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The irony here – not lost on the major banks’ finance directors – is that as fast as banks add capital from rights issues and retained earnings to meet the demands of prudential regulators, the funds are drained away by conduct regulators.
So the drama of politics demands not an audience, but a world of players.
The theatre of politics makes permanent demands on us all, as dramatists, actors, and audience – on our common sense, our moderation, our responsibility, our good taste, and our conscience.
First, Ukraine demands a bilateral protocol on market access, which would force Russia to abolish roughly 100 trade sanctions, primarily in agriculture.
Finally, Abe’s growth strategy demands a corporate-tax reduction – a powerful tool for increasing the tax base in a world in which countries are competing to attract multinational companies.
These threats impose great demands not only on NATO and its newest members, including my country, the Czech Republic, but on the entire human race.
In 2001, US officials threatened to use their influence to stop previously approved IDB funding unless Haiti’s majority political party submitted to political demands to accept a particular apportionment of seats in a Haitian electoral oversight body.
In subsequent years, the US employed additional delaying tactics, working with the IDB to move the goal posts whenever Haiti appeared to be meeting their demands.
But now, because governments’ deployment of overwhelming financial resources to save selected private institutions deemed too big to fail caused sovereign debt to increase dramatically, officials have imposed fiscal austerity in deference to bond-market demands.
Many of the presidents re-elected, either directly or by alternating terms with someone else, a la the Kirchners, won because they seemed to be responding to social demands for more security or less poverty.
Unlike India, which was born with a democratic constitution, China has not yet found a way to channel the demands for political participation (if not democracy) that tend to accompany rising per capita income.
Heavier citizens make heavier demands on natural resources, especially water and energy.
In short, effective trade demands clear rules, typically enforced by a hegemon.
Democratic resilience demands that citizens do more than bemoan deficiencies and passively await constitutional reform.
But it is unlike any previous war in human history: for the first time, people around the world are not identifying and organizing themselves along national or religious lines, but rather in terms of a global consciousness and demands for a peaceful life, a sustainable future, economic justice, and basic democracy.
After all, what is most profound about these protest movements is not their demands, but rather the nascent infrastructure of a common humanity.
To make the structural transitions that the world needs, we need governments to take a more active role – at a time when demands for cutbacks are increasing in Europe and the US.
As the parliamentary elections showed, it is time that Nigerians receive democracy’s dividend: a government that reflects their interests and responds to their demands.
And regional movements elsewhere in Europe – and around the world – are making similar demands.
Digital borders and obstacles to data flows might be erected to meet demands for privacy at a moment when the world needs data to flow freely.
Fortunately, solutions that satisfy the need for national security and demands for privacy are not out of reach.
Despite the president’s renewed engagement, we are not yet convinced that the Ukrainian government will pursue this case with the vigor it demands.
More important, Padoan has started to implement fiscal stimulus by cutting taxes and maintaining public spending plans, in defiance of German and EU Commission demands to tighten his budget.
Such discussions reflect demands by civil-society leaders for a more thorough consideration of the scientific, moral, and legal issues concerning the use of gene drives.
In June, Saudi Arabia, along with Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, and Bahrain, imposed a full-scale blockade on Qatar and issued its leaders a series of far-reaching demands.
Research by the European Council on Foreign Relations has found 34 anti-EU referendum demands in 18 other countries.
The European Commission, once the EU’s source of visionary creativity, has become a fanatical defender of existing rules and regulations, however irrational and destructive, on the grounds that any concessions will beget more demands.
The Commission is right to believe that demands for EU reform would extend well beyond Britain.
The Syrian people’s demands are the same as those heard in Tunisia, Libya, and Egypt: a dignified, democratic life.
If the Guardian must stand alone now, next it will be the Daily Telegraph or the Financial Times that will face menacing calls from Whitehall and demands to spike a story or hand over the documents involved in an investigative report.
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