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The Kim regime would incur only modest costs by restarting its nuclear program, but it may be able to
impose
severe and irreversible costs on the US and South Korea, should that decision lead to a full-fledged nuclear arsenal.
Such groups may also reflect an effort to
impose
social order through fear.
Now it is up to the government to use the judicial system to
impose
the rule of law.
They
impose
extractive (bad) institutions, instead of adopting inclusive (good) institutions; and, because technology may upset their control over society, they choose to do without it.
After all, if the Western powers can
impose
regime change on authoritarian states on humanitarian grounds, why would this stop at China’s borders?
The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), the regulatory agency for the oil industry, has dismissed these claims, vowing to
impose
hefty fines on companies that flout the deadline.
Trump is right to hold out a hand, but he also must continue to
impose
sanctions for serious violations of international norms.
Recognizing such a right would
impose
a duty on universities and industry to negotiate fair compensation with every donor of all tissue used in their research.
Some countries even
impose
a constitutional mandate for equality of educational opportunities.
Indeed, while inequality’s harmful effects are wide-reaching, and
impose
huge costs on our economies and societies, they are largely avoidable.
The bitter medicine that Germany and the ECB want to
impose
on the periphery – the second option – is recessionary deflation: fiscal austerity, structural reforms to boost productivity growth and reduce unit labor costs, and real depreciation via price adjustment, as opposed to nominal exchange-rate adjustment.
By 2050, antimicrobial resistance could
impose
a cumulative economic cost of $20 trillion on China – equivalent to about two years of its current GDP.
But her attempt to
impose
a pan-European solution failed, and she has now largely shifted the challenge of coping with asylum-seekers to Greece and Italy, relying on other countries’ border walls and controls to prevent refugees from reaching Germany.
Whenever we withhold assistance or
impose
sanctions, we need to think carefully about who bears the burden in bringing about the changes that we seek.
Few of us in the developed world can fathom aggregate-output contractions on the scale that crisis-torn Asia suffered in 1998, let alone muster the political will to
impose
them on our economies.
Meanwhile, the opacity of capital indicators has made market discipline impossible to
impose.
The latter was intended to
impose
market discipline, and the former, to preserve the stability of public finances by fixing a strict limit on the size of national budget deficits.
The failure to
impose
market discipline via the no-bailout clause was predictable: in a systemic crisis, the immediate concern to preserve the stability of markets almost always trumps the desire to prevent the moral hazard that arises when imprudent debtors are saved.
But in September 2008, the United States government thought otherwise, and allowed Lehman Brothers to fail in order to
impose
market discipline.
The US can therefore
impose
a much larger burden on Chinese exporters than the Chinese can
impose
on US exporters.
Trump’s new chief of staff, retired General John Kelly, could still
impose
discipline within the White House; but it is all but impossible that he will be able to rein in the president himself.
The occasion was Brazil’s decision to
impose
a 2% tax on short-term capital inflows to prevent a speculative bubble and further appreciation of its currency.
The controls will
impose
few costs on markets (though they may involve some administrative costs for the government).
But as the vote has drawn closer, it has become clear that Maduro’s intent has always been to consolidate his power, and
impose
on Venezuela’s 31 million people an authoritarian, pseudo-socialist system.
This talent drain is likely to be exacerbated as pay regulations
impose
a one-size-fits-all regime.
Why
impose
restrictions on a dealmaker who earns a large fee for arranging a merger that imposes no risk on the bank after the transaction has closed?
Last month, following North Korea’s second intercontinental ballistic missile test of the summer, the United Nations Security Council unanimously agreed to
impose
new and even stricter sanctions on the tiny country.
The global market does not
impose
Westernization.
Finally, both the interdependence and global risk that are evident in this crisis will and probably should cause countries to adopt policies with respect to financial structures that provide for some insulation from external shocks, even if such policies
impose
a cost.
But S&P’s assessment of the political situation is on target: by creating a dysfunctional paralysis at the heart of government, the Tea Party has shown that it is willing to
impose
dramatic costs on the broader economy and to ensure significantly slower growth.
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