Quotes about Agencies

Agencies which frequently work nights and weekends are more stimulating, more successful - and more profitable. Votes: 3

Our foremost priority is the removal of poverty, hunger and malnutrition, disease and illiteracy. All social welfare programmes must be implemented efficiently. Agencies involved in the delivery of services should have a strong sense of duty and work in a transparent, corruption-free, time-bound and accountable manner. Votes: 3

The problem is that agencies sometimes lose sight of common sense as they create regulations. Votes: 1

The jam is moving toward the Capitol where Congress sits in judgment on all the administrative agencies of Government. Votes: 1

Today it is not the classroom nor the classics which are the repositories of models of eloquence, but the ad agencies. Votes: 1

The only prejudice I've found anywhere in TV is in some advertising agencies, and there isn't so much prejudice as just fear. Votes: 1

The Body Shop Foundation is run by our staff and supports social activism and environmental activism. We don't tend to support big agencies. Votes: 1

The PATRIOT Act brought down the wall separating intelligence agencies from law enforcement and other entities charged with protecting the Nation from terrorism. Votes: 1

Today, we are announcing that agencies are releasing their final regulatory reform plans, including hundreds of initiatives that will reduce costs, simplify the system, and eliminate redundancy and inconsistency. Votes: 1

Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good. Votes: 1

Music is made one of Satan's most attractive agencies to ensnare souls; but, when turned to a good account, it is a blessing. When abused, it leads the unconsecrated to pride, vanity, and folly. Votes: 1

Prior to the PATRIOT Act, the ability of government agencies to share information with each other was limited, which kept investigators from fully understanding what terrorists might be planning and to prevent their attacks. Votes: 1

The U.N.'s humanitarian agencies rely on charitable donations from the public as well as the generosity of governments to continue their lifesaving work in response to natural disasters, armed conflicts and other emergencies. Votes: 1

Conservatives should insist that defense spending be examined with the same seriousness that we demand in examining the books of those government agencies that spend taxpayer money in the name of welfare, the environment, or education. Votes: 1

Judges wear legal professionalism and precedent as a mantel that secures legitimacy for their decisions. It's how they distinguish themselves from politicians or administrative agencies, while wielding power that is sometimes much greater than those democratically accountable actors. Votes: 1

Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera. Votes: 1

Since 2001, the Patriot Act has provided the means to detect and disrupt terrorist threats against the U.S. Prior to enactment of the law, major legal barriers prevented intelligence, national defense, and law enforcement agencies from working together and sharing information. Votes: 1

My own feeling is that one should refuse to participate in any activity that implements American aggression - thus tax refusal, draft refusal, avoidance of work that can be used by the agencies of militarism and repression, all seem to me essential. Votes: 1

These are busy times for the Border Patrol, the customs agents, immigration folks; but if we are going to send these agencies to fight a war on drugs, to fight a war against illegal behavior, we have to send them the proper tools. Votes: 1

We need to empower women. Give women a voice in the decision-making process. Give women a political voice where they can champion, for their own welfare. And, of course, for us. United Nations - organizations, agencies - we need to do our part. Votes: 1

Our budget works to reduce and eliminate the risk of attacks at our ports, rails, in the skies, our food supply and roads by allowing for increases in many of the programs and agencies to help protect these important areas of commerce and travel. Votes: 1

When governments rely increasingly on sophisticated public relations agencies, public debate disappears and is replaced by competing propaganda campaigns, with all the accompanying deceits. Advertising isn't about truth or fairness or rationality, but about mobilising deeper and more primitive layers of the human mind. Votes: 1

Unfortunately, corruption is widespread in government agencies and public enterprises. Our political system promotes nepotism and wasting money. This has undermined our legal system and confidence in the functioning of the state. One of the consequences is that many citizens don't pay their taxes. Votes: 1

Like other antitrust agencies we make our assessment of a merger or antitrust case based on its impact on our jurisdiction, and not on the nationality of the companies. This is exactly what the U.S. antitrust agencies, the Justice Department and the FTC, do. Votes: 1

Once Iraq became a hot bed for kidnapping, reporters had to use every kind of trick they could manage to avoid it. This included chase cars, security men for more prosperous agencies and networks, and GPS signals on satellite phones that could pinpoint the journalist's locations. Votes: 1

