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The implication is that capital controls may need to be blunt and comprehensive, rather than surgical and targeted, to be truly effective.
Despite horrific twentieth-century backsliding in Europe, secularism has served to blunt the edge of bigotry, because secular reasoning, unlike divine revelation, is never conclusive.
But Piotr’s act should not be made a spectacle in Poland’s political fight, or wielded haphazardly as a blunt object against the PiS or anyone else.
So far, the regime has merely applied the same blunt measures that fueled Tibetans’ grievances in the first place.
The combined effect of many different financial innovations will be to blunt the impact of capitalist risk on our individual lives, helping to reduce economic uncertainty and inequality.
But even opponents of Olmert’s second war must face the blunt fact that Hamas is lethal.
It also seems advisable to offer positive incentives – including US recognition and an end to sanctions – that could help empower pragmatists in their intra-Party struggle, much as Nixon’s overtures to China helped blunt China’s radicalism and strengthened the hand of pragmatists in the Communist Party.
In any case, a quota is too blunt a measure by which to characterize a country’s absorptive capacity.
But, as speculation over the direction of monetary policy continues – indeed, intensifies ahead of the Fed’s next policy meetings – we should not lose sight of an uncomfortable reality: No matter how hard it tries – and it is trying very hard – the Fed is still stuck with tools that are too blunt, and whose effects are too indirect, for the challenging tasks at hand.
To be blunt, many of the world’s largest economies are not fulfilling their financial pledges to the Fund.
A blunt question is now being asked frequently and openly: “Is this India’s Tahrir Square?”
Saving Somalia Through Debt ReliefLONDON – Julius Nyerere, the first president of Tanzania, once asked his country’s creditors a blunt question: “Must we starve our children to pay our debts?”
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, was uncharacteristically blunt for an international official.
According to Bush’s memoir, in the spring of 2007, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert made a blunt request of the US president regarding Syria’s reactor: “George, I am asking you to bomb the facility.”
The Bush administration’s reaction was uncharacteristically blunt, with its call for “Beijing to reconsider the passage of the law'” – a rather directly worded intrusion into what China considers to be an internal matter.
The question is whether it is realistic to hope for success unless the government resorts to far more blunt instruments than it currently seems prepared to wield.
Of course, imposing caps on executive compensation is a blunt instrument for fighting inequality.
So, to be blunt, NAM survives because of America’s recent global domination and its efforts to impose its policies globally.
On Greece, Lagarde made some characteristically blunt – some would say clumsy –comments last year.
And John Quiggin of the University of Queensland was even more blunt: the 2004 conference amounted to “exercises in political propaganda,” and the “panel members were slanted toward conclusions previously supported by Lomborg.”
A blunt axe serves no society well.
They were very different characters who shared a similar philosophy, albeit expressed with more charm by a president who much admired her directness and her simple, even blunt assertions of the old verities.
Crisis-weary Europe and America face a rising tide of protectionism at home, and are trying to find ways to blunt the edge of China’s non-transparent trade competitiveness.
For both leaders, democratic systems are little more than blunt tools that can be used to advance one’s personal ambitions, and then discarded at will.
Countries pursuing harmful policies that blunt their development prospects are doing the greatest damage to themselves.
William Hague, an influential former Conservative leader, was even more blunt when he recently issued a not-so-veiled threat: if central banks do not “change course soon, they will find their independence increasingly under attack.”
To be blunt, genetic knowledge hasn’t advanced to the point where clinicians and scientists can generally link one gene, or even a set of genes, to one condition.
Owners and Winners in Eastern EuropeBUDAPEST: Only by the skin of his teeth did Vaclav Klaus, the blunt proponent of a "market economy without adjectives," return to power in Prague after last spring's parliamentary elections.
Nonetheless, elected officials find a Tobin tax highly appealing, because it could blunt criticism and divert attention from fundamental, but politically paralyzing, problems surrounding economic policy, particularly budgets, debt, and slow growth.
This should blunt the macroeconomic impact of bursting bubbles.
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