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The current leadership, he maintained, has not fought terrorism, but has instead encouraged and even "trafficked" in it.
The implication, encouraged by the regime, was that Kaltho was a recruit of mine who blew himself up while preparing his next bomb in a campaign of terror aimed at Sanni Abacha’s dictatorship.
Private health insurance is generally provided by employers, which is encouraged by treating employer payments for health insurance as a tax-deductible business expense while not including the value of that insurance as taxable income to employees.
In East Asia, which has experienced rapid growth and development in recent years, policymakers have not only allowed, but encouraged, higher corporate profits, so long as they are channeled into productive investments.
In developed economies, corporate profitability has been steadily rising, partly owing to “shareholder-primacy” strategies that focus on short-term decision-making, cost-cutting measures, and other forms of financial engineering encouraged by institutional investors.
Finally, the many unpunished crimes already committed in the US military – such as torture – have encouraged too many soldiers to assume that impunity prevails.
Even those who encouraged the military intervention, believing that it was needed to restore law and order or to maintain stability during the looming royal succession, are having second thoughts.
Likewise, Italy is being encouraged to accelerate privatization.
Naturally, the ECB’s guarantees encouraged creditors to extend the crisis-afflicted countries still more credit, rescuing the investments of earlier creditors.
These campaigns, encouraged by Palestinian groups and non-governmental organizations, have been accompanied by individual acts of professional ostracism, and an informal boycott of Israeli scholars, publications, and cultural projects already exists in some European circles.
Her “right to buy” policy triggered an upward spiral in house prices, which encouraged households to take on more and more debt.
Evolving consumption patterns, regulatory regimes, and digital technologies have lately encouraged more domestic production.
Hu succeeded Jiang in 2002, almost as former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi was coming to power in Japan, and encouraged “New Thinking” in China’s Japan policy, which would entail moving away from historical grievances and promoting better ties.
For science, unlike for dogmatic belief systems, disagreement is to be encouraged.
While guardedly encouraged by recent reports of the remarkable plasticity of stem cells obtained from adult tissues, scientists know little about their potential for prolonged maintenance outside the body, their capacity for differentiation, and whether they can be obtained in the quantities needed to explore their utility for clinical use.
That shadow extends to the claim that corporate governance in Japan has been improving substantially, following reforms encouraged by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s government.
The onslaught on Israel was indirectly encouraged by the now widespread perception that, with Obama in the White House, America’s unwavering support for the Jewish state can no longer be taken for granted.
Rather than catalyzing constructive policy coordination, it has inadvertently encouraged complacency.
Critics argue that increasing the productivity of smallholder farms could backfire, especially if it encouraged poor farmers to expand their acreage in the hope of increasing profits.
Moreover, by tackling default risk, the OMT program created a new problem: private creditors, assured that the ECB would prevent governments from defaulting, were encouraged to lend with greater abandon.
He accused anonymous enemies (his anonymous “they” presumably included Western governments) of pursuing an agenda to destroy Russia, and he encouraged his security officials to push back.
He was a great historian and teacher, but these days I might be encouraged to think that he had threatened my “safe space.”
But the mechanism turned out to be ineffective: the absence of effective enforcement encouraged overstretched countries to renege on promises to exercise fiscal restraint, while condemning the eurozone to permanent instability.
Senior ministers in the United Kingdom and other northern European countries, relying on little more than armchair behavioral economics, argued that Mare Nostrum encouraged more migrants to attempt the dangerous sea crossing.
Encouraged by the victory of the US-led coalition in the 1991 Gulf War against Iraq (the Islamic Republic’s arch-enemy), in 1995 Rafsanjani sent very clear signals to the US of a willingness to restore diplomatic ties.
Cooperation among likeminded or geographically proximate countries should certainly be encouraged.
The Trump administration’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital has encouraged the Israeli government to increase colonization in and around East Jerusalem, which severely affects Bethlehem.
The US Treasury strongly encouraged Asia to tighten fiscal policy during its 1990’s crisis.
I was impressed and encouraged that roughly four-fifths of the 85 children were fully vaccinated.
Multinational companies and Western countries – both of which stand to benefit greatly from Asia’s increasing consumption – have encouraged Asians to aspire to a Western standard of living, with its high energy usage, electronic toys, and meat-heavy diet.
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