Limit
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India, Nepal, Thailand, and Mexico have introduced measures that would
limit
or ban foreigners from hiring locals as surrogate mothers.
There are some historical precedents for this, such as when Japan, in the 1980s, “voluntarily” agreed to
limit
the number of cars it sold in the US.
For nomadic societies, there was no point in owning anything that one could not carry, but once humans settled down and developed a system of money, that
limit
to acquisition disappeared.
Was he not a hard-core member of the “Greenspan consensus,” which held that it was not the Fed’s responsibility to look out for bubbles, whether of asset prices or credit, and that it should
limit
itself to mopping up after the event?
Computerizing tax administration, for example, could help to
limit
corruption by making it more difficult to tamper with records.
It would be a mistake, for example, to
limit
Canada’s lumber exports to the US on the grounds that the Canadian government subsidizes them.
Now, with the US military at its
limit
in Iraq and Afghanistan and the US fiscal position weakening, America is confronted with stark choices.
According to the government, substantial tax increases will bring the fiscal deficit below the 3%-of-GDP
limit
set by the Stability and Growth Pact – a target missed for five consecutive years – by 2007.
The three countries that served as pillars of regional stability for the past several years – Nigeria, Kenya, and South Africa – are now too pre-occupied with political troubles of their own to provide the peacekeepers, reconstruction funds, and political pressure that often
limit
the damage from conflicts elsewhere in the region.
Yet there is a
limit
to what any one company can achieve.
For example, when messaging someone who charges, you may see a warning only if the recipient is above your payment
limit.
Such fears tend to overshadow the more pragmatic aspects of immigration, leading to tightly – even irrationally – regulated borders that
limit
the global economy’s potential.
Rather than allow the renminbi’s value to decline as fast as markets would dictate, the PBOC has stepped in to
limit
capital outflows and offset depreciation pressure.
By tying NATO expansion to EU enlargement, no pre-set geographical
limit
is set to the process.
Although a warming planet could boost agricultural output in a few areas, it will severely
limit
production, and possibly trigger prolonged food crises, throughout the rest of the region.
Emerging markets have resorted to a variety of instruments to
limit
private-sector borrowing abroad: taxes, unremunerated reserve requirements, quantitative restrictions, and verbal persuasion.
But the biggest breakthrough in reshaping societal norms was in family-planning policy – replacing the one-child
limit
that had been in force since 1980 with a two-child
limit
beginning in 2017.
The British government uses a figure of a little more than £1 million as a general
limit
to the amount it is prepared to pay to save a statistical life – for example, by improving road safety.
And, third, manufacturing demand was not constrained by low domestic incomes: production could expand virtually without limit, through exports.
Moreover, Ahmadinejad knows that, without Khamenei’s restraint, the clerics would use their political networks among conservatives like the Larijani brothers to
limit
the president further.
For example, today there is no global price on carbon to shift energy investment from fossil fuels to renewable sources; but we know that, in order to keep global warming below the 2º limit, such a price is coming soon.
Lack of deleveraging will
limit
the ability of banks to lend, households to spend, and firms to invest.
Under Masch’s CFT arrangement, it would be up to each surplus country to
limit
its exports to the US.
But when, say, the Luddites of the early nineteenth century protested against newly developed textile machinery by smashing it, the authorities did not intervene to
limit
new technologies.
In practice, this would mean that if Greece, say, were to have to restructure its debt once the bonds had been issued up to the limit, it would presumably service these bonds (which essentially represent official multilateral debt) in full, with private lenders bearing all the losses.
Despite all the criticism they faced, US President Barack Obama and his Secretary of State, John Kerry, stuck doggedly to the task of negotiating a deal with Iran to
limit
its nuclear program.
But the proposals ran into outright opposition from Joseph Stalin, who would accept no
limit
to the Soviet Union’s ability to develop its own nuclear weapons.
A
limit
on the “structural deficit” means that a country can run a deficit above the
limit
to the extent – and only to the extent – that the gap between revenue and spending is cyclical (that is, its economy is operating below potential due to temporary negative shocks).
Indeed, in a new paper, co-authored with Jesse Schreger, we show that eurozone members’ bias in official forecasts can be neatly characterized as responding to the SGP’s 3%-of-GDP
limit
on budget deficits in 1999-2011: each time governments exceeded the limit, over-optimistic forecasts followed.
The Fed fears that the law would
limit
its independence, while the bill’s proponents argue that it would produce more predictable growth with low inflation.
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