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More troubling is the fact that anyone with legal problems due to ties to either Fujimori or Toledo can find a newspaper, television, or radio outlet from which to make accusations.
The last legal restrictions on taking interest on money were lifted only in the nineteenth century, when they succumbed to the economic argument that lending money was a service, for which the lender was entitled to charge whatever the market would bear.
Considering the legal hurdles that continuously plague applications like Uber or Airbnb, this level of support is sorely needed.
Instead of large-scale privatization, it might be better to limit state aid and give competitors legal recourse to seek redress if state aid distorts competition.
When the five years of legal residence are completed, an immigrant automatically gains the inalienable right to permanent residence.
After Manafort and his minions helped Yanukovych defeat former Prime Minister Yuliya Tymoshenko in the 2010 presidential election, Yanukovych had her imprisoned on trumped-up charges, with help from a legal brief prepared – at Manafort’s bidding – by the prominent American law firm Skadden Arps.
In addition, Indonesian Islam had strong Sufi influences, which emphasize the spiritual rather than the legal elements of the faith.
In the US, the Tea Party has made a return to the gold standard a part of its platform, and Utah is debating making gold and silver coins legal tender.
This wholesale rejection of communism remained a core component of Greece’s official ideology until the collapse of the country’s military dictatorship in 1974, when communist organizations again became legal.
Moreover, the Trump administration has expanded the “Mexico City Policy,” also known as the “global gag rule,” which forbids organizations that receive US funding from providing information or referrals for abortion, even in countries where abortion is legal.
Moreover, increasing legal roadblocks to scientific progress are stifling inventiveness everywhere.
One institution that blunts the dynamism of Silicon Valley and the high tech companies is the legal system.
Legal roadblocks are spreading to other countries, but they are not alone in inhibiting science.
In the face of legal impediments, contempt, and indifference, what will science do in the 21st century?
Cutting down legal impediments and changing attitudes won’t happen overnight.
On the home front, attempts by Likud and its right-wing allies to tamper with the legal system, the press, and other institutions identified with the “old elite” are likely to gain momentum.
Foreign investment is already at its nadir, due to the lingering political crisis following the fall of the Suharto dictatorship, and to doubts about the soundness of the country's institutional and legal capacity.
In order to prevent this, and to create a liberal legal framework fit for a modern democratic country, homosexuality and adultery must be decriminalized, and sedition must be approached from a far more liberal perspective.
At a stroke, Citi executives demonstrated both their continued political clout in Washington and their continued desire to take on excessive amounts of financial risk (which is what this particular legal change permits).
Doing so would allow the eurozone to establish the institutional and legal means to achieve greater cooperation and integration, as agreed at the European Council’s meeting in June.
Legal frameworks for business may be lacking, or bureaucracy may be excessive.
Often, policymakers eliminated legal bottlenecks or created new institutional mechanisms to facilitate investment.
Part of the reason for this may be that economic reform must now move from the macro level to the micro level, from trade and monetary policy to the web of legal and financial impediments entangling small business.
We did so by launching a “Declaration on Principles of Equality” – a declaration that builds on its historical precursor to establish, for the first time ever, general legal principles that define equality as a basic human right.
Some participants from the developing countries wanted poverty to be declared a proscribed basis of discrimination, while others argued that poverty is far too vague a concept to be the subject of legal rights and duties.
These participants argued that specific legal duties, such as the right to a minimum wage and the right to vocational training, are more effective than the vague extension of anti-discrimination law to cover poverty as such.
In other words, it exists as a separate right, and is not dependent on the violation of some other legal right, such as the right to education.
It follows, then, that the right to equality could be violated even where another legal right – to, say, housing or employment – does not exist.
Legal responsibility should not be much harder to disentangle.
In strictly legal terms, there is nothing wrong, since India never signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
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