In 1987, the American Physical Society concluded that a global shield such as " Star Wars " was not only impossible with existing technology, but that ten more years of research was needed to learn whether it might ever be feasible.

As humanity enters the Planetary phase of civilization, some scientists and political theorists see a global hierarchy of institutions replacing the existing system of sovereign nation-states as the primary political community.

It is expected that GIP will use its relationships to persuade new and existing airlines to consider launching additional routes from Gatwick, reinstating services suspended as a result of the global recession in the wake of the financial crisis that began in 2007 and Open Skies and / or expanding their existing flying programme from the airport in the near future.

In such fiction, most current world problems are local in warfare, local in culture, and usually mono-cultural, and theistic ; further aggravated by various groups trying to retain a Type-0 monoculture through existing institutions and opposition to socialism, and others trying to move forward to a Type-I multicultural, global world though subversion, and revolutionary violence.

The disturbing potential T is numerically a great deal smaller than U or W, and captures the detailed, complex variations of the true gravity field of the actually existing Earth from point-to-point, as distinguished from the overall global trend captured by the smooth mathematical ellipsoid of the normal potential.

Some monetary reformers criticise existing global financial institutions like the World Bank and International Monetary Fund and their policies regarding money supply, banks and debt in developing nations, in that they appear to these writers to be " forcing " a regime of extortionate or unpayable debt on weak Third World governments that do not have the capacity to pay the interest on these loans without severely affecting the well-being or even the viability of the local population.

The International Time Capsule Society was created to maintain a global database of all existing time capsules.

If granted, this relief could have required USL to terminate many existing licenses and destroy a huge number of copies of the BSD code, potentially including copies used in its owner AT & T's own global telephone network, until such time as it was able to comply with the University's license requirements, rendering any victory in the original case Pyrrhic at best.

The bank merged S. G. Warburg with its own existing investment banking unit to create SBC Warburg, which became a leading player in global investment banking.

SoftBank's 3G network is compatible with UMTS and supports transparent global roaming for existing UMTS subscribers from other countries.

Also, no existing solution method is guaranteed to find the global optimum of a general problem ( see No free lunch in search and optimization ).

The TM movement hopes to achieve global reconstruction by demolishing most existing buildings in the world and replacing them with buildings that follow the Vastu Shastra, especially in regard to having east-facing entrances, at an estimated cost of $ 300 trillion.

# access to agriculture information – according to the review of global and national agricultural information systems done by IICD with support from DFID in 2003, there is a need for coordination and streamlining of existing agriculture information sources, both internationally and within the developing countrues.

* The content should consider existing global concerns such as cultural, social, and gender diversity ; environmental and political issues as it relates to adolescents.

Aker Solutions ASA (); a Norwegian oil services company headquartered in Oslo ; is a global provider of products and services in engineering, construction, maintenance, modification and operation of new and existing oil and gas fields.

Aker Solutions is a global provider of engineering services for new builds, as well as maintenance and modification of existing facilities in the upstream oil and gas industry.

" By some estimates there will be an average of two per cent annual growth in global oil demand over the years ahead along with conservatively a three per cent natural decline in production from existing reserves.

State capitalism and Corporate capitalism ( also known as Monopoly capitalism ), is a universal form encompassing all recent actually existing economic forms based on the nation state and global process of capital accumulation, whether avowedly capitalist or socialist, which was known only in its more or less pure capitalist forms in Marx and Engels time.

Legg Mason provides global distribution and invests in growth through core strategic services including capital allocation for product development, investing in our existing affiliates and making new acquisitions.

The International Energy Agency released a publication that estimated that existing buildings are responsible for more than 40 % of the world ’ s total primary energy consumption and for 24 % of global carbon dioxide emissions.

The key economic challenges for Welkom and Matjhabeng is to absorb the jolt of the changing mining sector, maintain the existing contribution of agriculture, increase global linkages, and address inherent inequities in the economy.

With the strategic ambition to become an integrated player in managed data networks and IP-based communication and hosting for global enterprises, France Telecom on 1 June 2006 announced the consolidation of the group ’ s business services operations and rebranded its existing operations of Equant and Wanadoo to a new entity-' Orange Business Services ' ( informally, OBS ).

