The chasm between bottom-up state-building and the top-down negotiations in America or Egypt looks wider than ever.
It should have taken no great literacy in the theories and the history of "state-building" to foresee the favorable endowments of Iraq and the built-in disadvantages of Afghanistan.
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He urged Iraqi leaders to move quickly to alleviate current tensions in order to refocus energy on critical state-building challenges, including preparations for provincial and local elections next year.
State-building takes more effort than the administration had imagined.
In the fields of education, the sciences, culture, and communication and information, we are helping to lay the foundations that are necessary today for state-building and for a more peaceful, prosperous and sustainable future.
The report calls for a state-wide building code that would supersede local planning laws.
The government plans to fund the grants with the sales tax it collects from state-owned building yards.
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Opposition politicians have called for the head of the state road-building agency GDDKiA to resign over the affair.
Ten construction firm managers and a former director of the Polish state road-building agency have been charged with attempting to fix prices.
The adjustable lights can be programmed for red and green at Christmas or orange at Halloween, Empire State Building-style.
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The group serves as the national office for a network of state and local home-building organizations that in total serve 250, 000 member companies and individuals.
The annual Empire State Building Run-up is being held Wednesday night.
ZUS's government-appointed managers are cosy with those ailing state-owned companies that receive implicit subsidies by building up social-security arrears.
It is very late in the game to begin building a state-by-state campaign infra-structure.
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Building a state-of-the-art medical records system will give it a competitive advantage, he believes.
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So months and months ago, Progress Now and its state affiliates started building grass-roots networks, laying the groundwork for a Democratic campaign.
The federal stimulus money was used to upgrade an old building into state-of-the-art facility and hire sufficient numbers of culturally competent staff.
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Nepal is going through an important period of democracy building and state-restructuring.
Government officials say this will mean free schools - and any other state-funded school - can open "in almost any building for a year without needing planning permission".
What immediately came to mind was a similar drama surrounding the train trip of the body of Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau from lying in state in the Ottawa parliament building to the state funeral in his home-town, Montreal.
" To quote Mr. Malkin, "branding elevates the Empire State Building to a world-wide standard of excellence.
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Sure, you'd rather have kids in a beautiful, state-of-the-art building, but even more important than that is consistency.
The state-of-the-art building will sit between two Victorian buildings, the B-listed Dunfermline Carnegie Library and a B-listed former bank.
There were to be no private roads, and the government would ensure that road-building in every state was done to a single standard.
His objective was to turn the Empire State Building into a state-of-the-art property with a restored image that would give it a unique competitive marketing edge.
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If Portsmouth are relegated, selling a Championship club in the current economic climate would prove near impossible, as would building a new state-of-the-art multi-million pound training complex at Lee-on-Solent.
"To drop rents on a new, state-of-the-art building to make them comparable to buildings in Midtown that are an average of 75 years old doesn't reflect what we believe to be the immediate value of the space, " said Theresa Miller, a Prudential spokeswoman.
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