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She is now serving a seven-year prison sentence for supposedly abusing her position as Prime Minister by signing a gas deal with Russia – and awaits the completion of two more trials.
And, online, governments and private actors alike are abusing the modern world’s interconnectedness, threatening sensitive information and critical infrastructure across the globe.
The oil and gas industry was richly rewarded for abusing the public trust.
The Americans accused the Europeans and especially the Japanese of growing too slowly, while the Europeans and the Japanese argued that the US was exporting inflation to the rest of the world and abusing the international monetary system in order to sustain its military adventurism (at that time in Vietnam).
Using and Abusing the Hague TribunalThe International Tribunal in The Hague was intended as a Sword of Damocles for human rights violators in the Balkans.
Likewise, it would be better if powerful Frenchmen were to stop using “Latin culture” as an excuse for abusing their social inferiors.
In recent years, there has been no shortage of examples of governments abusing their powers to favor the ruling elite, their supporters, and a variety of special interests, with detrimental effects on regulation, public investment, the delivery of services, and growth.
But there is a growing sense in the European Council that Cameron is abusing this goodwill.
Thaksin and his cronies handed the establishment an opportunity to strike back by abusing power and profiting personally from it.
A better way to deal with the fear of migrants abusing social welfare systems would be to adopt a common and rather generous transitional quota at the level of the EU as a whole, to be lifted early if it is not filled.
The report mentions other ruling dynasties in the region, including Gabon’s Bongo clan, which is also accused of abusing public funds.
In fact, the act of undermining democratic institutions by abusing them in front of braying mobs is not modern at all.
Free competition produces more wealth than state control; globalization prevents states from abusing their power and offers a degree of freedom that no state could provide.
That means implementing credible measures to ensure that colleagues or employees are not abusing their power inside or outside the office, and holding accountable those who bring the company into disrepute.
Duty hikes are problematic not just because they can be imposed on questionable grounds; they also tend to trigger domino effects, because other countries – many of which have much practice using and abusing these instruments – will adopt similar measures.
Systemic reform requires recognizing and atoning for two original sins: not only that of bureaucrats who made money by abusing their power, but also that of capitalists who made money by breaking the rules.
Whether these cases are about American companies abusing competitive power, or about the European Union influencing technology policy and promoting domestic alternatives to American companies, depends on where one’s loyalties lie.
The country’s biggest media baron, who happens to be the head of state security, expands his media empire by abusing the courts.
Moreover, the benefits of tolerating free speech outweigh the harm of abusing it.
Thus, the first DPJ prime minister, Yukio Hatoyama, made a specialty of verbally abusing Japan’s bureaucratic mandarins, even abolishing the council of administrative deputy ministers essential for government-wide policy coordination.
At the same time, innovation strategies based on abusing intellectual property would increasingly fall out of favor, owing to the threat of “expulsion” from the new WTO and, especially, the loss of trade gains.
But, as with the March 2008 Tibetan demonstrators, anyone at the Olympics who tries to call attention to the regime’s record of abusing human rights will be dealt with firmly.
Far from abusing those on the periphery, the center (i.e., the majorities within rich countries) focus on keeping the poor at bay.
Previously, domestic businesses and foreign investors worried that the tax authorities were abusing their power.
Abusing emergency powers or executive orders, sidelining Parliament and government agencies, and weakening judicial independence and the “referees” that ensure political leaders play by the rules make it more likely that government decisions will not balance the interests of all citizens.
The Trump administration has imposed new sanctions on Iran, and is abusing the US dollar’s dominant position in global trade by threatening foreign companies with secondary sanctions if they continue to do business with the Islamic Republic.
But tariff exemptions aren’t the only area where the Trump administration may be abusing its discretionary power.
This means, first and foremost, ensuring a level playing field for all candidates and political parties, with incumbents refraining from abusing their power to limit space for opposition candidates.
Abusing the anonymity provided by the Internet, spam accounts, bots, and trolls serve to disrupt and pollute available information and confuse people.
This may have been made intentional, to dissuade borrowers from abusing the option to restructure.
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