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While most Iraqis understand the need for US forces to be in their country for the short term, they will not abide a permanent deployment.
If Russia fails to abide by its commitments, these sanctions should be triggered.
The political recalibrations occurring in the world’s major economies highlight the limits on the level and pace of immigration a society can absorb without excessive disruption; on citizens’ willingness to abide centralized, let alone supranational, rule; and on public tolerance of economic weakness.
If the US government had been compelled to abide by the same accounting rules as the private sector does, it would have been forced to consolidate Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac – the giant government-backed mortgage companies at the heart of the recent financial crisis – and to report all contingent liabilities at market value.
Should Korea abide by IMF rules and survive her worst economic downturn, what kind of capitalism will emerge?
The 224-page Vade Mecum on implementing fiscal discipline in the EU is hopelessly complex, to such a degree that no finance minister, let alone parliamentarian, fully understands what his or her country must abide by.
Indeed, having its cake and eating it, China is a dialogue partner but not a member of the Mekong River Commission, underscoring its intent not to abide by the Mekong basin community’s rules or take on any legal obligations.
I must abide by an outcome I oppose.
In addition, China must live with restrictions on its industrial policies that none of these other countries, in pre-WTO days, had to abide by.
The official Saudi press explains the new stance as reflecting the government’s desire to abide by Security Council resolutions.
And ordinary people have to abide by a growing number of European laws.
Obviously, they would like to do many things, but they are obliged to abide by the fiscal compact and the many other austerity measures.
In his recent US Senate testimony, Rumsfeld claimed that the military police at Abu Ghraib were instructed to abide by the Geneva conventions.
The original construction of the euro postulated that each member would abide by the limits set by the Maastricht Treaty.
And it is the same set of Sudanese officials who received plaudits from diplomats for the agreement that purported to end Sudan’s two-decade North-South civil war, and for publicly committing to abide by the ruling of the Permanent Court of Arbitration on the territorial dispute in Abyei.
This was the approach adopted after Trump withdrew the US from the Paris climate agreement: the other signatories continue to abide by it.
Policies that do not abide by some variant of this utilitarian principle (as proposed by, say, John Rawls or Amartya Sen) are bound to be inefficient or unfair.
Norway, like Switzerland, still has to abide by EU single-market rules, without having any say in formulating them.
After all, it would have to be quite powerful to succeed – too powerful for any democracy to abide.
Norway and Switzerland must abide by all EU single market standards and regulations, without any say in their formulation.
The agreement came into force on November 1, but it remains uncertain whether everyone will abide by it.
Should a participating country subsequently fail to abide by its commitments, the EFA could impose a fine or other penalty, which would be proportionate to the violation, thereby preventing enforcement from becoming a nuclear option that can never be exercised.
The quiet adoption of a bottom-up approach is a tacit admission that countries cannot be forced to abide by a strict, centralized regime, even if it is based on scientific evidence.
The current federal government will certainly abide by these rules, which implies reducing the structural deficit to approximately €10 billion by 2016 – a reduction of about €7 billion a year.
To provide additional incentives to abide by the rules, the ECB could refuse to accept debt issued under national ratings as collateral.
Because of the global nature of the threat, only multilateral cooperation – in the form of a new treaty or trade agreements – can ensure that farmers everywhere abide by minimal standards for raising livestock without the unnecessary use of antibiotics.
The Ghost of the Stability PactMurdered when France and Germany refused to abide by its rules, the Stability Pact's ghost is haunting Europe, particularly the postcommunist countries that join the European Union in May.
In a society, law-enforcement institutions can ultimately compel a citizen to abide by the rules.
For the past ten months, my government has sought to abide by international norms in implementing its North Korea policy, while trying to meet people’s expectations.
Instead, it must abide by international norms and behave predictably if it is to get along with its neighbors and become a credible partner.
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