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Unfortunately, human memory fades with time, and new generations of engineers with no vivid experience of past failures can proceed with hubris to design again beyond wise
limits.
The cable-stayed bridge is a form that is currently being pushed to
limits
and beyond those originally imagined to apply to it.
Ideally, we should have strict
limits
and transparency requirements for all political donations.
In recent years, the California legislature has cleaned up redistricting, introduced “top two primaries” and an aggressive disclosure system, reformed term limits, eliminated a supermajority rule for state budgetary measures, and improved the ballot-initiative process.
Unable to reform their labor markets because of the fear of street protests, French governments of all political stripes seek to protect their ailing firms, only to face
limits
imposed by the rules of the Common Market.
The Rise of Mid-Level PowersThe security environment since the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States has clearly demonstrated the
limits
of the United Nations, or even the US as the world’s sole military superpower, to maintain international security.
Iran is another front where Obama might be forced to recognize the
limits
of his conciliatory approach.
There are
limits
to how far that struggle will go, but the Palestinians are not going to stop fighting among themselves or against Israel.
This is not possible in most of Europe, and especially not in Germany, where loan-to-value
limits
remain conservative, refinancing is costly, and most banks would frown on any attempt to cash in on “home equity” to finance a vacation or a new car.
Rather than paying lip service to climate change and resource scarcity, we start to respect and uphold the
limits
of our planet and its atmosphere.
Such reforms would be more effective than any development aid, but for now they are off
limits.
A timeworn commitment to economic growth at all cost is no answer to the question of how development can be balanced against the
limits
of our planet and the fact that billions of people live in poverty.
If the only
limits
on Cristina are her own, Argentina will not weather the coming storm well.
Given the impracticality of winning support for proposals based on population management or
limits
on individual wealth, analyses using the Kaya Identity tend to bypass the first two terms, leaving energy efficiency and carbon intensity as the most important determinants of total emissions.
This obvious externality required policy responses in the emerging countries:
limits
on capital inflows, reserve accumulation, and measures to restrict credit and restrain asset-price inflation.
As the European Commission has proposed, the strengthened pact will have tighter deficit
limits
for heavily indebted countries.
This step must be related to
limits
on missile defense, one of the key issues that undermined the Reykjavik summit.
Particularly in the arts, there were no apparent
limits
to showing what even a generation ago would have been regarded as highly offensive.
Are there really no
limits?
And there were
limits
in Europe, too.
Those concerned with freedom of speech have always wondered about its
limits.
It is often assumed that everyone recoils at the prospect that there are genetic
limits
to our capacity for change.
At the moment, it makes more sense to invest the additional savings abroad, because population aging in Germany
limits
the potential for useful investment at home, and other markets are growing faster.
But this danger can be countered by requiring banks to operate as legally incorporated subsidiaries, with locally regulated capital and liquidity reserves, and strong regulatory
limits
on the maturity of their funding.
Iraq also is demonstrating the
limits
of illegitimate violence when combating terrorism.
Despite their great promise, however, superconductors have limits, the primary one being that most superconduct at very low temperatures – indeed, near absolute zero (-273 ºC).
But Liberal Order 1.0 had its
limits
– namely, sovereign borders.
Relentless low-level corruption is a major irritant for poor people in many of these countries; indeed, it
limits
their access to the social services and basic government functions that they often depend upon for their very survival.
They are both mindful of the
limits
of the politics of destabilization, and they are clearly looking forward to a more dialogue-oriented American administration willing to address their political and strategic concerns.
Indeed, as with postwar Germany’s first leader, Konrad Adenauer, there are jokes about Merkel being Chancellor for life (Germany has no term limits).
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