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Facebook’s management has shown time and again that it cannot be trusted to behave responsibly.
Today’s financial firm equity and bond holders must bear the main cost, or there is little hope they will behave more responsibly in the future.
It is not too late for Trump to behave like a leader, looking beyond himself and speaking clearly to the world, though such an approach seems unlikely after his recent visits to the Middle East and to Europe.
It is possible, even likely, that many North Koreans behave like worshippers only because they must.
She did not dress or behave in ways that would serve as tabloid fodder or fuel lurid speculation.
If India wishes to be taken seriously as a responsible global player and a model twenty-first-century democracy, we must take ourselves seriously and behave responsibly.
Fostering such thinking – by introducing more eco-friendly product designs, for example – can help users behave more responsibly, and thus may help end our “throw-away” culture.
The European Commission plays an active role in educating consumers and developing their abilities to behave in a more sustainable way.
The unsurprising truth is that the company has long prioritized profit over ethics, treasuring the men who bring in the money, however badly they behave – or however flagrantly they violate the rights or dignity of their less lucrative colleagues.
The corporate culture that enabled Ailes and O’Reilly to behave as they did was apparent even during their exit.
The have stuck by employees who behave in unethical ways, while punishing their victims.
“If just one regulator uses these extraordinary powers [to break up too-big-to-fail banks] just once,” he says, “it will send a powerful message,” one that would “significantly reform how all financial services firms behave forever more.”
Indeed, as the political analyst Sergei Karaganov noted in 2009, Russia’s lack of soft power is precisely what is driving it to behave aggressively – such as in its war with Georgia the previous year.
The source of that shame is not any particular act, but simply being part of a nation that could behave so arrogantly as to disregard international law and the United Nations by invading a country that was not threatening America, and then sending untrained military police to keep prisoners in line by any means they happen to devise.
Thaksin’s unforgivable sin was his violation of Thailand’s unwritten rules about how the country’s ruling elites are to behave.
"It means to look at things scientifically and behave scientifically--which has nothing to do with hostility to religion.
But there is no compelling reason for the world’s leading central banks to behave in such a manner.
Companies are facing growing pressure to behave ethically, and unethical business behavior is at last being punished.
Although people may feel panicky, they almost always behave well.
Maybe it is simply in their genes to behave as brutes, lashing out recklessly when wounded or threatened.
By far the most widely used instrument are anti-dumping duties aimed at imposing some restraint on companies that behave in an anti-competitive way.
Only when more parents, teachers, and community leaders behave likewise will recruitment of terrorists dry up and law-enforcement authorities receive full cooperation from the populations they police.
But, because we cannot be certain that the threat of punishment deters all crime, or that all criminals are caught, our ability to induce gun owners to behave responsibly is limited.
Moreover, in 2011, Brazil put forward a concept paper at the UN outlining how countries seeking to implement the “responsibility to protect” doctrine should behave.
Just think about how he will behave in the 2020 election year, when growth likely will have fallen below 1% and job losses emerge.
Despite some of the more fevered declarations made by Kouchner and other human rights activists, states do not tend to behave altruistically, and electorates do not tend to wish to see their sons and daughters kill and die in altruistic wars.
For thousands of years, humans have relied on education, persuasion, social institutions, and the threat of real (or supernatural) punishment to make people behave decently.
It is not as if people would suddenly begin to behave better if we just gave them more facts and statistics, or better arguments.
When this happens, many people buy homes to rent out as investment properties, and many more who are buying homes to live in also behave like investors, fearing that if they wait, they will be priced out of the market.
To believe and behave otherwise would lead to regional chaos.
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