But, too often, such projects treat poverty s symptoms rather than its causes.

Throwing money at groups often tends to encourage problems, rather than resolving them.

GENEVA Geopolitical insight is often gained through real life experience, rather than big picture thinking.

Efforts to portray local cultures as unchanging often reflect reactionary political strategies rather than descriptions of reality.

But British policy towards the EU has often led to worse rather than better relations among member states.

Certifications are in fact often based on customer contractual requirements rather than a desire to actually improve quality.

Leaders, more often than not, are hostage to the socio political environment that produces them, rather than its shapers.

We don't need to invent solutions because we have them cash flow loans based in income rather than assets, loans that use secure contracts rather than collateral, because women often don't own land.

Media outlets in many parts of the world often serve only to inflame and distort rather than to explain and inform.

An emphasis on the concept of modernity, rather than the Enlightenment, often distinguishes sociological discourse from that of classical political philosophy.

And the temptation to consider oneself the incarnation of the state, rather than its servant, is often irresistible among southern European politicians.

Crowds are the opposite of organizations rather than being dominated by rigid hierarchies, they are often led by individuals with no formal rank.

Despite their claims that they are pursuing shareholder value, the actions of top managers, in particular, often reflect only their own interests, rather than those of shareholders who often hold the great majority of the shares.

But donors all too often feel obliged to make their contributions visible to their constituencies and stakeholders, rather than prioritizing local perspectives and participation.

It also explains why journalists in those countries have so often bent over backwards to apologize for individual transgressions, rather than stand in defiance.

So, if the deficit being measured is one of houses rather than one of habitats, the solutions often do not solve the real problem.

These refugees are often falsely identified as economic migrants, rather than a vulnerable population who fled their homelands due to political unrests and violence.

There are a number of practical reasons why both parties would often prefer to litigate in a port rather than in an inland location.

Outside Europe, the ESDP acts to enhance governance rather than promote regime change, and the EU has often assisted governments efforts to improve security conditions.

For example, price controls, rather than lowering prices, often cause scarcity and the emergence of a black market in which controlled commodities cost significantly more.

Evidently, the Bush administration would rather help Middle East oil producers, whose interests so often seem at variance with those of the US, than Brazil.

For example, rather than nominations from governments, which often are reluctant to support excellent candidates from opposition parties, an international nominating committee could put forward names.

Rather than as a brave defender of the Protestant nations against Spain and the Habsburgs, she is more often regarded as cautious in her foreign policies.

A Selectric switch has a similar design, but the contacts on the wires are skewed, often at a 45 degree angle, rather than being lined up.

In engineering applications, the goal is often to optimize a process or product, rather than to subject a scientific hypothesis to test of its predictive adequacy.

But what does voluntary mean in a community where, when a girl gets raped, her father's first impulse, rather often, is to murder her out of shame?

It is therefore not the case that machinery does not exist for the enforcement of LOAC IHL. It is rather that it has not often been used.

Individuals often lack willpower or access to healthy food or convenient exercise facilities, and are surrounded by poor examples that encourage instant gratification rather than effort and restraint.

And then you have the emerging world cities, with a mixed variety of vehicles, mixed land use patterns, also rather dispersed but often with a very dense urban core.

Photos are often taken in burst mode to capture the best moment, sometimes in combination with JPEG rather than RAW shooting (JPEG files being smaller, these allow longer bursts).

Rather than slavishly believing policymakers assurances, emerging market researchers have learned to be cynical about official promises. All too often, everything that can be done wrong will be done wrong.

Everything is viewed as politics and votes, not as technical problems requiring technological expertise, which is why Africa s poverty is so often attributed to corruption rather than to ecological challenges.

As a result, they often see buying trendy shoes or a great haircut rather than giving some money each month to a broker as an investment in their romantic futures.

These women are often unable to have children of their own, or have miscarried, and seek to satisfy their unmet psychological need by abducting a child rather than by adopting.

Often the target populations of poverty eradication projects are perceived as masses of undernourished people, overwhelmed by their circumstances and needs rather than capable agents of change in their communities.

If the P3 (now often privately, and rather more acerbically, described as FUKUS) were going to take a mile after being given an inch, then no more inches would be offered.

Financial support from higher levels (government) all too often takes the form of help not to change (bailouts of too big to fail banks, for example), rather than help to change.

In Berlin, the question asked more and more often is, What does this mean for Germany? rather than, What does this mean for Europe? The same is true in other European capitals.

Reporting requirements are onerous and often impose huge administrative burdens on developing countries, which must devote the scarce skills of educated, English speaking personnel to writing reports for donors rather than running programs.

An officium was not necessarily a place, but rather an often mobile 'bureau' in the sense of a human staff or even the abstract notion of a formal position, such as a magistrature.

Scientists often use the term trick to refer to a a good way to deal with a problem , rather than something that is secret , and so there is nothing problematic in this at all.

They're often quite brief. They're often very seasonally constrained.

Not surprisingly, many UN agencies and aid agencies in rich countries fight this approach. All too often, the fight is about turf, rather than about the most effective way to speed help to the poor.

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But technology alone will not be enough. Regulators, hospitals, and drug safety authorities must take the lead, rather than placing the burden on often poor and uneducated citizens who are struggling to care for loved ones.