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Human-rights groups criticized some of these measures as violations of civil liberties; but, for the most part, they were
applied
smoothly.
As it stands, a lack of confidence in institutions is not only discouraging long-term investment; it is also driving roughly half of Latin America’s small-business owners to operate in the informal economy, thereby avoiding laws and taxes they believe will
applied
unfairly.
Those funds were
applied
not just to building more schools, but also to building better schools, through investment in teachers, books, and technology.
Germany’s clout has resulted in a eurozone banking union that is full of holes and
applied
asymmetrically.
But markets were never totally eliminated with the kind of determination that was
applied
to this task in the twentieth century.
Once we do that, we must devote ourselves to identifying, untangling, and exposing the networks of Islamic hate and terror with the same energy and ingenuity that are now being
applied
to unraveling the global schemes of tax evaders.
But, in the end, it is how reform is
applied
on the ground, and how the economy responds, that counts.
Banks that failed the stress test and didn’t take the result seriously are partly to blame, but so, too, are regulators who did not sufficiently hold the banks’ feet to the fire to improve their balance sheets, and who may have
applied
stress tests that were too weak to detect financial frailty.
I was attempting to explain why the rule of law mattered so much to the territory's future, and I noted that when I was in the British government, the law
applied
to me just as much as to those I helped govern.
Can the values of a consumer society be
applied
to societies with nothing to consume?
You cannot follow the model of a "modern" nation-state cutting across tribal boundaries and conventions, and then argue that tribal traditions should be
applied
to judge the state's human-rights conduct.
So, Xi argues, if Marx’s analytical framework is
applied
to the current period, it is clear that the global order is at a turning point, with the West’s relative decline coinciding with the fortuitous national and international circumstances enabling China’s rise.
Likewise, the China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank – which the US views as a Chinese tool for challenging the existing international order – continues to attract such faraway prospective members as Canada, which
applied
to join in August.
These three measures, if
applied
to all banks, would eliminate the need for special rules governing liquidity or funding (which would remain open to supervisory review, but not to binding constraints).
Policymakers should read Mullainathan and Shafir, and consider how their research could be
applied
to future welfare reforms.
Yet the lesson should not be that failure has to be avoided at all costs:
applied
to the case of Greece, this would mean that the pressure on the Greek government to adjust would evaporate.
Could that model be
applied
to Japan’s relations with its former enemies, from Korea to China?
But the second line of defense is macroprudential manipulation of capital requirements, to be
applied
across the board or to selected market segments, such as mortgages.
And denying Russian banks and firms access to the US (and possibly European) banking system – the harshest sanction
applied
to Iran – would have a devastating impact.
If the color scale used today for terror threat levels were
applied
to the crisis on the Korean Peninsula, it would show a shift from orange to red.
There is indeed much to be said for frontloading the home-country principle in EU rules: a migrant’s country of origin should continue to be responsible for providing social benefits for a certain number of years, until the inclusion principle is
applied.
Therefore, the currently prevailing wage-replacement benefit system, which is
applied
when recipients do not work, should be replaced with a system offering wage supplements and community work.
As an illustration, current regulations for GM foods, if
applied
to non-GM products, would bar the sale of potatoes and tomatoes, which can contain poisonous glycoalkaloids; celery, which contains carcinogenic psoralens; rhubarb and spinach (oxalic acid); and cassava, which feeds about half a billion people, but contains toxic cyanogenic alkaloids.
In reviews beginning in 1970, the JMPR has always found that when 2,4-D is
applied
correctly, it does not pose a health threat to anyone or anything on land or water.
The same rule could be
applied
to other activities.
As a result, the debt ratios commonly
applied
to Greece could be overstated.
In the long term, such pressure damaged the credibility of the very politicians who
applied
it.
Similar reasoning can be
applied
today not only to Iraq, but to Africa as well.
With some modifications, they could by
applied
in most democracies.
So perhaps there are lessons from that experience that can be
applied
in Iraq.
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