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The rule of law must apply to all, and very few believe that any of the charges against Tymoshenko would stand the slightest chance of being upheld in a Western court.
We need to apply global experience, yet with customization for local circumstances.
These concerns don’t apply to an eldercare robot with one person to look after.
These countries have also moved to apply the Comprehensive Refugee Response Framework (CRRF) and the principles of the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants.
This has enabled health-care professionals to switch from practicing intuitive medicine to precision medicine, where they can apply standardized processes that predictably cure diseases.
US import tariffs now apply to 59 different types of steel.
If an American company cannot obtain steel inputs domestically, it must either pay the tariff or apply for an exemption (“exclusion”).
And at the global level, few if any rules or penalties for reckless behavior apply in important domains (cyberspace being paramount among them).
The problems of overcoming vested interests, of frustrating rent seeking, apply to almost every attempt to change government policy, whether the change involves telecoms privatization or reducing farm subsidies.
Online talent platforms apply a similar approach to the world of work – with a similar impact.
In fact, the most sought-after engineers and software developers may not need to apply for jobs at all; companies are now increasingly recruiting “passive” candidates, sometimes forcing employers to increase the salaries of workers they want to retain.
It would apply to everyone, regardless of nationality or statelessness, including refugees and asylum seekers, and it would place a positive obligation on states to “promote and fulfill” the right to equality.
That increase would have raised the carbon price substantially, providing governments with revenue – reaching $375 per ton of carbon today – to apply to meeting fiscal priorities, all while cushioning the fall in gasoline prices caused by the steep decline in the price of crude.
These technical difficulties stood in the way of previous attempts to put the SDRs to practical use, but they do not apply to the proposed green fund.
The preferred alternative is to create a common resolution mechanism, which would apply throughout Europe, regardless of a bank’s country of origin.
At the same time, the automatic tax audits and asset-disclosure requirements that have been in place since 2016 have been expanded to apply to a greater number of civil servants; and the definition of “conflict of interest” has been stretched ever further.
Politicians and lawyers may dislike this solution, because it undermines the EU's principle of social inclusion for employment and resembles arrangements that currently apply to EU citizens who live in other member countries without working there.
So far, so good – except that this story, too, does not apply to Britain.
Or apply the same standard to Nicaragua, Cuba, and Venezuela that has been applied to Honduras?
After all, the available tools – isolated laboratory experiments and written questionnaires – were both imprecise and difficult to apply on a large scale.
But our ordinary common sense does not apply in fundamental physics.
Yet they do not apply the same reasoning to the decline in inflation expectations that occurred during the same period.
The same should apply to Turkey.
Other researchers apply the same principle to higher levels of the brain.
But where it did apply, America’s strength and willingness to seek international cooperation created an order whose institutions still hold the world together.
For example, while Interpol recently rejected Russia’s request to pursue the investment banker William F. Browder (a fierce critic of the Russian government since the death of his lawyer, Magnitsky), it should apply Article 3 of its constitution, which bars it from participating in political matters, much more scrupulously.
But, while unilateral pressure can make a difference, the rule of law’s defenders must be willing to apply it convincingly.
If the French were to apply a simple spending rule, they would find that since 1990 they had cumulatively spent 30% of GDP more than Germany on defense.
The same reasoning should apply to clean drinking water; like food, it is a resource that is indispensable for our survival and wellbeing.
The goal of openness implied by immigration is worth preserving, especially if both its demands and its promise apply across the board.
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