Authoritarian leaders in Asia routinely claim that their countries are culturally unsuited to democracy.

(Little bubbles, in the price of, say, individual stocks, happen all the time, and don t qualify as an answer to the question.)

Most governments are in fact ill equipped to understand the scientific issues, even when they are much less ideological and dogmatic than Bush.

The big question then will be Is China as geopolitically competent as number one as it was when it was number two?

Iran has long qualified as what the American foreign policy analyst Fareed Zakaria has called an illiberal democracy.

Legislating phony sunset provisions for current tax cuts, as the US did during the George W. Bush years, does not.

Women were however eligible to contest elections on general seats.

In 2005, the country became eligible to become a member of the World Trade Organization.

The United Nations must become qualified to achieve those goals.

Other horizontal measures could also qualify as export subsidies.

This underscores the urgency of building a qualified reliable civil service.

All of those Parties were eligible to participate in decision making at the session.

But I was so utterly unqualified for this project, and so utterly ridiculous, and ignored the brief so desperately that I think they just embraced it with wholeheartedness, just completely because it was so goofy to begin with.

All of those Parties were eligible to participate in decision making at the session.

On this, admittedly subjective, measure, Somaliland qualifies as a nation.

Afonso IV tried several times to arrange for his son to be remarried, but Pedro refused to take a wife other than Inês, who was not deemed eligible to be queen.

We are convinced that it is fully equipped to continue doing so in the future.

Under the Treaty of Rome, Ukraine, as a European country, qualifies as a potential EU member.

From 1950 he also worked as lecturer at the University of Cologne, where he habilitated two years later.

The real space station is a micro gravity research laboratory with no capability to launch trips to the moon or beyond.

Because of its weak economy, Turkey would be eligible for substantial EU assistance.

We anticipate that other countries will qualify for permanent or semi permanent membership, and we have proposed criteria to that end.

The Panel is of the view that in a late claims programme, there is a risk that third parties not eligible for late filing may attempt to claim their own losses through claimants in this instalment.

Some 3,600 persons were granted the degree of Doctor of Science, and about 900 obtained the qualification of Habilitated Doctor.

The 1999 Asian Basketball Confederation Championship for Men was the qualifying tournament for the Basketball Tournament at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.

An important point to note, however, is that countries with economies in transition are not eligible to receive benefits under the Multilateral Fund instead, they are eligible to receive assistance under the ozone focal area of the Global Environment Facility.

(Goldman Sachs became eligible for subsidized Fed loans by turning itself into a holding company).

We must reform the United Nations to make it competent to address the interrelated and cross cutting issues, and succeed in preventing future conflicts.

At the same time, regardless of a fairly high rate of unemployment there is also a lack of qualified work force.

It was well placed, however, to contribute to the legal development of the Charter of the United Nations and thus participate in the process of reforming the Organization.

Economies in transition countries are not eligible to receive financial support from the Multilateral Fund of the Montreal Protocol.

As a matter of principle they should qualify and there is a not inconsiderable quantity of State practice favourable to the principle of survival.

However, affected parties from other regions are eligible to receive assistance from the GM upon request.

There are between 200,000 and 250,000 migrant workers in Lebanon working under the controversial Kafala, or 'Sponsorship', system. Under the Kafala system, any unskilled laborer (domestic worker) has his or her legal status in the hands of an employer or in country sponsor .

(c) South Africa has not been eligible for MLF projects, and is preparing a GEF project with the World Bank

The Palestinian Panel determined that 17 of the 19 claims were eligible for inclusion in the Palestinian late claims programme.

State parties that are developing countries or countries with economies in transition are eligible to receive emergency assistance.

Women possess, equally with men, the ability to own, use and dispose of property and to enter into contracts and exercise other civil rights.

In this hospital, there is one person qualified to deliver anesthesia, and she's qualified because she has 12, maybe 18 months of training in anesthesia.

All members would, in principle, be eligible, but premium rates would be differentiated and established on the basis of quantitative criteria.

He was not elected by the people in a vote, but became President by virtue of being the sole candidate deemed qualified by the Presidential Elections Committee.

Accessing different levels of funding Article 5 countries are eligible to request and receive funding for developing their Country Programs when they indicate their intention to ratify the Montreal Protocol.

The Institute worked to develop its network of partnerships with law enforcement authorities in the region and provided advisory services on emerging international crime related issues and in support of law enforcement systems, which are often inadequate to cope with the current levels and sophistication of crime.

As Governor of Massachusetts, Romney built a record as a competent and moderate conservative, a political profile that suited him to the state s electorate.

Observers today tend to forget that, until the early 1980 s, Spain qualified as a developing country, according to World Bank standards.