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Given that everything that happens is somehow a consequence of decision-making, the distinction between killing someone and letting her die is unconvincing.
Still, letting the status quo continue is equally problematic.
Letting them in might produce a better team, but it would no longer be our team.
Instead of taking a cautious approach, and letting the demonstrators in Iran, Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Bahrain, Yemen, and other places do the shouting, they want him to talk tough, or, better yet, to send in the US Air Force and blast Qaddafi’s jet fighters and helicopter gunships out of the sky.
More and more people believe that they are doing their children a favor by letting themselves be buried anonymously "under the green grass" to spare them the costs of the funeral and the upkeep of the grave.
Such a tax is consistent with international law, including the “polluter pays” principle, and would provide a new and predictable source of finance – amounting to billions of dollars – for the communities that need it most, without letting governments off the hook for providing public sources of finance.
Standard economic theory suggests that you can affect it by taxing some transactions – such as, say, greenhouse-gas emissions – or giving money to certain groups of people, while letting the market do its thing.
And the world, it seems, is letting them get away with it.
What possessed Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin “Bibi" Netanyahu to accept an invitation from the Republicans in the US Congress to come and attack President Barack Obama's policy on Iran without letting the White House know?
But, instead of letting that debate rage while the planet heats up, policymakers should embrace one of the cheapest ways of cutting the air pollution that lies at the root of the problem: making buildings more efficient.
While Chinese officials have announced their intention of letting the exchange rate move, only time will tell whether their talk is accompanied by deeds.
Thus far, the Obama administration has followed the opposite strategy, letting rip with new spending, while hoping that concern over deficits and debt will lead to pressure for higher taxes, possibly even a European-style value-added tax.
It is not enough for the Europeans to act while the Americans continue to look on as the diplomatic initiatives unfold, partaking in discussion only behind the scenes and ultimately letting the Europeans do what they will.
The Fed is already allowing some tightening simply by not playing along, and letting the US dollar appreciate.
But we should be able to make that choice, letting doctors know if we would prefer to be well informed or minimally informed.
This is why the advice German leaders receive from White House advisers and even from some German economists – that Germany would be better off abandoning the euro and letting its currency appreciate – makes little sense.
Unfortunately, the world economy is still contending with that blindness in the aftermath of a financial crisis that resulted, in no small part, from letting financial markets run too free.
I once witnessed a group of highly respectable Singaporeans letting go of themselves in an evangelical church service.
The limitations of the current financing regime mean that countries are letting opportunity pass them by.
From companies exploiting weak enforcement of rules to countries hiding behind short-term definitions of national interests to consumers letting supermarkets get away with unsustainable purchasing, we need a renewed debate on the future of our oceans and the life that they support.
With the exception of a small number of ideologically committed defenders of free enterprise, few were willing to take the risks inherent in letting major banks collapse.
Letting AIG fail might have hurt some systemically important institutions, but dealing with that would have been better than to gamble upwards of $150 billion and hope that some of it might stick where it is important.
If so, what was their purpose in letting him use so conspicuous a hiding place practically next door to a prominent military installation?
Some commentators suggest that letting plurilateral agreements become the norm for trade liberalization is not a problem as long as their benefits are extended to all WTO members.
As happened recently with one antibiotic, CEOs will say that they are serving shareholders by letting prices rise to whatever the market will bear and abusing intellectual-property rights to extract monopoly rents.
Like the Nixon/Connolly team, the Bush administration is responding to America's massive budget and trade deficits by letting the dollar fall--and hard --while it also tries to distract attention from its responsibility by pointing an accusing finger at China as the cause for both US joblessness and deflationary pressures.
Although their distribution is not very wide, they are shining in the darkness like daggers, letting their comrades know who is attacking the old, strong castles.”
But it has also demonstrated that press freedom means much more than letting journalists say what they want, when they want, and how they want.
Second, we should consider how much death and suffering would be avoided by letting such a ruler and his henchmen go free.
As Prime Minister, Mr Barak will have a difficult agenda before him: going back to the Oslo agreements, which signify the historical compromise between Israel and the PLO; negotiating a territorial agreement with the Palestinians which will have to balance between their legitimate rights and Israel's security concerns; not letting extremist terrorism derail a peace process which is supported by a large majority of both peoples; finding a mutually acceptable formula for the difficult problem of Jerusalem.
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