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Such regimes would
limit
poor countries’ access to the knowledge that they need for their development – and would deny life-saving generic drugs to the hundreds of millions of people who cannot afford the drug companies’ monopoly prices.
And once in office, he pushed through an EU-level reform to
limit
the duration of posted workers, many of whom are in France, and most of whom come from Poland.
Populist leaders are thus obliged to
limit
their opponents’ rights.
With no limit, profligate countries could go on a spending spree at the expense of thriftier ones.
But arguments about whether the
limit
should be 60% of GDP or more miss a larger point.
So the question is not what to do when debt gets near its limit, however high or low.
It is how to prevent debt from getting near that
limit
in the first place, except in very extreme and unusual circumstances.
Rapid economic expansion implies that supplies of energy and raw materials will increasingly
limit
potential growth.
Most reforms that would guard against macroeconomic risk would also
limit
the ability of finance to persuade people to commit to long-term risky investments, and hence further lower the supply of finance willing to assume such undertakings.
It is now engaged in a campaign against the indefinite expansion of the money supply, and it has started taking measures to
limit
the losses that it would sustain in case of a breakup.
More such disasters, they suggested, are inescapable unless world leaders in Paris take decisive action to
limit
global climate change.
The rich, confident of popular legitimacy, can then use the independence that accompanies wealth to
limit
arbitrary government and protect democracy.
The elder Bhutto disregarded some of the provisions in the constitution that sought to
limit
his power.
Zardari, however, was not prepared to
limit
his own powers.
The government in Paris, which should have known better, was taken utterly by surprise by the intensity of international hostility to its nuclear objectives, and, as governments do in such situations, has tried to
limit
the damage.
And yet recent research by the World Bank Group documented discrepancies between treatment of women and men in 102 of 141 countries surveyed – policies and practices that severely
limit
women’s economic opportunities.
And yet it is also clear that both administrative and political problems – not least a populist backlash against the new arrivals –
limit
the EU’s capacity to absorb large numbers of migrants in a short period of time.
For example, when China revised its labor law in 2008, Apple, Hewlett-Packard, and other members of the US-China Business Council lobbied successfully to
limit
the expansion of Chinese workers’ rights.
The American decision to
limit
the first intake of new members to three can be read as a pre-emptive move to
limit
the effects of the Senate’s burden-sharing debate.
Three or four billion people are still offline, and the Internet’s economic value for many who are connected is compromised by trade barriers, censorship, laws requiring local storage of data, and other rules that
limit
the free flow of goods, services, and ideas.
Participants from all over the world, including 38 heads of state and government, came together to create a plan for implementing the 2015 Paris climate agreement, which aims to
limit
global warming to well below two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
Global leaders seemed to recognize this when they agreed five years ago to
limit
global warming during this century to 2º Celsius above pre-industrial levels – the threshold beyond which we risk triggering more devastating consequences of climate change.
Decarbonization has already begun, and the appeal of a fossil-fuel-free world is growing – not only because it would
limit
climate change, but also because it would be more technologically advanced, democratic, resilient, healthy, and economically dynamic.
This dangerous idea – proposed in France by Jacques Rueff in 1958, adopted throughout Europe over the following two decades, and extended to the European Central Bank – was intended to
limit
the tendency of capitalist economies to aggravate inflation as soon as they hit full employment.
Nitrogen dioxide levels in some parts of London regularly reach 2-3 times the recommended
limit.
With European politicians arguing that introducing environmental safeguards will hurt the EU’s already-weakened economy, it comes as little surprise that measures to
limit
air pollution fall far short of the mark.
A couple of weeks later, the Bank of England announced the introduction of a form of credit guidance to
limit
the amount of credit being used for property-asset transactions.
By requiring their diplomats to
limit
their contacts with “alternative” sources of information in a country, in order to avoid antagonizing despotic regimes, governments irremediably
limit
diplomats’ ability to see change coming, even when it is so close that nothing can be done.
Of course, we must
limit
the scope of competition: there is no reason, for example, to extend it to taxation.
Elites must give up their privileges, and regulations on corporate governance must
limit
collusion between managers and civil servants or politicians.
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