West Midlands Ambulance Service admitted its ability to respond to 999 calls was affected.
Indeed, they are often a test of our ability to respond to new challenges.
McConnell describes the need for attribution and the ability to respond in a massive way to cyber threats.
But accepting the essentially plotless and ongoing nature of crisis needn't compromise our ability to respond appropriately and effectively.
The more we can engage our brains in pre-thinking, the better our ability to respond when something does change.
"This is extremely important because it shows that these mice retain the ability to respond to orexin, " Dr Yanagisawa said.
As a result, their ability to respond may be constrained if international finance dries up and global conditions deteriorate sharply.
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The two northern executives will always want more cash, more power and more ability to respond flexibly to local conditions.
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The appeal for both companies is to control distribution, which ostensibly better enables their ability to respond to shifts in consumer tastes.
With the end of the Cold War the nature of the threat has fundamentally changed, as has our ability to respond to it.
As our military leaders have made clear, changes like this affect our ability to respond to threats in an unstable part of the world.
Many local officials, it said, lacked the ability to respond effectively.
But he defended the decision to move some of the functions of the FSA back into government, insisting it did not harm its ability to respond.
The recalls tarnished Toyota's reputation for quality and raised questions about its ability to respond to problems that crop up in its rapidly expanding global empire.
Combined with the Gewerbesteuer, a court-protected local trade tax, this has meant that politicians are limited in their ability to respond to tax competition without losing revenue.
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At the same time, the structure of manufacturing and the British economy changed, such that its ability to respond quickly to increases in demand has become more limited.
Nations' ability to respond and recover, he reasons, will rely on their ability to set aside excess capacity and back-up systems that kick in during times of crisis.
Hollywood's ability to respond quickly to change has helped the film business to remain stable, with the same number of big studios now as in the early 20th century.
"Even under pressure, Italian political institutions, incumbent monopolies, public sector workers, and... unions impede the government's ability to respond decisively to challenging economic conditions, " the agency said in its report.
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U.S. Defense Secretary William Cohen said today the the United States has "a long way to go" in its ability to respond to the threat posed by chemical and biological terrorism.
Although price is an important lever, I saw that customization is what this industry is about and therefore a company this size has advantages in its ability to respond to customer needs.
They could in the future make attacks directly on satellites, perhaps, and a failure to react to these specifically in the budget and the modernization programs will obviously affect our ability to respond.
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But the word has a longer pedigree in the area of strategy, where it generally refers to a firm's ability to respond to changes in its environment both rapidly and at low cost.
Committee Chairman Tom Davis, a Republican from Virginia, says it's all the more disturbing because it happened after the government spent billions trying to improve the nation's ability to respond to a major disaster.
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They can thus be found inside network routers, telecoms switches, mobile-phone base stations and many other devices that need both the processing speed of specialist hardware and the ability to respond to changing standards.
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As a customer, he was delighted with not only the attention that Huawei gave to him, relative to his more familiar Western suppliers, but also their willingness and ability to respond quickly and completely to his needs.
And as our military leaders have made clear, changes like this -- not well thought through, not phased in properly -- changes like this affect our ability to respond to threats in unstable parts of the world.
However, poor countries in Asia, such as Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand and Laos, lack the veterinary facilities for surveillance of the disease in animals, the laboratories to test samples and the ability to respond swiftly to eradicate outbreaks.
The recalls tarnished Toyota's reputation for quality and raised questions about its ability to respond to problems that crop up in its rapidly expanding global empire, and to reassure international authorities and customers of its trustworthiness and transparency.
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