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There is, in fact, little sympathy for the Greek position in other eurozone countries, where similar referendums would undoubtedly show overwhelming public support for the continuation of the austerity policies imposed on Greece.
For this reason, the World Bank imposed stringent conditions on Chad and Cameroon.
It will accentuate the burden imposed on the gradually declining number of people who remain in the labor force and have jobs.
Discipline and restructuring must be imposed on the so called natural monopolies: railways, power utilities and, above all, Gazprom - the country’s largest company, and in which there is overwhelming evidence of theft by managers.
For many years, Italy has disregarded the debt ceilings imposed by the Maastricht Treaty and the Stability and Growth Pact.
Indeed, the US first imposed a punitive tax on corporate profits above prewar levels when it entered the war in April 1917.
Previously, it would have been difficult, if not impossible, for Japan to invest in Russia’s Far East, owing to its participation in Western sanctions against Russia, imposed in response to Russia’s aggression in Ukraine.
How the resulting losses imposed on debt holders will be divided between the various eurozone institutions and the IMF is anyone’s guess.
As the sanctions imposed on Iran outside the Security Council clearly show, effective action can be taken to tilt the balance and end the deadly stalemate in Syria.
Soon a quarantine was imposed to prevent us from misbehaving towards the local people and, above all, to protect us from their wrath.
Similarly, in Canada, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is facing a backlash against a federal carbon tax imposed on the four (of ten) Canadian provinces that rejected his original emissions-reduction policies – and it might cost him his job next year.
The real issue is that the US Congress – like many countries’ legislatures – lives by rules that are very different from those imposed on ordinary citizens.
Rather than just extending insider-trading law to the US Congress (or to other legislatures), citizens should demand that all restrictions and reporting requirements imposed on the private sector apply automatically to elected representatives as well.
High interest rates imposed adjustments that, in Europe, caused years of low growth.
As Hamas knows, the US holds the key to ending the political isolation imposed on it after its victory in 2006.
Observers in the West and the developing world question whether the solutions China is offering are genuine public goods; many suspect that China’s “one belt, one road” initiative, for example, is a self-serving, unilaterally imposed scheme.
A stultifying form of international oversight that offers only fiat or imposed conciliation paralyzes their domestic political development.
In any case, the possibility of unexpected restrictions or sanctions on businesses or individuals, imposed in the name of national security, sharply increases the risks faced by Chinese, American, and other businesses.
In fact, they had discussed the possibility of Trump lifting sanctions that outgoing President Barack Obama had imposed on Russia as punishment for its interference in the election.
An EU that is coming apart at the seams will not be able to maintain the sanctions it imposed on Russia following its incursion into Ukraine.
Big losses for large depositors in Cypriot banks will now be imposed, and the country’s second-largest bank will be shuttered.
Recognizing that an open society is a more advanced, more sophisticated form of social organization than a closed society (because in a closed society there is only one blueprint, which is imposed on society, whereas in an open society each citizen is not only allowed but required to think for himself), the foundations shifted from a subversive task to a constructive one.
Indeed, I believe that it now needs to be redefined to include more than just freedom from officially imposed orthodoxy.
But whereas the damage to the environment on land can be seen, the ravages imposed on the marine environment are hidden.
In his history of the Arab world in the aftermath of World War I, A Peace to End all Peace, David Fromkin suggests that the Middle East today reflects the failure of the European powers to consolidate the political systems that they imposed.
Traditionally, British law imposed two main limitations on the “right to free speech.”
Indeed, when the UN Security Council formally demanded a stop to the enrichment program and imposed mild sanctions last December, Iran’s defiant answer was to increase enrichment activity.
Sooner or later, peace will have to be imposed upon the Israelis and the Palestinians, who have proven to be incapable of reaching a settlement on their own.
In recent weeks European defense ministers suggested that increases in military expenditures should be excluded from the budget constraints imposed by the Euro stability pact.
They identified as austerity plans only those cases in which governments imposed tax hikes or spending cuts because they viewed it as a prudent policy with potential long-term benefits, not because they were responding to the short-term economic outlook and sought to reduce the risk of overheating.
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