Impose
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Namibia's President Sam Nujoma complains that the West wants to
impose
its decadent sexual values on Africa through the guise of gay tolerance.
Two years into his term, Ortega needed to win majorities in the local elections in order to
impose
a constitutional reform that will allow him to seek a second consecutive term.
These moves follow US President Donald Trump’s proposal to
impose
tariffs on $50 billion worth of Chinese products, many of which are on the priority list for “Made in China 2025,” President Xi Jinping’s blueprint to transform China into a global leader in high-tech industries like aerospace, robotics, pharmaceuticals, and machinery.
But the political reality is that government officials lack sufficient knowledge and incentive to
impose
reforms that are effective but highly technical.
Despite loud protests from Canada and the UK, the US Department of Commerce now seems set to
impose
an extremely high import tariff of about 300%.
The risk is that when the American withdrawal from Afghanistan begins – a process that has just been brought forward to next year, from 2014 – the US will again seek to
impose
sanctions on Pakistan, an unreliable nuclear state that will react by strengthening ties with China and deploying Islamist terrorism.
In the early decades of the communications revolution, totalitarian regimes sought to
impose
fictitious realities on their peoples by force.
If this is not done quickly, deposit flight is likely to escalate, and the government will in the end have to
impose
a freeze on deposits or capital controls.
President Bush was simply unable to get other governments to back to the policy of isolation he sought to
impose
on President Hugo Chavez’s government.
But, according to the European Commission, the ETS does not
impose
an unfair burden on the developing world.
They should almost thank the French for their inability to
impose
effective austerity measures and thereby still run a small current-account deficit, which has prevented the eurozone surplus from becoming even larger.
It got the United Nations Security Council to agree to
impose
increasingly onerous economic sanctions – and roped allies into even stronger sanctions.
But if a country fails the solvency test, it must
impose
a sufficiently deep haircut on its bondholders to bring it to the “high probability” standard needed to qualify for IMF assistance.
If Greece were forced to restructure its debt and
impose
a “haircut” on holders of its bonds, the ECB would incur a sizeable loss.
To
impose
the gag rule despite clear evidence of the harm it causes is a transparent attempt to control women’s bodies and health.
That depreciation is larger than the likely tariffs the US would
impose
on Mexican goods if it left NAFTA.
With apartheid-style practices – including the gunning down of local workers by a Chinese manager in Zambia – Chinese managers
impose
appalling working conditions on their African employees.
The initial proposal to
impose
a one-time tax on accounts holding less than €100,000 came not from the European Union or from Germany, but from the Cypriot government, which must have known that it was likely to generate outrage, and that the Cypriot parliament would never vote for it.
And if you consider the fees that many banks
impose
on these accounts, the effective nominal return was already negative even before central banks went for negative nominal rates.
Beyond retail savers, banks that are holding cash in excess of required reserves have no choice but to accept the negative interest rates that central banks impose; indeed, they could not hold, manage, and transfer those excess reserves if they were held as cash, rather than in a negative-yielding account with the central bank.
They also allow him to dissolve parliament, be a member of a political party, have a greater say in appointing judges to the highest courts, issue decrees with the force of law, and
impose
a state of emergency.
Yet, along with “good” asset-price inflation, aimed at making people feel richer and spend more, these approaches have delivered “bad” inflation, owing to surging commodity prices, which
impose
a tax on both inputs and consumers.
For others, like the US, future sacrifices are already required, most likely through a combination of higher inflation, austerity, and “financial repression,” as governments seek to
impose
on savers negative real rates of return.
They include the authority to
impose
taxes and restraints on individuals and private entities through criminal, administrative, and civil law, as well as the state’s obligation to provide public goods and services.
But the new order could be slow to emerge, because none of the region’s powers is strong enough to
impose
its will on the others.
If they find Russia "guilty" of subsidizing its industry through low-cost energy, they can deem Russian goods as "dumped" and
impose
trade restrictions.
The likely failure of attempts to
impose
a Financial Transactions Tax, for example, should serve to motivate regulators to become more ambitious, not less, in efforts to advance financial-sector reform.
Given that the AKP’s true power base is its support in democratic elections, any attempt to
impose
Sharia would risk alienating many of its own voters.
Clearly, failure would
impose
huge political costs that leaders will be impelled to take all necessary steps to avoid.
Yet, for the most part, limited cooperation has been the world’s chosen course in recent years, with countries believing not only that they must fend for themselves, but also that their debt levels
impose
a hard constraint on growth-generating investment.
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