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In response, the existing bodies are vigorously defending their autonomy, resisting any attempts to
impose
on them a modicum of coordination and discipline.
Either national democratic processes will prevail, rendering the rules ineffective, or the rules will be strictly enforced, and the limits that they
impose
on national political systems risk plunging democracy itself into crisis.
Indeed, in attempting to
impose
its version of economic orthodoxy on the rest of the eurozone, despite strong objections by economists and elected leaders, Germany's government has displayed a remarkable lack of empathy and diplomatic skill.
Whereas Sarkozy has managed to
impose
himself on the right without the support of Jacques Chirac, the Socialist heavyweights cannot fully convince themselves to come out behind Royal.
When countries use trade to
impose
their institutional preferences on others, the result is erosion of trade's legitimacy.
You do not have the right to
impose
institutional preferences on others.
Using trade restrictions to uphold particular values must be distinguished from using them to
impose
values.
While these policies might
impose
costs on other countries, they are deployed not to extract advantages from them, but because other domestic-policy motives – such as distributional, administrative, or public-health concerns – prevail over the objective of economic efficiency.
Japan’s military thrust into Southeast Asia led President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s administration to
impose
sanctions.
Any effort to undermine international trade – a leading engine of global economic growth since the end of WWII – will inevitably
impose
high costs on everyone, including the working-class members of Trump’s political base.
This arrangement could be seen as an unwarranted abuse of Fund seniority that, in addition, unfairly frees the ECB from the need to
impose
its own conditionality on one of its members.
The United States is trying to
impose
a strong investment pact within the two big so-called “partnership” agreements, one bridging the Atlantic, the other the Pacific, that are now being negotiated.
The real goal is to restrict governments’ ability to regulate and tax corporations – that is, to restrict their ability to
impose
responsibilities, not just uphold rights.
In particular, these countries need help improving drug delivery and managing chronic diseases such as cancer and diabetes, which
impose
an immense burden on their economies.
Yet China retains its traditional Sino-centric worldview, which it seems keen to
impose
on its neighbors.
Instead of expanding the earned income tax credit to encourage work, the legislation will, for the first time in American history,
impose
a higher tax rate on employment income than on income earned by proprietors and partnerships.
Russia refuses truly to accept the sovereignty of the other CIS states, and instead wants only to
impose
its own customs policy, which the others do not accept.
Russia's high import tariffs on cars would
impose
an unjustified consumer tax on Kazakhs.
There is nothing new in the mistrust of the masses expressed by people like Chubais or Yurgens, or in Medvedev’s putative desire to
impose
modernization from the top.
But the low yields of organic agriculture in real-world settings – typically 20-50% below yields from conventional agriculture –
impose
various stresses on farmland and increase water consumption substantially.
Effective monetary finance therefore requires central banks to
impose
mandatory non-interest-bearing reserve requirements.
There is undoubtedly a future tax, but one that central banks must
impose
to ensure that the stimulus is no greater than originally intended.
More recently, he urged the national government to
impose
a travel ban on Muslims, as US President Donald Trump has attempted to do.
The West has no choice but to
impose
sanctions on Putin’s Russia, and they will now come fast and furious.
It tried and failed to
impose
its intolerance on its dominions in the Low Countries in the sixteenth century.
Today’s populist forces may disregard what technology wants and
impose
their vision on the world.
According to him, nothing would be more dangerous than to
impose
an artificial silence on a question that is boiling under the mask of political correctness.
The International Monetary Fund would ride into Kiev or Moscow, negotiate with the Government over the terms of a loan, and then expect the Government to
impose
the IMF’s conditions on the Parliament.
All that is needed, he suggests, are "collective action" clauses that allow the majority (or a supermajority) of a group of bondholders to
impose
their will on a minority, so as to prevent scavengers who, in the past, bought up small stakes in a bond issue and used their position to extract large concessions for themselves.
Attempting to
impose
democracy on others is an act of unbounded arrogance.
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