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Either the South Korean government or the US Customs Service will have to monitor and
limit
each of the 59 categories of steel.
Jordan has also ratcheted up its attempts to
limit
free expression, with a June 2015 amendment to its cyber-crime law allowing the attorney-general to detain, without a court order, anyone deemed to have used the Internet for defamation.
Last month, US President Barack Obama extended the maritime boundary of the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument from 50 miles to the 200-mile limit, effectively merging the region’s national parks into one massive protected area, in which commercial fishing is prohibited.
But surely the place to start is to
limit
treatment that is burdensome and expensive, that has a miniscule chance of success, and that is proposed for people at the very end of life.
To
limit
warming to 1.5ºC, the world’s energy system must be decarbonized by mid-century.
Facing greater challenges in delivering desired outcomes, they have essentially pushed both policies and their brand power to the
limit.
They argue that the NTC should
limit
itself to serving as a caretaker government, implementing only the most essential decisions until elected officials take office.
Furthermore, at the request of the world’s most vulnerable countries, language was added promising “to pursue efforts to
limit
the temperature increase to 1.5º.”
Currently, the sanctions only
limit
Sberbank’s access to European capital markets.
When America had such a ban, from September 1994-September 2004, it helped to
limit
mass shootings; yet Congress failed to renew the ban, owing to intense lobbying from gun enthusiasts.
But an ECB program to
limit
interest-rate differentials would eliminate this important signal.
For all of these reasons, the ECB’s direct purchase of high-yield sovereign bonds to
limit
their interest rates would be a mistake.
The US was regarded as increasingly dependent on energy imports, and this, together with rising prices, was seen as a major
limit
on American geopolitical influence.
Moi was allowed to run again, as long as he honored the constitutional two-term
limit.
The closure of the United States Agency for International Development’s operations in Russia, and of Radio Svoboda, are emblematic of efforts to restrict freedom of opinion and
limit
foreign cooperation.
The Soviet Union had repressed or destroyed every vestige of civil society – professional associations, religious groups, charitable societies, the independent media – the types of social organizations that would normally help to
limit
widespread government corruption.
Safety concerns and cost also
limit
intervention by international conservation organizations.
First, Putin would seek to position himself as president for life, by holding a referendum to eliminate the constitutional
limit
of two consecutive presidential terms.
In fact, the world’s per capita emissions were 4,700 kilograms, or more than double the permissible
limit.
But, while emissions in the rich nations were far above the permissible limit, Sri Lankan emissions were, at 660 kilograms, well below it.
North Korean invective and provocation against the South continued, and in November its military shelled a South Korean-held island along the northern
limit
line, which has served as the North-South border since the 1953 armistice.
Instability in the Middle East will continue to
limit
oil supplies, discouraging the expansion of production.
The good news is that the constraints that Bush and the American government will face in the next four years will almost surely
limit
the damage they will cause.
Does the market control the state, in the sense that it sets a
limit
on governments’ ability to borrow?
Not only is the Pact's fixed 3%
limit
for the ratio of budget deficit to GDP arbitrary, but it also ignores the fact that when an economy slows, deficits increase automatically.
But it remains unclear exactly how they fit into the overall fiscal framework; indeed, the complexity of EU rules may
limit
the councils’ capacity to fulfill their function.
In a globally inter-connected world, however, a new politics has developed, in which both the left and right fringes fear that outside competition or influences will
limit
their ability to shape political choices.
For states to voluntarily
limit
themselves is unique in human history.
Reformers want to cap bankers’ bonuses, create firewalls between banking departments, or (more radically)
limit
a single bank’s share of total banking assets.
That’s why I and others who think about shrinking the deficit focus on changing tax rules to
limit
the special features known as “tax expenditures,” which represent government spending built into the tax code.
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