Many churches of all persuasions are hiring research agencies to poll neighborhoods, asking what kind of church they prefer. Then the local churches design themselves to fit the desires of the people. True faith in God that demands selflessness is being replaced by trendy religion that serves the selfish. Votes: 1

I'm going to reduce the size of the Cabinet, cut the number of ministers, reduce the size of the House of Commons, campaign for a European Parliament with 100 fewer members, halve the number of political advisers, and abolish a huge swathe of Labour's regional bureaucracies and agencies and their offices in Brussels. Votes: 1

Editorial outfits are now advertising agencies. Votes: 0

Traditional ad agencies have so much to unlearn. Votes: 0

We need more personnel within our security agencies. Votes: 0

The agencies are the Walmarts of the welfare agency Votes: 0

Today, credit rating agencies rate companies, countries and bonds. Votes: 0

Unfortunately, corruption is widespread in government agencies and public enterprises. Votes: 0

We've had a lot of agencies try and sabotage our tour. Votes: 0

Ratings agencies are the glue that ostensibly holds the entire financial industry together. Votes: 0

I went out to some advertising agencies and asked if I could do anything. Votes: 0

Nine out of every 10 large corporations and government agencies have been attacked by computer intruders. Votes: 0

Danger is a very rare commodity in these times, monopolized by intelligence agencies and stuntmen. Votes: 0

I've played a lot of different cops in a lot of different law enforcement agencies. Votes: 0

This is about saving children's lives. It is not about agencies and services protecting themselves. Votes: 0

I'll bring in outsiders to evaluate state agencies. They can sometimes see what we can't. Votes: 0

Most criticism of advertising is written in ignorance of what actually happens inside these agencies. Votes: 0

No one doing big business can avoid some contact with government agencies, regulators, and policy makers. Votes: 0

Congressman [Mike] Pompeo said he believes the intelligence agencies' claims that Russia hacked the US election. Votes: 0

You can't come up against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and not accept the risk. Votes: 0

Giant agencies are wobbling like drunkards… the rest of you should be sharpening your knives, Votes: 0

The Smithsonian Institute is one of the most popular agencies of government in the United States. Votes: 0

That poetry survived in its formal agencies finally, and that prose survived to get something said. Votes: 0

Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior. Votes: 0

We are increasing our efforts to attract the right kind of foreign investors through our various agencies. Votes: 0

All autonomous agencies and authorities, sooner or later, turn into self-perpetuating strongholds of conventional thought and practice. Votes: 0

You can't come forward against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and be completely free from risk. Votes: 0

Authentic brands don't emerge from marketing cubicles or advertising agencies. They emanate from everything the company does... Votes: 0

I have noticed a marked improvement in FEMA and with the coordination of FEMA and the State agencies. Votes: 0

Information agencies operate in an industry that values data. Restricted access to information is what makes it valuable. Votes: 0

...the ratings agencies' problem was in being unable or uninterested in appreciating the distinction between risk and uncertainty. Votes: 0

Move decisions out to the Cabinet and agencies. Strengthen them by moving responsibility, authority, and accountability their direction. Votes: 0

In the nineteenth century, government agencies in Washington had, almost without exception, flatly refused to hire even one female. Votes: 0

No government in the world today has explicitly assigned the responsibility for planetary protection to any of its agencies. Votes: 0

The concept of industry domination of regulatory agencies was well known and documented in the literature by the 1960s. Votes: 0

What law enforcement agencies and insurers do not understand is that driving while high is actually a safe activity, Votes: 0

I strongly agree that a National Intelligence Director should be established to oversee and coordinate the 15 federal intelligence agencies. Votes: 0

Nobody here is questioning the victory. I want to know President-elect [Donald] Trump doesn't believe the conclusions of 17 intelligence agencies. Votes: 0

Foreign Ministry guys don't become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to volunteer to Western intelligence agencies. Votes: 0

The police and other law enforcements agencies are going to concentrate their efforts on organised crime, especially organised aggravated robbery Votes: 0

Advertising agencies primary goal is to advertise and sell themselves to the client. Selling the product to the public comes second. Votes: 0

In the Internet age, it is inevitable that corporations and government agencies will have access to detailed information about people's lives. Votes: 0

Intel continues... to abuse their monopoly, and that's why, around the world, governments and regulatory agencies continue to go after them. Votes: 0

