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None of these legal grounds holds water.
Germany rejected the Polish proposal – again on the grounds of Pandora’s box.
This might trigger a positive domino effect as well, as other states – on grounds of international financial integration – adopt similar procedures for controlled liquidation of their own insolvent banks.
Some of WikiLeaks’ releases of sensitive material have been perfectly defensible on classic freedom-of-information grounds, exposing abuses that might otherwise have remained concealed.
Former Prime Minister John Major called the UK “the country of long shadows on cricket grounds, warm beer, invincible green suburbs, dog lovers, and pools fillers and, as George Orwell said, ‘Old maids bicycling to holy communion through the morning mist’…” But what he was really describing was England.
But neither those concerns nor Chinese retaliation will win the US any sympathy, because the administration’s latest action comes on the heels of bogus US steel and aluminum tariffs, trumped up, as it were, on national security grounds.
Still, the IMF is right – on grounds of both fairness and efficiency – to raise the idea of temporary wealth taxes in advanced countries to relieve fiscal distress.
The Mediterranean can be expected to remain the main security challenge for some time, owing both to illegal immigration and its proximity to terrorist training grounds.
As for Zyuganov, he couldn’t publicly disagree with a party member, again on hoary Leninist grounds: division within the party will bring an end to the party.
A military coup, imposed following the Thai constitutional court’s ouster of an elected government on spurious legal grounds, can lead only to an artificial peace.
Given that IUU represents a form of theft of national revenues comparable to tax evasion, the G20 has grounds to act on this front.
Those who oppose genetic patents claim that they also deny US constitutional rights, making this the first time a genetic patent has been challenged on human rights grounds.
There are no grounds in Eastern thought for resisting the central idea of evolutionary theory: that all animals are historically linked.
Anger over Scotland’s decision in 2009 to release Megrahi, who had been diagnosed with terminal cancer, ostensibly on humanitarian grounds, further poisoned Libya’s relations with the West.
A coalition of European civil-society organizations opposes Zimbabwean government participation on human rights grounds.
Likewise, instead of refuting claims about the extent of sexual slavery during the war, Japan's government should build a monument in central Tokyo – possibly even on the Imperial Palace grounds – commemorating the “comfort women" from Korea and elsewhere who were forced to provide sexual services to the Japanese Imperial Army.
The largest component of this subsidy is the tax deductibility of home mortgage interest, which costs a lot of revenue and is hard to justify on distributive grounds: the benefit goes only to those with incomes high enough to itemize deductions.
Others, opposing this claim, insist that the country must live up to the legacy of its 1971 secession from Pakistan, in a revolution that proclaimed Islam insufficient grounds for nationhood and asserted the primacy of Bangladesh’s secular culture and Bengali language over its allegiance to Islamabad.
If this was not caused by simple aggression on the part of Serbia, then the only grounds for intervention would be to prevent a massacre.
While the effects of trade liberalization on growth are well established on both theoretical and empirical grounds, the question of what open trade can do for the cause of global income equality is less well understood.
But, whatever reasons for optimism forecasters may have, there are also strong grounds for caution, especially in the medium and long term.
And conditions there constitute a crime against humanity that must be stopped on moral grounds.
Grounds for pessimism are undeniable.
Now that the so-called liberal establishment is feeling the nationalist, bigoted backlash that its own illiberalism brought about, it is responding a little like the proverbial parricide who appeals to the court for leniency on the grounds that he is now an orphan.
They already have shown remarkable determination, providing grounds to be optimistic that this time things will, indeed, be different.
They presided over institutions that made large profits for a substantial period of time by mispricing risk, and then argued for public support on the grounds that they were too big to fail.
In 2005, the Indian Cabinet’s Committee on Economic Affairs prevented, on due diligence grounds and at the last moment, the overseas arm of ONGC Videsh from entering into a $2 billion deal for a stake in a Nigerian oil block.
A high-level German diplomat reportedly dismissed Spain’s 6.5-7% interest rates recently, on the grounds that Spain borrowed at nearly the same rates in the 1990’s.
The invasion of Afghanistan could be justified on the grounds that the Taliban provided Bin Laden and Al Qaeda with a secure training ground.
On March 14, 2008, the Chief Public Prosecutor opened an investigation aimed at shutting down the AKP on the grounds that it was intent on violating the constitutional ban on promoting religion.
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