In his lecture, Ball presented a number of cases like this, from Kosovo, Guatemala, Sierre Leone and Timor-Leste, where sound and verifiable data was used effectively to answer a small question, then stretched to answer a broader question for which it was not suited.
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While the diversity of small business precludes a "one size fits all" response to this question, for a wide range of small businesses meeting established goals for access to government contracting is critical.
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This is a question that every small business owner needs to face as they grow their company.
If a million people are acting in a million small ways, the question of scalability is potentially irrelevant, as long as the system improves.
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There's no question that a small fraction of one percent of Americans react adversely to this substance, and to a handful of them, peanuts are fatal.
Reporting by the Wall Street Journal last summer narrowed the possible recipients of the NSL in question to a small cell phone firm called Credo Mobile.
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Sceptics believe that Chrysler has lost most of its product-development talent and question whether a small-car specialist like Fiat can give it the kind of vehicles it needs to win back market share in America, which accounts for 80% of its sales.
If the atom in question is in a small particle on the surface of a piece of silicon, the result is what is known as a surface plasmon.
"They will continue negotiating for small things until it becomes a question of negotiating about survival, " said Mr Learmount.
Gay marriage is more unpopular than unions (about 60% dislike the former), but, depending on how the question is asked, a small majority disapproves of civil unions too.
This finding raises the question: can a small diameter lead be sufficiently robust to perform reliably over years of biologic exposure and mechanical stress in the human body?
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Reduced profits could starve both airports of necessary investment and calls into question the wisdom of a small region such as Northern Ireland having two airports that compete head-to-head for business.
"This was not just a question of us making a small contribution to helping Mali preserve this fantastic history, but also to help raise the consciousness of our own people about our own continent, our own history, our own rich culture and traditions, " Mr Pahad said.
He added he supported a call for the police to be able to continue to question suspects for up to 24 hrs in a "small proportion of cases".
Clinton made it while talking to a small newspaper in South Dakota about the biggest question in her campaign: Why is she still running for the Democratic presidential nomination, even though Obama has a nearly locked-in lead and the primary season ends in just a few days?
After every event, there's a small throng of people waiting to ask one more question, get an autograph or have their picture taken with the leading GOP candidate.
Still, while this pay-as-you-weigh method may prove effective for a small commuter operation like Samoa Air, some analysts question whether the model would make business sense for large commercial carriers.
This is partly a question of feasibility: Meetup is too small to do anything to New York, and even Google is not big enough to truly own even a smaller Bay Area city like Mountain View.
And just perhaps, when the debate is over, the rationalizations and the distinctions and the semantic gymnastics are put to rest, we may be closer to answering for our generation the haunting question asked 139 years ago in a small military cemetery in Pennsylvania -- whether a nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal can long endure.
The companies that found a way around the insider-pay question weren't small operations.
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Again this study poses the provocative question: is it possible to produce a small diameter lead that is durable.
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It's a question that I ask myself because I have three very small children who are also mixed race.
But critics question the sustainability of such a system, arguing that small farms simply cannot meet our nation's food demands efficiently.
But what is practical in a small coastal state such as Sierra Leone would be out of the question in say, Sudan.
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This has placed the reliability of 50% remaining rule into question as a result of the ease in locating a small portion of substance that would respond to decay despite its immense size.
It begs the question, with the Web still accounting for such a small percentage of retail sales, and online growth now projected to slow from the pace of the last few years--will consumers ever break through and adopt the Internet as a shopping channel significant enough to break through single digits as a percentage of overall sales?
There was no money to buy even a small space heater, and of course a TV was out of the question.
Britons should look at Cyprus, Greece, Spain, Portugal and Italy today and laud her for her foresight, yet it was over the question of European integration that she was ultimately defenestrated by a small but determined cabal within the Conservative Party.
With model in hand, the question becomes how much of a position should one take in a small-cap value index fund?
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