There must be some clear defining purpose, some concept of the common good, which will impose direction and control on the unruly pluralism of these modern, democratic, capitalistic welfare states.
Mr. Negroponte, 65, a veteran diplomat, and General Hayden, 60, previously director of the National Security Agency, face the dual challenge of building their own operation from scratch even as they try to impose direction on 15 disparate spy agencies that by all accounts are deeply troubled.
It too (and every laborious step on its way) is affected by the distribution of costs and benefits of any changes among stakeholders, by the mixture of value systems in play and by the interpretation of what is central and peripheral in the intervention itself, all this in contexts where power is diffuse, and the capacity to unilaterally impose direction is limited.
By installing a subsurface WVD, it is possible to impose direction-controlled vapor fluxes, and WVDs can be used to accumulate or remove water in particular soil layers.
The optimization process is based on one of the main contributions of this paper: a novel way to design cross fields with topological (i.e., imposed singularities) and geometrical (i.e., imposed directions) constraints by solving only sparse linear systems.
Thermodynamic formulations impose directions and limits on the probability of processes; they also imply the use of scarce resources and compare the efficiencies of conversion between different kinds of energies, which may be a necessary step in net energy analyzes and energy policy discussions.
The group work and the lack of imposed directions by instructors on the final content of the work was acknowledged because "it obliged us to find solutions for the problems by ourselves, which increased group communication and brought interesting discussions on different themes".
'He felt that would impose a direction and not allow you to follow your instincts.
This formula also imposes a direction on to time; whereas every other physical law we know of would work the same whether time was going forwards or backwards, this is not true for the second law of thermodynamics.
Conti seldom seems to impose a direction on these exchanges; she just picks up on her volunteers' body language and, before you know it, personalities develop and scenarios unfold.
President Carter's problems were compounded, Mr. Rodman adds, by his choice of a secretary of state who was "unable or unwilling to impose political direction on the career bureaucracy in the president's name" -- a situation similar, he contends, to the one Nixon had with Secretary of State William Rogers, and Mr. Clinton had with Warren Christopher.
