altruism perhaps something along those lines. Maybe it's that.

Recalling the central role and responsibility of Governments in national and international policy making,

One is simply detecting the genes, alone or in combination, that seem to lead to certain diseases.

And science is important in informing decision makers, and also in changing how we do and knowing the direction of change that we're going in.

They concern disputes over territory, political power, definitions of rights, and distribution of wealth.

And the committee members own understanding of science has been critical in determining outcomes.

Where the atheist assault is often correct is in pinpointing the amount of harm frequently done in our world by such fundamentalists.

The most controversial issue in defining terrorism is captured by the slogan One person's terrorist is another's freedom fighter.

In reality, of course, the US does not have a dollar policy other than letting the market determine its value.

Bank lending and regulation, by contrast, must incorporate local knowledge, because, in a dynamic, unregimented economy, each borrower, loan, and bank is different (though some general guidelines can help).

The long term aim of nutrigenomics is to define how the whole body responds to food using so called systems biology.

The narrative of the Palestinian tragedy is certainly no less central in defining his view of the Middle East.

Rigid, top down uniformity is essential in the specification of weights and measures and the issuance of currency and coin.

I fear it is because the US found itself denied its primacy in setting global policy on Iran.

Instead of trying to explore the possibilities presented by the Brazilian Turkish opening, the US quickly pushed the UN Security Council for more sanctions (the fourth round so far) on Iran.

The outcome was paradoxical, and not to the liking of those who initiated it but the right of the communities to determine their future was accepted.

Leaders with contextual intelligence are good at providing meaning or a road map by defining the problem that a group confronts.

Lenders to very large overleveraged institutions had to have some incentive to calculate the risks. But that required, at some point, allowing some bank to fail, and persuading some debt holders and counterparties that the government guarantee of support to institutions that were too big to fail was not certain.

Lenders to very large overleveraged institutions had to have some incentive to calculate the risks.