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Granted, one could argue that in some cases they overshot – for example, with the second round of so-called “quantitative easing” in the US – but, roughly speaking, the response seems to have been appropriate.
Despite divisions, for the first time it used the power granted by the Constitution to declare war.
Of course, the deliberate restriction of the effects of bankruptcy to accounts other than private current, savings, and fixed-term deposits means that the insolvency of bank A could lead to the insolvency of bank B. For bank B, too, the same liquidation scenario would apply: savings deposits would be safe, payments could be made from its customers’ current deposits, and loans that it granted to non-financial companies would not be revoked.
The National Assembly granted de Gaulle the power to rule by decree for a year.
More than five million people starved to death or died of hunger-related disease in the USSR in the early 1930’s, 3.3 million of them in Ukraine, of which about three million would have survived had Stalin simply ceased requisitions and exports for a few months and granted people access to grain stores.
They all thereby indicated that democracy is not some kind of natural condition, nor some end-point of history whose stability and permanence can be taken for granted.
Restoring European GrowthNEW YORK – Europe’s sovereign-debt crisis has rumbled on for so long that some people are beginning to take it for granted that eurozone leaders can continue to stumble from one non-solution to the next without risk of cataclysm.
They granted concessions to build new ports, in order to facilitate logistics activities around the Canal.
Developed-country politicians are merely representing their citizens’ priorities: we, in the developed world, take water for granted.
The best way to remember them is to reaffirm their right to liberties that millions of people, in the West, and in many parts of Asia, take for granted.
The notion of an unstoppable wave took for granted that both the United Kingdom’s Brexit referendum and Donald Trump’s election in the United States were triumphs for populism, rather than for establishment conservatives.
Weeks later, Nixon’s successor Gerald Ford granted him a full and unconditional pardon for all possible crimes.
A decade later, Ken Kesey took his buddies, the Merry Pranksters, across the country in the other direction in their painted bus (granted, with female hangers-on).
The benefit of the doubt that had been granted to his administration up to now has been forfeited.
But Africans must not take it for granted that their time has come.
In the past year, 10 of the 41 eligible countries have been granted debt relief under this initiative; we expect another 10 to start receiving debt relief by the end of this year.
But, as recent events have illustrated, robust health agencies should not be taken for granted.
By means of a binding UN Security Council resolution, Kosovo could be granted full and exclusive authority over its citizens and territory, as well as limited capacity for action on the international scene.
A half-dozen northern European countries can compete with the US when it comes to research and development spending and patents granted, but the south and east of Europe lag far behind.
In April, the country was granted $170 million in debt relief – the payoff for years of economic reform.
Granted, no one is obliged to submit himself to the slings and arrows of electoral politics.
If Basel becomes a talking shop, without the ability to set firm standards, another key link in the chain will be broken, and it will be harder for the UK to argue that if London’s banks meet international standards, they should be granted equal treatment in the EU.
Nothing can be taken for granted.
When Mubarak became president in 1981, parliament granted him the right to control all military contracts without legislative oversight.
This web of contracts – often taken for granted in mainstream economics, to the extent that it becomes almost invisible – embodies the formal and informal rules embedded in the market system that shape and constrain individual and social behavior.
Granted, in many cases business leaders have chosen to remain on the sideline; but both they and governments need to adjust their thinking.
China’s leaders still face enormous challenges in maintaining domestic stability, and continuing quiescence cannot be taken for granted.
In short, Iran’s electoral outcome is a dangerous one, though precisely how destabilizing it ultimately turns out to be will depend on Ahmadinejad’s actions and the degree of power granted him by Khamenei.
General Chiang Kai-shek declared in 1946 that the Tibetans were Chinese, and he certainly would not have granted them independence if his Nationalists had won the civil war.
But they would not be granted tax-financed social benefits.
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