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Unfortunately, in the aftermath of the Cold War, it has often been assumed that Russia’s hostile intentions have disappeared, and foreign policy toward Russia has been conducted as if traditional diplomatic considerations no longer apply.
But, of course, they do apply.
First, if we apply the principle “You broke it, you fix it,” then the developed nations have to take responsibility for our “broken” atmosphere, which can no longer absorb more greenhouse gases without the world’s climate changing.
If he does – recognizing that, to be credible, the rule of law must apply even to the Party’s most influential figures – he will become modern China’s third-strongest leader.
So the idea that “this country is different,” that the rules of global finance did not apply, proved utter nonsense.
The prohibition would be narrower, because it would apply only when children are possible: The Leipzig man whose case brought the issue to attention had a vasectomy in 2004, but that did not affect his criminal liability.
When Haidt pointed out to his subjects that the reasons they had offered did not apply to the case, they often responded: “I can’t explain it, I just know it’s wrong.”
It can also apply to other areas of cooperation, including human rights.
The same principle needs to apply to all government efforts to spawn new industries.
From the first hours of his term, Macron will have to apply himself to the task of truth and unity that, as a perceptive reader of the Christian philosopher Paul Ricoeur, he made the focus of his campaign.
At the same time, the Europeans, having convinced Russia and China to back their strategy, approached the US with another stark choice: either join an international coalition to apply diplomatic pressure on Iran, or pursue dubiously effective military measures on your own.
But how could such a situation apply to Latin America, where GDP growth is faster, interest rates are higher, and domestic demand is stronger than in the US?
The rule should apply both to debtor and creditor countries.
These obstacles apply to all infrastructure investments.
They can thus form the basis for the SDGs that would apply to all countries from 2015 to 2030.
And many people now recognize that controlling, and eventually eliminating, NTDs will be essential for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, which apply to such diverse areas as nutrition, education, health, water, sanitation and hygiene, and economic growth.
When Wall Street melted down, we had the fiscal room to apply one of the most aggressive anti-crisis plans anywhere.
The aftermath of the crisis is thus likely to include not only enhanced bank regulation and heavier taxation of many banking activities, but also institutional devices to apply pressure on banks to lend more.
Another big change has come from fast-growing emerging-market countries, many of which, facing a wall of money coming their way from slow-growth advanced countries (and mindful of the costs that large and volatile capital flows can bring), have chosen to apply capital controls.
Recent research, by carefully quantifying the potential costs and benefits, allows this standard logic to be applied to the question of whether and when to apply capital controls.
The more distant, and the more different from us, those others are, the higher the rate of discount that we apply in practice.
As part of the CFF program, the World Bank is working to raise $1 billion from donors to finance an interest-rate reduction from the level typical for middle-income countries (which would apply to Jordan and Lebanon) to a poor-country rate.
The market decided that this might also apply to the Irish government, which then had to be bailed out by the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF).
The arguments that apply strongly in the case of interest rates are less clear when it comes to other functions that central banks may carry.
If a central bank is committing public funds in support of individual firms, even with a systemic justification, do not different accountability considerations apply?
Many countries already apply estate and inheritance taxes.
Specifically, he pledged to apply the so-called Rotenberg Law, named after Arkady Rotenberg, a financier who was forced in September to surrender $40 million in assets to Italy’s government.
But the lessons of the West need not apply to the rest.
In a few cases membership will have no discernible effect on the security of the others: this would apply if Austria and the Czech Republic joined.
They have their own national rules and regulations to apply, and every financial supervisory authority (FSA) in Europe has its own practices and traditions.
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