And these have to greater or lesser degrees impaired the US's ability to formulate and implement rational policies in the region.

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All these wineries to a greater or lesser extent are subject to the same market forces.

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So if our banks are knackered, which all of them have been to a greater or lesser extent, then they become less able to fulfil all the borrowing needs of the economy.

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The ending is cosmic in scale, and also to a greater or lesser extent predetermined.

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All of these ideas are already, to a greater or lesser degree, finding their way into existing microchips.

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By contrast, the other banks include undrawn overdraft facilities in their Merlin numbers to a greater or lesser extent.

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In Greece politicians of all stripes blame the EU and IMF, to a greater or lesser extent, for their misery.

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Everything is radioactive: absolutely everything, to some greater or lesser degree.

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All developed countries are de-industrialising, to a greater or lesser degree.

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Child marriage is an issue which affects girls in almost every country on the continent to a greater or lesser extent -- ten of the fifteen countries worldwide with the highest rates of child marriage are in Africa.

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Of course there is still large (and I would argue excessive) state involvement in the Russian economy, but this is very different from formal control and exists, to a greater or lesser degree, in all market economies.

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So, as well as the three main UK parties, that means the Scottish and Welsh Nationalists, the Greens, UKIP, the Scottish Socialists, Respect, plus the Northern Ireland parties, will all be on Question Time, to a greater or lesser extent.

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Pistole said the changes are in keeping with his "risk-based security" initiative and will permit airport screeners to focus on looking for bomb components, which present a greater threat to aircraft, instead of lesser threats.

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Moving seven passengers with greater efficiency leads to the consideration of lesser (and smaller) vehicles, like the GMC Acadia Denali, or a minivan like the Toyota Sienna or Honda Odyssey.

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At that point, most IT groups were late to the game and a greater or lesser degree of urgent running around looking for integration and management solutions ensued.

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The art of principled compromise entails giving up a lesser value to achieve a greater value.

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He also notes that some distributors are forcing exhibitors to show 3D versions of some lesser films in order to get the rights to screen bigger movies with greater box office potential.

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So I don't want to say that I have a greater insight into that or a lesser insight.

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But that may be the lesser of two evils: capital controls might pose an even greater risk if they lead to a wider loss of confidence in other weak peripheral banking systems.

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The danger is that Pakistan may have to endure the greater evil of fuel shortages, currency controls and even default before it accepts the lesser evil of stiffer taxes, higher electricity bills and the IMF.

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