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The most comprehensive economic meta-study shows that total future climate impacts would justify a tax of around €0.01 per liter of petrol ($0.06 per gallon in the United States) – an amount dwarfed by the taxes already imposed by most European countries.
India’s prohibition of homosexuality dates back to 1861, when the British ruled the subcontinent and imposed Victorian morality upon it.
Knowing since 1974 of India’s nuclear ambitions, I and other American presidents imposed a consistent policy: no sales of nuclear technology or uncontrolled fuel to India or any other country that refused to sign the NPT.
It was advanced countries that imposed tariffs against "unfair" competition from abroad.
A horrific war resulted, in which the US defeated the secessionist southern Confederacy and imposed its vision of the union.
The International Monetary Fund has been a destabilizing factor in East Asia, not so much because of the conditions it imposed on clients, whether good or bad, as by sheltering private financial institutions from the consequences of unwise investments.
Its adoption was an act of economic hubris that has imposed costs well beyond Europe’s borders.
On the contrary, its recovery coincided with the easing of the extreme austerity imposed in 2011-13, which has encouraged households to spend more, despite stagnant wages.
Even so, the economy is smaller than it was before the crisis, the unemployment rate is in double digits, domestic demand remains depressed, and the €64 billion bank-bailout bill unjustly imposed on 2.2 million Irish taxpayers still looms large.
Yes, there were strong trade and investment relationships, but there was always explicit dominance, exemplified in imposed curricula, curfews, and movement restrictions based on skin color.
Burma’s Drug Lord GeneralsThe news blackout imposed by Burma’s military junta on its decision to forego its turn as chair of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) next year shows that it has received a severe blow to its prestige.
Indeed, in August, World Food Program Executive Director James Morris revealed that the WFP had delivered only 430 tons of the 5,500 tons of rice earmarked for vulnerable people in Burma’s northern Arakan State because of restrictions imposed by the regime.
Yet no one is suggesting that unilateral solutions be imposed in these potential flashpoints.
Help for poor countries in Africa and elsewhere to adapt to climate change should not be described as charity or aid, but rather as compensation for damages being imposed on the poorest people on the planet.
The Shahbag protesters reject Islamic extremists’ influence in Bangladesh, and even call for organizations like Jamaat-e-Islami to be banned, while Hifazat-e-Islam and its supporters want the country’s liberal forces repressed, secularist bloggers arrested, and strict Islamism imposed on Bangladeshi society.
And threatening more sanctions in the future raises the question of why those sanctions have not already been imposed.
There are good reasons for China – and other economies – to resist the pressure to conform to a mold imposed on them by US export lobbies.
Ideally – from their point of view – they will bulk up without attracting regulatory scrutiny, i.e., no ex ante limits on their risk-taking activities will be imposed.
Instead, they imposed harsh terms, hoping to weaken Germany permanently.
Against this trivial sacrifice one has to weigh the burden imposed by measures to reduce carbon emissions now and in the near future.
But the new structure that he has imposed on the Commission implies a radical overhaul of how things are done in Brussels.
Constitutional pacifism was part of the postwar order imposed by the United States during occupation and largely supported by the Japanese people, who were tired of war.
Another finding casts doubt on whether austerity actually was imposed on Greece.
Furthermore, China will probably need to ease up on the restrictions it has already imposed if it wants to gain all of the internet's benefits; that is, unless the conservative factions who feel most threatened by the internet consolidate their power in the upcoming leadership succession.
Without the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over rebel-held territory (an act that killed all 298 people aboard), it seems doubtful that the United States and the European Union would ever have agreed on the current program of economic sanctions imposed on Russia.
Conditions perceived to be imposed from abroad will almost certainly fail.
Moreover, the closure of local-government financing platforms, together with the credit ceiling imposed by the central government, has caused local capital spending on investment in infrastructure to drop to a historic low.
It is also a way for China to capitalize on the US trade sanctions imposed against it – exposing liabilities in these sanctions.
Both Russia and Iran, for example, are selling oil to China and accepting payment in renminbi, in response to actual or potential sanctions imposed on them by the US.
This extra-national effort on behalf of the World Cup’s sponsors underscores the threat to newly empowered civil societies from global corporate entities, many of which are increasingly chafing at the constraints imposed on them by strong democracies.
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