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But we had better know for sure which way the response will go before we apply the remedy.
Yet uncritical attempts to apply biological science to legislation about the human condition, if we are not careful, may lead us back into the dark days of eugenics.
None of these characteristics apply here.
Even non-democracies such as modernized China could accept this rule, because it would apply to heads of government, not ruling parties.
The third lesson that the IMF was unable to apply in Greece is that austerity often leads to a vicious cycle, as spending cuts cause the economy to contract far more than it would have otherwise.
Finance Minister Peer Steinbrueck signaled that he expected the European Commission to apply some sanctions to Germany: the credibility of the pact would, he said, be at stake if no action were taken.
Over time, countries could also establish procedures enabling asylum-seekers to apply more easily for labor, student, or family reunification visas.
A different principle of fairness arises if we consider greenhouse gases as pollution, and apply the principle that whoever caused the pollution should pay to clean it up.
Nor do the other ancient motives for Western interference apply any longer.
The Fed is technically accountable to Congress, which could apply pressure on the Fed by threatening to reduce its independence.
The SDGs should apply to all countries as implementers (and also to rich countries as donors).
Recently, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told a news conference that “we think that Taiwan’s referendum to apply to the UN under the name ‘Taiwan’ is a provocative policy.
Security Council consensus about when and how to apply R2P, so evident in February and March 2011, has evaporated in a welter of recrimination about how the NATO-led implementation of the Council’s Libya mandate “to protect civilians and civilian populated areas under threat of attack” was carried out.
After all, its institutional innovations apply only to the new Novo Mercado-listed companies, and not to the bulk of the Brazilian economy’s big firms, which are listed on the stock exchange’s main segment, and thus remain stuck with the old rules, old institutions, and an ineffective court system.
But they send a dangerous message that some governments should be exempt from standards that apply to everyone else.
Some people work harder, apply their intelligence more skillfully, or simply have been lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time.
They apply only to governments that have chosen to be a party to them.
These questions apply most pointedly – indeed, they cannot be avoided – in the case of Turkey’s possible accession to the EU.
Such a solution might work for fish, provided that migrating populations could be tracked; but it is far harder to apply it to something like the climate.
Russia and China continue to apply their own authoritarian formulas at home and have little to offer internationally to curb caudillismo .
French leaders have demonstrated an inability to communicate effectively or apply past experiences in analyzing current threats.
Now, however, as rich countries struggle under the combined weight of high debt, low growth, unemployment, and inequality, they will apply greater pressure on developing nations to abide by World Trade Organization rules, which narrow the space for industrial subsidies.
The European Union is in a unique position to apply it.
As former leaders from the global North and South, respectively, we are particularly pleased that the SDGs will apply to all UN member states and not just those in the developing world.
One standard must apply to all countries: zero.
These global governance questions also apply to other worldwide threats, such as climate change, that threaten humanity’s survival.
The sudden influx of Chinese and Indian technologies represents the “browning” of African technology, which has long been the domain of “white” Americans and Europeans who want to apply their saving hand to African problems.
In all these areas and more, traditional textbook arguments about the gains from trade apply: new export opportunities lead to higher wages and a lower cost of living.
We need to apply human imagination and inventiveness not only to the creation of new technologies, but also to the systems that will govern those technologies.
Apart from that, the ineffectiveness of austerity in a country with a flexible exchange rate does not apply to the situation of a country in a currency union.
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