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Sanctions regarding non-national parties (such as US sanctions on a Chinese business) should not be enforced by one country alone, but according to agreements reached within the United Nations Security Council.
As has been made clear from the ethical debates on stem-cell research, a global policy cannot easily be adopted or enforced, nor should it be.
Moreover, it is unclear how these measures would be enforced.
It is past time to abandon the fiction that the ultimate source of fiscal discipline is a set of strictly enforced EU rules.
But, too often, even if a court ruling is made, it is not enforced as a result of intimidation.
These goals were not to be enforced by the Red Army, but by Russia’s economic potential, especially a strategic energy policy supported by vast oil and natural-gas reserves.
Although proponents focused solely on the new document, it doesn’t take a legal scholar to notice that there were good laws under the old constitution that were never enforced.
Recent personal experience at New Delhi airport indicated that nominal arrival checks, as the government requires, were loosely enforced, with a number of passengers exiting the terminal holding completed Ebola information cards that should have been handed to immigration officials.
Human trafficking is illegal in China (and under international law); but the law is clearly not being enforced adequately.
Here, too, using time instead of gold or silver as a standard of value enforced the notion of the primacy of labor.
In any situation where, legally, one’s rights are not enforced or even specified, the outcome will probably depend on custom, which is heavily skewed in favor of the rich.
Indeed, many Westerners warn that China is planning to use its technology-based power to impose an entirely new set of rules that is inconsistent with those long enforced by the West.
A key part of the answer lies in more effective systems of accountability, so that rights are recognized and laws enforced.
Meanwhile, non-Muslims, whose obligations were enforced more vigorously, gained a reputation for trustworthiness.
A law that cannot be enforced deters no one.
In 1998, these other acts were clarified to mean false imprisonment, torture, rape, persecution of a group, enforced disappearance of persons, and apartheid.
It was first introduced in an 1848 law that aimed to punish citizens still involved in the slave trade; but that law was never enforced.
Sartre castigated those who failed to resist oppression when they could have, while excusing those who enforced oppression given the chance.
Though the ban has now been invalidated by France’s highest court, it is still enforced in several seaside resorts.
But, with some recent exceptions, it is frequently ignored and rarely enforced.
More broadly, a market economy could not work if every contract had to be enforced through legal action.
But, if slow or corrupt courts mean that a worker who is wrongfully dismissed has no legal recourse, perhaps the prohibition on firing – enforced by mass protests against violations, which are easily and publicly observable – is the only way to protect workers from arbitrary decisions by employers.
The idea that you work hard and pay your income taxes, while I live off your enforced kindness, doing nothing by choice, is untenable.
The EU, however, would have the final say, so that its laws would apply and be enforced.
The territorial integrity and sovereignty of Croatia and Bosnia were enforced in the 1990’s, despite declarations of independence by the Serbian “Republic of Krajina” in Croatia and the Serbian “Republika Srpska” in Bosnia.
Cardin-Lugar needs to be implemented and enforced as a first step toward achieving that goal.
A 20% reduction in the EU’s CO2 emissions, vigorously enforced throughout this century, would merely postpone temperature increases due to global warming by two years at the end of the century, from 2100 to 2102 – a negligible change.
Its control of Eastern Europe was always enforced on the basis of “friendship treaties,” and the Soviet invasions of Hungary in 1956 and Czechoslovakia in 1968 were “fraternal” missions.
An international system that enforced the rule of law effectively would go a long way toward mitigating such conflict-generating behaviors.
To make matters worse, when a compromise is reached, the burden falls disproportionately on the debtor, in the form of enforced austerity and structural reforms that make the residual debt even less sustainable.
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