Mr. Powell set terms that appeared to reflect a growing conviction in Washington that the Najaf confrontation has become a watershed, with repercussions that could crucially affect American hopes of wresting order out of what has become an increasingly chaotic situation across much of Iraq.

This decision can crucially affect the cost of clients and servers, the robustness and security of the application as a whole, and the flexibility of the design to later modification or porting.

The purity of the products crucially affects the production of siloxane polymers, otherwise chain branching arises.

The two stories are not amply integrated and both are underwritten, but each conjures a mood of reflexive dread, of people compelled to make decisions that crucially affect the lives of others as well as themselves.

Fourth, decisions are made in sequence rather than according to a grand plan, because the series of searches crucially affects outcomes and because each time a search is concluded another problem is attended to.

When a business has such "assets" that are useless or no longer exist, they must be written off in one lump, crucially affecting such otherwise welcome budget reinterpretations as those of Robert Eisner.

And who better to lend that assistance than state and local governments, which most crucially affect the lives and livelihoods of Americans?

Unfortunately, this means, worryingly, that the European Parliament, the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly and the parliaments of the Member States and the ACP countries have not been involved in the process of making the appropriate decisions, which crucially affects the transparency and credibility of the revision to the agreement.

It is not clear that military involvement in such disputes is always undertaken willingly and, indeed, the military's own attitude in any given situation may crucially affect the ability of the government to pursue its policy.

From a post-structuralist perspective, Foucault's (1973) account of the history of medicine shows how the development of hospitals from the end of the eighteenth century crucially affected these developments, framing both the organisation of medical ideas and the language in which they were embodied.