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Ideally, there should be a time-limited all-party agreement on a plan of action, which would represent the
limit
of what is politically feasible.
Recent efforts by President Hamid Karzai’s administration to
limit
its public accountability demonstrate that the Afghan government in its current form lacks either the capacity or the willingness to do so.
Indeed, though China’s government has expressed its willingness to sacrifice some growth in its pursuit of structural reform and rebalancing, the impact of a housing-market collapse on the financial sector would cause growth to slow beyond the acceptable
limit.
Within the 200-nautical-mile
limit
that comprises their exclusive economic zones (EEZs), a few countries have used a combination of strong legislation, good management, and effective enforcement to preserve fish stocks and ecosystems.
For the sake of what principle can we ask China and India, for example, to
limit
their economic dynamism so that they use smaller amounts of the planet’s natural resources?
Higher tariffs fragment markets and
limit
trade, precisely because companies want to reduce the taxes they pay – and allocate production accordingly around the world.
LONDON – After long and sometimes painful negotiations, which stress-tested the personal relationships between many countries’ central bankers and regulators to the limit, the Basel Committee laid a long-expected egg in December.
The existence of a US resolution authority does not help contain the damage or
limit
the panic arising from a big global bank in trouble.
International conventions still
limit
governments’ leeway, and the US government remains opposed to any backtracking from the punitive, prohibitionist strategy that it has pursued since 1981.
The generals subsequently worked hard to
limit
Thaksin’s electoral power.
But the draft includes a military-appointed 250-member senate, which would serve for a five-year “transitional period” and have considerable power to
limit
the actions of elected officials.
Indeed, when Europeans think about reforming global governance, they
limit
themselves to numbers of seats and voting weights in international bodies.
He wanted to
limit
musical expression to sounds that were conducive to harmony and order.
Studies show that on most roads, in most countries, 40-50% of all cars travel above the posted speed
limit.
And policymakers have long had to strike a balance between the abstract principle of openness and concrete measures to
limit
the worst effects of change.
When Doctors KillPRINCETON – Of all the arguments against voluntary euthanasia, the most influential is the “slippery slope”: once we allow doctors to kill patients, we will not be able to
limit
the killing to those who want to die.
For example, ordinary citizens could be allowed zero-interest-transactions balances (up to a limit).
Any signatory to international conventions against statelessness should technically
limit
denationalization to those with dual citizenship; and yet if it does that, it will be acting discriminatorily.
Coordinated measures have been taken, unique in size and scope, to restore confidence and
limit
the damage caused to the world economy.
They also hope that the guarantees would motivate the bondholders to monitor banks’ activities and pressure bank managers to
limit
their risky operations.
The 2015 Paris climate agreement – in which governments agreed to
limit
their emissions and to provide resources to help poorer countries adapt – was a step in the right direction.
But rising risk – reflected in the recent plunge in China’s stock market – has compelled the government to step in to
limit
the fallout.
The Lost Lesson of the Financial CrisisLONDON – Ten years ago this month, the French bank BNP Paribas decided to
limit
investors’ access to the money they had deposited in three funds.
Fortunately, there seems to be a
limit
to the National Front’s level of support.
To improve the link between pay and performance further, and
limit
executives’ ability to weaken it by using their access to inside information and control over company disclosures, executives could be required to announce their choice of period substantially in advance.
Gold, despite being in nearly fixed supply, does not have this problem, because there is no
limit
on its price.
The deal concluded at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris commits countries to take steps to
limit
warming to “well below” 2º Celsius relative to pre-industrial levels and to pursue “efforts” to
limit
warming to 1.5ºC.
The idea underlying the French strategy of tying the currency to German strength, the franc fort, was that it would
limit
or constrain domestic policy.
Overcoming the resource constraints that
limit
developing countries’ investment in the digital economy will not be easy.
Now, however, it may try to stop the European Central Bank’s so-called outright monetary transactions (OMT) program (the ECB’s pledge to buy, without limit, the government bonds of troubled eurozone countries that subject themselves to the ESM’s conditions).
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