Demanded
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In practice, the British have already lost this power because they demanded, and got, the right to opt out of participating in EMU.
For me, the decision was straightforward: the crimes
demanded
justice, and Cavallo was more likely to be held to account in Spain than in Argentina.
Given the uncertainty involved, and that sovereign debtors can repay domestic-currency debt simply by printing money, creditors have typically
demanded
significantly higher interest rates if bonds are not issued under the law and in the currency of an advanced country – often the United States or the United Kingdom.
Reducing government spending, as Maastricht demanded, is not the right policy in a recession.
In the past, Europeans often diminished the value of geography, which would have
demanded
a closer relationship with Russia, in favor of the geography of values, which justified a transatlantic orientation.
Instead, the US doubled down on the trade embargo,
demanded
restitution for nationalized properties, and pushed Cuba irrevocably into the Soviet Union’s waiting arms.
Rather than give governors more authority, he
demanded
to appoint them himself.
And with a two-state solution off the table, it would be only a matter of time before the Palestinians, having abandoned the struggle for their own state, instead
demanded
equal civil rights.
May
demanded
that UK-based businesses privilege British workers in the “spirit of citizenship” – another term for what Le Pen calls “national preference.”
For many Russians, Nemtsov's opposition to the war in Ukraine made him a traitor, whose death was justified – indeed, almost
demanded
– by national necessity.
In an early show of defiance, North Korea seized three Chinese fishing boats, detained a reported 29 people on board for 13 days (during which they were allegedly abused), and then
demanded
$190,000 in compensation for illegal fishing in North Korean waters.
Banks lend at lower interest rates than genuine savers would have demanded, making all kinds of investment projects temporarily profitable.
Finding the government’s draft bill insufficiently strong, he
demanded
provisions that would give the Lokpal complete autonomy, an extensive presence in all government departments, and authority over all government servants, up to and including the prime minister himself.
In 1952, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru’s government reversed its position and constituted a States Reorganization Commission in response to a hunger strike by the Gandhian leader Potti Sriramulu, who
demanded
the creation of linguistic states (and died in the process).
Just 15 years before Kishi, then an official in the Imperial Japanese government, had been a sworn enemy of the US in the Pacific War; but post-war stability in Asia, he understood,
demanded
a truly viable structure of peace.
Or what about the narrower choice between May’s Deal and No Deal,
demanded
by Brexit zealots who argue that the possibility of continuing EU membership was eliminated by the 2016 referendum?
By restructuring their secondary schools and universities to train graduates with skills
demanded
by multinational corporations, Asian countries also create more competitive workforces.
Happiness can’t be mandated, demanded, or enforced.
Domestic policy issues inevitably
demanded
Kohl’s attention and skills; had it been otherwise, he scarcely would have been the dominant figure in his party and country for longer than any German chancellor since Otto von Bismarck.
Weariness with the war is spreading in the United States, where President Barack Obama finds it difficult to decide about an increase in troops, as
demanded
by his own generals.
By borrowing from the playbook of the disability rights movement, which championed the mantra “Nothing About Us Without Us,” AIDS advocates
demanded
representation on the bodies established to address the disease.
First, transitional budget contributions could be presented as commercial payments to support European programs from which Britain benefits, instead of the punitive-sounding “divorce settlement” of €50-60 billion currently
demanded
by the EU.
Inner healing that transmits a memory of the past into a new life is also
demanded.
But customers screamed that they were being exploited; they
demanded
that the regulators do their "job" and stop the "monopolistic exploitation" of the consumer by ordering large price cuts.
Of course, the project has
demanded
huge sums in investment.
Neither soldiers nor equipment can sustain the performance that has been
demanded
of them.
But domestic demand did not call for the same goods, and the goods that were locally
demanded
were already in short supply before the crisis.
To advance socially today, fiscal reforms must finance the new public services
demanded
by the middle class.
Engagement is
demanded
elsewhere in the region as well.
We can certainly learn something about chaotic systems without actually solving the equations, but if an old-fashioned mathematician
demanded
that a student predict where that ball was heading, the student would inevitably fail.
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