Protesters say the summit will achieve little in terms of addressing the needs of the world's poor.
If China, South Korea and Japan cannot agree better on how to respond to the threat of a nuclear test, this weekend's symbolic handshakes will achieve little.
The fiscal stimulus will achieve little until that is fixed.
So unless the government can concoct a new image that accurately reflects the best of modern Britain, its rebranding campaign will achieve little more than lining the pockets of the advertising and public-relations industry.
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We used to have to work a little to achieve a real, full-blown obsession.
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Others would argue that energy independence is the goal, and that trading oil imports for ethanol imports does little to achieve that.
Military leaders protested that this was far too little to achieve foreign policy professed goals, while civilian leaders resisted militarizing the federal budget or economy as in Soviet times, according to Global Security.org.
As a matter of fact, this project was really not a demonstration of the cutting-edge technology we have developed, but rather a true demonstration of what the blind can achieve with just a little bit of help from technology.
And the worse news is that this is about as good as it ever gets: with so much stonewalling from North Korea, just keeping the talks going, no matter how little they achieve, has become something of an end in itself.
Income investors need to accept the fact that they have very little potential to achieve any meaningful income in the bond market and they should be out of long term bonds.
They think they can achieve anything without effort and have little contact with reality.
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Many of these women achieve this in spite of having little or no education and without having any say in the decisions which affect them.
The second principle, says Mr Cameron, should be to keep down the risk of a breach by using as little information as possible to achieve the task in hand.
Everybody needs to accept -- to give a little, in order to achieve the kind of spending reductions that we all believe are necessary and the kind of investments that we all believe are vital to the economic growth that this country needs to compete and win the future in the 21st century.
You will be amazed at how little you have to contribute to achieve this, if you are young.
But its says that one off, heavy culls, followed by little or no culling, never achieve a sustained drop in numbers.
" The Washington Post piece describes his mounting woes as "diversions working against a president who is keenly aware of how little time he has left to achieve big things.
Big increases will be harder to achieve than in the past because there is little unfarmed land to bring into production, no more water and, in some places, little to be gained by heaping on more fertiliser.
They claim they achieve this experience through nothing more than just a little internal rewiring to optimize performance.
The West Indies had to score at only just over three an over, and even after Gordon Greenidge fell early there seemed little to suggest that they would not achieve that target against India's battery of medium-pace bowlers.
In the end, it comes down to a decision by Republicans that they are unwilling to do what the American people say they believe should be done, which is ask the very wealthiest Americans, millionaires and billionaires, to pay a little bit extra so that we can achieve the kind of deficit reduction and long-term debt control that we need.
This means the needles cause little damage as they go in, yet achieve maximum grip.
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That said, if you like a little more resistance that's easy to achieve.
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He has little hope, however, that Obama will achieve any kind of breakthrough with the Iranians before the presidential election.
Ms. McCarthy has been integral in abusing laws that were written decades ago in order to achieve climate goals that Congress has rejected, all with little or no political debate.
In any event, it's clear that the agency's goal is to impose as little regulation as possible while still trying to achieve the basics of net neutrality, and there's some serious precedent for success with that approach, as it's essentially the same way the FCC regulates wireless services.
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But, the more they have thought about this, the clearer it has become that there is little of substance that such a core group could achieve.
Not only has the Alliance failed to achieve economic growth but, more culpably, it has done little to fulfil its promises to get tough on corruption.
Yes, we will simultaneously be deploying lots of new Wi-Fi nodes and femtocells (little mobile nodes in offices and homes), which help achieve greater coverage and capacity, but we still need more macrocells.
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