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Thus, this is an ad hoc solution - good in practice but theoretically weak.
Ad-hoc councils of town elders slowly evolved into militias.
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Both past and present have been burdened by the ad hoc nature of relations among the United States, Mexico, and Canada.
Though some routine practices have emerged as international capital markets have grown, they remain ad hoc.
For the most part, world leaders preferred not to be bothered with North Korea, and so reacted in an ad hoc way whenever it created a security problem.
Lula claimed that this ad hoc approach gave Brazil a degree of flexibility lacking in other countries; but it was not cost-free, as he claimed, and the results did not endure.
Insofar as the goal of preventing the proliferation of nuclear weapons on the Korean peninsula is concerned, the US has thus succeeded by sustaining an ad hoc concert of powers thus far with China, Japan, Russia, and South Korea.
Europe's relationship with Russia is too important for it to be developed in an ad hoc fashion through bilateral arrangements.
From an American perspective, flexible ad hoc coalitions of the willing have turned out to be more useful than the established NATO alliance, where Germany led the fight to refuse Turkey's request for support.
The East German voters were not only impressed by his decisive handling of severe floods in August, but also by his ad hoc neutralism with regard to Iraq in September.
If the rule of law is to be upheld, democratic self-defense must not appear ad hoc or arbitrary.
Ad hoc decisions have replaced a feasible and principled medium-term strategy.
Before the international community established the ICC, there were two ad hoc tribunals - one for the former Yugoslavia and one for Rwanda. Their work paved the way for the ICC.
But, with another display of reactive and ad hoc decision-making, we are no wiser about how Europe intends to resolve its dilemmas.
Quite simply, the ad hoc policymaking that directed interventions in the Balkans, Somalia, southwest Asia, and the Middle East in the past two decades will not suffice in this new era of limitations.
But if Western experience is any guide, ad hoc responses to high rates of work accidents won't reduce the risks to Chinese workers.
Cooperation would also need to comprise much more than mere joint policy development, and should involve the practical pursuit of mutually beneficial, smaller-scale ad hoc projects.
To that extent, it provides exactly what the world needs now: an approach that removes the need to rely on the ad hoc and slow-moving approach of ratings agencies and the noisy and volatile signals coming from markets.
On the other hand, there is limited enthusiasm for establishing yet another ad hoc international tribunal - in addition to those now at work for ex-Yugoslavia and Rwanda - because of the costs.