Impose
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By emphasizing Party control – through a crackdown on SOEs, government opponents, and critics in the media and academia – Xi seeks to maximize his ability to
impose
economic reforms while minimizing the risk of a challenge from conservative forces.
Saez and Diamond argue that the right marginal tax rate for North Atlantic societies to
impose
on their richest citizens is 70%.
Free markets alone cannot cope with the “externalities” that arise when economic activities produce harmful consequences that
impose
no direct cost on individual producers and consumers.
They used the constant threat and routine application of force and violence to
impose
slavery, low inward tariffs, and immunity for their colonists.
The Islamists could also
impose
the veil and later on the niqab.
The higher the volume of eurobonds a country seeks to issue, the more severe the conditions the Board would
impose.
Those with a vested interest in the status quo may push their governments to
impose
bans.
Often, as in Uganda and Nigeria, we hear the claim that opposition to official discrimination against gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people is simply a way to
impose
“Western” values on Africa.
The government was forced to
impose
harsh capital controls, including restrictions on what citizens could spend abroad as tourists.
All of their borders are works of European fiction, attempts to
impose
a monolithic image on areas honeycombed with diversity.
Yet, by spurring the international community to
impose
crippling sanctions, Iran’s nuclear effort ended up undermining the country’s progress further, by impeding technological progress and military investment.
Indeed, the economic justification--that skilled immigrants tend to be net economic contributors while low-skilled workers
impose
a fiscal burden and threaten low-skilled natives--is weak.
5.Countries have no right to
impose
their institutions on others.
Using restrictions on cross-border trade or finance to uphold values and regulations at home must be distinguished from using them to
impose
these values and regulations on other countries.
In the space of just 30 years, Berlusconi's TV stations managed to
impose
this illusory portrait of success on Italian society.
Persuading China to
impose
potentially regime-destroying sanctions will also require economic pledges, with the entire international community – especially the US, Japan, and South Korea – committing to share the mammoth costs of sheltering refugees and rebuilding North Korea’s economy.
The rules need to
impose
limits on deficits, spending, and debt, and require transparency so that the public knows what’s going on.
The Kremlin’s annexation of Crimea and its support for violent separatists in eastern Ukraine prompted the United States and Europe to
impose
increasingly stringent economic sanctions against Russia.
“We are more likely to succeed if we offer affordable solutions, not simply
impose
choices,” he argues.
Similarly, unlike the Chinese, Indian employers do not come into a foreign country with an overwhelming labor force that lives in ghettoes, or
impose
their ways of doing things on aid recipients.
At worst, labor-market failures
impose
modest inefficiency costs on society, whereas capital-market failures harm society greatly, with workers, rather than the perpetrators of financial disaster, suffering the most.
Nor is there doubt that these changes will
impose
huge costs.
There could be an international agreement that every country would
impose
a carbon tax at an agreed rate (reflecting the global social cost).
With an oddball president who led a failed coup only to return to
impose
his brand of Cuban socialism cum Latin American tinhorn dictatorship cum political evangelism, poor Venezuela seems destined for a fall.
He was not able to do as much damage to the US as he hoped, but he managed to dominate the world agenda for a decade, and the ineptness of the initial American reaction meant that he could
impose
larger costs on the US than were necessary.
Start by canceling the tariffs on steel and other imports that Trump has threatened to
impose.
At the same time, Hamas suspects that Abbas’s effort to gain UN recognition is intended to
impose
pressure on Netanyahu to revive peace negotiations on the basis of the 1967 borders, a position that Hamas rejects.
In addition to rolling out the welcome mat for energy-hungry China, oil ministry officials say they will tighten financial regulations and
impose
sanctions on companies seen as defaulting on tax and royalty payments – moves apparently aimed at local subsidiaries of Western oil companies in the Niger Delta.
Firms can be made to internalize the costs they
impose
on society with appropriate regulation (for example, capital requirements with a systemic charge for financial institutions), but it is not so obvious what to do with “excessive” influence that comes with size.
These so called “anti-dumping” laws allow a company that suspects a foreign rival of selling a product below cost to request that the government
impose
special tariffs to protect it from “unfair” competition.
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