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If eurozone membership cannot be taken for granted, if countries that do not abide by the common rules can simply be kicked out, countries will try harder to hold onto it.
Many constitutions contain such a rule, and even President Vladimir Putin of Russia has stated that he will abide by it.
When people see an institution that relates to something that they feel passionate about failing so publicly to abide by simple rules, they lose faith not only in that institution, but also in the idea that good governance is achievable at all.
In this sense, FIFA is not a special case: All non-profit and for-profit organizations around the world are expected to abide by this code of conduct.
The EU's reluctant number two country has served unofficial notice that it, too, does not plan to abide by its deficit-reduction promises.
In a statement seemingly directed at the US, he continued, “We should honor promises and abide by rules.
After imposing punitive fees on its commodity exports, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi voiced “hope that Mongolia has taken this lesson to heart” and that it would “scrupulously abide by its promise” not to invite the Tibetan spiritual leader again.
Owing to its inward-looking political system and the persistence of strong isolationist undercurrents, the US has been consistently more reluctant than European countries to enter into or to abide by international commitments.
And that is one arrangement that the UK has never been willing to abide.
They would prefer to clinch deals with partners one by one, without being bound by the obligation to apply liberalization measures across the board and without being forced to abide by the rulings of the WTO’s dispute settlement mechanism.
The Greek crisis is liable to come to a climax in the fall, even if the election produces a government that is willing to abide by Greece’s current agreement with its creditors.
The UN Security Council should provide an international framework in which the major powers pull back, lift crippling economic sanctions, and abide by political agreements reached by the region’s own governments and factions.
But Trump’s willingness to abide by the US Constitution and Supreme Court decisions is far from certain.
Exploiting popular discontent fueled by rapidly rising inequality, Bo, who had been widely viewed as a likely candidate for a top leadership position in the Politburo Standing Committee, adopted a neo-Maoist stance that China’s top leadership could not abide.
Of course, some countries, not least the US, would oppose making such a reversal in Israeli policy a condition of creating an international force and consensus in NATO, the EU, or the UN may not be found or, if it were to emerge, Israel might simply refuse to abide.
Against all logic, and despite “almost” after “almost,” Moria camp residents remain hopeful that Europe will soon remember and abide by its commitments to upholding human rights.
Many bitumen companies claim that they already abide by such safeguards; but environmentalists’ skepticism is justified.
But, while machines work everywhere, managers must abide by local traditions and belong to indigenous social networks.
This is the choice that European leaders now confront: a radical step forward toward political or policy integration, or a clear framework to deal with the consequences of a member country’s failure to abide by the fundamental rules of the monetary union.
When he agreed to abide by the One China policy, he said that he had done so at Xi’s request, suggesting that his commitment to the policy should not be taken for granted.
But such a process works only as long as member countries agree to abide by majority rule.
The responsibility of the rest of the world is to build a stable backdrop for such efforts: an inclusive international system in which countries abide by the same rules and norms.
If democracy is to be any sport at all, all players must abide by the rules of the game.
This is the untold secret of women’s struggle in the workplace: if you ask any senior woman off the record, she is likely to agree that most of her male colleagues have no problem with women’s authority, but that some simply cannot abide it, no matter how it is wielded.
Still, there was an implicit understanding that everybody would abide by the rules of the game – specifically, the rules of the World Trade Organization – and the US ultimately did.
China and the European Union have already indicated that they will abide by their commitments.
These voters will oppose the fiscal and monetary integration required to stabilize the eurozone if they think their money will be spent on subsidizing poor countries on Europe’s periphery that refuse to cooperate on refugees and fail to abide by EU laws.
Of course, NATO cannot safeguard democracy alone and it is no panacea for our many social and political illnesses; yet it can act (and has already done so during the process of admission) as an incentive for governments and parties to behave responsibly and to abide by the rule of law.
Now, however, as rich countries struggle under the combined weight of high debt, low growth, unemployment, and inequality, they will apply greater pressure on developing nations to abide by World Trade Organization rules, which narrow the space for industrial subsidies.
But, over time, the governments of Hungary and Poland have decided that they no longer want to abide by the rules.
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