Impose
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The ECB might have cut off emergency liquidity assistance, forcing the government to
impose
capital controls and even consider abandoning the euro.
First, they could allow all countries to reap the benefits of a bilateral mutual-recognition deal by agreeing not to
impose
restrictive rules of origin.
Recently, the Canadian scholar-politician Michael Ignatieff urged US President Barack Obama to
impose
a no-fly zone over Syria, despite the near-certainty that Russia would veto the United Nations Security Council resolution needed to legalize such a move.
Israel has long avoided drafting a constitution, because its secular citizens fear that orthodox Jews would
impose
their values on them.
Spam, viruses, cyberattacks, and other kinds of security breaches can
impose
major costs on businesses and households.
Likewise, the following January, the Times reported that Japan’s government would soon
impose
stricter food-safety radiation regulations, “bringing Japan in line with most developed countries.”
Such a requirement would
impose
costs on universal banks by constraining their ability to transfer capital within the group.
Doing so will be difficult, especially because it is not clear whose claims to the region’s disputed islands and outcroppings should be recognized, and the US has no intention of trying to
impose
a solution.
Instead, the US and its partners need a broader range of responses that would enable them to adopt effective measures that are proportionate to the stakes involved – measures that demonstrate a willingness to
impose
meaningful costs without triggering counterproductive escalation.
Obama’s critics, whether on the left or the right, believe that the United States has a unique calling to
impose
its will on the world.
Empires can
impose
order and stability for a long time; but imperialists – rather like many Americans today – become tired, and their subjects grow restless.
At least he has recognized the limits of America’s power to
impose
a global order by force.
It will be the last gasp of an aging generation that tried to
impose
its nostalgic parochialism on an increasingly cosmopolitan younger generation, but succeeded in only one unfortunate country.
The upper echelons of the bureaucracy and intelligentsia in Russia and China were self-consciously nationalist and, throughout Communist rule, shrewdly pursued the supreme nationalist goal: prestige – the power, naked and otherwise, to
impose
the nation’s will on others.
This decision arguably tempted so many more refugees from the Arab countries that soon thereafter Germany was forced to
impose
border controls.
In order to avert chaos, Germany has no choice but to
impose
restrictions.
So the tax cut would
impose
a burden on the future either in reduced public services from the start or else a public debt ultimately much increased (or net asset position much reduced).
Here, on the technical side, one important issue remains unresolved: contrary to what happens in the US, the European regulator lacks the authority to
impose
the break-up of a company as a remedy against its dominant market power.
But those who suffer from sanctions suffer not just from economic hardship; the isolation that sanctions
impose
favors the country’s least enlightened elements.
The UN Security Council has adopted a series of resolutions to
impose
extensive sanctions, following the North’s three previous nuclear tests.
By contrast, in Somalia, the terrorist group al-Shabaab has historically forbidden polio workers from operating in areas under their control, viewing vaccination campaigns as part of a foreign campaign to
impose
a centralized government.
But, more important, it is suffering as a result of judicial and quasi-judicial decisions to
impose
large financial penalties on foreign corporations.
For example, the EU could
impose
a ceiling not on total debt, but on the portion of debt held by foreigners.
Moreover, devaluation will
impose
heavy burdens on China, for example, it will certainly increase the cost of servicing China's debts and may also worsen the overall balance of payment.
This recalls the American political scientist Zbigniew Brzezinski’s observation in the 1950s that totalitarian regimes (in contrast to authoritarian ones)
impose
both prohibitions and imperatives on citizens.
In Title II of Dodd-Frank, Congress created a back-up authority through which the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) can take over and manage a failing financial firm and
impose
appropriate losses on shareholders and some creditors without creating widespread systemic damage or a global panic.
Today the old KGB (Prime Minister Evgeny Primakov was a career denizen of this central institution of the Soviet/Stalinist state, and headed its successor body after communism's collapse) has been given the ruling hand in a last bid to
impose
some sort of order.
Primakov's battle against corruption, directed primarily against the financial magnate and former minister for relations with the old Soviet nations like Ukraine, Secretary Boris Berezovsky, is sending a clear message: we will punish the guilty and
impose
discipline on rich and poor alike.
The second attainable goal is to
impose
such a high price on Hezbollah as to be an effective deterrence in practice.
In the United States, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has promised to
impose
trade tariffs on China, build a wall on the border with Mexico, and bar Muslims from entering the country.
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