In China, going public has a cachet from a branding standpoint. It will improve our image to ad agencies, government regulators. Votes: 0

Dependency arguments often come from elites - either aid agencies or governments - and say something about attitudes to poor people. Votes: 0

An independant reality in the ordinary physical sense can neither be ascribed to the phenomenon nor to the agencies of observation. Votes: 0

Eliminate agencies that perform redundant functions... Get rid of the Department of Commerce, the Department of Education, the Department of Energy. Votes: 0

Our law enforcement agencies have found bodies in the desert, either buried or just lying out there, that have been beheaded. Votes: 0

In the fight against terrorism, national agencies keep full control over their police forces, security and intelligence agencies and judicial authorities. Votes: 0

No one's family is normal. Normalcy is a lie invented by advertising agencies to make the rest of us feel inferior. Votes: 0

Once wide coercive powers are given to governmental agencies for particular purposes, such powers cannot be effectively controlled by democratic assemblies. Votes: 0

After Star Trek, I was with the top agencies, but producers and directors did not know what to do with me. Votes: 0

Nowadays even presidents, vice-presidents, and heads of big agencies are opening their minds to accept psychic phenomena, because they know it works. Votes: 0

We must stop chasing dollars, stop lying, stop cheating, stop ignoring art, literature, and all the refining agencies and instrumentalities of civilization. Votes: 0

The United States should help strengthen nongovernmental humanitarian agencies working in Sudan so that they can handle an increased flow of aid. Votes: 0

Democrats in environmental agencies tend to be more sensitive to environmental harm. And Republicans tend to be more sensitive to business harm. Votes: 0

You have safety and soundness as primary purpose of the Federal Reserve, the OCC, and the other agencies which control banking regulation. Votes: 0

Ratings agencies are highly conflicted, unimaginative dupes. They are blissfully unaware of adverse selection and moral hazard. Investors should never trust them. Votes: 0

It is easy to magnify human personality and agencies. Prayer recognizes that God is the source of life and light and energy. Votes: 0

Press releases tell us when federal agencies do something right, but the Freedom of Information Act lets us know when they do not. Votes: 0

Visit USA.gov and you'll find thousands of directorates, agencies, boards, offices, and services replete with overlapping responsibilities, ancient priorities, and divided accountability. Votes: 0

Visit USA.gov and you'll find thousands of directorates, agencies, boards, offices, and services replete with overlapping responsibilities, ancient priorities, and divided accountability. Votes: 0

I've had it-the agencies, the winking, the networks, the ratings. Anyone who thinks TV is an art medium is crazy-it's an advertising medium. Votes: 0

Obama needs Facebook to help him get reelected. Facebook needs Obama to keep them out of trouble with Congress and countless government agencies. Votes: 0

You can be guaranteed a story on the presidential campaign is gonna lampoon the Republican candidate in every one of those news agencies. Votes: 0

I'm talking about the finding in October that is public now of 17 different intelligence agencies saying Russia tried to meddle with our elections. Votes: 0

...in the face of all dangers, in what may seem a godless region, we move forward through the agencies of love and art. Votes: 0

The traveler used to go about the world to encounter the natives. A function of travel agencies now is to prevent this encounter. Votes: 0

It's a shameful moment for U.S. media when it insists on being subservient to the grotesque propaganda agencies of a violent, aggressive state. Votes: 0

The most effective weapon against crime is cooperation... The efforts of all law enforcement agencies with the support and understanding of the American people. Votes: 0

Well, you could take several stories off the buildings of most U.S. government agencies and we'd all probably be better for it too. Votes: 0

I am opposed to any individual taxes until we eliminate all of the unconstitutional agencies, and I suspect we wouldn't need a tax after that. Votes: 0

Eugenics is the study of the agencies under social control that may improve or impair the racial qualities of future generations either physically or mentally. Votes: 0

Over 70% of what are called corruption (cases), even by EFCC (Economic and Financial Crimes Commission) and other anti-corruption agencies, is not corruption, but common stealing, Votes: 0

We estimate that humanitarian agencies have access to about 350,000 vulnerable people in Darfur - only about one third of the estimated total population in need. Votes: 0

Spending on programs such as national defense and funding the operating budgets of all federal agencies represent only 39 percent of our yearly budget, an all-time low. Votes: 0

