Bottle
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But open-ended incentives have their own costs: they can raise consumer prices and
bottle
up resources in unproductive activities.
They are not the ones who will be blamed for soaring prices, nor are they the ones who will have to force the inflation genie back into the
bottle.
In fact, it is likely to have the opposite effect, unleashing a destabilizing genie that will be almost impossible to put back in its
bottle.
The government has also indicated that it intends to clamp down more heavily on illegal capital flows; but it will not be easy to put that genie back in the
bottle.
Some 30 companies have already been awarded licenses to
bottle
water from Tibet’s ice-capped peaks.
True, once the inflation genie is let out of the bottle, it could take several years to put it back in.
Unfortunately, the genie has been let out of the
bottle.
This genie cannot be stuffed back in the
bottle.
The intervention has seemingly been driven by a geopolitical imperative to
bottle
up or eliminate Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi so that his regime cannot exploit the political vacuum in neighboring Egypt and Tunisia.
Likewise, sensor-operated faucets make it impossible to fill a water
bottle
– a more eco-friendly alternative to purchasing a new one.
Any effort to put the genie back in the
bottle
might not only trigger trade wars, with serious consequences for economic growth, but would also fail to reduce trade to the levels of 50 years ago.
Most victims also use various excuses to
bottle
up their memories.
Indeed, either the regime will resort to brute force to suppress the protests, thus abandoning any pretense of democratic legitimacy in favor of de facto military dictatorship, or it will find it impossible to beat the subversive genie of democracy back into its bottle, and Iran will increasingly open up and reform itself.
Even as evidence of economic crisis continues to mount – the latest sign being that supermarket shoppers are limited to one
bottle
of cooking oil per customer – the government gives no indication of concern.
Once radicalized, the genie of violence can rarely be put back into his
bottle
by civilized means.
Indians without the space or money to buy a whole
bottle
of shampoo for 100 rupees could spend five for a sachet that they’d use once or twice.
We do not know whether these findings apply when an infant is fed another mother’s milk from a
bottle.
But the notion that the genii of democratization can now be squeezed back into the
bottle
is a self-serving fantasy.
Relatively prosperous Europeans tend not to purchase a car merely to get from point A to point B, shoes to keep their feet dry, a watch just to tell the time, or a
bottle
of water only to quench their thirst.
With the North Korean nuclear genie already out of the bottle, denuclearization may no longer be a plausible option.
But this is merely old wine in a new
bottle.
If you want to empty a
bottle
of water (or beer) and turn it upside down, the water will come out in uneven glugs.
If you spin the
bottle
and create an eddy inside it, the water will flow out much faster and more smoothly.
The eddy in the
bottle
is a structure in the water.
But the post-war international economic order was built for the pre-globalization age, and we cannot put the genie back in the bottle, even if it were possible to do so.
True, some Chinese scholars remain inclined to argue that the entire R2P enterprise – particularly its sanction of military action in exceptional cases– is just “old neo-interventionist wine in a new bottle.”
When the Europeans later followed suit with their own QE program, they were, in a manner of speaking, taking their allotted swig from the
bottle.
Moreover, Trump wasn’t the first US president to lean heavily on jingoistic rhetoric, and putting the MAGA genie back in the
bottle
may not be simple for Biden.
But we also need to acknowledge that the geoengineering genie is already out of the
bottle.
Following the 1929 Wall Street collapse, another Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, faced the same chorus when he put the financial genie in a
bottle.
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