Beating an incumbent is always harder than beating another newcomer, and usually requires much more fund-raising prowess than novice candidates, especially women, have been able to show.
The Pitt Review after the 2007 floods concluded much more funding was needed.
A properly constituted global humanitarian fund would have good prospects of mobilising much more funding for humanitarian crises than is presently available, from both governments and private donors.
It is partly a resource issue: the profession needs much more funding in order to employ more workers and reduce individual caseloads.
He says he has no plans for another film, not because of lack of desire, but because the indie scene requires so much more funding these days.
"I think that certainly there is a need for much more funding and effort," said Abolhassan Astaneh-Asl, a professor of structural engineering at the University of California at Berkeley.
That was despite the 2008 Pitt Review – a systematic analysis of major floods in 2007 – concluding that much more funding was needed.
But if the risk is to be significantly reduced, much more funding will ultimately be needed, said Anthony Fernihough, LU's head drainage engineer.
But a 10-team league creates its own problems: of accessibility (which can easily be tackled by automatic promotion from and relegation to a second tier that now receives so much more funding); and of generating enough fixtures.
"The way things are going with... research and grant funding, there's much more funding available out there for medical research than for football and sports research.
"There were contentious issues, and ultimately much more funds were provided," says Saakashvili, who denies any special handling to suit Badri.
