Limits
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Similarly, the Dutch have embraced welfare reform, much as the United States did in 1996, when a Democratic president, Bill Clinton, and a Republican Congress agreed on time limits, as well as work and training requirements.
Unfortunately, flawed public policy
limits
the available options.
In this scenario, spending
limits
would have saved about $5.8 billion.
And, if such
limits
were combined with public financing of election campaigns, they would also help the election to meet an important ethical standard by denying the rich a disproportionate influence on outcomes, and hence on the subsequent actions of the president and Congress.
What we need is a vision of globalization that is fully cognizant of its
limits.
It would serve us far better to take these
limits
into account and scale down our ambitions.
Even if he wants to deviate more from the foreign-policy consensus, the US system
limits
his ability to do so.
And yet recent events in the United States offer depressing insights about the
limits
of Sen’s dictum, and about how democracies can fail the people they are ostensibly supposed to serve.
These attacks are worsening and expose the
limits
of Thaksin's electoral revolution, for although the prime minister's party appealed for a popular vote, it lacks a mass membership base.
City planners must look beyond municipal
limits
and analyze flows of resources – energy, food, water, and people – into and out of their cities.
What we need are universal sustainable development goals on issues such as energy, food security, sanitation, urban planning, and poverty eradication, while reducing inequality within the planet’s
limits.
Such
limits
should be applied in the UK, with referenda requiring not just an overall majority, but also separate majorities within England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland.
Supposedly, by December 2009 they will agree on a new treaty to set
limits
on emissions.
The plough is significant, because operating it requires upper-body strength, which
limits
women’s eligibility for farm work.
Or it can reach the
limits
of its military and economic strength, as in the case of the Soviet Union at the time of its disintegration.
Without
limits
placed on the appetites and prejudices of the majority, intolerance will rule.
Most non-Western peoples rely upon the ruler’s personal virtues, not institutional
limits
on his power, to make their lives tolerable.
Skeptics have pointed to the
limits
of Friedman’s metaphor.
Both countries – indeed, the world – would be better served by a diplomatic outcome in which Iran accepted severe
limits
on any independent uranium enrichment activity it could undertake and agreed to place all of its nuclear-related facilities under highly intrusive international inspection in exchange for economic benefits and security assurances.
It was unwise to attach the map in a note verbale responding to a joint submission by Vietnam and Malaysia to the United Nations Commission on the
Limits
of the Continental Shelf in May 2009.
More precisely, Castro
limits
Cubans.
Rather, they stem from the social and environmental
limits
now reached by the prevailing model of economic growth – and the version of globalization that this model has underpinned.
Nanny had no idea about
limits
and fairness.
The history of the struggle for rights from the Magna Carta to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights has been mainly about placing
limits
on state authority.
Rows over product safety and intellectual piracy could all too easily fuel calls for tough new trade
limits.
To the extent that China’s authoritarian regime is by nature exclusionary (it can only incorporate a limited number of elites), the co-optation strategy will soon run up against its limits, and the Party will no longer have the resources to buy off the intelligentsia or keep private entrepreneurs happy.
Even Trump himself admitted the
limits
of Israel’s sovereignty in Jerusalem, and affirmed his commitment to the status quo regarding East Jerusalem’s holy sites.
The current economic situation has pushed the EBRD to its
limits.
In 2009, a Supreme Court he had packed with allies allowed him to circumvent term
limits
and run for president again.
The agreement – known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) –
limits
Iran’s nuclear program to peaceful purposes in exchange for lifting all international sanctions on the country.
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