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  • It is easy to see how the term científico came to be used to describe government leaders who used these ideas to justify the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz and its harsh attempts to bring material progress to an apathetic nation.

    POSITIVISM IN LATIN AMERICA RONALD HILTON 1968

  • The level of discrimination is estimated with the r 2 coe ffi cient which is computed as reported in Section

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows tizyweb 2009

  • Furthermore, although setting forth principles regarding the use of force for contractors is critical, principles on their own are insufficient without including the legal frameworks that spell out those principles.

    David Isenberg: Outsourcing War and Peace: Part 3 David Isenberg 2011

  • Original caption: “The frequency distribution of simulated climate sensitivity using all model versions (black), all model versions except those with perturbations to the cloud-to-rain conversion threshold (red), and all model versions except those with perturbations to the entrainment coef fi cient (blue).”

    AGU Day 3 part C: How good are predictions from climate models? | Serendipity 2010

  • While reporting overall GHG emissions levels indicates progress the City is making toward achieving this requirement, understanding the drivers of these changes is critical to ensuring the most effi cient development and implementation of policies necessary to keep the City on track to fulfilling this mandate.

    Matthew Yglesias » Vancouver Suffering From Snow Shortage 2010

  • Indeed, a 2007 report produced by the Secretary of State's Panel on Personal Protective Services in Iraq observed starkly after two weeks of on-the-ground interviews that security contractors in Iraq were still operating "in an environment that is chaotic, unsupervised, deficient in oversight and accountability, and poorly coordinated."

    David Isenberg: Outsourcing War and Peace: Part 3 David Isenberg 2011

  • To take training alone is not suffi cient; you contingency additionally accept a leading.

    THE DANGERS OF SPIRITUAL LIFE-By Watchman Nee A Fair Mitre admin 2009

  • Thus, the point of this analysis is not to say that the legal framework is sufficient and therefore we have no problem but to say that we should not be focusing exclusively on how to solve the supposed legal gaps regarding contractors.

    David Isenberg: Outsourcing War and Peace: Part 2 David Isenberg 2011

  • To take training alone is not suffi cient; you contingency additionally accept a leading.

    Archive 2009-11-01 admin 2009

  • On the criminal side, the problem is not so much an absence of applicable law though there are holes that need filling but rather the mobilization of sufficient political will to actually enforce the laws that exist by making important organizational reforms or through other means.

    David Isenberg: Outsourcing War and Peace: Part 2 David Isenberg 2011

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