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Quite a few in Europe define the EU as an instrument for holding their own against the United States.
Law, of course, did exist but it did not serve to protect people from the arbitrary authority of government: instead, it was an instrument of administration.
In promoting and pursuing terrorism as an instrument of state policy, Pakistan seems intent on never regaining that trust, without which peace, unseen in South Asia since the partition of British India in 1947, is impossible.
The interrogation of the one surviving terrorist, and evidence from satellite telephone intercepts and other intelligence, has led to an emerging international consensus that the attacks were masterminded by the Wahhabi-inspired Lashkar-e-Taiba, a terrorist group once patronized, protected and trained by Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) as a useful instrument in their country’s proxy war against India in Kashmir.
In a representative democracy, elections are the ultimate instrument for holding politicians accountable.
Unfortunately, this instrument is unavailable at the EU level, or at least it is seriously deficient.
In the eurozone’s case, the risk is compounded by the ineffectiveness of its key macroprudential instrument, the Stability and Growth Pact, in limiting countries’ spending, as lower interest rates give debtor countries leeway to spend more.
Moreover, while exchange-rate policy is not an instrument for dealing with China’s domestic inflation, renminbi appreciation would certainly help the government meet its goal of keeping the annual rate below 4% in 2011.
Another route Trump could take would be to use the IMF as a proxy instrument to enforce discipline on countries with undervalued exchange rates.
Somewhat more controversial is the question of whether aid to development is an important counter-terrorist instrument.
With a strong new Colombian commissioner and 200 security officers and 200 prosecutors, all of them foreigners, together with sufficient resources and the support of the US embassy, CICIG has become a powerful instrument in the fight against one of Guatemala’s worst blights.
Whatever one thinks of laws against spreading hatred or insulting people, the law remains a blunt instrument when it came to matters of speech.
Taxes are a society's most important instrument for enacting its overall conception of justice.
Under Macron, new, hopeful ideas were proposed: a common budget for the eurozone; a new safe debt instrument and quasi-federal tax-raising capacities; a common unemployment insurance fund; common bank deposit insurance and a common pot from which to recapitalize failing banks (thus providing the missing foundation of a real banking union).
Last but not least, a common debt instrument to underpin a eurozone budget amounting to 2-3% of eurozone aggregate income – the main prerequisite for a macroeconomically significant fiscal union – was unceremoniously consigned to the dustbin.
With his colleague Mark Gertler of NYU, he argued that while monetary policy was far too blunt an instrument to prevent asset-bubbles, the Fed’s tools were far more effective in cleaning up the mess after they burst.
The notion of integrating asset-price concerns into inflation targeting remains a source of significant controversy, with opponents citing the Tinbergen Principle: if policymakers have one instrument, the interest rate, they can pursue only one objective, price stability.
Trade serves at best as an instrument for achieving goals societies seek: prosperity, stability, freedom, an improving quality of life.
While much of Washington and its press corps were discussing the latest revelations, the Department of Justice, which is supposed to be somewhat independent of the White House, was being turned into a partisan instrument for pursuing the president’s grudges.
Yet, as business people throughout the former socialist world know, the state (the political process) can itself be an instrument of predation -- an instrument of private enrichment through politically orchestrated transfers of resources.
As was the case for the Bank of Japan, the external value of the currency will become an important instrument in the framework of a new strategic approach.
Common funding, with all members paying a share according to their GDP, is one instrument that can be used to achieve more equitable burden-sharing.
The SPD will recoil at the prospect, sit on the fence, and finally give in, because Merkel has a powerful disciplinary instrument: she could call a new election, in which the CDU would probably win an outright majority.
Had more attention been given to the country’s most glaring inequalities in access to water, shelter, or jobs, this population might not have chosen violence as an instrument of change.
But elections are a democratic instrument only if all parties accept their results.
We can now see the utility of a more flexible toolkit to respond to excessive credit expansion, or asset-price bubbles, where the manipulation of short-term interest rates can be a blunt instrument or, worse, a double-edged sword.
The perception that the WTO is largely an instrument of the powerful, industrialized nations is broadly correct.
To treat a vote as an instrument of profit would be to degrade it, to corrupt its meaning as an expression of civic duty.
That shutdown was a harsh reminder that gas is now the Kremlin’s primary political instrument as it seeks to re-establish its privileged sphere of interest in what it thinks of as Russia’s “near-abroad.”
They thus provide an important instrument for hedging price risks in commodity markets.
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