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Can the IMF be abolished, or its functions turned over to a privatized World Bank?
When leaving Moscow, I was reminded that since October, the green channel in the customs has effectively been abolished.
Laws against sodomy have been abolished in most secular countries.
For example, Putin recently abolished elections in Russia’s provinces.
National borders ought to be abolished in God’s earthly kingdom.
While all other large European countries abolished military conscription in recent decades, Russia continues with a system in which all physically-fit male citizens aged 18 to 27 must serve for 12 months.
While British authorities recently announced that the transfer of physical checks would be abolished, a two-day check-clearing delay will remain.
That doctrine of hard discipline was abolished in a coup in May 2010, when it was claimed that the world would collapse unless Germany opened its purse.
Some two decades after border controls were first abolished under the Schengen Agreement – which now includes 26 countries, including four non-members of the European Union – Germany has reinstated controls at its border with Austria, and France at its border with Belgium.
But, far from making Europeans safer, rolling back Schengen would actually hinder the fight against terrorism, because countries would be forced to devote valuable resources – thousands of police officers, if the agreement were to be abolished altogether – to checking documents at borders.
When slavery was abolished, the terms of partnership with Western colonizers changed from trade in slaves to trade in commodities.
Narrowly approved by voters last April, the constitutional amendments also abolished the office of the prime minister.
Smaller members of the eurozone, particularly those on its periphery and with weaker economic links to the heartland of the EMU, become vulnerable to overheating and inflation when their ability to raise interest rates is abolished.
On August 30, the Fund abolished ceilings on its “Flexible Credit Line” facility, which was introduced in 2009 to provide rapid funds to countries in temporary crisis.
As the book shows, Indian slavery in the Americas was outlawed by Charles I of Spain in 1542 and abolished in Peninsular Spain even earlier.
Instead of speaking reasonably of finding solutions to the country’s problems that would accommodate the needs and interests of all of its citizens, the new government abolished Russian as eastern Ukraine’s official second language and intimated that it would soon eliminate its traditional autonomy as well.
The illicit revenues generated from market distortions and fishy subsidies to the rich are abolished with market reforms.
Zhao abolished the policy of enterprises being run by Party organizations and the system by which fa ren (“legal representatives”) were the core of enterprises.
The only real contradiction is to be free in order to believe--and then afterward to have that freedom abolished.
Scott, a slave, sued for his and his family’s freedom in 1857 – eight years before the US Constitution’s 13th Amendment abolished slavery.
In the 1970s, India abolished pharmaceutical patents, creating an advanced and efficient generics industry capable of providing affordable medicines to people throughout the developing world.
With the official death of the Bretton Woods System in 1973, the IMF lost its only function and should have been abolished.
For starters, bio-fuel subsidies should be abolished.
Once those laws are weakened or abolished, deforestation can be expected to accelerate considerably.
Gubernatorial elections were abolished six years ago, and even elected city mayors have been progressively replaced by appointed officials.
Everything changed in 1971, when US President Richard Nixon, unable to contain the fiscal deficit resulting from spending on the Vietnam War and expanded social-welfare programs, abolished the dollar’s direct convertibility to gold.
Pakistan’s Council of Islamic Ideology is calling for all age limits on marriage to be abolished.
Given this, they cannot – and should not – be abolished.
Indeed, those that were abolished in 1984 had been created in the 1970s as a short-term solution to new challenges to the sector.
In the 1990’s, following its atrocities in Bosnia, Slobodan Milosevic’s Serb regime abolished Kosovo’s long-standing autonomy, suppressing the rights of the province’s overwhelming Albanian majority.
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