It is like the auditors for the supermarket chain, Tesco, doing the audits and saying, overall, the books are in order but they know there is shoplifting going on somewhere yet cannot say exactly where.
Yet many of us cannot yet exhale because for all our celebrations over Kenya's largely peaceful election, our attention must now turn to Zimbabwe.
Yet earthquakes cannot be predicted accurately enough to know when people should be evacuated.
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Yet governments cannot easily prevent their citizens from having free access to such advertising.
Yet that cannot last, because the rationale of liberalisation is for power generators to choose their suppliers.
Yet they cannot reduce deposit rates without triggering even more outflows of cash.
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Yet Sadakhlo cannot last for ever, since it is an anomaly created by the geography of the Nagorno-Karabakh dispute.
Yet universities cannot afford to get out of the law enforcement business, because the Office for Civil Rights won't let them.
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Yet I cannot believe that there is anything more or anything different that I could have done and that would have been more successful.
Islamists also unite in calling for the application of Islamic law, yet they cannot agree on what exactly this law consists of.
Yet he cannot wriggle free of the traditional British predicament, wanting to lead and keep its distance from Europe at the same time.
As the world's biggest oil producer and exporter, Saudi Arabia is awash with money, yet it cannot find anything like enough jobs for its citizens.
Yet Cyprus cannot blame all its troubles on accidents and outsiders.
It is his department that will get the blame if we get fined yet he cannot force the agriculture department to do what he says.
Yet he cannot plead ignorance of the Senate's workings.
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Yet Pakistan cannot be pushed too hard.
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In summary, here is where we are in America today: We are solely responsible for handling our most complex financial matters, such as providing for our retirement security- for reviewing every prospectus of every fund or stock in which we invest over our lifetime (before we invest)- yet we cannot fully comprehend even the smallest financial events of our daily lives, such as our phone bill.
Inventory is also abnormally constricted because many prospective sellers cannot yet afford to do so.
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That cannot yet be said of the institution that Mr Lewis is about to leave behind.
Yet central banks cannot allow rents to surge as this would feed into inflation.
But the opposition cannot yet be certain of winning a vote on the presidency.
The consequences of global warming cannot yet be known but might plausibly be grave.
Two companies (who cannot yet be named) were funded coming out of Future Energy events last year.
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El Shafee, 48, works as a pharmacist because he cannot yet make a living from his writing.
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While we cannot yet cheaply turn ordinary carbon into competition for De Beers, we are heading that way.
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