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Later, corporate governance scandals in Asia and then in the US, notably after the dot-com bubble and the accounting debacles at Enron, WorldCom, and others, encouraged Europeans to think that the “old continent” had somehow preserved higher standards.
Although the foundation backed by the financier George Soros did not fabricate the Rose Revolution, as Russian nationalists claim, it certainly nurtured, encouraged, and supported democracy’s preconditions.
The weak economy has caused people to postpone consumption of health-care services and has encouraged states and employers to restrain their spending on health.
In turn, the government encouraged the idea that ordinary citizens had legal rights as a way to ensure social stability, check petty corruption, and channel social grievances through a party-controlled mechanism.
Regardless of whether some in the United States encouraged Saakashvili, he did not expect – but he should have – the “hyper-charged” reaction from Russia.
One of the cases that illustrated the kind of “tourism” encouraged by the law involved a suit by a Saudi businessman against an American author who said in her book that the businessman had provided financial support to Al Qaeda.
That seduction has encouraged America to squander its savings and live beyond its means for nearly two decades.
If, instead, Russia and Ukraine had been encouraged to work toward joining the European Economic Community and were invited to join NATO, the arc of history would have been bent in a much more peaceful direction.
And yet the friends to whom I spoke encouraged me to get circumcised.
That created a system of asymmetric incentives – also know as moral hazard – which encouraged ever greater credit expansion.
The financial markets encouraged consumers to borrow by introducing ever more sophisticated instruments and more generous terms.
Rulers should be encouraged instead to engage in bottom-up democracy building, create an honest police force and judicial system, and allow civic organizations to flourish.
National governments throughout Europe and elsewhere issued statements of support, and encouraged Greek and Macedonian opponents of the agreement to get behind it.
For example, in medicine: because male doctors are prevented by strict Islamic law from treating women, the government has encouraged the training of female doctors.
The two sides of the city are united only in mutual economic dependence – the result of a policy that encouraged bringing Palestinian workers into Israel in the hope that jobs – and the fear of losing them – would make them reluctant to rebel.
Encouraged by investor excitement and indications of over-subscription, underwriters hiked the IPO’s price well above what they had first deemed reasonable.
Some have actively encouraged markets to take the prices of many financial assets to levels no longer warranted by fundamentals.
“Some Arab nations, unfortunately, have supported and encouraged this to happen,” he said.
In other words, the parties are encouraged – but not required – to submit increasingly stringent revisions of their so-called Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs), based on their own judgment.
As banks are encouraged to loosen lending standards, especially for middle-income households, an upswing in residential construction and debt-financed consumption should add further growth impetus.
Keen Trump observers expect that he’ll soon begin to chafe under the discipline Kelly has encouraged.
Instead, we think that they will focus on how “Obamacare” encouraged a wave of innovation that gradually tamed the spiraling costs of a dysfunctional system, even as millions of previously excluded Americans gained access to health insurance.
But until that happens, more US states should be encouraged to choose gun sanity for themselves.
If we are serious about integrating immigrants into Western societies, they should be encouraged to move around in public as much as possible.
Nevertheless, I am encouraged by the fact that, since Mandela left office, many African presidents – including Moi and Thabo Mbeki, Mandela’s successor – have adhered to their countries’ constitutions and left office without a fight.
Muslim intellectuals are being encouraged to press the religious argument against fundamentalist violence in order to deprive the terrorists of their most fearsome and potent arguments.
The UK has not just actively aided jihadists in Libya; it encouraged foreign fighters, including British Libyans, to get involved in the NATO-led operation that toppled Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi’s regime in 2011.
Western powers, which viewed Wahhabism as an antidote to communism and the 1979 Shia “revolution” in Iran, tacitly encouraged it.
As the list is made public, governments, corporations, and organizations should be encouraged to banish the named persons, lest their reputations be tarnished.
Today, China’s proclivity for industrial production is manifested in large-scale manufacturing and infrastructure projects, encouraged by direct and indirect government subsidies.
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