HISTORY, as Murli Manohar Joshi, an Indian minister, is discovering, can be a cause of trouble in politics.
As I discussed last week, a downgrade could cause trouble in the markets - or it could simply force everyone to adjust their conception of safe government debt.
If this theory of race is correct (and more research is certainly needed), it indicates a strong prescription: policies that encourage groups to retain their identity within a society will cause trouble, but those that encourage cultural integration will smooth things over.
And if a punter starts to cause trouble, staff are expected to practise voice control "so you are not returning any sign of confrontation or aggression".
This new policy may prove embarrassing for the fund should one of the hand-picked local firms get into trouble or cause a loss to the fund.
Besides, wretched as it is, Somalia can cause a lot of trouble on land and at sea.
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But even a small minority can cause big trouble.
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Tom Friedman, a columnist for the New York Times, has declared that countries with McDonald's do not go to war against each other: with the burgers comes an established middle class, which makes a country too sensible to cause trouble.
Since it is not hard to give a poor man a cause, neither regular armies nor rebel ones have much trouble recruiting in Africa.
Concerns that Fretilin, a formerly Marxist party, would cause trouble in government have been largely allayed.
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These unconscious strategies and habits of mind do sound like they can cause a fair amount of trouble.
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Meanwhile, Greece has lost none of its capacity to cause trouble, as a new, weak government tries to extract concessions from creditor nations.
If it is subsequently recovered by thieves or potential terrorists it can provide several pieces of critical data that could cause you a lot of trouble as well as affecting airline security.
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Brian Gilbertson woke up on New Year's Day 2007 with a plan that he knew could cause him trouble.
"The case was just an ordinary clash between street vendors and local public security people, but was used by a handful of people who wanted to cause trouble, " Zengcheng Mayor Ye Niuping was quoted by the China Daily newspaper as saying.
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France, however, appears to be a greater cause for concern as its economy faces a number of problems that don't trouble Germany as much.
"We want football fans to enjoy the occasion and won't allow a small minority who drink to excess and cause trouble to spoil it for the majority of real supporters, " he said.
Small wonder he easily found a new home as starting quarterback with the Philadelphia Eagles and, importantly, has quietly become a spokesperson for the very cause that got him into trouble in the first place.
But tying down a trading and marketing company like Lornamead with hard assets may cause trouble.
He is likely to stay on as the province's governor, though he could still cause trouble in Vienna, where his party is a junior partner in Austria's coalition government.
Though her eight years in the Bush Administration may not have helped her image, Rice is one of a handful of Republicans that could get GOP voters excited and cause trouble for the Democrats.
Verne Wisby, 68, suffers from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, a lung disease linked to smoking that can cause respiratory infections and breathing trouble.
Many believe that Mr Menem has already accepted that his party will lose in 1999, and aims simply to cause enough trouble to prevent any of his rivals getting a firm grip on the party leadership.
Losing a significant amount of their benefits, he believes, will make people who cause trouble feel the full effects of their actions.
He wants a community court to deal specifically with the mentally ill people and drug addicts who cause trouble on the downtown streets.
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Poshard had trouble rallying Chicago Democrats to his cause, which is one reason why Ryan opened up a considerable lead in the polls.
The trouble is that some such as the particles from a diesel-engine exhaust are known to cause serious health problems.
As the disease progresses, the liver has a hard time filtering out toxins, which can go to the brain and cause problems such as memory lapses, trouble sleeping at night and lack of coordination.
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