Note: home canning is a counter example of a Low-technology since some of the supplies needed to pursue this skill rely on a global trade network and an existing manufacturing infrastructure.

By their reasoning, existing laws relating to privacy in general should be sufficient.

Murphey ’ s vision for the Catalina Foothills community was low-density residential development, on lots designed for maximum privacy, preserving existing desert vegetation, the natural terrain, and mountain views.

Many groups, such as the Electronic Frontiers Foundation, have criticized the act for a lack of privacy and civil liberties protections, claiming that it authorizes government surveillance of private communications and allows companies to hand over large amounts of personal information on their clients without a warrant or judicial oversight, and thereby creates a cybersecurity loophole in existing privacy laws, such as the Wiretap Act and the Electronic Communications Privacy Act.

* Lastly, the Sunshine Amendment leaves intact the right of privacy guaranteed by the constitution by clarifying that it does not supersede or modify the existing constitutional right of privacy.

They then clarify their goals: " It is our purpose to consider whether the existing law affords a principle which can properly be invoked to protect the privacy of the individual ; and, if it does, what the nature and extent of such protection is.

The term is particularly related to the protection and realization of existing rights, such as the right to privacy or freedom of expression, in the context of new digital technologies, especially the Internet.

He believed that the Endowment exists to promote information on the nations ' rights and responsibilities under existing international law and to encourage other conferences to codify this law.

The overriding effect of this Act provided relief to the existing tenants and the rights accrued to tenants accordingly.

Some of the late 90s / early 2000s games were under development by other companies at one time, but rights to the game programs and all of the existing code was bought and finished by other developers.

Evictions only increased after the repeal of the British Corn Laws in 1846 and the new Encumbered Estates Act being passed in 1849 as well as the removal of existing civil rights.

His Majesty's government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.

Funds are used, for example, to finance the conversion of existing manufacturing processes, train personnel, pay royalties and patent rights on new technologies, and establish national ozone offices.

President Obama also issued an executive order expanding existing sanctions against individuals who violate human rights to include those who threaten Burma ’ s political restructuring process.

This allowed the user to find ports using existing file system navigation concepts, as well as assigning rights and permissions as they would on the file system.

* 1917 – The Balfour Declaration proclaims British support for the " establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people " with the clear understanding " that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities ".

Both Quebec and Ontario were required by section 93 of the British North America Act to safeguard existing educational rights and privileges of Protestant and the Catholic minority.

Even as DreamWorks switches distribution of live-action films that are not part of existing franchises to Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, Paramount will continue to own the films released before the merger, and the films that Paramount themselves distributed ( including sequel rights ; such films as Little Fockers will be distributed by Paramount and DreamWorks, since it is a sequel to an existing DreamWorks film – in this case, Meet the Parents and Meet the Fockers, though Paramount will only own international rights to this title, whereas Universal Studios will handle domestic distribution ).

There are property rights because of and to the extent that the existing law, supported by social customs, secure them.

In October 1990 President Momoh set up a constitutional review commission to review the 1978 one-party constitution with a view to broadening the existing political process, guaranteeing fundamental human rights and the rule of law, and strengthening and consolidating the democratic foundation and structure of the nation.

In order to accommodate demands for minority rights and avoid secession and the creation of a separate new state, many states decentralize or devolve greater decision-making power to new or existing subunits or even autonomous areas.

There is some difference of opinion as to how revolutionary the events of 1688-89 actually were, and several commentators make the point that the provisions of the English Bill of Rights did not represent new laws, but rather stated existing rights.

Mark Thompson wrote that, apart from determining the succession, the English Bill of Rights did " little more than set forth certain points of existing laws and simply secured to Englishmen the rights of which they were already posessed.

By the 1960s, the Court had extended its interpretation of substantive due process to include rights and freedoms that are not specifically mentioned in the Constitution but that, according to the Court, extend or derive from existing rights.

* Collateral warranty, gives a third party rights in an existing contract

* November 2 – Zionism: The Balfour Declaration proclaims British support for the " establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people " with the clear understanding " that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities ".