The 2008 global banking crisis crippled many of the largest banks with the effect of curtailing their appetite and capacity to participate in project related syndicate loans.

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And anyway, any change in the structure of the fund that did have the effect of raising the fund's potential lending capacity would have to be ratified by parliaments.

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But if he can propose some key operation or area where additional troops would represent a doubling or tripling of capacity and success might have an outsize effect on the entire conflict, then it might be worth trying.

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Does the design of a bridge have an effect on its weight-bearing capacity?

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Many of the more than 1, 000 bills pending around the country would nullify the effect of any federal ban on firearms, assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

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More than half of the nation's state legislatures have had measures introduced that aim to nullify the effect of any federal ban on firearms, assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines, according to data collected by the he National Conference of State Legislatures.

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It is far from clear that the US military has the capacity to take over Pakistan's nuclear arsenal and it also unclear what the ultimate effect of a military strike against its nuclear arsenal would be in terms of lives lost and areas rendered uninhabitable due to nuclear fallout.

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