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Subsidiarity is similar to the concept of solidarity in that it, too, has two interpretations: vertical subsidiarity and horizontal subsidiarity.
An example of horizontal subsidiarity is the internal European market, which created a new kind of economic freedom and increased competition between firms because they are no longer protected by national governments.
But that is possible only when the role of horizontal subsidiarity is clearly formulated, which it has not been in the European Treaties, the Charter of Fundamental Rights, or the work of the European Convention.
Moreover, as we have burned fossil fuels, we have simultaneously found new resources and discovered new methods, such as horizontal fracturing, which has dramatically increased the availability of natural gas while driving down its cost.
But a horizontal comparison of absolute values is inadequate to assess the true scale of China’s monetary emissions.
While horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing are not new, their pioneering application to shale rock was.
The technology of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, by which shale and other tight rock formations at great depths are bombarded with water and chemicals, has released major new supplies of both natural gas and oil.
Ironically, even as they have continued to tout horizontal forms of organization and participatory democracy, their charismatic leaders have concentrated ever more power in their own hands.
Or, in 11 words: horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing to recover deposits of shale gas.
In Schmieding’s letter to his investors, the horizontal axis was stretched to show that business confidence fell well into 2015, once I was in office.
With this in mind, policymakers began to dismantle the economic rules and regulations that had been implemented after the Great Depression, and encouraged vertical and horizontal mergers.
While this horizontal competition has helped China to reach growth targets, central leaders must be supportive of local leaders’ discretionary powers, authority to raise funds, and capacity to attract investment.
South Vietnam's flag of yellow with three red horizontal stripes often flies side-by-side with the Star-Spangled banner.
A combination of vertical and horizontal inequalities can generate extreme exclusion and marginalization, which in turn perpetuates intergenerational poverty and inequality.
It seems that evolution also occurs in a horizontal context, in which any living creature can incorporate information from surrounding organisms.
But, as the examples given above suggest, the line between horizontal and vertical policies is inevitably fuzzy.
Moreover, while the health of urban populations is directly or indirectly affected by actions taken (or not taken) in almost every branch of government, few emerging markets have acted to improve horizontal coordination within national or city administrations.
By contrast, Li seems intent on returning power to local governments and the market, transforming vertical control into horizontal coordination.
But, over the long term, the outcomes of such horizontal competition are generally positive, owing to the incentives it creates for local government officials to think creatively, experiment effectively, and pursue forward-looking policies.
Industries with potential to achieve economies of scale and scope were most favored and permitted to form horizontal and vertical cartels that cooperated on pricing, R&D, production, etc.
Indeed, thanks to the new techniques in hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling, shale gas may well become the dominant energy resource of the future.
The critical mechanism for orchestrating and implementing the complex web of contracts embodied in China’s government-services supply chain is the Five-Year Plan, which foresees vertical and horizontal integration of almost all Party and administrative agencies.
This balance between horizontal competition and vertical regulation was critical to promoting growth and dynamism in Chinese cities.
Any sign of a vertical move (implying higher inflation with an unemployment rate at NAIRU), rather than a horizontal one (a lower unemployment rate without CPI inflation), will be welcomed by the BOJ, and good for the economy at large.
While being open towards the idea of a "Team Presidency" involving, for example, three countries for a period of one year or eighteen months, I worry that it would make horizontal co-ordination and the smooth daily conduct of business more difficult.
This bottom-up approach to value creation is enabled by the horizontal (or peer-to-peer) networks and do-it-yourself (DIY) platforms that form the foundation of the “frugal” economy.
The nature of horizontal networks supports this prediction.
And there are potential gas and oil fields that can be tapped only with the new technologies of fracking and horizontal drilling.
But it was not until the late 1990’s and early 2000’s that the specific type of fracturing for shale, combined with horizontal drilling, was perfected.
In other words, we don’t see a completely linear relationship between the dose of the potential toxin and a deleterious effect; rather we see a distribution that looks something like a “check mark,” with concentration on the horizontal axis and some measure of damage on the vertical axis.
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