Who in the world today has the moral standing and the practical ability to take meaningful action?

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On the other hand, said the IISL, it is not always necessary to actually own something in order to make money from it, as long as you have both the legal right and the practical ability to do so.

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It said, for 15 years, children had been leaving school with little or no practical ability to prepare and cook food.

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Up until recently, and barring the use of Bluetooth headsets, the constraints defining the upper practical limit of a phone included the ability to fit into a pocket and be held against the side of an (adult) head to facilitate a voice call.

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The first regards our collective ability to widely implement practical, cost-effective mechanisms for determining what solutions, approaches, and practices actually work best.

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As a practical matter, Moscow's ability to attract interbank deposits, renew short-term credit lines and secure Western loans has been sharply curtailed by the Soviet Union's non-creditworthy status and its massive arrearages to Western firms.

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