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In the past, such tribunals have interpreted the requirement that foreign investors receive “fair and equitable treatment” as grounds for striking down new government regulations – even if they are non-discriminatory and are adopted simply to protect citizens from newly discovered egregious harms.
He implacably opposed joining the European Union (then the European Economic Community) on the grounds that doing so would compromise British identity and sovereignty.
One can also argue for PSR on the grounds that asking for CSR becomes a way of “passing the buck” – evading personal responsibility for doing good.
While they are not of any particular economic value beyond providing some fishing grounds, they do have sentimental significance for Japan – as is often the case with lost territories.
Making matters worse, the EC decided in January to disqualify 20 Aam Aadmi Party members of the Delhi Legislature on technical grounds – an action that could have benefited the BJP if by-elections to their seats had followed.
If PETA is not allowed to state its case against our abuse of animals in the way that they judge best, because doing so might offend some people, then criticism of religion could also be prohibited on the same grounds.
And while it is fair to argue that much of what Iran is doing in the region is a legitimate cause for concern, it is not grounds for reintroducing sanctions under the accord.
This would create the most important thing that these states and their rapidly growing young populations need to produce stability within the framework of democratic development: grounds for hope of economic and social progress.
Nevertheless, a cautious look beyond the current turbulence – and into Anastasiades’s history – provides grounds for optimism.
More specifically, he blames the fact that young Frenchmen of Muslim origin are marginalized on the grounds of their faith and the color of their skin.
But there are strong grounds for optimism.
The Syrian civil war has also become one of the most dangerous breeding grounds for Islamist terrorism, as the Islamic State (ISIS) attacks in Ankara, Beirut, and Paris, and the bombing of a Russian passenger plane above the Sinai Peninsula, have shown.
Nevertheless, although some still lament the emphasis that universities now place on research, proponents of expanding the university's mission have for the most part been vindicated on pedagogical grounds.
Indeed, there are strong grounds for the US, Japan, and China to engage in areas of trilateral and other regional cooperation.
There are good grounds for both – to preserve the peace, and to protect individuals’ reputations from lies.
The first two were forced upon the US, but the third was the result of a willful, deliberate decision by former President George W. Bush, taken on ideological grounds and, most likely, for personal reasons as well.
The slow buy-in so far of Arab states to Obama’s campaign attests to the nervousness that many of them feel on all of these grounds.
The dilemma in Britain is the same as that of any West European country: the move by left-of-center parties to the middle ground, and their acceptance of market forces, means that right-of-center parties have lost their traditional claim to govern on the grounds of economic moderation and good sense.
The report examines the grounds on which it might be claimed that this burden of justification has been met.
There are reasonable grounds for victims of industrial decline to feel aggrieved.
Investors have used ethical grounds in the past – excluding, say, tobacco companies or corporations abetting apartheid in South Africa – and have been successful in generating pressure on the underlying stocks.
Similarly, some 51% of respondents disapproved of the laws on constitutional grounds, believing them to be in violation of Article 9 of the constitution, the provision that Abe would like to alter.
If criticism of democratic governance on the grounds of its “inevitable short time horizon” were correct, it would be hard to explain how India, a populous, complex, and still-poor democracy, could sustain long-term investments and policies required to support rapid growth and development.
Non-depression economics eschews fiscal policy, on the grounds that central banks’ tools are powerful enough and their decision-making more effective and technocratic than that by legislatures.
But for years Hamas and other radical Palestinian groups have rejected the Oslo process, on the grounds that free elections under Israeli occupation would be absurd.
So we have grounds to hope that as the millennials begin to outnumber those still running Volkswagen and other major corporations, ethics will become more firmly established as an essential component of maximizing the kinds of value that really matter.
Recent developments seem to offer grounds for optimism.
It would be a mistake, for example, to limit Canada’s lumber exports to the US on the grounds that the Canadian government subsidizes them.
Investment in alternative energy technologies like solar and wind is no longer peddled on environmental grounds.
And as waters warm and tidal flows change, yields from the Mekong Delta’s vast fishing grounds could plummet.
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