"Doctors are wary of changes that reduce their ability to act autonomously, " says Berwick.
Self-important CEOs demonstrate an ability to act on their supreme confidence when others are timid.
More powerfully, the ability to act without full information can be a strength when you want to start a business.
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The truth is that we all possess the ability to act with courage, bounce back with resilience and persevere with determination.
The constant debates about these legal issues place severe limits on its ability to act effectively to resolve the euro crisis.
But Labour suggested it could limit the UK's ability to act independently.
As O'Neill said in Tokyo, the Japanese do have the ability to act boldly and effectively when they resolve to do so.
The ability to act out various behaviors over sideways media is what gives big brands the advantage over smaller brands, because they can act out.
Without stability from financial institutions and financial markets, however, the Fed's ability to act as needed, instead of as markets anticipate, will remain severely diminished.
"From my point of view this agreement is good and it is important because it gives us the ability to act in Europe in the coming years, " she said.
Mrs May told the gathering she was sceptical whether the convention limited human rights abuses in other countries and suggested it restricted Britain's ability to act in its own interests.
Dr Carre does not believe that Britain and France would sign any deal that would compromise their ability to act independently if they found themselves on opposite sides of an argument, as in 2003.
Matt Simmons, the energy analyst who spotted America's falling natural-gas supplies in the late 1990s, told Dow Jones this month that he fears for the Saudis' ability to act as OPEC's swing producer indefinitely.
In contrast, Rooney has completed 1, 634 of his 2, 208 attempted passes, or 74%, in his England career and his ability to act as a focal point for the team means England's passing improves dramatically when he's in the lineup.
The ability to act has become shackled by a profound pessimism that according to a recent Gallup survey contrasts with the optimism found not only in rising states like China, India and Brazil, but also deeply impoverished places like Bangladesh.
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The Liberate also has the ability to act as a DLNA server, which on the surface seems like an unnecessary inclusion for a simply mobile hotspot -- and with the exception of a very small number of users, you'd be correct.
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The UK's shadow defence secretary Jim Murphy said in the Commons he welcomed the agreements in principle but asked for assurances that they would not limit the UK's ability to act independently "in all circumstances" - such as the defence of overseas territories.
The NYPD has been a national leader in recognizing that policing in an age of terror requires not only proactive intelligence collection but the ability to act decisively upon the fruits of that collection rather than waiting for disaster to strike, and then reacting.
Although the current trend in U.S. policy-making circles is moving away from unilateral international action, in the future it will remain important to have the ability to act unilaterally in a crisis -- or when retaliating against the increasing phenomenon of state- sponsored terrorism.
And the Congress still has within its power the ability to act, to do the right thing, to take up a balanced approach to have Democrats and Republicans vote for it, and to get it to the White House so he can sign it into law.
On board PANGAEA, Mike is leading the Young Explorers Program (YEP), an ongoing sailing expedition around the world that exposes teenagers to real-life, harsh environment adventures, while at the same time giving them a personal view and the ability to act on important environmental issues around our planet.
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"The mere possibility of such (fraud) claims, which could expose attorneys to harassing and expensive litigation, would be likely to inhibit their freedom in making good faith evidentiary decisions and representations and, therefore, negatively affect their ability to act as zealous advocates for their clients, " Justice Peter Zarella wrote in the majority opinion.
And courts have sometimes failed to properly apply the legal requirements for trademarks, choosing to base their decisions on the outstanding celebrity and unique recognition of fictional characters, or lack thereof, instead of focusing on their inherent distinctiveness and ability to act as a single source identifier for the applicable goods or services.
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Being able to motivate a wealthy individual to commit these kinds of financial resources, coupled with an ability to have them act as advocates for the nonprofit, often make a considerable contribution to the success of the nonprofit.
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On the contrary, our ability to think and act decisively with the future in mind has diminished.
What is in much shorter supply is the ability to get people to act on knowledge.
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He denied that the intervention in Iraq had undermined the ability of the UK to act in the region.
To the best of our ability, to make sure that we act in a way that something like this never happens again.
One clever feature is the ability of the iPod to act like any other small portable hard drive, which at its very essence it is.
And he clearly has the ability to make decisions and to act on them.
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