The lack of airlift, for instance, has made it difficult for some countries to move their men and equipment.
The eurozone does not involve shared sovereignty - which is hard enough for some countries to accept under austerity pressures.
Although Mr Bush has persuaded some countries to pledge their support for a military campaign, a number of nations remain opposed to it.
Yet strategic imperatives may prompt some countries to overlook such concerns.
The largest bottler for PepsiCo, which operates in North America, Turkey, Russia, Greece and Spain, raised prices in some countries to widen its profit margin.
The new clauses focus on a common foreign policy, judicial and home affairs, and the notion of flexibility to enable some countries to integrate faster than others.
Over the last six months, the euro has fallen 17%, leading some economists to speculate that the crisis will prompt some countries to leave the euro zone.
Rather than looking for constructive ways of enabling some countries to exit from the single currency, they are committed to preserving it in the form in which it exists now.
The European monetary system has allowed some countries to get a free ride at the expense of others, while those who cheat are in a position to blackmail those who have to foot the bill.
Some have been transferred to their home countries, some to other countries either because they -- the task force determined that it was okay to do so, or in some cases judges have ruled in habeas cases that the government no longer has an acceptable reason for keeping that individual.
As Mr Trichet spoke, the ECB's traders were buying government bonds to prevent a run on some countries and to calm panicky markets.
That the European Commission is defending European firms' right to offer online gambling, even as some countries try to ban it, raises difficult questions about individual states' ability to override the single market in sensitive areas.
The gold market is also catching some bullish tailwinds from the weekend news that Iran has halted oil shipments to some European countries, to pre-empt an EU ban on Iranian oil imports.
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To be sure, the World Trade Organisation has enabled some poor countries to win trade disputes against rich ones.
The gold market also sees bullish tailwinds from the weekend news that Iran has halted oil shipments to some European countries, to pre-empt an EU ban on Iranian oil imports.
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The gold market is also seeing underlying support from the recent news Iran has halted oil shipments to some European countries, to pre-empt an EU ban on Iranian oil imports.
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The gold market saw stepped up safe-haven buying support from rising tensions in the Persian Gulf, following the recent news Iran has halted oil shipments to some European countries, to pre-empt an EU ban on Iranian oil imports.
The recent news Iran has halted oil shipments to some European countries, to pre-empt an EU ban on Iranian oil imports, has been met with increasing focus in the media on the potential for Israel or U.S. military action against Iran.
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It led, in some countries, to unsustainable bubbles that the crisis in 2008 only exposed.
But now, after the opposition has been growing stronger some countries seem to be backing off.
This is one of many issues that some countries want to put on the table for negotiations.
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With such largesse on offer, it can become difficult for some African countries to make up their mind.
You know, some countries want to go ahead with the financial transaction tax.
They are worried that some countries appear to be overwhelmed by the disease.
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As oil prices rose, some countries decided to start unwinding these distortions.
All this makes some countries reluctant to enforce tight controls.
Meanwhile, some countries continue to take unilateral action against each other's beef exports: Austria, Germany and Italy have banned French meat, and the French continue to block British beef.
The refusal of some rich countries to accept a second set of commitments under Kyoto (the current ones run out in 2012) was a big stumbling block in Copenhagen.
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So again, our focus is on communicating with the Israelis, and also communicating with those like Turkey, Egypt, and some European countries to make it clear to Hamas that they need to de-escalate.
Edward Parker of Fitch says that a Baltic crash might mean that some countries have to follow the example of Portugal, which has been stuck with high costs and low growth after an unsustainable boom.
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