They blame local tradition and an unwillingness to let go.
A detailed look at what went wrong with the arrest-related deaths count reveals challenges that run deeper than the unwillingness of local police departments to file a report when they kill someone, although that is part of the problem.
Speaking exclusively to HuffPost Greece, Stevis condemned the unwillingness of local police to interfere during the attack.
The loss of life was exacerbated by the lack of an accurate timeframe for the eruption and the unwillingness of local authorities to take costly preventative measures without clear signs of imminent danger.
Hallmarks of failure include the unwillingness of local stakeholders in government and law enforcement to change their own corrupt or abusive behavior, and a tendency on the Americans' part to present a cookie-cutter approach, informed chiefly by American realities, that does not fit local conditions.
In the face of a pandemic influenza threat, local health department employees' unwillingness to report to duty may pose a threat to the nation's emergency response infrastructure.
They include a lousy national economy, a widespread unwillingness locally and nationally to levy the taxes necessary to support government services, and the refusal of the Bush administration to help state and local governments that are experiencing their worst budget shortfalls since World War II.
That some survive, and resplendently so in the cases of Baarle and Cooch Behar, is a testament to a combination of factors: international unwillingness, administrative inertia, local pride, and the 'claves' general inobtrusiveness to the affairs of state.
Regardless of who in New York likes Mr. Giuliani and who doesn't, and regardless of the unwillingness of many local politicians to see him remain in office even a day after Jan . 1 he has come to symbolize the best of New York to the rest of the country.
Other factors in their demise included a weak Canadian dollar at the time (players are paid in US dollars and the team was collecting their revenues in a weaker currency), a stretch of unstable ownership groups, and an unwillingness by the local government to contribute funds towards a new downtown stadium, one that would have replaced the cavernous and eroding Stade Olympique.
