It's the latter difference that may help to make sense of the wave of violence that has overtaken a large swath of the city.
(This may help to make her popular; she can seem prettier to those who don't recognize prettiness except in the latest styles).
This may help to make a little sense of the weirdly anticlimactic finish to this summer's famous escape and massive manhunt.
Bodies like the tax inspectorate, the customs service and the prosecutor's office are largely unaccountable; WTO rules may help to make them behave.The prospects have improved.
All Chile's miners hope that better training may help to make their workers as productive as those in Australian or American mines.
Mr Mitchell's ideas for more accountability and transparency should help: if taxpayers and recipients can see more easily how aid money is spent, they may help to make it more effective.
And if the Conservative Party wins the next general election, as seems likely, Teach Firsters may help to make its slightly half-baked plans to open hundreds of new schools a reality.
Anyway, the point here is that we are living in an age of revolution, whether we will or no, and that America is the only western nation with both the power and, as I hope to suggest, the experience that may help to make these revolutions real and minimize the human damage.
Conversely, the weather is one of those unpredictable factors, like livestock epidemics and football matches, which may help to make prime ministers.Countries such as Italy, where winter is impractical and summer is dormant, are more or less obliged to hold their elections in spring.
Colombia may help to make up the shortfall.Jorge Castañeda, who was Mr Fox's foreign minister, says the original Plan Puebla-Panama failed because aid donors, such as the World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank, were reluctant to lend on a regional basis and because the United States did not get involved.
Some examples may help to make this distinction clearer.
