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But we believe that a powerful legal
instrument
in the global fight against terrorism would quickly prove indispensable – easily justifying the effort devoted to its creation.
The northerners are angry that Jonathan, a southerner, beat them to the presidency last year, and they see the sect as a useful
instrument
with which to intimidate him into ceding the office in 2015.
“It would appear that, on the level of individual nations and of international relations, the free market is the most efficient
instrument
for utilizing resources and effectively responding to needs.
It is also leading the African effort to host what is widely described as potentially the world’s largest scientific instrument, the Square Kilometer Array (SKA) radio telescope.
If this determination, and Pakistan’s ensuing diplomatic isolation, prompts Pakistani generals to rethink their policy of sponsoring terrorism as an
instrument
of state policy, peace between the neighbors could once again become a possibility.
Another problem with the emphasis on aid (in addition to the near impossibility of accurately measuring the scale of the flows from all sources) is that the political effort to increase it absorbs attention that would be better spent on a more powerful
instrument
of economic development: trade.
Agreements with the CIS ruling elites will become the main
instrument
for implementing "Operation CIS."
But democracy is not the only
instrument
for a transformation that addresses the roots of terrorism.
Third, the problem of global warming is so vast that every
instrument
must be employed.
These two scenarios of the origins of economic nationalism, one irrational and the other not, are not real alternatives, but describe responses that intertwine: the more rational the fear, the more that fear can be used as an
instrument
of politics.
They are an instrument, not a target, of monetary policy.
But, as it turned out, these immortal, antibody-producing cells were useful not only for scientific inquiry, but also as a novel technological
instrument
for a variety of medical and industrial applications.
This is short of a constitutional majority, but still a powerful
instrument
to influence policy.
To limit the size of firms to check the concentration of power is a very blunt
instrument
– one that highlights the failure of other controls in the democratic process aimed at ensuring that strong lobbies do not end up imposing regulation that is not aligned with social welfare.
A final lesson is that monetary policy is a blunt
instrument
for addressing asset-market problems.
The United Nations designated 2005 as the International Year of Microcredit, and when the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank the following year, the Nobel committee declared microcredit “an ever more important
instrument
in the fight against poverty.”
Others, like the Bank of England (BoE), have full
instrument
independence – control over short-term interest rates – but must meet an inflation target set by the government.
But there is nothing to stop negative real interest rates, since routine investors may have no alternative risk-free
instrument
that offers a positive real return.
But legislation is a blunt
instrument
for dealing with history.
The most important
instrument
driving this surge was margin trading, which enabled investors to borrow heavily to purchase shares.
The EU, originally conceived as an
instrument
of solidarity, is today held together by grim necessity.
My goal is to revive the idea of the EU as an
instrument
of solidarity, not only of discipline.
Now calls are growing for the government to surrender the special powers that it acquired during the war and end the control of information as an
instrument
of state policy.
It must now renounce terrorism as an
instrument
of state policy; stop employing groups like Lashkar-e-Taiba as strategic reserves against India; and abandon aspirations of acquiring overweening influence over the government in Kabul.
Before he turns to lying as an
instrument
of statecraft, he should consider the importance of the goal, the availability of alternative means to achieve it, and whether the deception can be contained or is likely to establish a pattern.
If only one party truly represents the people, why should the state not become the
instrument
of the people?
The Eastern Partnership is a typical long-term EU technocratic
instrument.
The ETF was a key innovation that made it possible for investors to hold an
instrument
that effectively tracked the value of a specified portfolio, such as the S&P index, with low trading costs.
In 1907, in the wake of an epochal financial crisis that almost brought a complete global collapse, several countries started to think of finance primarily as an
instrument
of raw power that could and should be turned to national advantage.
But, institutionally, the ICSID has developed less successfully than other members of the World Bank Group – particularly the International Finance Corporation – owing to a deeply rooted organizational culture at the Bank that perceives the ICSID as an
instrument
serving Western companies’ efforts to prevail over developing states.
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