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Many of these states were pleading for a 1.5ºC
limit
– without which some will disappear beneath the ocean.
They constitute a small but well organized group that wields immense lobbying power to block efforts to
limit
CO2 emissions by putting a price on them, as the planned US cap-and-trade system would have done.
The Chinese economy’s current slowdown is the result of external and cyclical factors, not some natural
limit.
And we are far behind the curve: Because we have been so slow to respond to climate change, achieving the targeted
limit
of a two-degree (centigrade) rise in global temperature, will require sharp reductions in emissions in the future.
This can be done by changing the world’s energy system to
limit
emissions of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere – the main driver of manmade climate change.
The tax cut will put France's fiscal deficit over the 3%
limit
three years in a row--at an estimated 4.5% of GDP for 2004--because it will not be financed by offsetting cuts in public expenditure.
But, given France’s size, the party finally decided that it was preferable to
limit
itself to one national vote, but in two stages, which took place on October 9 and 16.
The number of permissible deployed warheads, 1,550, is 74% lower than the
limit
of the 1991 START Treaty and 30% below the cap set by the 2002 Moscow Treaty.
The
limit
for strategic nuclear-delivery vehicles is less than half that of the original START Treaty.
Britain, the erstwhile champion of labor mobility, has now become wary of foreign workers and wants to
limit
their access to social benefits.
The Chechen war both masks and motivates the reestablishment of centralized power in Russia – bringing the media back under state control, passing laws against NGO’s, and reinforcing the “vertical line of power” – leaving no institutions and authorities able to challenge or
limit
the Kremlin.
If the central bank is serious about floating, it will hike local interest rates to
limit
price increases, causing a painful recession.
This will render meaningless EU-wide debt-management agreements, including the Stability and Growth Pact, which limits the overall deficit to 3% of GDP, and the 2012 “fiscal compact,” which stipulates that countries whose debt-to-GDP ratios exceed the 60%
limit
should reduce them by one-twentieth annually until they are in compliance.
It also takes substantial steps to
limit
subsidies for fishing fleets – which in many countries waste taxpayer money and accelerate the depletion of marine life.
Syria’s stance might limit, rather than extend, the reach of Iran’s strategy of regional destabilization.
A good start was made with the US-Russia New START treaty to
limit
significantly strategic-weapon deployments, the largely successful Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference, and the productive, US-hosted Nuclear Security Summit.
Influential voices in China are quick to draw the lesson from international experience that tackling corporate debt can
limit
short-term growth and impose social costs, such as unemployment.
For example, we had no financial crises when central banks instructed commercial banks to
limit
their lending to particular economic sectors that they believed were overheating, such as real estate or consumer loans.
Another set of lessons from the first Iraq war (and the second as well) suggests a
limit
to what can be expected from economic sanctions.
Instead, the US would be wiser to
limit
itself to a narrower counterterrorism mission, one akin to what is being done in Somalia and Yemen (and, to some extent, in Pakistan).
Fiscal conservatives prefer a balanced budget to international aid, and the far-right Freedom Caucus wants to
limit
the scope of government every way it can.
Indeed, policies traditionally considered “business friendly,” such as tax credits and lower tax rates, can be bad for business in the long run if they
limit
governments’ future ability to invest in areas that increase innovation-led growth.
To
limit
that increase, the euro must rise.
This requires, first of all, cozying up with China and the autocratic Gulf states – the main lenders to the US Treasury – as well working with Iran and Russia to
limit
the costs of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
But there is a
limit
to how much pressure can be put on the Congressional Budget Office, which is responsible for providing credible assessments of the fiscal impact of new policies.
But their incentive to
limit
inflation may not be particularly strong.
Worse, the recovery is likely to be anemic and sub-par – well below potential for a couple of years, if not longer – as the burden of debts and leverage of the private sector combine with rising public sector debts to
limit
the ability of households, financial firms, and corporations to lend, borrow, spend, consume, and invest.
By itself, the agreement is far from enough to
limit
the increase in global warming to the target of 2º Celsius above the pre-industrial level.
In a Congressional election year, another destabilizing showdown over the federal debt
limit
is unlikely.
The Growth and Stability Pact (which mandates a 3% of GDP
limit
on the size of the budget deficits of euro-zone members) is another contentious issue that awaits resolution.
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