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Most reforms that would guard against macroeconomic risk would also limit the ability of finance to persuade people to commit to long-term risky investments, and hence further lower the supply of finance willing to assume such undertakings.
Not only did France commit herself to a watertight international ban on all nuclear explosions, to be agreed by international treaty at the end of 1996.
That is a task for which non-governmental organizations and protest movements are not well equipped: they can raise public conscience, but they cannot formally commit governments.
The Andhra Pradesh administration accused the industry of charging usurious interest rates, urging the gullible poor to over-borrow, and then driving some delinquent borrowers to commit suicide.
Pinker aptly quotes Voltaire: “Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.”
Orthodoxy rules out providing ECB support to a particular country, because this would violate the separation between monetary and fiscal policy: The authority to commit public resources to the benefit of a particular country belongs exclusively to parliaments, not the central bank.
A third factor that should also be taken into account is what damage would be done to the emerging international legal system for ending the impunity long enjoyed by state officials who use their power to commit atrocities.
Governments, companies, supply-chain managers, corporate-citizenship strategists, NGOs, and others should commit to reducing their carbon footprints and to leveraging their resources to contribute to sustainable urbanization.
This theory informs some countries’ reluctance to commit to the Kyoto Protocol’s second term.
And who would police emissions from China and America, even if they did commit to an international agreement?
They eventually also criminalized “attempting” sodomy, and even “conspiring” to commit sodomy, as in the notorious Labouchere Amendment, passed in 1885 in Britain, which made it illegal for one gay man to introduce another to a third, if the introduction led to a liaison.
Such leaders are using religion for their own highly modern political purposes; they use it to organize and mobilize their supporters - to commit individual or collective suicide, if need be.
But I also knew that investing in education meant investing in my country’s future, so I decided that, rather than sinking a great deal of money, sometimes unproductively, into these other areas, we would commit 20% of the annual budget to education.
So, when visiting an African leader, I would ask a simple question: In light of the Education Commission’s report and action plan, would they be willing to commit to the levels of education investment and reform required to qualify for IFFEd assistance?
The United States and Russia should commit to begin discussions on removing a significant percentage of strategic nuclear forces from prompt-launch status at a later date.
If a country were at war and knew that one-third of its population were certain to perish in the next ten years, its leaders would most likely declare a state of emergency and commit every resource at their command to averting that outcome.
The US would also commit itself to provide resources to help construct a modern society and economy.
Possessing undoubted oil resources, President Haider Aliyev's government prefers to play games about where to construct oil pipelines rather than commit to actually building one.
Participating countries would have to decide whether to commit to a common set of policies, or to reserve the right to opt in on a case-by-case basis.
The second option would imply an international agreement, in addition to the EU treaties, which would legally bind participating countries, enabling them to commit to establishing a genuine economic union, and to define the organs and rules that will govern their cooperation.
Second, countries with high debt levels would welcome this opportunity to control borrowing costs and to commit to stronger fiscal discipline after the current crisis.
For this reason, the leaders should find a way to meet soon and commit themselves to seeking genuine cooperation, as well as to building mechanisms that will enable them to reconcile their visions and interests with those of the others.
Nematomorph worms, for example, infect crickets, and drive them to commit suicide by jumping into various water sources, be it a puddle or swimming pool.
The people who plan and commit terrorist acts will probably never learn that theirs is a lost cause.
Together, they will commit more than $7 billion over five years in financing, trade credits, insurance, small business grants, and direct government support to the energy sector in six partner countries.
With the European Union also preparing to commit to new 2030 climate targets, hopes for a global deal are rising.
Indeed, even if Greece’s debt is restructured beyond anything imaginable, the country will remain in depression if voters there commit to the troika’s target in the snap referendum to be held this weekend.
Her testimony helped persuade Congress to commit more development aid to maternal health.
NEW YORK – Nearly 100 days after US President Donald Trump took office, he and his commerce secretary, Wilbur Ross, continue to commit an economic fallacy that first-year economics students learn to avoid.
Practical change requires revision of the 1973 War Powers Resolution, which grants presidents unfettered rights to commit American forces for 60 days.
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