The ability of the country to provide and administer basic government functions is also unknown.
Yemen is a poor country with a dispersed population, many of whom subsist without basic government services.
In New York we get a mayor who makes war on Big Gulp sodas while proving himself inept at basic government functions such as clearing snow.
In any case, a production slowdown would be a problem, but for a country so heavily dependent on oil and gas revenue for basic government spending, it could be a disaster.
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When the federal government shut down in 1995-1996 because of a budget standoff between Republicans and President Clinton, the GOP faced a huge backlash when Americans were unable to access basic government services, such as obtaining a passport or visiting the national zoo.
I'm also going to just be talking about some more mundane matters, things like making sure that we have our government personnel in place on critical positions -- in critical positions that involve our basic government function and seeing if we can accelerate that and try to find some agreement in those areas.
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In China, the company sells supplemental packages to individuals who want more coverage beyond the basic plans government provides.
More important, Germany is a country with a tradition of basic good government and a profound respect for its rulers.
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Many of Alabama's changes have nothing to do with the basic framework of government.
The social returns to government basic research investments, for instance, should be your baseline.
Some of the criticisms really are with the basic idea that government should intervene at all in this moment of crisis.
This small, professional force succeeded where a much larger but poorly-organised UN force had failed, by hitting the rebels hard and restoring some basic functions of government.
The immediate reason is that in many countries the state is now so bloated that, even without changing the basic structure of government, it could be made much more efficient.
Most of all when the candidates turned to their basic vision of government, when they argued about how much they would spend, how much they would take from the taxpayers' pockets.
"Immigration reform will strengthen our nation's security by helping us identify exactly who has entered our country and who has left -- a basic function of government that our broken immigration system is incapable of accomplishing today, " said South Carolina's Lindsey Graham and Arizona's John McCain.
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Now there still may be a case for the government investment of dollars into truly basic, risky research, as the government does in the sciences.
But his basic premise is that government must organize, fund, and control how members of the American community help each other.
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They say in the absence of this basic information, the government has not made a case for the Justice and Security Bill.
As we noted yesterday, Bloomberg View responded to its failure with an editorial calling into question the basic American system of government.
He said that, time and again, war-ravaged people had asked for help in establishing security and safety, restoring basic services and core Government functions, supporting a political transition and jump-starting economic recovery.
It is ironic that tying spending decisions to program performance is viewed by some as something new, that the Administration even had to establish an initiative for such a basic element of good government.
And I think that the longer Labour have been in office, the less they're trusted in handling it, because the system has the same basic flaws which the Government not only hasn't put right but in fact are making worse.
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But a true conservative would have no problem with agreeing, that what people do with their own bodies, and especially in the privacy of their own home, should be supremely their business, and that anything else would entail ignoring the basic tenet of limited government.
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We hear all the time about how basic income taxes, government spending and inflation are redistributive in nature, but not mentioned enough is how both political parties use the tax code to redistribute wealth to favored constituents or individuals who live as Washington would like them to.
He's calling for more government funding of basic research to help new ideas take root.
While Chavez has spent enormous sums on social programs, many complain the government has overlooked basic maintenance.
President Obama referenced computer chips and the Internet as having been enabled by government investment in basic research.
The survey shows that on average, recipients of the government's basic rural pension receive just 720 yuan a year.
Most of the companies that operate there make basic household products and have government insurance to cover disruptions caused by political factors.
By their very nature, growth states have the most urgent need for government investments in basic infrastructure, something traditional Democrats long have espoused.
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