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But, given a rising bidding rate, peaking capital costs, and restrictions on the downstream transfer of assets, these efforts seem unlikely to ease the strain.
After all, people who fear losing their jobs may seek greater economic security by investing in real property in their own wealthy country, bidding up prices in the process.
In that ultra-low-interest environment, investors have been reaching for yield by bidding up the prices of equities and other investment assets.
One need only recall the bidding for Emcore or Firstgold.
Members of the army, the security services, and government officials are all balking at doing the bidding of the Yanukovych clique.
So, when Western leaders ask Arabs and others in the region why they can’t govern themselves, they should be prepared for the answer: “For a full century, your interventions have undermined democratic institutions (by rejecting the results of the ballot box in Algeria, Palestine, Egypt, and elsewhere); stoked repeated and now chronic wars; armed the most violent jihadists for your cynical bidding; and created a killing field that today stretches from Bamako to Kabul.”
Creating something similar to an online bidding system can boost competition and reduce corruption, lowering government costs by an estimated 12%.
In another episode, members of the Mexican Federal Police are seen assaulting a drug lord in his hacienda, with the implication that they are only doing the bidding of a rival dealer.
Nigeria has proposed creating stabilization funds, and, in the future, it will sell its natural resources in transparent, competitive bidding processes.
As a result, voters can be confident that Navalny, who refused to bow to legal intimidation, is clean, and that he is running for the job not for his own material benefit or to do the bidding of any particular interest group, but because he believes in a greater good.
The bottom line is that Uribe thought Santos would do his bidding as president, and Santos is convinced that his (high but declining) popularity is of his own making, not borrowed from Uribe.
Leung became China’s man in Hong Kong, responsible for doing the Chinese government’s bidding – including taking an uncompromising position against pro-democracy protests by students and intellectuals.
Constantinescu’s government promised to close the gap between Romania and other postcommunist countries bidding to join the EU.
Americans, for their part, must accept that a strong Europe will not be content to simply do America’s bidding.
But what that really means is that Russia will have to choose a man Putin has hand-picked to do his bidding.
By contrast, the weak national Iraqi defense forces are believed to be doing the bidding of the Shia majority.
In Trump, they have found a shameless frontman and TV personality who will do their bidding.
Commitments to transparent privatization auctions and competitive bidding for procurement reduce the scope for rent-seeking behavior.
After Manafort and his minions helped Yanukovych defeat former Prime Minister Yuliya Tymoshenko in the 2010 presidential election, Yanukovych had her imprisoned on trumped-up charges, with help from a legal brief prepared – at Manafort’s bidding – by the prominent American law firm Skadden Arps.
If “speculators” are bidding up today’s commodity prices because they realize that future generations are going to want commodities, too, isn’t that a healthy development?
By succumbing to fear Americans are doing the terrorists' bidding: unleashing a vicious cycle of violence that may result in a permanent state of war.
And in many Western countries, there has been significant progress over the past few decades to improve governmental and institutional transparency, ensure competitive bidding for government contracts, and so forth.
Another interpretation is that people are saving a great deal, and that all this money is chasing investment assets, bidding up prices.
Moreover, in June 2017, FIFA published the full report from former US Attorney Michael J. Garcia’s 2014 investigation into the bidding process for hosting the 2018 and 2022 World Cups.
They are less likely to negotiate with bloggers, because there are so many bloggers, but the government reportedly does train bloggers in how to post in support of government policy, and if you are lucky you can get a job (reportedly at $0.50 per post) doing the government’s bidding.
But success in fighting corruption entails more than just good procurement procedures (avoiding, for instance, single-source non-competitive bidding).
Russia has used such forces to do its bidding before, including during the illegal annexation of Crimea in 2014.
After the US stymied their demands for a greater say within the Fund, they now find that the organization has been doing Europe’s bidding.
By instituting open, competitive, and transparent bidding, the department has saved 2.5 billion pesos from 3,692 projects nationwide in the past year.
Major terrorist attacks in South Asia, like the 2008 Mumbai strikes and the 2008 and 2011 assaults on the Indian and US embassies in Afghanistan, respectively, were apparently orchestrated by the ISI, which has reared terrorist organizations like Lashkar-e-Taiba, Jaish-e-Mohammad, and the Haqqani network to do its bidding.
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