The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has criticised European governments' response.
Almost any significant progress Italy has made in recent decades toward overhauling its economy has been achieved despite its politicians, whether structural adjustments required under EU obligations or measures introduced by technocratic governments in response to specific crises.
He suggested that UNGIS could work through the UN country teams to propose to governments possible actions in response to national priorities in the area of information and communication for development.
Many Americans are ashamed of their federal, state and local governments for the pathetically delayed response and poor preparation.
The degree to which confidence will be affected will depend on the response made by governments, with some regions better prepared than others.
Britain's foreign secretary, Jack Straw, has just as much freedom to call the cartoons unnecessary, insensitive, disrespectful and wrong as The Economist has to decry the response of western governments as inadequate and feeble.
The response of European governments to these trends has been to thin the ranks of arms makers through consolidation while financing the creation of commercial aerospace companies that could not have competed otherwise given the small size of local markets.
Dr John Twigg, a researcher at the Benfield Greig Hazard Research Centre of University College, London, says most governments invest in post-disaster response and very little in making people secure.
In response to this trend, governments increasingly have to support personal devices in the workplace, as well as become more flexible with the platforms they use to deliver citizen services.
The government has set up a new quango in response, which is what governments do when they don't want to be seen to be doing nothing, but expect an issue to go away of its own accord.
In response, the US and Canadian governments imposed retaliatory trade barriers and took the dispute to the World Trade Organisation.
Most of Pakistan's big political parties are part of the national or provincial governments, so blame for the inept official response will be widely shared.
Unfortunately, all of this had played out in a political environment in which the U.S. and some state governments were running record deficits, partly in response to the recent recession.
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The main weapon of opposition parties, after all, is delay and governments are bound occasionally to use the guillotine in response.
While governments can and should do much more to prepare a response to emergencies, so should individuals.
But he said the threat posed by terrorists, organised criminals and hostile foreign governments was "real and credible" and he demanded a swifter response to match the speed with which "cyber events" happened.
Every response to the debt crisis has been subject to vetoes by governments and parliaments.
In response to the inflation shocks of the 1970s and 1980s, governments ceded powers over interest rates to central banks.
Even recognising that, the official response to Mr Singh's wake-up call from the governments of the affected Indian states has been dismal.
As we move forward, the Administration will work closely with state and local governments, farming and ranching communities and others to ensure an effective and efficient response and recovery.
The details are complex but the main thrust is that, in response to lobbying from transnational U.S. corporations and foreign governments, Congress has made it much harder for small U.S. inventors to protect their intellectual property from infringement and even from outright theft.
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Federal and state governments were criticised last year for the unco-ordinated deployment of the guard in response to Hurricane Katrina.
In this case, the federal, state, and local governments have the resources and expertise to play an even more direct role in the response effort.
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In response to local concerns about the loss of critical food supplies, several governments have imposed taxes or other restrictions on exports: on a key ingredient of fertiliser in China, on grain in Argentina, on rice in India.
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From time to time governments are sorely tempted to keep these instruments from being invented, which is the wrong response.
But until then surely the only rational response of anyone who believes in the moral superiority of free markets and transparent governments is to offer her their full-hearted support?
In response to the devastation of Hurricane Sandy, the Federal, state, and local governments immediately started to work with outside partners to provide relief, support, and reconstruction.
In response to these rapid changes in the way everyone on the planet gets and processes information, governments, businesses and individuals are all facing the challenges of adapting to continuous change.
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