A problem is that any alteration of the watershed upstream of the point in question can potentially affect the ability of the watershed to handle water, and thus potentially affects the levels of the periodic floods.

A DSLAM may offer the ability to tag VLAN traffic as it passes from the subscribers to upstream routers.

An expert riverman, he was assigned to the crucial position of bowman in the keelboat for his ability to spot the slack water eddies that would assist in advancing the boats upstream.

The slide altered the environment of the river by increasing turbulence and density, and salmon's ability to swim upstream was seriously disrupted as many fish, exhausted by the journey through Hells Gate, were carried back downstream.

Our own freedom, and the future of freedom around the world, depend, in a very real sense, on their ability to build growing and independent nations where men can live in dignity, liberated from the bonds of hunger, ignorance and poverty.

A nation or group that can pose a credible threat of mass casualty has the ability to alter the terms on which other nations or groups interact with it.

The chief question is whether, with the breaking down of trade barriers in the international economy, while this can benefit consumers it can also make the ability of multinational companies to bargain down wage costs even greater, in wealthier Western countries and developing nations alike.

Juche repeated demands that North Koreans learn to build and innovate domestically had run its course as had the ability of North Koreans to keep technological pace with other industrialized nations.

United Nations ' Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said that renewable energy has the ability to lift the poorest nations to new levels of prosperity.

* Globalization can subvert nations ' ability for self-determination.

Hard power is generally associated to the stronger of nations, as the ability to change the domestic affairs of other nations through military threats.

Increasingly the world is replacing transportation with communication and thus the ability to communicate effectively and convey messages in the information environment is critical to national security for the Western nations.

The Iroquois and 29 other Indian nations agreed to defend the 1768 Fort Stanwix Treaty boundary line with European settlers by denying any Indian nation the ability to cede any land without common consent of all.

# That, owing partly to the want of ability in historians, and partly to the complexity of social phenomena, extremely little had as yet been done towards discovering the principles that govern the character and destiny of nations, or, in other words, towards establishing a science of history

The RCG believes that such movements in alliance with Cuba have the ability to radically help the working class masses living in these nations, and fight against the imperialism of the United Kingdom, United States and other First World states who use them for cheap labour.

He says that NAFTA and CAFTA will increase poverty because they prematurely open markets to US agricultural goods which are subsidized, making local farmers unable to compete with imports, and the nations in question do not have the ability to bear the costs of switching resources with their available capital, nor deal with the consequences of even short-term unemployment.

Critics of American unilateralism point to the ethical implications of engaging in armed conflicts that may inevitably draw in combatants from other nations, as well as the undermining of the international ability to protect small nations from aggressors.

" The ability to name and classify the word and social concepts Ammi calls " The Power to Define ", which in the wrong hands is " one of the greatest weapons that can be used to control men and nations ," but is the key to salvation from past oppression.

Several other data sets of estimated average national cognitive ability exist as explained in nations and intelligence.

The report misrepresented Canada's ability to invest in developing nations to meet emissions targets through CDM by misquoting the amount of credit to be 85 million instead of the real approximation of 3 billion.

The international capital markets lost faith in the ability of certain developing nations to pay back the foreign debt they had accumulated.

It aims to " dramatically improve the ability of rice farmers to feed growing populations in some of the world ’ s poorest nations ".

Uruguay won both Olympics and FIFA became conscious that the Olympic movement was not only hindering the ability of nations to participate on an equal footing but, given that the Olympics only permitted amateurs to participate, did not represent the true strength of the international game.

A league table, standings, ranking chart, or ladder is a chart or list which compares sports teams, institutions, nations or companies by ranking them in order of ability or achievement.

Many NATO member nations subsequently developed or purchased rifles with the ability to accept this type of magazine ; however the standard was never ratified and remains a ' Draft STANAG '.

Critics say that this has two deficiencies as a means of charity: one, it confuses the ability to repay with the economic reorganization demanded by the bank and other ethical considerations ; and two, the fact that some countries actually do repay their loans, despite the hardship of paying and the reality that most developing nations are not expected to do so.

For example, though kinetic bombardment potentially offers the ability to strike any target anywhere in the world within minutes, both the United States and Russia, possibly the only nations with the resources and facilities necessary to implement such a system, have sufficiently long-range supersonic bombers that the same target could already be deployed in a matter of hours at a mere fraction of the cost.

It also bolstered its ability to place sanctions on “ those who undermine the reform process, engage in human rights abuses, contribute to ethnic conflict or participate in military trade with North Korea .” The United States will continue to block businesses or individuals from making transactions with any “ specially designated nationals ” or businesses that they control — allowing Washington, for example, to stop money from flowing to groups disrupting the reform process.

