Hammond said: "The UK is also prepared to offer up to 200 personnel to provide training to troops from anglophone west African countries contributing to AFISMA, though the numbers required will be dependent on the requirements of the AFISMA contributing nations".
Whoever gets the job, the changes required will be more than cosmetic.
Koranic studies will be offered to juniors and seniors, and Arabic, while not required, will be offered to all students.
The draw (if it is required) will be held 90 minutes after the final whistles at the Maracana.
The path toward the "sustainable energy sources" he says are required will be obstructed by foes determined to safeguard the interests of coal, oil and natural gas.
If the latter of these, then the number of gas power plants required will be a lot lower or those that have been constructed will have to run at very low capacity levels.
This is vital in journalism where the amount of words required will be a daily issue and your boss will not have the time to repeat instructions over and over.
Our budget outlook is so grim and the policy changes that are required will be so painful — politically as well as financially — that putting efforts to get our fiscal house in order on hold would be the height of irresponsibility.
Ensuring that councils are able to respond to this enhanced role builds on best practice already in evidence, but for many councils the cultural transformation required will be profound, will necessitate new practice guidance, and will take considerable time to deliver.
Even after more than a decade of conflict, the decisions that will be required will be painful: Will the United States keep training the Afghan Army, even if "green- on-blue" attacks — Afghan troops turning on their trainers — keep taking a deadly toll?
Last week, for instance, the American Enterprise Institute, a policy research organization, released a study by Joseph Gyourko, a professor at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, stating that the agency was underestimating its future losses by "tens of billions" and arguing that "the recapitalization required will be at least $50 billion, and likely much more".
