For its part, Fatah is not in a position to make peace even if its leaders wished to.
But it appears Russia is not in a position to offer a helping hand to them at this time.
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It allows Europeans to feel that the United States is not in a position to give anyone morality lessons.
And the global community is not in a position to complain too loudly: many nations have been blowing up their money supply too.
Mukasey's selection is being seen as a compromise move by the Bush White House, which is not in a position to fight Congress on the attorney general nomination.
The United States is not in a position to help the European Union right now, the country has a great deal of debt and is still running large deficits.
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In the case of development in Africa it seems like we are trying to implement the latest advance in medical technology on to a system that is not in a position to support them.
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Marshall Murphy, spokesman for Exelon's nuclear business, said his company "is not in a position to talk about" the Japan accident or its similar units, a list that includes its Quad Cities plant in Cordova, Ill.
It had been announced on Wednesday by the Irish Government that "in the current circumstances, it is not in a position to provide any Exchequer funding" for the two stadiums it was to contribute to the joint bid for Euro 2008.
The law also makes sure that the IPAB is not in a position to make policy, but instead to simply make recommendations to the Secretary of Health and Human Services, proposals that Congress is specifically empowered to override if it sees fit.
This is something that unfortunately, the United States is not in a position to do because we have yet to ratify that convention and it's one of the reasons why we are interested and supportive of having that treaty be ratified by the U.S. Senate.
But pending the results of the police enquiry into alleged illegal behaviour by the News of the World, and pending a public disclosure by News International of the way that it has changed its structures and practices to ensure such abuses never happen again, Ofcom is not in a position to adjudicate whether News Corporation is fit and proper.
Mr Ford - who is the favourite to take the position eventually - has said his party is not yet in a position to put forward a name.
So, even in those cases, the court is not ever in a position to be able to tell the government you must release these secrets.
The basic thought is that as Google is a dominant company it has to act in a certain manner, a more restrained manner with respect to competition than a company which is not in a dominant position has to.
General Musharraf has just won the Pakistani Parliament's agreement to let him keep the sweeping powers he has granted himself but, as the assassination attempts show, he is not in such a strong position to negotiate a compromise over Kashmir: he is hemmed in not just by Islamist hardliners but also by the armed forces, who are reluctant to abandon their support for Kashmiri separatists.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed "grave concern" over the reports of Israeli airstrikes in Syria Sunday but stressed that the U.N. is not "in a position to independently verify what has occurred, " his spokesman said.
"In today's economic climate, the U.S. Postal Service is simply not in a position to allow Lance Armstrong or any of the other defendants to walk away with the tens of millions of dollars they illegitimately procured, " Machen said.
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Dell simply is not even in a position where they can make such a purchase directly with either company.
For a man who has yet to make his case with any conviction or force, Mr Bush is not in a bad position.
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Bill Clinton, whom some Americans regard as a perjurer, is not in a good position to lecture anybody about family life and values.
But he is not in a strong position.
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An agent with even just a few authors interested in going the self-publishing route, crowdfunded or not, is in a great position to make connections between authors and suppliers.
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But the company is in such a weakened state that it is not in any position to raise new money from its shareholders.
They may well see what is wrong but are not in a position to put it right.
That's why Ford, while not in great shape, is in a materially better position than the other two.
If an employee is given less responsibilities, but perhaps without an official demotion, the employer is sending a message to the employee saying that he or she is not doing a great job in their current position and the employee has little hope to move up the career ladder, Teach says.
''However, the offer in question is not a coaching position as such, therefore while considering it, I will now be looking at all options open to me.
Arriving just after breakfast, our first stop was at the Hunger Analyzer station, where DoCoMo reps were on hand with a Bluetooth accessory that measures acetone levels, sending results to an app that determines not only if it's time for you to eat, but also whether or not your body is in a good position to burn fat with exercise.
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