Making a jumping robot is difficult because the downward force needed to propel it into the air usually pushes the legs through the water's surface.

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More money will also be needed if a newly independent police force is to maintain law and order.

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As demonstrated by Desert Storm and OIF, the force structure needed to address even a single MRC is substantial.

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The IRS will set up a task force to study whether some regulation of software is also needed.

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"The support for this issue has always been there, but the Internet is the platform the issue has needed to become a force in American politics, " said David All, a Republican online strategist based in Washington.

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This is short of the 189 signatures needed to force extra scrutiny of a grouping.

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The navy insists that it is already at or near the minimum needed to be a coherent maritime force (it already has less than a tenth of the number of ships it boasted in 1945).

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However, even though they could defeat and embarrass David Cameron that coalition could not force a new press law into being (since it is the government that controls the parliamentary time needed to pass legislation).

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The present African Union force, led by Uganda, is unlikely to expand beyond 4, 000 troops, a fraction of what is needed.

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