If, for example, the overall goal is to win a war against another country, one strategy might be to undermine the other nation's ability to wage war by preemptively annihilating their military forces.

As strategic bombing aims to undermine an enemy nation-state's ability to wage war, strategic bombers need to be able to reach targets throughout most or all of that nation, and so have tended to be larger, longer-ranged aircraft.

Later, in Samson v. California, the Supreme Court ruled that reasonable suspicion is not even necessary: " The California Legislature has concluded that, given the number of inmates the State paroles and its high recidivism rate, a requirement that searches be based on individualized suspicion would undermine the State's ability to effectively supervise parolees and protect the public from criminal acts by reoffenders.

) Bean, who wrote in his diary of Monash " We do not want Australia represented by men mainly because of their ability, natural and inborn in Jews, to push themselves ", conspired with Keith Murdoch to undermine Monash, and have him removed from the command of the Australian Corps.

These dynamics may harm group member relationships and undermine the ability of a group to cooperatively implement a contentious decision.

In general, however, these contests regularly work to undermine the ability of governments to enforce labor standards, such as workers ' compensation, or to raise taxation in order to fund social services and correct externalities ( such as pollution and social degradation ).

Thus, another key provision of the 1996 Act set obligations for incumbent carriers and new entrants to interconnect their networks with one another, imposing additional requirements on the incumbents because they might desire to restrict competitive entry by denying such interconnection or by setting terms, conditions, and rates that could undermine the ability of the new entrants to compete.

For example, a complainant be given poor evaluations or low grades, have their projects sabotaged, be denied work or academic opportunities, have their work hours cut back, and other actions against them which undermine their productivity, or their ability to advance at work or school, being fired after reporting sexual harassmentor leading to unemployment as they may be suspended, asked to resign, or be fired from their jobs altogether.

The development and deployment of intelligence-led counterinsurgency strategies was integral to the restoration of British imperial control in Palestine as the revolt had demonstrated to the British authorities how a popular rebellion could undermine intelligence gathering operations and thereby impair their ability to predict and respond to inter-communal disorder.

With the exception of Quebec, none of these efforts undermine the ability of the federal government to conduct foreign affairs.

:" The Democratic Party strongly and unequivocally supports Roe v. Wade and a woman ’ s right to choose a safe and legal abortion, regardless of ability to pay, and we oppose any and all efforts to weaken or undermine that right.

Under authoritarian dominant-party systems, which may be referred to as " electoralism " or " soft authoritarianism ", opposition parties are legally allowed to operate, but are too weak or ineffective to seriously challenge power, perhaps through various forms of corruption, constitutional quirks that intentionally undermine the ability for an effective opposition to thrive, institutional and / or organizational conventions that support the status quo, or inherent cultural values averse to change.

* the ability to produce and trade a commodity without too much risk of a type that would undermine the business.

To defeat their militarily stronger enemy, the ILR is engaging in socio-political warfare intended to undermine the ConFed citizenry's confidence in their government's stability and ability to protect them.

" Justice White acknowledged the argument that refusing to recognize such a privilege would undermine the ability of the press to gather news, but wrote that " from the beginning of the country the press has operated without constitutional protection for press informants, and the press has flourished.

" President Bush stated that the Senate's interest in internal White House documents " would undermine a president's ability to receive candid counsel " and that he had " reluctantly accepted " her request.

: It creates a ' chilling effect ' that will undermine the ability of judges to adjudicate fearlessly cases, as justice requires.

However, when poverty coexists with other forms of adversity, it can negatively impact parent ’ s ability to cope with stressors and undermine their capacity to adequately respond to their child's needs.

On 27 June 2006, a child protection conference, ' Children: Over Surveilled, Under Protected ', held at the London School of Economics, reached the conclusion that the database would do nothing to prevent child abuse, and that it would undermine parents ' ability to look after their children.

Such divisions undermine our ability to build a fightback against the Blair government.

He argued that, while libertarians ( whom he called " liberals ") could ally with conservatives in the short term, any fusion of the two movements would undermine their ability to defend liberty.

The Kennedy doctrine did not include the ability to fight nuclear wars because of the idea that it would undermine deterrence, was technologically unworkable, would fuel the arms race, and was not politically feasible.

They argued that the initiative would therefore undermine the ability of local police departments to protect the public if immigrant communities, especially domestic violence victims, fear reporting crimes because of potential immigration law consequences.