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And, perversely, American neo-conservatives have transformed the internationalism of the old left by seeking to
impose
a democratic world order by US military force.
The best that could be done was to enact Europe-wide and global rules, instead of allowing powerful countries like Germany or the US to
impose
their own.
It is not rational to
impose
such punishment when the consequences, far from preventing future crimes, may incite or cause greater or new social damage.
This plan for an open society in Southeast Europe would
impose
costs on EU members, but the amounts are small because the whole region is smaller in economic terms than the Netherlands.
NATO has sufficient power to
impose
such a settlement.
Second, private financial institutions would pay a fee into the same NICU fund in proportion to any surge of capital flows out of a country, reminiscent of the price hike that companies like Uber
impose
during peak traffic.
Of course, transnational terrorists usually have no “return address” that allows the threat of mutual deterrence to work, but North Korea or Iran has no moral right to
impose
this risk upon others.
It was also a confrontation between two worldviews – one that aspires to control society and
impose
a single way of thinking upon it, and another that is committed to democracy, social justice, and liberty.
That agreement will also
impose
real economic pain, but Ukrainians are willing to pay the price in order to preserve our independence.
If there is no recourse but to pursue stronger sanctions, the US should coordinate with others, including the European Union and ASEAN, to
impose
targeted financial and banking measures to ensure that military leaders and their associates cannot evade the impact of what otherwise would be less-effective unilateral sanctions.
Hollande’s main new promise – not to
impose
any new taxes, beginning next year – might have been an implicit acknowledgement of this.
But it could be tempted to
impose
some limits on the ECB and thus set Europe on a path into deeper crisis.
They would thus have a powerful incentive to
impose
controls on spending to insure that their claims could be met.
Similarly, he would like to
impose
a two-term limit on the president, and to require parliamentary approval of the president’s appointment of certain senior officials.
These threats
impose
great demands not only on NATO and its newest members, including my country, the Czech Republic, but on the entire human race.
Colombia has tried to
impose
some order on the process by asking Venezuelans who have entered the country legally to register.
Furthermore, it requires a sustained commitment until the pre-determined objective is achieved, an objective that neither aims at conquest nor seeks to
impose
NATO’s preferred political order on an adversary.
This can be done in several ways: by means tests that
impose
duties on many parents; by loans to be repaid under favourable conditions; by a special tax on graduates; or by mixtures of such approaches involving a generous system of bursaries as well as charges on well-to-do parents.
They
impose
burdens on politically sensitive groups.
A big country like the US can generally
impose
the costs of its unpredictability on other countries, and especially on emerging markets.
The US and European decision to
impose
some economic sanctions now, with the possibility of adopting tougher and broader sanctions later, is not a sign of weakness but of strategic calculation.
Second, such a scheme would
impose
large costs on only a few companies in a few countries.
To counter this deficit bias, federations in which states do much of the spending and the central government raises most of the taxes typically
impose
balanced-budget rules on subnational governments.
Indeed, with banks failing to
impose
hard budget constraints on financially unsustainable businesses, and with the planning system incapable of imposing alternative effective discipline, China is already awash with apartment blocks in third-tier cities which will never be occupied, and with huge overcapacity in heavy industry.
Thus, China threatens to veto any resolution of the United Nations Security Council that might
impose
sanctions against the Arab ruling class in the Sudanese government, whose troops and government-allied militias are perpetrating genocide against Sudan’s black citizens, using Chinese-made helicopter gunships based at airstrips maintained by Chinese oil companies.
Trump has promised to ditch the 12-country Trans-Pacific Partnership,
impose
punitive tariffs on Chinese imports, and unilaterally renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement.
It argues that, under the German constitution, the ECB is prohibited from making any decisions that
impose
potential liabilities on German taxpayers, because it is not subject to German parliamentary control.
The form that these standards take - and the increasing talk of using trade sanctions to
impose
them - is close to what protectionist lobbies in industrial nations seek.
Influential voices in China are quick to draw the lesson from international experience that tackling corporate debt can limit short-term growth and
impose
social costs, such as unemployment.
But it is an extremely dangerous attitude with people like Sarkozy ready, willing and able to
impose
high political costs upon the bank should it stumble.
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