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He hailed Germany as the most open country in the world, but warned that openness has its
limits.
Countries with persistent structural current-account deficits will incur additional external-financing costs, and eventually will reach the
limits
of leverage.
But it is the sphere of authority that should be limited, not the power to act within those
limits.
For anti-liberals, the true enemies of peace today are those nation-states and institutions that seek to place external
limits
on sovereignty and conceive of political community in normative rather than territorial and cultural terms.
First, there were
limits
on Powell’s ability to mobilize public opinion.
Any workable agreement will require Iran to renounce uranium enrichment above the 5% level needed for a civilian nuclear-power program; accept
limits
on enrichment volumes, the number of centrifuges, and technology; agree to forgo reprocessing; and address operations at the heavy-water reactor in Arak.
And there are many restrictions on foreign firms wishing to operate in China, including
limits
on foreign ownership of domestic firms.
Malaria has natural limits, determined by latitude, altitude and, in some cases, human intervention.
Trump’s election and escalating regional tensions have created the perfect pretext for Abe to push for his ultimate political goal: to abolish Article 9 – the pacifist clause in Japan’s post-war, US-imposed constitution, which
limits
the Japanese military to a “self-defense force,” and has generally kept Japanese defense spending at 1% of GDP.
Top IMF staff face strict
limits
on their allowable business expenses (no $3,000 per night hotel rooms, despite reports in the press), and are generally underpaid relative to private-sector executives with similar skills and experience.
Moreover, state power should be exercised reasonably, in good faith, and for the purposes for which it was conferred, with independent courts and judicial review of legislation ensuring that government does not exceed the
limits
of its authority.
True, debt deleveraging is not without
limits.
The political recalibrations occurring in the world’s major economies highlight the
limits
on the level and pace of immigration a society can absorb without excessive disruption; on citizens’ willingness to abide centralized, let alone supranational, rule; and on public tolerance of economic weakness.
The past two decades also have seen the world begin to reach its ecological
limits.
As the Norwegian EEA Agreement puts it, “if serious economic, societal or environmental difficulties of a sectoral or regional nature liable to persist are arising,”
limits
on free movement may be applied.
He talks big, but respects his
limits.
The damage to public health resulting from poor sanitation
limits
economic development, because it causes workers to produce, save, and invest less, and to die younger.
Park, like many of her predecessors, pushed to change the term limits, but her efforts were stymied by bad timing.
South Asia’s worst problems – poverty, conflict, hunger, and gender inequalities – are largely concentrated in its lagging regions, where there are
limits
to growth, because geography, institutions, and globalization will continue to favor the concentration of economic activity in the leading regions.
Among the provisions would be the recognition of privacy and personal data protection as a fundamental human right, and a call for clear, precise, and transparently created regulations that set
limits
on government surveillance and companies’ use of consumer data.
But interest rates remain extremely low, and are even negative in some countries, and QE has been taken close to its limits, with public support for the policy waning.
Given the long-standing relationship between Pakistan’s Islamic militants and the military, it became clear there were
limits
to how far Musharraf was prepared to go in the “war on terrorism.”
Harvard’s Michael Sandel has argued that there should be
limits
to markets, and that there are things that money cannot (or should not) be allowed to buy.
But labor is no longer cheap, road construction to connect major cities has given way to building large shopping malls in small towns, and land sales based on rezoning are reaching both economic
limits
and the
limits
of villagers’ tolerance.
As for democracy, while the Congress was certainly a step forward from the past (when Fatah leader Yasir Arafat could handpick Fatah’s leadership), real
limits
remain.
Although some Japanese complain about the unequal nature of the alliance’s security components, owing to the
limits
that Japan has accepted on the use of force, in these new areas, Japan is a stronger partner.
Most free societies accept such
limits
as reasonable.
There was also recognition of
limits
to what the government could achieve on the international stage, despite some important accomplishments such as its helpful role in the renegotiation of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in 1995.
The US has relatively weak campaign-finance limits, so corporations and wealthy individuals – neither of which generally prioritizes income redistribution – have contributed a disproportionate share to politicians’ campaign war chests.
Everyone must understand that the obligation to protect people fleeing persecution has its
limits.
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