If the capital is hard to police, bringing a degree of order to the rest of the country looks even harder.

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Or is the cost of doing so significant enough that you are willing to tolerate a certain degree of risk in order to try and achieve a higher rate of return?

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What took many aback, however, was that in France's regional elections last year some members of the centre-right took the hand of the National Front, thus offering it a degree of respectability, in order to cling on to power themselves.

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Dr Cornell and Dr Wieman had to plumb the icy depths of 20 billionths of a degree above absolute zero in order to win their prize.

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It's a new radar setup that turns the helicopter into an all-seeing eye, capable of surveying the 360-degree space around it in order to direct fighter planes in combat.

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As part of a pilot scheme, nurses will have to spend a year working as support workers and healthcare assistants before taking a degree, in order to better understand the caring role of frontline staff.

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In Europe, the debt crisis had worsened again, with Greece warning in October that it could not come up with the degree of cost-cutting demanded by the IMF, EU, and ECB in order to receive the next payment on its bailout, which was needed by early November.

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Professor Khalili has been awarded various honours, which include Trustee of the City of Jerusalem, an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Humane Letters from Boston University, and Knight Commander of the Royal Order of Francis I (KCFO).

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