Even at the time this agreement was negotiated, the assumptions it was predicated upon were dubious.
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"There is no strategy that I am in charge of in terms of reform which is predicated upon backfilling, " he said.
"The entire international civilian presence and mission composition in Bosnia is predicated upon SFOR fulfilling the role that it has been set out to do in Dayton, " he said.
Such advice is predicated upon certain unsupportable assumptions (for example, that nuclear weapons, other military capabilities or mere moral suasion will suffice to deter chemical attacks against this country or its friends and allies overseas).
It sounds strange when you consider this is fashion we're talking about -- a notoriously stodgy industry predicated upon its historical archives -- but then again, this is the very same designer that teamed up with MakerBot for his fall 2012 collection.
The world is now being treated to the spectacle of a U.S. president determinedly pursuing a policy toward Haiti predicated upon a man whom the American intelligence community believes to be a psychotic manic depressive and involving a use of the armed forces opposed by senior military commanders.
What this analysis suggests by implication is that the first order of business for the legal practitioner advising a client on a SCF transaction is to ask what, if any, legal exposure might the client have by fitting the desired secular financial transaction to a sectarian, political, and legal institutional framework predicated upon Shariah?
But I'll say this, Chip, I think -- again, I want to stress that the effectiveness of Thursday will be predicated upon the willingness of those involved, Democrat and Republican, President and Republican member of Congress, to look at, fairly evaluate the ideas that each bring to that table, and if there's commonality, figure out a way to get that into the proposal.
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