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The best over-arching strategy is to combine aid, limits on military spending, peacekeeping forces, and “over the horizon” security guarantees in a way that ensures that the developed world deals with hot spots consistently.
The aim is to fix Europe’s long-term fiscal problem, which has been exacerbated by three factors: the failure, since the euro’s inception, of the eurozone-wide Stability and Growth Pact (SGP) to enforce deficit and debt limits; the crisis that erupted in Greece and other countries on the eurozone periphery in 2010; and the various bailouts that have followed.
Excessive regulation that protects incumbent firms and other vested interests undermines market competitiveness and limits prospects for improved productivity and efficiency.
Thinking about the future on the basis of the differential transport-cost advantage of one input limits countries to products that intensively use only locally available raw materials.
Plenty of other liberal democracies have experienced elements of authoritarian leadership, including nepotism, limits on freedom of speech or of the press, overtly discriminatory policies, and the abuse of public office for personal gain.
But the United States has mostly avoided these traps, owing largely to term limits and a reliable system of checks and balances.
Cyber-activism has its limits; it cannot, in the end, deliver either democracy or prosperity.
The advent of Arab satellite television and the Internet limits the government’s ability to control public opinion.
Some educated people, however, emboldened by the satellite network al-Jazeera and its likes, seem poised to step beyond the current limits of toleration.
For 50 years, James Bond and his “license to kill” have stood for imperial justice beyond the limits of law.
Recovering Humanitarian LawMADRID – Even amid the chaos and catastrophes caused by war, there are internationally recognized limits on combatants’ behavior.
Reality has become even more complicated since then: the family’s role continues to decline in Asia; philantropy, despite a few extraordinarily generous individuals, has more than met its limits in America; and, with the possible exception of the Nordic countries, the state in Europe, overburdened by debt, no longer has the means or the will to shoulder new responsibilities.
But there were limits.
The logic was repeated on an even larger scale at the beginning of the 1990’s, but this time without any pre-determined limits.
What Magna Carta shows, therefore, is that “Who rules?” is one question, and “What, if any, are the limits to political power?” is another.
Because Magna Carta attempted to set limits to political power without grounding these limits in the sovereignty of the people, it demonstrated a problem with which philosophers have grappled for even longer than 800 years.
The ECB has been pushing the limits, but it must remain within them.
There are certainly limits to any comparison between then and now; but it is worth noting that much of the world seemed mired in chaos in the early 2000s, too.
Moreover, presidential power is now exercised within the limits established by law, not according to the whims of one man.
We were being conditioned to believe that the official rules set no clear limits, and that we could therefore set the limits wherever we liked.
Yet the political power of the gun lobby, which opposes limits even on assault weapons, has blocked the adoption of measures that would boost public safety.
The Limits of Carbon PricingLONDON – In 2004, German households installing rooftop solar energy systems received a guaranteed price of €0.57
His idealism needs to be tempered by the limits of American power.
We could just as well point out that since science tells us that speeding cars kill many people, we should cut speed limits to almost nothing.
The Limits of Self-RelianceBeing President of an African nation isn't easy.
When Clinton declared in 1996 that he would “end welfare as we know it,” he worked with Congress to create the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program, which requires recipients to work and limits their lifetime eligibility to 60 months.
But at this point there are severe limits to what they can do.
These limits on American banking persisted until the 1990’s, when Congress repealed most of this regulatory structure.
A totalitarian state will never promote the sort of pluralist, democratic society that, by its nature, limits state power.
On the other hand, the Darfur crisis, in which China has lent its support to Khartoum, has provided a reality check for both sides, revealing the limits to collaboration.
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