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).
In light of the well-recognized failure of the two-state solution, Hamas's takeover of Gaza and the disintegration of Fatah accompanied by the shattering of the myth of Fatah moderation, Israel should strike out on a new course and work toward the integration of Judea and Samaria, including its Palestinian population, into Israeli society.
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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.
In so doing, they wind up framing America as a country in a state of profound foreign policy crisis, one pushed to the brink of failure.
Now the illusions have gone, stripped away by a demographic explosion (the country has more than 30m people) and by the failure of the state to translate petroleum revenues into decent living standards.
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.
Nobody is talking about the complete failure of information security at State, leading to those cables being available to more than three MILLION people with a security clearance and SIPRnet access.
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.
Given the abject failure of the two-state paradigm, it is abundantly clear that for all the complications that may be associated with the application of Israeli sovereignty over Judea and Samaria, it is a better option for Israel than Israeli surrender of the areas.
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.
But, total government employment fell by more than half a million employees as state and local governments, faced with the failure of the stimulus program to produce growth, were forced to cut payrolls in order to balance their budgets.
The charges are numerous: there are perennial (and hard to prove) accusations about state subsidies and a failure to guard against the theft of intellectual property.
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.
Its failure to act will undermine the foundations of the democratic state, challenging its very legitimacy.
That is part of a deeper failure: to come to grips with a state that is overgrown but is neither efficient nor fair.
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