The department heads and oversight committees that meet to evaluate programming seldom dictate content, but merely pass their complaints and recommendations down to programming heads.

Globalization compels us to seek these reforms.

No constant memoranda dictate content.

They should be dictated by a new vision for Africa and a coordinated plan of action.

Similar motives dictate reserve accumulation in other emerging markets.

Having a virtual monopoly on supply, Russia decided that it could dictate prices.

Simply put, it is their responsibility to be true leaders.

Countries trade, first and foremost, because it is in their interest to do so.

China s national interest does not require it to prop up the Burmese junta forever.

The body's natural pattern is upset, as the rhythms that dictate times for eating, sleeping, hormone regulation and body temperature variations no longer correspond to the environment nor to each other in some cases.

To integrate the country into a strategic partnership is therefore in the West s interest.

Common sense dictates that monitoring the weapons complex on its own may not give sufficient confidence in achieving the verification goal.

As the largest creditor, Germany could dictate the terms of assistance, which were punitive and pushed debtor countries towards insolvency.

Hopefully, the leaders of the world recognize that it is in their own enlightened self interest to come to the rescue of the developing world.

Most ethical principles would suggest that, if one is distributing what amounts to money around the world, one should give more (per capita) to the poor.

But what separates us from Saakashvili is that we understand that history, geography, and economics dictate close ties to Russia.

It is certainly in Russia s national interest to prevent chaos in the country s big next door neighbor.

Naturally, individual cases dictate which tests and treatments are best, but an additional concern about frequent screenings is the problem of false positives.

After all, few had the training and confidence to question the orthodoxy, and those who did were considered misguided cranks. Multilateral institutions, empowered by their control over funding, dictated policy from the economic scriptures.

The DPJ threatened to change comfortable old arrangements, whereby the US could more or less tell the Japanese what to do.

A more plausible explanation is that institutional differences in the ability to borrow dictate to some extent the disparity in savings rates across countries.

It dictates what private property a prisoner of war may keep and that the prisoner of war must be evacuated from the combat zone as soon as possible.

We need to avoid situations where a few countries, by virtue of their privileged positions, their wealth or their military might, dictate the agenda for everybody else.

Moreover, the intergovernmental bodies are in the best position to judge whether reasons for delayed submission and issuance are acceptable and their satisfaction is the ultimate goal of documentation services.

When interest rates are low and you can borrow on favorable terms, the market is telling you to pull government spending forward into the present and push taxes back into the future.

But ensuring that justice is done, as US Secretary of State Colin Powell promised, means that judgment must not stop at the low ranking soldiers who were foolish enough to pose for demented snapshots. More importantly, the abuses in Iraq demand careful scrutiny of detention practices not only there, but in our own communities as well.

Increasing knowledge of human genetics, for example, led to attempts to reject criminal responsibility, based on the inappropriate belief that genes predetermine actions.

Genuine liberal democracy requires accepting that in a pluralist, divided country, it is possible to govern only through inclusion, not imposition.

The nature of these two countries bilateral engagement will dictate how the low carbon economic pie will get carved up, and thus how fast the global economy as a whole can be transformed.

While theories of just war instruct us not to hurt non combatants, Hamas and its military arm have made a conscious decision, banking on global humanitarian concerns, to ensure that Israel hits as many civilians as possible.

Similar motives dictate reserve accumulation in other emerging markets. Finally, oil exporters such as Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates seek to set aside wealth during the boom years.

Moreover, there is an old mentality among Southern countries that they can do no wrong in their relationships with the North, and that they should exhibit solidarity with each other regarding those relationships.

In the interest of the IMF s credibility and of the stability of the world economy Strauss Kahn should put the matter to rest once and for all, by declaring unequivocally his intentions regarding the French presidency.

The Bahraini revolution is my revolution, so are the ones in Egypt, Tunis, Libya, Syria, Yemen and Morocco and I am looking forward to uprisings in the rest of the countries tarnished by dictatorship and injustice and I consider that writing about others is a duty implied by the principles of humanity.

The idea that Germany s own national interest dictates avoiding anything that isolates the country within Europe, and that the task is therefore to create a European Germany rather than a German Europe, seems to have been abandoned.

But a clear line in the sand has been drawn between Latin American countries that want to pursue regional integration on their own terms, and those who see hemispheric integration as directed by the US.

Libertarians, of course, tend to understand church state separation if you don t want government intruding in your life, you definitely don t want it telling you how to worship.

Though circumstances dictate that Bernanke is the best candidate and should be reappointed, the real challenge is to ensure a thorough intellectual housecleaning at the Fed in order to open space for alternative economic views.

But Chinese firms say that few local workers have the necessary skills if they do, African governments can dictate some employment terms, including the proportion of local recruits on a project, as the Democratic Republic of Congo and Angola have done.

The original Goldstone Report could have limited its conclusory judgment to an assertion that Israel did not meet its obligation under the international laws of armed conflict to take all feasible measures to minimize harm to civilians.

If data from the verification technologies can mitigate the humanitarian consequences of certain natural disasters and save lives and we have seen instances of that very recently indeed we have a moral responsibility to make them available to disaster warning organizations.

Principles of international law in particular, the emerging responsibility to protect doctrine and enforcement of the global ban on the use of chemical weapons dictate that some form of military intervention must occur in order to deter others from using WMDs, particularly against civilians.

But that policy may no longer be tenable, because it is in China s interest to find an effective alternative to a brutal crackdown, which would only remind the world vividly of the massacres in Rangoon in 1988 and in Tiananmen Square the following year.

The subsidiary nature of the US combat support role in Africa dictates that the US forego predominance in political and military decision making concerning alliance operations, relinquishing out front leadership in Africa (apart from the northeastern part of the continent).

At times, my delegation feels, the Secretariat tends to dictate and impose on States, putting on paper rules that restrict countries from presenting their views, indirectly marginalizing them from the process that they should be part of.