The Federal Reserve can only buy Treasuries and agencies, and moreover quantitative easing typically involves buying longer-term Treasuries and agencies in terms of bills, for example. Votes: 0

I am pleased that the President has signed an Executive Order this week requiring federal agencies to disclose information about prices and quality of healthcare services. Votes: 0

Among our responsibilities is to make sure that 23 percent of all government contracts go to small businesses. That's about $150 billion annually, from all the government agencies. Votes: 0

Despite a decade of criticism and budget cuts, the specialised UN agencies have far more expertise and hands-on experience than any other organisations in the world. Votes: 0

Italians tend to be less rigidly moral and law-abiding than do Anglo-Saxons. They also have a profound suspicion of the state and most of its agencies. Votes: 0

You can't come up against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and not accept the risk. If they want to get you, over time they will. Votes: 0

I have had a long tug-of-war going on with the FDA, in particular, and with other regulatory agencies, and it has nothing to do with vaccines. Votes: 0

Belize pledges it continued support to the aspirations of the 23 million people of Taiwan to be full participants in all organs and agencies of the international community. Votes: 0

[M]anufacturing, science and engineering are ... incredibly creative. I'd venture to say more so than creative advertising agencies and things that are known as the creative industries. Votes: 0

We provide transit facilities, we cooperate in equipping the Afghan army and security forces with arms and helicopters, we cooperate in training officers for law enforcement agencies. Votes: 0

Everyone should understand that when they add their friends to Facebook, they are doing free work for United States intelligence agencies in building this database for them, Votes: 0

Scores of armed antigovernment groups, some of them far more radical, have formed or been revived during the Obama years, according to law-enforcement agencies and outside watchdogs. Votes: 0

We intend to keep the lines of communication open with the Defense Department so we can help our border law enforcement agencies navigate the equipment application process. Votes: 0

Government is the greatest combination for forces known to human society. It can command more men and raise more money than any and all other agencies combined. Votes: 0

I choose free libraries as the best agencies for improving the masses of the people, because they give nothing for nothing. They only help those who help themselves. Votes: 0

We have never really had absolute privacy with our records or our electronic communications - government agencies have always been able to gain access with appropriate court orders. Votes: 0

We have never really had absolute privacy with our records or our electronic communications - government agencies have always been able to gain access with appropriate court orders. Votes: 0

In most agencies, account executives outnumber the copywriters two to one. If you were a dairy farmer, would you employ twice as many milkers as you had cows? Votes: 0

The reason advertising is governed by fear, after all, is that most agencies rely on just a few clients to bring in the lion's share of their revenues. Votes: 0

The trouble with many copywriters in general agencies are that they don't really think in terms of selling. They have never written direct-response; they have never tasted blood Votes: 0

In our business, except in media buying, there are few economies of scale. Client perception of creative agencies is that the bigger they are, the worse they are. Votes: 0

I personally think that Hollywood agencies ought to play a much better role in the development of Chinese films. Otherwise they're missing out on a lot of opportunities. Votes: 0

Federal agencies that own bridges have some of the worst records for on-time inspections. Nearly 3,000 bridges owned by U.S. government agencies went more than two years between checkups. Votes: 0

The best agencies understood the importance of routines. The worst agencies were headed by people who never thought about it, and then wondered why no one followed their orders. Votes: 0

The potential savings in the national budgets from the elimination of police, criminal courts, standing armies, pollution control agencies, drug enforcement, and many poverty programs is almost beyond calculation. Votes: 0

The failure to work out sensible budgets makes it impossible for government agencies to make long-term plans, and instead leaves them scrambling to spend money in the short term. Votes: 0

Emotion. Passion. Ideas. Simplicity. These are the big things that big business needs from its creative agencies. No one else is going to provide these essential elements for business. Votes: 0

If we want to boost border security, we have to help law enforcement agencies beef up their resources to meet this demand. We cannot have one without the other. Votes: 0

We have new rules that give shareholders the ability to vote on executive compensation. We have new rules for asset-backed securities. We have new rules around credit rating agencies. Votes: 0

People talk about the Patriot Act that was passed immediately in the wake of September 11. What the Patriot Act did was break down the walls between the various agencies. Votes: 0

One would think that the record of already existing regulatory agencies is sufficiently eloquent in showing that it is Big Business that does the regulating rather than vice versa . Votes: 0

