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It received bailout packages in 2010 and 2012 totaling €240 billion ($266 billion), including €30 billion from the IMF, more than triple Greece’s cumulative
limit
for IMF borrowing.
A corresponding rise in the global mean temperature is usually seen as the
limit
beyond which the effects of climate change could become dangerous.
According to the current paradigm, the global target is defined within scientific categories and understood as an absolute upper
limit.
Given that holding to a strict temperature
limit
is not a politically viable option, focusing climate policy on flexible benchmarks such as “climate neutrality” would be more effective over the short term and more promising over the long term.
But it is just one paper; there is still a lot more to learn about our capacity to
limit
global warming.
(This
limit
is usually stated as a 2oC rise in global temperature.)
Leaders in nine of the 18 African countries that held elections in 2016 placed some level of restriction on the Internet to
limit
dissent.
First, will this action make the world safer, as Trump claims, or will it further destabilize the Middle East and undermine future efforts to
limit
nuclear weapons, as argued by most geopolitical experts not directly employed by the US, Israeli, or Saudi governments?
Moreover, there is a need to
limit
legislative pressure for additional spending on locally important projects that fuel overall fiscal dysfunction.
The economic slowdown comes at the worst possible moment, as Europe readies itself for monetary union (emu), and the tough budget constraints imposed as a precondition for joining
limit
the governments' ability to use old fashioned stimulants to get their ailing economies moving.
Scientists predict that exceeding that lower
limit
will cause low-lying Pacific island states to disappear beneath the rising seas, and will lead to unprecedented drought, wildfire, and flooding.
This would
limit
the disruptions to decision-making, personnel, and legislation that seem to occur every few months, thereby allowing important policies to be implemented efficiently.
Moreover, by passing a constitutional amendment, Sirisena rescinded some of the presidential powers that Rajapaksa had added, as well as restoring the two-term
limit.
Experts had argued that funding shortages, lack of security, the problems of stabilizing a legitimate government, and technology shortfalls would severely
limit
Iraq's output.
Trump could also
limit
the US’s growth potential by restricting immigration.
Raising minimum wages could help
limit
the erosion of real earnings in the bottom quartile.
Despite the potential benefits, the many unanswered questions about buy-downs
limit
their application.
Rather, we need to
limit
the supply of and demand for credit to what the economy is capable of producing.
Security capabilities on both sides are stretched to the
limit.
At the same time, lower oil consumption would reduce traffic congestion and accidents,
limit
local air pollution and its adverse health effects, and lower greenhouse-gas emissions, which lead to global climate change.
After US President Richard Nixon’s opening to China in l972, the balance shifted, with the US and China cooperating to
limit
what they viewed as a dangerous rise in the Soviet Union’s power.
But one little noticed, yet likely, aspirant has been sneaking up on the world economy: the growing tendency to
limit
the free circulation of people, to “fence in” the rich world.
The US sovereign-debt market shows no similar evidence of having reached a
limit
yet.
At the same time, the ECB would have reached the
limit
of quantitative easing.
Such projects could be investments that would help
limit
global warming, or investments to equip the labor force for the digital economy.
Of course, with so many unknowns, there is a
limit
to the plans they can share publicly; indeed, at this stage, specific statements may even prove counterproductive.
The US will need to defend its allies and interests by pushing back, but with actions modulated to
limit
Chinese concerns.
The nuclear-armed states can and should make serious commitments to dramatic further reductions in the size of their arsenals; hold the number of weapons physically deployed and ready for immediate launch to an absolute minimum; and change their strategic doctrines to
limit
the role and salience of nuclear weapons, ideally by committing to “no first use.”
Invariably, one partner hits a
limit
and seeks a new source of sustenance.
For the West, the term
limit
was an ideological bridge that led to a path of engagement.
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