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They have also committed to “intended nationally determined contributions” (INDCs) to
limit
or reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by 2030.
In order to
limit
the risk, it is essential to keep relations with China as transparent as possible.
After the armistice that ended the Korean War in 1953, the 38th parallel was established as the
limit
for US forces’ presence; the importance of that war for China should not be forgotten.
What we need are traffic rules for the global economy that help vehicles of varying size, shape, and speed navigate around each other, rather than imposing an identical car or a uniform speed
limit.
Immediately, the bombings began to be cited by some leaders as a call to
limit
constitutional rights.
In Praise of Debt CeilingsMUNICH – The wrangling about raising the US government’s borrowing
limit
– now thankfully over, at least for a few months – underscores the hazards posed by excessive state indebtedness.
Despite such problems, effective measures were implemented to evacuate those at risk and
limit
the potential hazard from consumption of contaminated foodstuffs.
Consolidation of Russian strategic power would
limit
the scope of China's sway.
The report does recognize the legitimacy of the objective of protecting the family, however, and makes use of it to
limit
the scope of its recommendation to sexual relations between adult siblings.
And Europe does need to develop structures and decision-making processes that
limit
conflicts of interest by offering compromise solutions.
But the much-needed structural reforms to
limit
leverage and contain the risks that the financial system periodically imposes on the real economy – and the public purse – have only belatedly gotten off the to-do list, and the prospects of enacting them are difficult to estimate.
And, at the end of these implausible twists and turns, at the moment of truth in a drama that has stretched to a new
limit
the “willing suspension of disbelief” that Coleridge believed “constitutes poetic faith,” a young man, practically unknown a year ago, accedes to the presidency of France.
Still, there is a clear
limit
to what individual countries can achieve on their own.
While a lower corporate tax rate may have been a good idea, the revenue loss should be offset by measures that
limit
interest deductions and other loopholes.
But the biggest change in Earth’s energy budget by far over the past hundred years is due to the accumulation in our atmosphere of greenhouse gases, which
limit
the exit of heat into space.
With swift and decisive action, we can still
limit
global warming to a total of 2º Celsius or a bit less.
And even though disfigurement and social stigma are not lethal conditions, they can cause or exacerbate psychological disorders and
limit
the opportunities women and girls have.
Until now, nuclear-weapon states’ national governments and bureaucracies have preferred to
limit
the disarmament debate to symbolic measures that imply no deadlines or additional legally binding obligations.
To
limit
the size of firms to check the concentration of power is a very blunt instrument – one that highlights the failure of other controls in the democratic process aimed at ensuring that strong lobbies do not end up imposing regulation that is not aligned with social welfare.
The slowdown in some economies could lead to even tighter financial conditions in equity, bond, and credit markets, which could further
limit
growth.
But one of the most important reasons is as grim as it is simple: European voters are increasingly opposed to immigration, and do not trust the left to
limit
it.
Efforts to
limit
or manage migration are not necessarily based on racism or xenophobia.
Infrastructure investment will inevitably run up against the law of diminishing marginal returns, but consumption growth does not have a
limit.
Sepp Blatter, the president of FIFA, soccer’s global governing body, has been pushing a plan to
limit
to five the number of foreign players that club teams would be allowed to have on the field.
The law would permit marital rape,
limit
women’s movements – say, for work or study – without male permission, and even make it illegal for a woman to refuse to dress as her husband wishes.
First, allow their exchange rates to be flexible, and keep a tight
limit
on short-term borrowing from abroad.
OMF is a policy designed to enable a larger fiscal deficit while avoiding the crowding out, Ricardian equivalence, or long-term debt-sustainability constraints and offsets that can
limit
the effectiveness or desirability of debt-funded fiscal stimulus.
In 2000, growing political pressure finally led to a consensus between the German government and energy companies, which agreed to
limit
the life span of nuclear-power plants to 32 years.
Joining the customs union would
limit
Ukraine’s ability to negotiate its own trade agreements.
Critics of the Stern Review don’t think serious action to
limit
CO2 emissions is justified, because there remains substantial uncertainty about the extent of the costs of global climate change, and because these costs will be incurred far in the future.
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