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But the decision to impose capital punishment remains highly subjective.
And the president’s decision to commute a sentence is subjective.
That was Paul Volcker, then the president of the New York Federal Reserve, referring to Nixon’s decision in a speech seven years later.
The ECJ’s decision will have important implications for the eurozone’s future, for it will define what authority, if any, the ECB has to intervene in a debt crisis.
China’s Exchange-Rate PuzzleChina’s abrupt decision to raise the value of the renminbi (yuan) by 2.1% and to end its peg to the dollar comes after months of pressure from the US.
And, however regrettable the uneven application of the EU’s fiscal rules, the European Commission’s recent decision to give France more time to reduce its budget deficit to 3% of GDP is welcome, coming as it did against the backdrop of a weak economy.
I postponed the decision to leave Romania because I was childish enough to fool myself that I didn't live in a country, that I lived only in a language.
First, it would force the members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to choose between China and the US, a decision that all of them would prefer to avoid.
Of course, a win-win outcome from The Hague decision will also depend on ASEAN and US actions.
The decision to acknowledge what Armenians call Genocide Remembrance Day may well represent a breakthrough, given modern Turkey’s persistent refusal to call what happened “genocide.”
For years, the authorities tended to support the renminbi, as they pursued renminbi internationalization – an effort that culminated in the International Monetary Fund’s recent decision to add the renminbi to the basket of currencies that compose its reserve asset, so-called Special Drawing Rights.
Indeed, the DOJ rushed to distance itself from the decision, highlighting how easily Trump can use (or not use) the pardon power to settle his many scores: it is virtually the only power within the criminal justice system that the president can exercise unilaterally.
Given domestic political instability, the government’s opaque nature, and an ever-changing regional context, it is impossible to predict their decision.
A stick with which to beat back any instinct in the Kremlin to issue such an invitation was needed by the Patriarch, and so the Vatican's decision to reorganize its dioceses in Russia must have seemed a godsend.
Ukrainians know that the choice they make now, that their decision to stand firm with Viktor Yushchenko today, will determine their freedom forever, as well as the health of their nation – its independence as well as its economic strength.
Its community model – which requires cooperation, negotiation, and compromise to reach any consequential decision – amounts to a check on extremism, because no member country can push radical policies forward without other members pushing back.
Russia’s hasty decision to recognize the “independence” of South Ossetia and Abkhazia was a shot across the bow for every former Soviet country, and has intensified speculation about who might be “next” – and how to prevent Russia from multiplying the supposed Kosovo “precedent” in other ex-Soviet countries.
The decision to appoint Ukraine and Poland as co-hosts was a powerful symbol of European unity across the current EU border (Poland is a member, Ukraine is not).
International linkages – or, rather, sanctions that blocked the benefits of such linkages – were vital to Libya’s decision to denuclearize and Iran’s willingness to reach an agreement with world powers regarding its nuclear program.
Why, for example, did China’s decision to accumulate foreign reserves result in a mortgage lender in Ohio taking excessive risks?
But, by the time this decision was taken, it was no longer sufficient to bring the financial crisis under control.
Barack Obama regularly points out that the decision to go to war was deeply flawed;John McCain emphasizes how much things have turned around since early 2007, when US troop numbers were increased and US strategy revised.
But that is difficult to square with everything we know about the fateful decision not to restructure Greece’s debt.
Her decision focuses mainly on the risk that vulnerable people – for example, the aged or those with disabilities – will be pressured into accepting assistance in dying when they do not really want it.
The decision will almost certainly be appealed, and the final outcome seems likely to depend on the appellate judges’ interpretations of Canadian law.
Only one major element – the decision to move toward an all-elected Executive Board – requires an amendment to the IMF’s Articles of Agreement and thus congressional approval.
In order to secure US support, the Board of Governors could commit not to consider any draft decision requiring 85% backing without America’s consent.
The Executive Board could approve an analogous commitment and request the IMF’s managing director to refrain from submitting any draft decision requiring an 85% majority without first obtaining US support.
The European Stability Pact for the Balkans is a decision not dictated by economic considerations but a result of political, strategic, and moral considerations.
The decision to launch February 15 as a day of mass protest was apparently taken at a meeting of activists at the European Social Forum in Florence in November last year.
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