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The new resolution’s instructions are straightforward: “States participating in the conference” should “make their best endeavors to conclude as soon as possible a legally binding instrument to prohibit nuclear weapons, leading towards their total elimination.”
Second, the US regards trade primarily as an instrument of political sovereignty, whereas European countries since the end of World War II have viewed it as a tool for delivering prosperity and limiting conflict.
Or can the “neighborhood policy” become an instrument for supporting development and stabilization, much as the Marshall Plan once was for Western Europe?
If the IMF had to live up to private-sector standards, it would create a new instrument that would meet members’ potential demand for short-term liquidity.
The Fund has no instrument to provide short-term liquidity to emerging markets facing capital volatility.
Yet, in a globalized age, which demands transparency and posits interdependence, repentance can be considered an instrument of good governance.
In a recent letter to the House Energy and Commerce Committee, she wrote, “We believe this approach could be a blunt and imprecise instrument of fear, rather than one of persuasion, that will take us down a dangerous path and adversely impact US manufacturers, farmers, and consumers.”
QE is a special instrument used when a central bank’s short- and medium-term policy rates are already at zero and it wants to lower long-term interest rates.
The ECB will object, not without reason, that monetary policy is a blunt instrument with which to rebalance the European economy.
President Barack Obama has endorsed this treaty as a vital instrument to discourage proliferation and avert nuclear war.
In international relations, energy was used as an instrument for “divide and rule,” “carrot and stick,” and “blackmail or bluff” policies.
But such a guarantee is a mirage anyway, whereas respect for basic freedoms and due process when repressing terrorism is a powerful instrument to isolate extremists and diminish their legitimacy in the eyes of those that might identify with their cause.
The UN can be a much more effective instrument if its member states in the General Assembly and the Security Council are better organized and give clearer directives to us in the Secretariat – along with the flexibility to carry them out – and then hold us clearly accountable.
There is simply a promise “to launch a process to develop a protocol, another legal instrument, or an agreed outcome with legal force.”
Ever since Deng Xiaoping ushered in the “reform and opening” era in 1978, the Chinese leadership has seen the legal system as an instrument to carry out state policies.
They should publicly laud the President's statesmanship for having given the world the most effective instrument against the spread of weapons of mass-destruction, as well as for curbing Iraqi influence in the Middle East and weakening Saddam's regime.
And is monetary policy a sufficiently subtle instrument to address the resulting risks?
Finally, there is the question of whether monetary policy is the right instrument to use in response to the risks arising from financial instability and, if so, how aggressively to use it.
One of the central dilemmas of the European Union’s institutional structure is that a comprehensive vote of censure is the only instrument allowed under the Treaty by which the European Parliament can sanction the Commission.
If the G-20 is to be effective as a development instrument, it should begin to tackle the single most important financial flow that Africa and other low-income regions will attract in this new decade.
In those years when we, as so-called dissidents, resisted totalitarian rule, we all probably agreed that one objective was dissolution of the Warsaw Pact, that instrument of Soviet imperial power.
Incorporating the new democracies would make NATO a Pan-European instrument of collective defense.
The recent emergence of a United States-India partnership appears to have convinced China’s rulers that India has become an instrument for the “containment” of China.
If adopted, this instrument can make a real difference in the lives of those who are often left to languish at the margins of society, and are denied their economic, social, and cultural rights, such as access to adequate nutrition, health services, housing, and education.
Against this background, it was impossible to agree on a single, comprehensive human rights instrument giving holistic effect to the Declaration’s principles.
When the leadership is charismatic and strong, the party is a servile instrument.
These days, however, he has a twenty-first-century instrument in his pocket; incoming calls in India are free under most calling plans, so it costs him nothing to find out where his services are needed.
But RMB appreciation is not the preferred instrument for achieving this goal.
To its protagonists, however, it is a product of today’s ongoing global power shifts, and has the potential to evolve into a major instrument in shaping the architecture of global governance – the midwife of a new international order.
Call it Marshall McLuhan-inspired governance: the medium (or instrument) is the message.
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