Even if this was legally possible, which it isn't under current euro-zone rules, it was politically impossible: there is no appetite in some euro-zone countries, notably Germany, to create a transfer union, nor to bail out a country whose banking system is widely suspected to be a haven for money-laundering.
Nor would a democratic country tolerate a government that operated through an elaborate system of secret meetings characterised by blatant arm-twisting and browbeating by the most powerful, like the World Trade Organisation.
In the years since 1971, no official effort of any public sort has been made in Pakistan to explain and understand the reasons for the break up of a country, nor any official apology been given to the people of Bangladesh for the atrocities committed by the Pakistani military and its surrogates.
They are united in a fierce dislike of Mr Obama, a belief that the Democratic president neither understands nor respects mainstream American values, and a fear that their country is being rendered unrecognisable by government regulation, welfare dependency and out-of-control deficit spending.
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He believes that she will not want to be seen as forcing Greece out of the euro, not least since on strict legal grounds a country can neither leave nor be forced to leave the currency union.
But neither Myanmar nor any other country has ever attempted a sudden shutdown of the Internet, and the cutoff from the outside world was unsustainable, according to John Palfrey, executive director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School.
Nor can conservatives claim that Mr Bush is a country-club Republican like his father.
It was not so much a fear of crime, nor even the country's inflexible and unskilled labour market.
We won't win gold every day but nor is the country on the brink of a social abyss.
Nor does it make sense, in a largely secular country, to give special status to all faiths.
But I also know that we, as a country, cannot sustain our leadership, nor navigate the momentous challenges of our time, if we allow ourselves to be split asunder by the same rancor and cynicism and partisanship that has in recent times poisoned our national discourse.
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But nor would it have a strong central government capable of mobilising the country behind bold social or economic initiatives.
But unlike 1973, when General Pinochet staged his coup, neither the internal mood in Chile nor the international context is ripe for a military intervention in the country's politics.
He says that Mexico's deep inequalities mean that the PRD cannot just be a moderate European centre-left party, but nor can it be so radical as to become a movement outside the country's institutions.
Yet as a country, we will never tolerate our security being threatened, nor stand idly by when our people have been killed.
There is no appetite in western capitals to support Montenegro's secession, but nor is there any desire to back the claims to the territorial integrity of a country led by a man indicted as a war criminal.
Nor is it a wonder that SEC football is the most popular conference brand in the country.
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But I am not shedding any tears and nor will a lot of people in this region and in many former mining communities throughout the country.
Nor did he mention discrimination against the country's large population of Alevis, adherents of a liberal interpretation of Shia Islam that is uniquely Turkish.
Similarly, there are neither facilities dispersed around the country to provide a measure of collective protection for the non-combatant population nor well-developed contingency plans for evacuating to uncontaminated rural areas city dwellers who may be the targets of chemical strikes.
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"Negative public communication, aimed at accessing resources or any other purpose, does not help the image of the country nor does it in any case reflect the true state of affairs, " a spokesman for President Thabo Mbeki's cabinet said in response to Zille's statement.
Peace would be a crucial first step to a happier Sudan, but since neither Khartoum nor the SPLA has shown much inclination towards democracy or non-predatory governance, the country has a long way to go.
There is clearly a problem, but neither the Bank of Italy, the country's central bank, nor the Italian banking association can put figures on it.
Furthermore, you pay tax as a corporation in whatever country that office is located: not in whatever country the customers are nor where the bank account the money is coming from is.
"Now the new reality in the Middle East is that Saddam has gone ... but that carries with it its own imperatives, and it is crucial that no country in the region harbors fugitives of Saddam's entourage, nor allows itself to be a sponsor of terrorism, " Straw told reporters in Bahrain on his first stop in a tour of the Gulf states.
But although Russia continues to keep its 201st motor rifle division in the capital, Dushanbe, and has agreed to set up a military base in the country, this is one former republic in which Russia seems neither able nor willing to invest.
But when Mr Sarkozy, whose country currently holds the EU presidency, arrived in Dublin, he was carrying neither a big stick nor a magic wand.
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John Kerry believes in the constitutional freedoms that have made our country the envy of the world, and he will never sacrifice our basic liberties nor use faith as a wedge to divide us.
Recognize that there are, in fact, grounds to describe "Islamic extremism" as a threat, that some Islamic mosques, madrassas and centers in this country and overseas have been sources of terrorist activity and that acknowledging these realities is neither a racist nor a bigoted act.
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