But Japan has resisted doing that on a large scale, partly because of political concerns about closing banks, and partly because the sales themselves would establish how little the assets of the banks are worth.
Nicaragua is rich in natural resources, most of which have not been exploited on a large scale because of lack of financing.
The biologist E. O. Wilson, the world's leading expert on ants, has described humans as eusocial apes because of our ability to coöperate on a large scale, though many of his colleagues don't think we meet the technical criteria.
For the Business of Creativity series, I have carefully sought out and selected those creative entrepreneurs who have succeeded on a large scale because of their seamless integration of both creativity and commerce.
However, policy makers in the Netherlands are hesitant to implement prevention programmes on a large scale because of poor scientific evidence of these programmes.
People aren't buying fewer DVDs on a large scale because of rentals, they're buying fewer ones because most DVDs aren't simply worth owning.
Crucially, Unilever believes it will achieve change on such a large scale because of its size and global reach and will have a deeper insight because of 10 years of careful preparatory work ahead of the plan's launch.
As far as experimental molecular imaging is concerned, multiple PET sessions are difficult to envision on a large scale because of high cost and low practicability.
It appears to be impossible for us to collect images at a large scale because of the airport's strict entry requirements.
However, CMRs have not yet been implemented at a large scale because of several obstacles.
Our results indicate this need not be true: what is perceived as genetic structure because of geography or language variation on a large scale can in fact be explained equally well by social factors acting on local scale.
