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It is precisely the failure to apply these values in areas such as Palestine or Iraq that has made – and can still make – countless Arabs vehemently anti-American.
Once we know that, we will be able to share and apply that knowledge with the aim of achieving optimal health for all.
The result will look familiar to aficionados of Japan’s banking crisis: zombie banks lending to zombie firms, which apply artificial pressure on viable firms, stifling their growth.
But attempts to apply the same severe medicine to Boko Haram have backfired.
Not surprisingly, the result has been widespread confusion about which tax rates apply to what.
Indeed, at one European newspaper, articles that arrived via e-mail were re-typed by typographers: the technology for transferring them electronically was available, but not the work rules to allow the paper to apply it.
We all look to the next US president to re-engage with the world community and international organizations, accepting that even a superpower should accept the rules that apply to others.
From now on, the principle of a “coalition of the willing” will also apply in the EU, further weakening Europe.
China is not a subcontractor on a construction project, and it has means at its disposal to apply its own pressure on the new US administration.
That leaves roughly 30 countries that still apply it.
In the case of Greece, the interest payments apply to government debt held by Greek individuals and institutions, as well as to government debt held by the IMF, the European Central Bank, and other foreign lenders.
Rather than treat the fines as national revenue – as in the US, where they are deposited directly into the national treasury – governments should apply them to addressing the root causes of corruption worldwide.
The Alliance would not be happy to apply Article 5 of the NATO charter, which would oblige its members to fight for Israel if it were attacked by any of its many potential enemies in an endemically dangerous region.
These drawbacks apply to central banks’ forward guidance generally, and are leaving them hostage to fortune.
Reluctant to engage militarily with Iran, and facing increasing pressure from Israel, the United States will most likely continue to push for and apply tough economic sanctions, with two major objectives in its sights.
Governments, they believe, are run by crooks, so tie their hands; bureaucrats are beholden to rent-seeking private agents, so ensure non-discretion and apply uniform taxes and incentives; domestic political systems cannot be trusted, so import laws and institutions from abroad; external influences are always more benign than domestic ones, so ensure maximum openness to international trade and investment; reformers have a limited "honeymoon period," so implement reforms fast.
But this would not apply to livelihood insurance, because its benefits are tied to the rise and fall of income indices, which are beyond the control of individuals.
Like many other people, I tend to believe that anyone paid more than me is prima facie over-rewarded, but I know this is not the most rigorous test I could apply.
To slow the renminbi’s depreciation, the PBOC recently signaled that it will apply a so-called counter-cyclical factor in its daily “fixing” of the currency against the dollar.
The envoys would be senior diplomats and politicians who could tap the highest levels of government to challenge abuses of international law, cut red tape, and apply pressure on warring parties to agree to local ceasefires.
According to Trump’s national security adviser, H.R. McMaster, the administration’s position reflects its belief that Kim is crazy, and that “classical deterrence theory” thus does not apply.
That may also apply, one hopes, to European Union membership, too.
While US Chief Administrator Paul Bremer recently vested authority in a number of judges, their powers are extremely limited, and apply only to present violations, not the sustained abuses of human rights that defined Saddam's regime.
She thus opened the door for physician assistance in dying for any grievously and irremediably ill competent adult, under conditions not very different from those that apply in other jurisdictions where physician assistance in dying is legal.
Naturally, several qualifications apply.
Only two are advisable, but they are not easy to apply and success is not guaranteed.
The US and like-minded states pressed for further clarification of the earlier agreement that international laws of armed conflict, including the right of self-defense, apply in cyber space, but China, Russia, and their allies were reluctant to agree.
To get the rest of the way to a sustainable future, we must apply this lesson again.
If we apply to catastrophic risks the same prudent analysis that leads us to buy insurance – multiplying probability by consequences – we would surely prioritize measures to reduce this kind of extreme risk.
In its efforts to apply pressure on Europe, the Kremlin has identified Britain as a weak link.
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