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Given the key role that provincial excesses played in the crisis from which the country just escaped (a role similar to the one they played in the worst financial panic of the nineteenth century, the Baring Crisis of 1890), none of this should be taken
lightly.
In any case, Maduro has not taken Obama’s affront
lightly.
It is better to tax firms
lightly
and keep them in your jurisdiction than it is to forego that revenue entirely.
Qatar must also tread
lightly
with Iran, given their shared ownership of the world’s largest natural gas field, South Pars in the Persian Gulf.
Yet with exports still close to a record 45% of pan-regional GDP, Asia can hardly afford to take external shocks
lightly
– especially if they hit an already weakened baseline growth trajectory in the post-crisis developed world.
Keep an eye out for the many ways states will re-orient their tax regimes away from income taxes, and toward property and sales taxes, including on services, which account for more than 70% of economic activity but have traditionally been taxed
lightly
at the state and local level.
But Ukrainians know well the complexity of the history and the need to tread
lightly
on Russian sensitivities.
Lightly
populated Australia offered more than twice America’s assistance, Japan promised almost 50% more, and Europe pledged more than five times as much.
By threatening Europe with a move to a low-tax,
lightly
regulated economy, which is the very antithesis of that cause.
The biological answer is simple: a member of the species Homo sapiens that is characterized by such features as a relatively large brain set in a globular braincase, small brow ridges over the eyes, a small retracted face, a chin on the lower jaw, and a
lightly
built skeleton.
Owing to the former, the risks to Asia from a European banking crisis cannot be taken
lightly.
Conversely, already-rich and
lightly
populated countries – such as the US, Australia, and Chile – are blessed with enough space to build low-carbon energy systems at very low cost and with trivial consequences for agricultural land availability or landscape aesthetics.
During the past two decades, North Korea’s leaders have experimented
lightly
with minimal “reform,” only to retreat from it quickly.
While turmoil in Chinese equity and currency markets should not be taken lightly, the country continues to make encouraging headway on structural adjustments in its real economy.
These missteps should not be taken
lightly
– especially in light of China’s high-profile commitment to market-based reforms.
Tearing up the social contract is something that should not be done
lightly.
The other school of thought does not take this scenario
lightly.
But they must tread lightly, lest they be drawn into a shooting war, which would catalyze new alliances among local and foreign militants.
And, as a rising power, China is not a force that leaders, even democratic ones, dismiss
lightly.
As the only economy in Asia with a current-account deficit, its external funding problems can hardly be taken
lightly.
Nevertheless, the doctrine that it is acceptable to take actions that will foreseeably kill innocent people can have the effect of leading us to treat more
lightly
than we should the deaths of those killed.
Many societies treat crimes involving cruelty to animals far too lightly, but Vick’s penalty – 23 months in prison – was substantial.
Such a threat should not be taken
lightly.
Their claim to represent the people, whose votes they have sought and won, cannot be
lightly
disregarded in favor of those who have not earned the right to represent the people through a democratic election.
One does not play
lightly
with matches next to a pile of dry wood.
All three sources of default risk are now salient, and, lacking credible guarantees, the CLO market (like many others) is vulnerable to runs, because the main players are
lightly
regulated shadow banking institutions.
As in Ireland, the most vulnerable were being asked to take the hit, while large depositors were let off
lightly
and other lenders were to be spared.
A company pays less when it deploys a machine, because capital income is taxed much more lightly, and the government implicitly subsidizes capital investments through accelerated depreciation allowances, further tipping the scale against workers.
That is not a conclusion we arrive at
lightly.
When The Daily Beast was about to report on allegations by Trump’s first wife, Ivana, that her husband had raped her, Cohen barked at the journalist working on the story: “So I’m warning you, tread very fucking lightly, because what I’m going to do to you is going to be fucking disgusting.
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