Similarly, Israel s ground actions were hesitant and inconclusive from start to finish.

Duplication, overlap and inefficiencies had too often been the expensive result of a lack of coordination in programme planning and implementation.

Changes and shortcomings in leadership, more off than on international diplomacy and institutional failures account for this in almost equal measure.

The economic rationale for intellectual property is that faster innovation offsets the enormous costs of such inefficiencies.

One problem is that, after a long period of fiscal prudence, Russia s government has shown extraordinary ineptitude.

Failure to understand and interpret the true and fundamental message of the Koran has brought only misfortune to Muslims.

It is customary to link Africa's failures to slavery and colonization, and no one can deny such claims.

It is planned that the transfer of Parliament, presidential palaces, government ministries and foreign embassies will be completed between 2020 and 2022 at a cost of US 45 billion.

In many countries, public administration remains weak largely owing to a shortage of human resources and to deficiencies in staff training and motivation.

The problem does not lie with our shortcomings, but with the way we choose to resolve them.

Institutional challenges include a lack of political will and resources inadequate implementation of gender mainstreaming insufficient mechanisms for monitoring and accountability and lack of coordination and strategic partnerships.

Those teams provide transition readiness assessments, identifying areas of progress and shortcomings, ultimately preparing individual units to assume independent control of their area of responsibility.

The present building, the third to be built on the site, is the last in a series of successive castles and palaces constructed on the same site since the erection of the first castle in 1167.

The city states boasted kings and palaces, moats and massive wooden gates, and always 12 gates for each of the signs of the zodiac, one of the many enduring patterns that would continue until the British occupation.

But it can provide a political framework and institution building support to improve the deficiencies that made these countries so vulnerable to the crisis imperfect market economies, weak state institutions, and continued corruption.

In them maidens with averted glances , undeflowered by man or by jinn before them ,

Upon thrones are the women who do not gaze at men except their husbands , and before them , are untouched by any man or jinn .

therein maidens restraining their glances , untouched before them by any man or jinn

Therein shall be those of refraining looks whom before them hath deflowered neither man nor jinn .

Wherein both will be those ( maidens ) restraining their glances upon their husbands , whom no man or jinn yatmithhunna ( has opened their hymens with sexual intercourse ) before them .

In them are maidens restraining their glances , untouched before by any man or jinn .

In the midst of these shall be maidens with modest , restrained glances maidens whom no man or jinn has ever touched before .

Therein are those of modest gaze , whom neither man nor jinni will have touched before them .

In them are maidens of restrained glances , whom no human has touched before , nor jinn .

Therein are maidens who restrain their glances , whom neither human nor jinn have touched before .

In them are women limiting their glances , untouched before them by man or jinni

There will be bashful maidens untouched by mankind or jinn before .

In them shall be those who restrained their eyes before them neither man nor jinni shall have touched them .

Therein are maidens of modest gaze , whom neither a man nor a jinn had ever touched before them .

In them will be ( Maidens ) , chaste , restraining their glances , whom no man or Jinn before them has touched

While China and the US battle it out, each trying to retain its own exorbitant privilege, Europe seems to be stuck in the middle, suffering from the same disadvantages of the US position, but enjoying none of its privileges.

Failure to understand and interpret the true and fundamental message of the Koran has brought only misfortune to Muslims. By limiting our reading to religious works and neglecting modern science, we destroyed Islamic civilization and lost our way in the world.

These factors, together with the obvious failings of many Middle Eastern governments, have fueled the surge of fundamentalism among Muslims, American Christians, and some Israeli Jews that has now boiled over to rampant extremism, terror, and messianic visions of good versus evil.