My sense is that even under incremental-change scenarios, some of these hurdles would dissolve rather quickly.

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As a result, they often forgo even the small incremental investments of which they are capable: a bit more fertiliser, some more schooling or a small amount of saving.

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The Czech state was induced to compensate those among its nationals who were victims of Nazi aggression in the expectation that Germany would reimburse it, even on an incremental basis.

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Even then the incremental rise may not offset demand.

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Mr. Obama said he encouraged European leaders to take significant incremental steps soon, even if they can't agree on a sweeping resolution.

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The metals and coal sectors aren't demand driven, but they are price sensitive to the dearth of incremental supply, particularly coal, iron ore and even copper with all its mine outages.

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This is even before taking into consideration the question of whether Tenet has picked up any incremental share from the arrangement.

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"Even where these have had positive effects, progress has been too slow and incremental, and fundamental concerns remain about the competitive structure and performance of these markets, " he said.

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If Russians with even modest earnings complied with the law, the tax collector took well over half of their incremental income.

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"It may persuade enough of them that they do need to be more moderate and incremental in the approach, and they may actually come up with a package that is even more popular than what would have otherwise been, had they tried to get the bill through before August, " he said.

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