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Without it, on whose behalf would the state – which is supposed to make decisions, define and protect rights, and impose obligations – be acting?
The US alone would be unable to impose sufficiently powerful sanctions on Iran to secure that outcome, while the European Union – the primary architect of the JCPOA – would be highly unlikely to re-impose sanctions on an Iran that is complying with its commitments.
The 20-year-old notion, born of Cold War triumph, that Western military force could impose order wherever and whenever it wished, has become untenable.
Fortunately, Bin Laden’s death comes at the very moment when much of the Islamic world is being convulsed by the treatment that Bin Laden’s brand of fanaticism requires: the Arab Spring, with its demands for democratic empowerment (and the absence of demands, at least so far, for the type of Islamic rule that Al Qaeda sought to impose).
European countries must work together to dismantle human-smuggling operations and impose severe criminal sanctions on their organizers.
If Trump really did keep his campaign promises to revise the North American Free Trade Agreement and impose tariffs on many Chinese imports, he could tip the world economy from subpar growth to outright depression.
Those powers should make it clear that they will not re-impose sanctions, and that any US attempt to impose its will through extraterritorial measures – say, using access to dollar clearing systems as a foreign-policy tool – would be countered by coordinated action.
Many in Britain know exactly what they want: to impose controls on the movement of workers from the rest of the EU, thereby protecting the domestic labor market, but without losing access to the single market or passporting rights, which allow British firms to sell their financial services on the continent.
This means that the barriers that EU negotiators are in a position to impose – which largely affect trade in goods – are likely to have a much smaller impact than the UK-imposed barriers, such as quotas on EU workers.
Yellen’s successor would not be able simply to impose his or her view on the FOMC’s seven-member Board of Governors and five Reserve Bank presidents.
University seminars in Rio are as lively as those in Cambridge, Mass or Cambridge U.K.It produces one of the finest airplanes in the world--so good that competitors in the more advanced industrial countries have tried to impose trade barriers.
Yet if citizens decide that they will vote in their self-interest within the restraints of a moral code, immoral campaign practices would suddenly impose a cost, rather than confer an advantage.
As a result, Greece would be forced to impose capital controls.
Greece first tried and failed to use a referendum to impose its preferences on its creditors, which then used their superior leverage to render the referendum’s outcome moot.
They could then agree to impose taxes on products from other countries – including the US – that are produced in ways that unnecessarily add substantially to global warming.
When we try to impose democracy, we tarnish it.
But the decision to impose capital punishment remains highly subjective.
But the drive to impose a homogeneous identity on a diverse society is hardly unique to Israel.
It seems clear that the West needs to impose some limits on Russia.
Congress has authorized the President to impose import duties on Chinese products if China remains unwilling to increase the value of its currency substantially against the dollar.
During the immediate postwar occupation, US military planners had to impose new currency regimes and central banking institutions.
More and more members of a governmental machine that thought it could impose a fraudulent election on Ukraine’s people are shying away from imposing that choice by force.
He can call general elections, declare war, impose a state of emergency, and issue decrees that have the force of law.
In the US Congress, Democrats and Republicans alike have promised to end weapons sales to Saudi Arabia and impose sanctions if its government is shown to have murdered Khashoggi.
But the potential for a free-trade agreement isn’t the point; what matters is the end to the escalation of tit-for-tat measures, set in motion by Trump’s decision to impose tariffs on US imports of European steel.
The US president has the power to impose tariffs and other trade barriers unilaterally, in the interest of national security.
In an era when public debt write-offs (haircuts) are widely viewed as unacceptable (witness the European Union’s position on Greece) and governments are often reluctant to write off private debts (witness Italy’s reluctance to impose a haircut on holders of banks’ subordinated debt), sustained negative ex post returns are the slow-burn path to reducing debt.
A Republican presidential victory, together with Republican control of the House and Senate, would likely lead to substantial reduction, repeal, and replacement of many Obama initiatives, attempts to reform taxes and entitlements, and measures to impose greater fiscal discipline.
And it is now clear that the only way to keep the radicals in check is to impose costs for their illiberal, anti-democratic behavior.
And it would be a grave mistake to think that a condominium between the US and China will impose global order in the way that the Cold War-era US/USSR superpower rivalry did.
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