1.   After drawn-out arbitration procedures, two of the three member countries can as a last resort impose fines and trade sanctions on the third for pervasive laxity.

2.   Germany seems to have come to terms with its responsibility as best as any country could.

3.   If Germany has begun to move, say French reformers, surely their country can too.

4.   If Japan, despite the toughest gun laws in any democracy, cannot stop guns from being available and affordable, it is possible that no country can.

5.   Indeed, one argument American industry makes against the Biosafety Protocol is that it is not needed because countries already can and do restrict agricultural imports.

6.   Mercosul attracts more investment than any one country could by itself.

7.   Much of the battle within OPEC was about whether countries could or would be seen as capitulating to heavy-handed American demands.

8.   No country can to it alone in space any more.

9.   So does this mean that the current concern is overblown and that the country can now relax and go on running up deficits?

10.   The country could and would unite, he believed.