It may all look like proof that the world's boycott of Hamas, intended to make it change its spots or leave power, is working.
"It would either make them think twice about building on flood plain land or it would make them change the design basis upon which they're built, " he told BBC Radio 4's Money Box.
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Reforms to make it easier to change employers would help both workers and the best employers.
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Exercising regularly and getting enough sleep will make it easier to change your behavior, Ms. Thompson says.
And strict historical codes can make it difficult to change a house's exterior.
And any user-written spreadsheet files that use Excel's built-in date functions should also make it through the change of century untarnished.
Individual action should help make systemic change easier, but it will never substitute for systematic change.
If the same 24-hour, seven-days-a-week availability and convenience, fast delivery, customer focus and personalisation became the norm in the public sector, it would not just make life easier, it would fundamentally change the way that people view government itself.
"Some of them changed the appearance of the character, or made the ship move instead of the hat - it was fun for them to make that little change and then see it happen, " said student Thomas Rogers.
If Moody's does make the change, it stops short of a downgrade.
But yes, technically the next administration, since it is an executive agreement, could change it or make some amendment to it at some point.
That initiative would open the Treaty to additional signatories, a step calculated to make it more difficult to change its terms in the future.
But in April McDonald's Chief Executive JamesSkinnerJames Skinner said the company was still testing the oil and did not know when it would make the change.
But in April McDonald's Chief Executive James Skinner said the company was still testing the oil and did not know when it would make the change.
Observations throughout the world make it clear that climate change is occurring, and rigorous scientific research demonstrates that the greenhouse gases emitted by human activities are the primary driver.
An alert reader compared the Super Big Gulp with a true 44-ounce container from a competitor and it came up four ounces short. 7-Eleven confirmed it did make the change.
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Congress has long included a ban on five-day-only delivery in its spending bills, but because the federal government is now operating under a temporary spending measure rather than an appropriations bill, Donahoe says it's the agency's interpretation that it can make the change itself.
Mr Robathan said the government would ensure the reserve forces had modern equipment and vehicles to make the change possible but he said it would require a change in the attitudes of society and the regular armed forces.
On May 9, the China Securities Regulatory Commission announced that it will experiment with letting small and private companies issue junk bonds, a change that could make it easier for such companies to obtain credit.
They insisted the world could change -- and knowing that destiny is what human beings make of it, they courageously realized the change they sought.
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Then there is the reform of Germany's federal system to make it easier to respond to change.
He also suggested improving education and expanding the portability of health and pension benefits to make it easier for workers to change jobs.
These differences between rich countries over how best to bail in private creditors make it unlikely that any radical change will occur soon.
He said there was no "silver-bullet" for tackling obesity, instead the entire culture around eating needed to change to make it easier to make healthy decisions.
Smartphones make it easier for managers to change their minds at the last moment: for example, to e-mail a minion at 11pm to tell him he must fly to Pittsburgh tomorrow.
If that is in place, and that model is in place, we can begin to cascade it down through the rest of the organization in such a way that this population will want to move over and help create this new model, and want to accelerate and make change happen for it.
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