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

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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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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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Even if it turns out to not have too many practical applications, just the ability to see quantum mechanics work with the human eye is breathtaking enough.

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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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The practical application here is that the ability to maintain entanglement for a long period of time is key to building real quantum information networks.

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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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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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As Moscow and Beijing have long appreciated, unavoidable verification and definitional problems ensure that, as a practical matter, any treaty likely to emerge from such talks would further weaken America's ability to protect its interests in space and on the ground - without denying such advantages to our potential adversaries.

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