A new sense of shared international responsibility is unmistakable in the voices of the United Nations and its agencies, and in the civil society of thousands of supra-national NGOs. Votes: 0

What we bring to the table is not only our 56 field offices in the United States and our number of resident agencies, but also we have 45 legal attaches overseas. Votes: 0

Since the tragedies, the Department of Homeland Security was established to prevent terrorist attacks within the United States, and most importantly, to share intelligence information among government agencies and departments. Votes: 0

The recent history of Ukraine is replete with dead journalists, beaten journalists, news agencies being shut down, and politicians being injured or killed. Most are killed in mysterious auto accidents. Votes: 0

Federal overreach from agencies like the EPA is hurting family farms. I will fight against these crippling regulations, and always side with the hard working farmers and ranchers of Missouri. Votes: 0

The basis of successful relief in national distress is to mobilize and organize the infinite number of agencies of self help in the community. That has been the American way. Votes: 0

There are very few men of genius in advertising agencies. But we need all we can find. Almost without exception they are disagreeable. Don't destroy them. They lay golden eggs. Votes: 0

With the mission to Mars, the whole world wants to get involved. So we actually have 13 different space agencies from around the world working on the global exploration road map. Votes: 0

A carbonated wine foisted upon Americans (who else would drink it?) by winery ad agencies as a way of getting rid of inferior champagne by mixing it with inferior burgundy. Votes: 0

US intelligence agencies will only use such data to meet specific security requirements: counterintelligence, counterterrorism, counterproliferation, cybersecurity, force protection for our troops and allies, and combating transnational crime, including sanctions evasion. Votes: 0

Especially with the predators, one of the things that gets these programs going on a local level is for our land management agencies to build partnerships with surrounding communities and landowners. Votes: 0

Most child welfare agencies tend to embrace secrecy because the people who lead them tend to be mediocre and don't want you to see how poor a job they are doing. Votes: 0

Advertising is much less powerful than advertisers and critics of advertising claim, and advertising agencies are stabbing in the dark much more than they are practicing precision microsurgery on the public consciousness. Votes: 0

Advertising is much less powerful than advertisers and critics of advertising claim, and advertising agencies are stabbing in the dark much more than they are practicing precision microsurgery on the public consciousness Votes: 0

Another factor is the decision, made in 1976, to sharply divide the FBI and the foreign intelligence agencies. The FBI would collect within the United States; the foreign intelligence agencies would collect overseas. Votes: 0

We have to allow people in the states to make their own decisions, to get government agencies out of the way and let local people make decisions about what's best for them. Votes: 0

Every discipline develops standards of professional competence to which its workers are subject... Every scientific community is a society in the small, so to speak, with its own agencies of social control. Votes: 0

Evangelical agencies with ready funding may have too little depth and vision to cope with the current conflict. God's kingdom is built not on perpetual motion, one-liners, and flashbulbs but on Christ. Votes: 0

When I was in England, I had seen advertisements about typing agencies; I had learned that if you really want to make a good impression, you should have your manuscript well typed. Votes: 0

These elites, preferring to work in private, are rarely found posed for photographers, and their influence upon events has therefore to be deduced from what is known of the agencies they employ. Votes: 0

Currently I am working on another three books, doing a lot of magazine work, am shooting for fifteen stock agencies, plus my own photo library - all this keeps me quite busy! Votes: 0

I've seen, all too often in my career, people coming in to lead agencies and organizations and trying to impose change from the top down. Never works. You never have enough time. Votes: 0

Decisive action has been taken on the home front with passage of the USA Patriot Act, which has strengthened the hand of law enforcement agencies to stop terrorists before they can act. Votes: 0

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone. Votes: 0

Drug smugglers from all over the world are in contact with the US secret agencies. These agencies do not want to eradicate narcotics cultivation and trafficking because their importance will be diminished. Votes: 0

There can be no permanent progress in the battle against hunger until the agencies that fight for increased food production and those that fight for population control unite in a common effort. Votes: 0

Minnesotans lost their jobs because the credit rating agencies didn't do the only job they're supposed to have, the only job they had, which is to give accurate, objective ratings to financial products. Votes: 0

For a President not to have confidence in, not to be prepared to listen to the myriad of intelligence agencies from defense intelligence, to the CIA, etcetera, is absolutely mindless. It's just mindless. Votes: 0

