Impose
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Should we
impose
sanctions on countries that do not make the practice unlawful?
In any case, the government, according to the largest banks’ CEOs, could not possibly
impose
a cap on their assets’ size, because to do so would undermine the productivity and competitiveness of the US economy.
And insofar as the Europeans’ special-purpose financial vehicle also bypasses SWIFT, it will be hard for the US to track transactions between Iran and foreign companies and
impose
penalties.
Should Trump make good on his threat to tear up trade agreements and unilaterally
impose
punitive tariffs, the existing global trading regime will unravel, with China as one of the biggest casualties.
The trouble with most of the proposed “minimalist” intervention solutions – establishing buffer zones, for example – is that, in Syrian conditions, full-scale warfare will almost certainly be required to
impose
them.
The EU must freeze these individuals’ assets and
impose
an EU-wide travel ban on them.
There is at least some evidence that the PBOC has already resumed monetary tightening in an effort to
impose
a controlled credit crunch on the country’s shadow banking sector.
It may have taken years of violence, but Christians, Sunnis, and Shias seem to have internalized the lesson that they cannot
impose
their will on one another.
And, on global geopolitical issues – the tensions on the Korean peninsula, Iran’s nuclear ambitions, the Arab-Israeli conflict, the disorder in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and the political transition in autocratic Middle East regimes – the great powers disagree and are impotent to
impose
stable solutions.
The West is not trying, as it did during the Crusades or the Imperialist conquests of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, to
impose
its religion or values on the Arabs.
Notwithstanding Trump’s vow to
impose
tariffs on China, a resurgent dollar will hurt America’s trade competitiveness.
It certainly won’t be international creditors that
impose
limits on Argentina (at least for now).
They paid no heed to the large drag that Bush's unbalancing of America's public finances will
impose
on the US economy over the next several decades.
Although Cypriot lawmakers decisively rejected the plan to
impose
a one-time tax of almost 7% on such deposits only a couple of days after it was presented, the damage has been done.
China could stop purchasing US aircraft,
impose
an embargo on US soybean products, and dump US Treasury securities and other financial assets.
On the economic side of the “Brexit” debate are three main questions: Do European rules
impose
growth-stifling regulation on the UK?Would leaving the EU increase opportunities for British exports?
In other areas, such as science and industry, the impulse to
impose
one’s views on the world encounters the resistance of external reality.
Alternatively, countries could
impose
stricter capital controls and financial-market regulations to lock in savers, as the advanced countries did after World War II.
A British exit (“Brexit”) would
impose
immense economic costs on the EU’s Central and Eastern European (CEE) member states.
Then came the period of “Japan-bashing” in the 1980s-1990s, which culminated in threats from the US to
impose
trade sanctions if Japan’s competitive pressure on American industries did not ease.
Perhaps most important, business associations do their members a disservice by seeking to
impose
on them a single voice.
Indeed, Musharraf might be compelled to
impose
emergency rule again, as he did in November, should Pakistan’s stability further deteriorate.
And now he is proposing to
impose
a small tax on the largest banks’ liabilities, which he hopes will encourage “them to make decisions more consistent with the economy-wide effects of their actions, which would in turn help reduce the probability of major defaults that can have widespread economic costs.”
Since 2016, the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act in the United States has authorized the US president to
impose
visa bans and freeze the assets of foreign nationals suspected of gross human rights violations.
Trump is playing with fire when he threatens to
impose
import tariffs in order to “make American great again.”
Despite the tightening economic noose – the US imposed sanctions on all companies that do business with Iran’s central bank, and the European Union plans to
impose
sanctions on Iranian oil exports by the end of January – many nuclear experts now estimate that Iran is very close to enriching enough uranium to build a bomb.
Barnier favors European directives that
impose
uniform rules for all member states – so called “maximum harmonization” measures.
Previously, EU directives tended to
impose
minimum standards, which individual countries could supplement if they wished.
They could outlaw initiatives that the UK holds dear, such as new rules to ring-fence retail banks’ subsidiaries and
impose
higher capital requirements on them.
Should a participating country subsequently fail to abide by its commitments, the EFA could
impose
a fine or other penalty, which would be proportionate to the violation, thereby preventing enforcement from becoming a nuclear option that can never be exercised.
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