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In order to
limit
the consequences of disagreement, Americans should explain their position and offer alternatives when a proposed international arrangement is deemed undesirable.
Similarly, America’s great suspicion concerning Iran’s role in this regional crisis should not be used to try to
limit
its participation at the conference.
Obama’s endorsement of Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s claim that if Israel is recognized as a Jewish state and its security needs accepted, “I will surprise, and the sky is the limit,” has made the current process possible.
Long frozen suspicions
limit
the ability of both leaders to more fully change course.
We must tackle deficiencies in distribution systems that
limit
access to drugs and diagnostics, driving up costs.
As a result, the “nuclear hostage” relationship of the Cold War continued, capped in 2002 by the Strategic Offensive Reduction Treaty, which set the upper
limit
on warheads at 2,200 by 2012.
It would
limit
each country to 1,550 strategic warheads on 700 deployed delivery vehicles.
Public spending, the region’s historical engine of development, has reached its
limit.
Higher nominal interest rates
limit
the number of qualified homebuyers by increasing the monthly interest payments for any size of mortgage.
This would please America’s trade warriors and national security hawks, who believe that such a decoupling would
limit
the growth of Chinese power.
In addition, the US Congress is about to pass a bill restricting Chinese investments in the US, and plans are being drawn up to
limit
visas for Chinese students who study cutting-edge science and technology at US universities.
Placing an emphasis on automated, computer-based systems for procurement and revenue collection will go a long way to
limit
corruption.
An obvious starting point for a Hamiltonian Europe would be to set some standard
limit
for federalized national debt – perhaps the tarnished threshold of 60% of GDP that was mandated (without adequate enforcement) by the Maastricht convergence criteria, or perhaps a lower
limit.
If America is any indicator, the sky is the
limit
when it comes to potential gains from health IT.
Efforts to
limit
such freedoms therefore must be regarded as a challenge to all democratic governments and to global cooperation – and they must be stopped.
Preparedness requires coordination among agencies and funders to build networks that enable quick deployment of and access to vaccines, drugs, and protocols that
limit
a disease’s transmission.
It is important here to keep in mind that containment, the dominant doctrine of the Cold War era, sought to push back against Soviet and Communist expansion – not just to
limit
the reach of Soviet power, but to frustrate it – in order to create a context in which the inherent flaws of communism and authoritarian rule would come to the fore.
The goal should be to
limit
what they can accomplish in the short term; to get them to change their policies in the medium term; and to set in motion forces that will bring about new and fundamentally different governments and societies in the long term.
The heads of member states’ governments agreed in principle to
limit
future fiscal deficits by seeking constitutional changes in their countries that would ensure balanced budgets.
Specifically, they agreed to cap annual “structural” budget deficits at 0.5% of GDP, with penalties imposed on countries whose total fiscal deficits exceeded 3% of GDP – a
limit
that would include both structural and cyclical deficits, thus effectively limiting cyclical deficits to 3% of GDP.
Jorg Asmussen, a key member of the ECB’s executive board, wrote to the negotiators that countries should be allowed to exceed the 0.5%-of-GDP
limit
for deficitsonly in times of “natural catastrophes and serious emergency situations” outside the control of governments.
We need to address the power dynamics that
limit
access to reproductive health services, even when they are available.
With Trump removing friction-causing regulations and inspiring stock-market confidence, the Bank of Japan may finally be able to
limit
the yen’s appreciation, thereby spurring inflation, employment, and the stock market.
Policies to
limit
the planet-warming effects of agriculture and food production are long overdue.
Many countries continue to
limit
foreign investment and ownership in specific sectors, restrict their pension funds’ foreign-investment positions, and
limit
foreign investors’ access to local stock markets.
But by making ourselves more sensitive to their presence and becoming aware of the distorted incentives to which they give rise, as well as by imposing regulations that
limit
their scope and increasing the amount of required disclosure, we can mitigate their consequences, both in the public and the private sector.
Of course, the risk of tyranny, turmoil, and war within the so-called “post-Soviet space” is large, leaving Ukraine keen to
limit
its vulnerability.
There is strong support on Capitol Hill, from both Democrats and Republicans, for finding some way to
limit
currency manipulation.
As a result, they will
limit
or delay purchases and shift at least some of their consumption to foreign-made products that the tariffs have now made relatively cheaper.
For example, South Korea has agreed to
limit
its steel exports to the US to 70% of 2015-17 levels, raising the question of how such quotas should even be administered.
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