The German campaign pushing for the tax welcomed what they called an "agreement in principle," while pointing out a few areas of weakness, including the lack of a joint commitment to allocate revenue to climate, development, and social programs.
His work starts, as with so many Middle East political classics, with a look at the fundamental principles and weaknesses of the post-Ottoman order, which he argues has seen nation states fall apart.
The priority setting processes related to the prevention of the mother to child transmission of HIV programme demonstrate substantial weaknesses, weaknesses that challenge the principles of Tanzania's decentralisation policy where principles of bringing local priorities up-front are located at the core.
Obama, meanwhile, would stay mindful of a central idea in Rules For Radicals: "Compromise is another word that carries shades of weakness, vacillation, betrayal of ideals, surrender of moral principles...
Sometimes an organization is nonviolent on principle, and sometimes it is nonviolent simply because it finds itself in a position of weakness.
In development policy documents, most action proposals during both periods focused on fixing the administration and public management weaknesses towards the principles of "New Public Management" fostering results-oriented management and fiscal and budgetary reforms (Table 6).
Understanding and modeling the organizational principles underlying the robustness of metabolic networks with respect to gene perturbations is important not only to shed light on basic principles of life, but also to identify weaknesses that may lead to new drug targets to kill pathogens or cancer cells (Behre et al., 2008).
The tentative identification of a relationship between bond valence and energy implies that it might be possible to overcome one of the principle weaknesses of the bond valence model, namely its inability to quantify energy.
