The European Union, for example, has set the bar deliberately low for Bosnia to apply for candidate status, in recognition of its unique complexity.
We must expect that, should a treaty outlawing chemical weapons ever be achieved, persuading others that a given country (the Soviet Union, for example) is violating the agreement will become still more difficult.
The powerful prison guards union, for example, bloats the budgets of state-run facilities, whereas companies like Corrections Corporation of America (CXW) and The Geo Group, Inc. (GEO) hold a pricing advantage by being able to pay guards non-union wages.
Tobacco advertising is now banned throughout the European Union, for example.
The European Union, for example, wants to see industrial nations--its own members included--bring emissions of CO2 and other heat-trapping gases down to 85% of what they were in 1990, and do it within the next 12 years.
It is also because the Lib Dems have tempered some of the wilder Tory impulses, for example on confronting the European Union and restricting immigration.
As the foreign-ministry document asserts, Russia needs to consolidate the former Soviet space by, for example, pushing the customs union between Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan.
Despite these drawbacks, some studies have pointed to a substantial increase in trade within the euro area arising from monetary union, for example by 20-25% in the first four years.
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Inevitably, the countries in the closer economic union will want greater control, for example, over the financial sector with direct impact on Britain.
Industry watchers often point to the 2010 United-Continental union as an example, during which passenger experience suffered when reservations and frequent flier accounts were lost during the computer system integration.
The UPS pilots' union, for example, wants to make sure controllers remain ultimately responsible for keeping planes apart.
This week, for example, the European Union joined Canada and a bunch of others in making a formal complaint about America's corn subsidies.
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Mrs Foster said the reform of credit unions in Northern Ireland would follow the example set by recent changes to credit union regulations in Great Britain.
That meant a normal willingness to defend its own interests, for example in the European Union, and also a readiness to send troops on such foreign missions as the war in Kosovo.
For example, the Soviet Union utilized a draconian embargo of oil and natural gas supplies earlier this year as the principal lever in its effort to bring the Lithuanian independence movement to heel.
The diplomatic maneuvers and the public relations contest between the United States and the Soviet Union in the early years of the space race provide a vivid historical example of mutual noise making.
We are very much the Cinderellas of public sector pay levels, and we have increasingly fallen behind the private sector and other public sector workers, such as NHS staff and the fire union workers' settlement, for example.
To qualify for the reduced tuition fee at Oxford or Cambridge, for example, a student has to live in the European Union for the last three years of high school.
The Germans and other allies wish to sell the Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact nations machine tools with the capability of producing, for example, advanced aviation components with an accuracy of plus-or-minus five microns (two ten-thousandths of an inch) or better.
It is hardly his fault that this book appears at a time when Greece's financial crisis provides a glaring example of the risks in monetary union.
One example is the University of London Union, which includes student sports teams and faith organisations under its umbrella and even runs a pub for students.
Neither seems ready to talk about the sort of labour and capital market deregulation which proved so successful in Britain, for example, and which the European Union has committed itself to as part of the Lisbon process, aimed at making Europe the world's most competitive region by 2010.
And it may not be wise to follow the example of the man in the wool Union Jack cap who crashed Simpson's victory interview on NBC and cooed what sounded like a lonely seagull call.
Britain's union leaders, for example, condemned the recent wildcat strikes against immigrant workers, and Mr Monks is fond of pointing out that workers throughout Europe benefit hugely from the European Union's policy of free movement of labour.
The plan noted, for example, that payments to farmers in some countries - a reference primarily to the European Union's subsidies - can have distorting effects on developing countries.
Union leaders have even held up the model as an example for other industries.
They point to Greece's blocking of Union recognition for Macedonia as an example of the mess the need for unanimity can make.
Beattie, speaking to BBC Radio Wales' 'Back Page' programme, claimed that the only way forward for Welsh rugby was to follow Scotland's example of fewer professional teams controlled by the national union.
For example, anyone in the country can join Associated Credit Union, which offers a card with a 9.9% APR, for members with a FICO score above 680.
This week's news that the European Union had reached an initial gas deal with Turkmenistan, for example, highlights yet again Georgia's role as an energy corridor linking Europe with Central Asia.
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