All these factors expose us to culture and voices on a national rather than local scale.
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Exchanges were once on a local scale, community-based, and in an immediate environment with traditional channels of communication.
The particle's position thus altered the nanotube's electrical resistance on a local scale.
Muslims and Croat nationalists in Bosnia are engaging in the same sort of obstruction, but on a smaller, local scale.
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The World Water Assessment Programme is both global and local in scale, for it must check the accuracy of the big picture on the basis of snapshots of water in the field.
As these local companies gain scale in China, they inevitably set their sights globally.
Rob Gray represented the grassroots, small scale local currency approach, focusing on full-weight metal coins.
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As Egyptian forces reinforced the northern part of Sinai, the risk of a full-scale local revolt grew.
But tax resolution schemes persist, albeit on a smaller, local or regional scale.
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They're going to be the only provider, they're going to have local economies of scale and people are going to depend on them.
In the early years, he sometimes landed older and tougher animals, he said, though later he began getting excellent meat from small-scale local farms.
To meet the mandate of buying 30% of its products from small-scale local industries, IKEA would have to help those vendors modernize their infrastructure and manufacturing capabilities to ensurethey can offerworld-class quality.
It started as a small-scale local phone service, but he has since expanded it to include a 16, 000-mile fiber backbone, a fat slice of nationwide cellular radio spectrum and a major Internet access provider.
The alliance's manifesto calls for measures to reduce demand on the main electricity transmission grid, including smart meters, encouragement for community and small-scale local energy generation, and further research on methods of storage of electricity.
Consequently, it is inaccurate to portray local banks as large-scale borrowers of dollar funds which are then placed locally at higher local-currency rates.
Last year, AMMB pursued local acquisitions to build scale in the face of rising competition.
But Tony Blair announced a delay until Thursday 7 June for the local elections after the scale of the foot-and-mouth crisis emerged early in April.
This is the extra costs associated with educating small numbers of children in far-flung communities where there are no economies of scale and local school services become increasingly specialised.
Alex Attwood told the environment committee there was now a movement from a period of uncertainty into a time when people would have to address the issues of the scale of local government organisation.
After leaving the liver, the prohormone can be converted in the kidneys to the hormone form of vitamin D on a (relatively) large scale to be distributed throughout the body, or it can be converted on a small scale in local tissues.
On a smaller scale, some local law enforcement agencies are also having problems getting ammo.
To succeed in expanding abroad, banks need scale and a local deposit and customer base.
Marine extinctions are uncovered slowly on a global scale, but local disappearances are much more rapidly apparent.
Rather than one or two traders in Europe defrauding people, this is local and on a grander scale.
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Some of the reasons for Asia's dominance are obvious: cheap labour feeds into low prices, and huge local markets allow economies of scale.
There are questions about whether the government will spend enough and keep quality high enough to replicate these local results on a national scale.
Bringing them in can only increase the contradictions in trying to deliver diverse bespoke services on a global scale, following local rules in a standardised way.
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