Given the messy intractability of state failure, who or what has a chance of solving it?
If definitions are elusive, what about degrees of state failure?
But, where public provision of social services is the norm, as in most of continental Europe, governments have been more ambivalent, seeing private provision as a sign of state failure.
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Despite erroneous and misleading statements suggesting otherwise, the new state misdemeanor crime of willful failure to complete or carry an alien registration document is adopted verbatim from the same offense found in federal statute.
If they collect the taxes and fail to remit, they can go to jail because in collecting the sales tax they are an agent of the State and failure to remit is something like embezzlement.
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They rates banks based on customer satisfaction, stability (state-by-state failure rates), availability of high interest rates, and size of the banking community (more choices is better).
Mr Finucane's widow, Geraldine, was granted an application for the holding of a judicial review into the failure of the Secretary of State, Paul Murphy, to publish Judge Cory's reports, which he received last October.
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In so doing, the former U.S. Ambassador to Yugoslavia, ertswhile American-Yugoslav entrepreneur (involved in banking arrangements and "Yugo" automobile franchises) and current resident "expert" on Yugoslavia in the State Department exemplified the failure of Bush Administration policy toward this crisis: He ignored the very real responsibility Washington and other Western capitals share for the present crisis.
The court's decision that the state takeover violated the law rested on the failure of local board members to undergo training required under state law before a takeover may occur.
Camil Guliyev, head of the country's state broadcaster, said the failure to give Russia any points was of serious concern.
Even President Obama cautioned in his State of the Union speech that a failure to lead by his own party is not the way to go.
Many also fear the spreading failure of the Pakistani state (see article).
It is, of course, inherently ludicrous for a political party devoted to destroying Britain to complain about the failure of the British state to honour one of that party's most high-profile supporters.
The failure of Brazil's state-owned airline, Varig, was a turning-point.
Mr Gore's failure to win his home state of Tennessee in the tightly fought battle for the US presidency in 2000 against George W Bush reflected a reluctance to spend time courting his own people.
The first is that Venezuela's failure is primarily one of the state, rather than of the market.
It had issued a decree sacking the Bihar state government for its failure to stem the slaughter of low-caste labourers by private armies of landowners, and imposed direct rule from Delhi.
And given the failure of the politicians - city, state and federal - to rise to the challenge of Katrina, next time there may be no coming back.
McLaughlin and Evolution's lawyer, Jeffrey Quick of Denver, told Forbes the failure to state McLaughlin's position with Earth was an oversight and will be corrected in an amended second filing with the SEC.
So while growth in the Fed's monetary base is overrated when it comes to currency values and inflation (base growth was the same in the '70s as it was in the '80s), the failure of the Nixon Treasury to clearly state its commitment to the Bretton Woods gold standard led to a falling unit of account.
State officials said the correct documentation hadn't been filed because of a bureaucratic failure.
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She shined a light on every failure of the U.S. government to separate church and state.
Because bankruptcy laws attempt to overcome this market failure, they are, in effect, a state-imposed system of universal financial-distress insurance.
These cases also cover the gamut of federal agencies and departments, along with a few examples on the state and local level, showing that no segment of our government holds a monopoly on failure on this issue.
Today, fraud claims alleging a failure to disclose might be based upon violations of federal securities laws, state blue sky laws, state consumer protection laws, and other federal and state anti-fraud statutes.
The season starts on February 20th in Hamburg, where last year the first state-level coalition between the CDU and the Green party ended prematurely after the failure of an ambitious school reform and the mayor's subsequent resignation.
But two years after his death, Mrs Ighilahriz says that his failure to admit the full extent of his role in Algeria made him unworthy of state honours.
They also state that "such a failure to achieve targets was likely adversely to affect those candidates' prospects of selection onto the panel of local government candidate able to be selected".
"The frustration with the federal government's failure to deal with the issue of illegal immigration resulted in passage of a flawed state law, " Suns managing partner Robert Sarver said in a statement.
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