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By formally proclaiming a systemic euro crisis – when in fact there was only nervous market reaction concerning a few European countries’ government bonds – they could invoke Article 122 of the Union Treaty, which was intended to help member countries in the event of natural disasters beyond their control.
After all, to call something evil is to invoke a moral duty to destroy it.
Let me invoke the words of Emily Dickenson: "A word is dead when it is said, some say.
If there was still demand for statehood and separation from the internationally recognized state to which they belong, the EU could invoke a code of conduct for secession.
Such arguments often invoke Milton Friedman, who warned in 1998 that Europe’s commitment to the euro would be tested by the first serious economic downturn.
And, indeed, it is that history and those values that Macron attempted to invoke, as he established himself as a defender of liberal democracy and internationalism, with language and vision marked by American-style optimism.
The new law permits an author or publisher who is sued to invoke a “public interest” defense.
That means effectively using double-majority voting, which EU officials have been scared to invoke but could make the EU more efficient and more deeply integrated.
As a result, the willingness of WTO members to invoke the Dispute Settlement Mechanism, the pride of the WTO – and, indeed, of international governance – would also be sapped.
It is also true that we cannot simply invoke a woman’s “right to choose” in order to avoid the ethical issue of the moral status of the fetus.
Trump is no Lincoln, but he did invoke the same spirit in his victory speech.
They invoke specific analogies not so much because they resemble current conditions, but because they are seared into the public’s consciousness.
To repudiate society’s property rights over the returns to capital that we, as users, have created, Big Tech’s defenders invoke users’ large consumer surplus (the sum we would be prepared to pay for access to free services such as Gmail and Google Maps).
Even the army’s new uniforms, which border on the comic with their eighteenth-century epaulets and World War II jackets, invoke the past, rather than provide the comfort and efficiency needed in modern warfare.
It might also try, within the General Assembly, to invoke the rarely used Uniting for Peace resolution (the last time was against South Africa’s apartheid regime).
And they shouldn’t invoke the old saw that Smoot-Hawley caused the Great Depression, because it didn’t.
Indeed, Macri has announced that, in response to human rights violations in Venezuela, he will invoke the so-called “democratic clause” in the statutes of Mercosur, which could lead to Venezuela’s suspension from the regional trading bloc.
In an effort to rally support for the tax bill, Trump recently sought to invoke Ronald Reagan’s tax initiatives of the 1980s.
Beyond that, Americans should try to persuade Vice President Mike Pence that it’s time to invoke Section 4 of the 25th Amendment, which provides for the removal of a president who has been deemed unfit to serve by a majority of his or her cabinet.
One immediate consequence would be to abandon the US attempt to prosecute Saddam Hussein on its own and to invoke an international tribunal.
For starters, Guterres must use the bully pulpit of his office to the fullest extent, in order to invoke the moral rectitude and values of the organization.
Syria’s neighbors are again pouring money and weapons into the country to topple the regime, enabling Assad to invoke the foreign genie plotting to destroy the last revolutionary Arab regime.
When economists don’t know how to explain something, they often invoke the irrationality of markets.
After months of discourse with Hungarian government officials, the EU’s only option now is to invoke Article 7 of the Treaty of Lisbon, which could ultimately remove Hungary’s voting rights within the EU.
The EU should invoke Article 7 as soon as possible, and with the broadest possible majority among member states.
Those who invoke human rights to promote wars or, as with This World, to make political propaganda, degrade the very ideals for which they claim to be fighting.
In a recent ad campaign, private power producers once again threatened to invoke them to secure payment of unpaid bills.
After all, not only moral outrage but calculated self-interest led them on September 12 th to invoke, for the first time, Article V of the NATO Treaty.
They could invoke the Commerce Clause of the Constitution as part of an effort to prevent states from signing climate accords with foreign countries.
According to Smith,“A stranger to human nature, who saw the indifference of men about the misery of their inferiors, and the regret and indignation which they feel for the misfortunes and sufferings of those above them, would be apt to imagine, that pain must be more agonizing, and the convulsions of death more terrible to persons of higher rank, than to those of meaner stations...”We feel this, Smith believes, because we naturally sympathize with others (if he were writing today, he would surely invoke “mirror neurons”).
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