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Nevertheless, Putin still considers it necessary to pose in front of television cameras every few months to report that Russian scientists have developed some new missile that can penetrate any anti-ballistic missile system that the US may
erect.
There is even speculation (though no solid evidence) that Trump himself has business dealings with Russia, beyond his well-documented courting of Moscow politicians to let him
erect
a Trump Tower near Red Square.
During the onset of the financial crisis a decade ago, many feared that countries would
erect
new trade barriers, because that is what happened in the 1930s and during other post-war recessions.
They have already attempted to
erect
defenses against the potentially destabilizing effects of advanced-country monetary policy by accumulating foreign-exchange reserves and establishing capital controls.
Against this background, Rousseff’s government was perhaps rash to decry the inflow of “unwanted capital” in recent years and to
erect
import barriers aimed at protecting domestic industry by hampering market competition.
Russian officials intimate that the US is using the threat of a North Korean or Iranian attack on the US with nuclear-armed ballistic missiles as a pretext to
erect
defenses against Russia (and probably China).
Western Europe chose to integrate within itself and to
erect
an extensive welfare state.
This would be the worst possible moment to
erect
barriers.
Bullying Mexico to try to force it to pay for the huge border wall that Trump wants to
erect
would be an act of hostility against all Latinos.
Indeed, despite pledges not to
erect
trade barriers after the global economic crisis, more than 800 new protectionist measures were introduced from late 2008 through 2010.
Trump’s Virtual WallCAMBRIDGE – In many ways, the Republican Party’s plan to implement a “border adjustment tax” in the United States is the virtual complement of the physical wall President Donald Trump plans to
erect
on the US-Mexican border.
Indeed, they must
erect
an unbreachable firewall between policymaking and the industry at the national and international levels.
Ideally, China would abolish the practice on its own, thereby eliminating the need for the EU to
erect
tariff barriers that, given the highly integrated nature of the PV production chain, would end up undermining European exports of inputs like machinery and silicon.
Even the common currency's beneficial effects on trade among member countries were nullified by the paradoxical decision taken by the former sub-Saharan French colonies to dismantle the federal governmental structure and the single market of colonial times and to
erect
trade barriers in their place.
But when the temptations are not immediately present, we can
erect
barriers to them that make us less likely to succumb when they return.
But this approach can also be considered a way to isolate China and
erect
discriminating barriers against it in lucrative markets.
Why do governments
erect
barriers to international trade?
Insufficient harmonization, however, has often allowed member states to
erect
barriers to competition, which can only be removed by consistent implementation of laws and standards.
According to Smith, the government has the duty to “
[erect
and maintain] certain public works and certain public institutions, which it can never be for the interest of any individual, or small number of individuals, to
erect
and maintain.”
The immediate task is to
erect
the necessary safeguards against contagion from a possible Greek default.
Trying to
erect
an Iron Curtain around Russian funds and businesses will prove counterproductive.
As Adam Smith wrote in The Wealth of Nations:“The third and last duty of the sovereign....is that of erecting and maintaining those public institutions and those public works, which though they may be in the highest degree advantageous to a great society, are, however, of such a nature, that the profit could never repay the expense to any individual, or small number of individuals; and which it, therefore, cannot be expected that any individual, or small number of individuals, should
erect
or maintain.”
Some is because firms – Microsoft and drug companies are good examples – have learned better how to
erect
and maintain entry barriers, often assisted by conservative political forces that justify lax anti-trust enforcement and the failure to limit market power on the grounds that markets are “naturally” competitive.
In 1968, at a time of full employment, a combination of boredom and revolutionary utopianism led young demonstrators to
erect
barricades in Paris.
Of course, some European governments needed no encouragement to demonize Muslims,
erect
barbed-wire border fences, or detain asylum-seekers in squalid camps; indeed, they began doing so before Trump was elected, notably during the 2015-16 refugee crisis.
It has helped to build the country’s largest hospital for women and children,
erect
schools, construct the Afghan-India Friendship Dam (formerly known as the Salma Dam), carve the Delaram-Zaranj Highway across the country’s southwest (to open trade routes to the West), ensure uninterrupted electricity in Kabul, and even build the new Parliament.
Why else did Chinese student protesters
erect
a ten-meter-high Goddess of Democracy in Tiananmen Square in 1989?
Her mouth was slightly open and her ears
erect.
There they
erect
buildings rationally...'The conversation passed on to the abuses in the government of the United States, but Anna quickly turned it to another theme so as to draw the steward out of his silence.
The military man, with merry, ever-laughing eyes, who held himself very erect, was Gagin, from Petersburg.
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