Today's water institutions-the policies and laws, government agencies and planning and engineering practices that shape patterns of water use-are steeped in a supply-side management philosophy no longer appropriate to solving today's water problems. Votes: 0

The emphasis has been on rights, not responsibilities. When it comes to piecing together the fragments of broken lives, we have tended to place the entire burden on the state and its agencies. Votes: 0

The Federal Reserve, the Treasury, all the regulator agencies - if there's a problem of the financial mechanism in society, the only one to fix it is government. They've got a legitimate role. Votes: 0

The enhanced features of our ad products would require sufficient understanding from our sales force, advertisers, and agencies. To facilitate this, we have held multiple training sessions internally and road show events externally. Votes: 0

By various agencies, unintentional and designed, a society transforms uninitiated and seemingly alien beings into robust trustees of its own resources and ideals. Education is thus a fostering, a nurturing, a cultivating, process. Votes: 0

The global financial system consists of firms in the financial services sector - banks, hedge funds, insurance companies and the like - and various governmental agencies who are charged with regulating these firms. Votes: 0

It has come to my attention that Missouri state and local law enforcement agencies may be in need of additional resources due to the unanticipated costs of responding to the unrest in Ferguson. Votes: 0

I'm disappointed . . . that the president has not done more to demand that Congress and other federal agencies make the same sacrifices millions of Americans are already making. There is no charity without sacrifice. Votes: 0

When I went to Harvard and studied planning, I found I didn't have the skills or the strength to become the kind of public person who could go out and lobby government agencies. Votes: 0

Our carefully constructed system of checks and balances is being negated by the rise of a fourth branch, an administrative state of sprawling departments and agencies that govern with increasing autonomy and decreasing transparency. Votes: 0

There will be an enduring role for the 'soft' side of planning. The piece that deals with meaning, identity and ideas. This is the slightly intangible piece that creative agencies hold at their heart. Votes: 0

Dangerous because your present Administration and its specialized agencies by all accounts know no restraint in hitting out at any perceived enemy of America, and nobody or nothing can protect one from their vindictiveness. Votes: 0

Our covering ministry is Challenge for Christ ministries, and Travel the Road was solely our mission arm, designed to expose people to what missions are, then connect them with agencies that send people out. Votes: 0

We need to encourage designers and agencies to be responsible. We need to make sure everyone is sensitive to the issues. But to calculate the girls' body mass - I personally think it is demeaning. Votes: 0

It's been reported - in fact, The New York Times has reported that intelligence agencies have told the White House that they now have, quote, "high confidence" that the Russian government was behind the hack. Votes: 0

The character of the architectural forms and spaces which all people habitually encounter are powerful agencies in determining the nature of their thoughts, their emotions and their actions, however unconscious of this they may be. Votes: 0

Nothing is worse, or more of a breach of the social contract between citizen and state, than for government officials, bureaucrats and agencies to waste the money entrusted to them by the people they serve. Votes: 0

Strangely enough, the linking of computers has taken place democratically, even anarchically. Its rules and habits are emerging in the open light, rather shall behind the closed doors of security agencies or corporate operations centers. Votes: 0

Every year the Federal Government wastes billions of dollars as a result of overpayments of government agencies, misuse of government credit cards, abuse of the Federal entitlement programs, and the mismanagement of the Federal bureaucracy. Votes: 0

While it is generally agreed that the visible expressions and agencies are necessary instruments, civilization seems to depend far more fundamentally upon the moral and intellectual qualities of human beings-upon the spirit that animates mankind. Votes: 0

The Great War differed from all ancient wars in the immense power of the combatants and their fearful agencies of destruction, and from all modern wars in the utter ruthlessness with which it was fought. Votes: 0

Almost no one will accept responsibility for his or her role in precipitating a crisis: not leveraged speculators, not willfully blind leaders of financial institutions, and certainly not regulators, government officials, ratings agencies or politicians. Votes: 0

The only compensation, gained through the influence of nongovernmental organizations, consisted in slightly broadening for private individuals the possibility of access and appeal to the agencies enforcing the Covenant concerned with civil and political rights. Votes: 0

In a sense, what we do with the regional development agencies is to give them resources to look at the deficiencies in the economy in the regional areas, so they can address themselves to that. Votes: 0