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These models thus encouraged investors to sell into a weak market, amplifying price swings.
The EU’s handling of relations with Serbia in the past only encouraged intransigence.
In Afghanistan, America’s military was so tactically dependent on Pakistan that, on several occasions, the US encouraged India to curtail development projects, such as rebuilding Afghanistan’s infrastructure.
Since 1995, when China occupied Mischief Reef, a maritime feature claimed by the Philippines, the EU has encouraged the Association of Southeast Asian Nations to strengthen its code of conduct for the region.
California, Wyoming, and other states allowed women to vote – an example that encouraged passage of the Nineteenth Amendment (enfranchising all adult women).
China’s government has encouraged and then exploited states’ economic reliance on it to compel their support for its foreign-policy objectives.
The armed forces’ role in fighting narcotics – which has been ineffective in every country where it has been tried – is encouraged by a coercive, misguided, bipartisan US strategy.
In the 1990s, when ten countries and 100 million citizens broke from the Soviet empire and joined the West, the promise of EU accession eased, encouraged, and to some extent guided the transition.
Lack of accountability has both encouraged corruption and fed perceptions that abuse remains unpunished.
They encouraged a national mood of strategic complacency that percolated into the military as much as it was influenced by the military, paving the way for the success of Egypt’s exercise in tactical deceit.
Second, the state’s administration of justice adopted and encouraged non-violent ways of resolving grievances, thus allowing cooperation and the expansion of commerce.
If Hamas does prove itself to be moving toward greater political pragmatism, it should be encouraged.
For example, China has refused to endorse Russia’s recognition of the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, and has encouraged the SCO’s other members to do the same.
Bio-fuel subsidies, which have encouraged the shift of land from producing food into energy, must be repealed.
The US also encouraged the International Monetary Fund to give Pakistan emergency financial assistance equivalent to $11 billion, to be disbursed starting in late 2008.
The stunning opacity of solvency ratios encouraged regulators to turn a blind eye to banks’ excessive risk-taking.
First, rural households would be encouraged to have fewer children, and to invest more in each child’s health and education.
The cynicism with which pharmaceutical firms have encouraged opioid drug use is appalling.
China’s foreign ministry sent a strong message of support for Kim Jong-un, and encouraged North Koreans to unite under the new leader.
Thus, supposedly benign accounting regulations actually encouraged banks to multiply their short-term lending, and to cut back on their long-term lending.
Adherence to international accounting standards should be encouraged.
Economic growth requires not just capital investments, but also a business environment where innovation is encouraged and rewarded.
But a new issue risks bringing about a similarly problematic outcome: By repeatedly repressing financial-market volatility over the last few years, central-bank policies have inadvertently encouraged excessive risk-taking, which has pushed many financial-asset prices higher than economic fundamentals warrant.
Students with higher positive hensachi scores are admitted to more rigorous high schools and colleges, where they are often encouraged to study medicine, simply because the entrance exam is difficult, even if they have no interest in a medical career.
The UN has encouraged and facilitated the process – through quiet good offices during the last years of the conflict, human rights monitoring, assistance to the Constituent Assembly election, and monitoring arms and armies during the transition.
Furthermore, corporations and privacy advocates should be encouraged to use the court system to challenge government requests to install spy software in commercial products.
Meanwhile, US officials encouraged their Turkish counterparts to seize border territory from ISIS.
As they pursue growth opportunities abroad and are encouraged by improved polices at home, emerging-market corporations will play an increasingly prominent role in global business and cross-border investment, while large pools of capital within their borders will allow emerging economies to become key players in financial markets.
Certainly, the failure of the peace process in the 1990’s, followed by the coming of the second Intifada, appears to have encouraged the radicalization of Israel’s extremes while discouraging moderates.
The origins of this role go back a long way, but at the Bretton Woods conference in 1944 it was an important tenet of US policy that countries should be encouraged to hold part of their reserves in dollars.
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