So why has there been such a disparity between achieving the MDGs on water and sanitation?
There is a direct correlation between achieving self sufficiency and having basic needs met — hygiene, decent housing — before you can work.
Turnbull told parliament the revised package would "strike a balance between achieving significant savings while still providing sufficient financial support to those families most in need".
Klouche's fantasy is unlikely ever to be built, but it underscores the tensions between achieving cultural integration in theory and doing so in practice.
The ability to extend his pursed lips as much as 10.4 centimetres had often meant the difference between achieving part of his thorax and not.
I also hope that we will soon have a chief executive who knows the important ethical difference between achieving justice and merely achieving convictions.
However, there is a fine line between achieving economies of scale and returning to a 1960s-style dependence on government-wide data centres.
Small decisions like bringing the wrong kit, not enough food or water, or waking up late have the ability to be the difference between achieving your goal or having to turn back and, sadly, between life and death.
And new research, just released, confirms what I've been saying: the difference between the plans could well be the difference between achieving universal health coverage — a key progressive goal — and falling far short.
Acknowledging that fees and fines can be a ball and chain that hold people back, the Council of State Governments, a nonprofit good governance group, has urged states to strike an "especially careful balance between achieving reparative justice (for the victim or community), meeting the needs of the released person's family and creating a manageable, if difficult, obligation for the individual".
But over all the drama of "Passengers" — about the collateral benefits of hurtful actions, about forgiveness, about the difference between achieving immortality in one's work and achieving it by not dying — is less important and less memorable than its occasionally engaging sci-fi wonders.
