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Led by Papua New Guinea and Costa Rica, a group of developing countries, a new rainforest coalition has now come forward with an innovative proposal, not only offering to commit to greenhouse-gas limits, but also showing how this can be done in a way that will promote their development.
Similarly, the 2004 referendum to eliminate term limits on the presidency “took place with unrestrained Government bias in favor of the referendum,” and without “the conditions, particularly freedom of expression and freedom of the media, to ensure that the will of the people serves as the basis of government authority.”
It makes sense to demand that policies be based on evidence and that such evidence be as good as possible, within reasonable time and budgetary limits.
And there is strong Congressional resistance to setting limits on carbon emissions in the run-up to the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris in December.
Relaxing limits on foreign investment.
At the same time, limits on workers' ability to organize independent unions have inhibited grassroots forms of safety monitoring.
Yet the negotiations on emissions limits with each of the 192 signatory countries in the run-up to the Copenhagen Summit in December 2009 have so far given no indication of so radical a change.
The invasion of Iraq presented them with a relatively safe topic with which to discuss issues that are normally off limits, such as human rights.
America’s failure to win any lasting geopolitical advantage through the use of military force in Iraq and Afghanistan underscore the limits of its power, while its budget crisis ensures that it will cut its military resources sooner rather than later.
Trade relations are far less important than establishing a dialogue between the West and Asia that addresses how to live within limits.
Asian governments will sometimes need to set strict limits on resource use – and have the tools to ensure that society respects these limits.
Of course, under the current circumstances, there are limits to the beneficial effects of sound UK leadership.
Given this, rather than allowing demands for maximum efficiency to push structures to their limits, redundancies (equivalent capabilities implemented in multiple ways) should be built into systems.
Libya’s new government allowed me access to civil-society actors – including journalists, academics, writers, activists, and representatives of minority groups – who were off limits to US diplomats under Qaddafi’s regime.
But if China wants to raise the military budget to improve the quality of its army, the conflict with the demands of fiscal stability could make military transparency important for domestic reasons, and China might no longer view it as being off limits in its relations with the US.
Reduced mobility for girls puts them at risk of social isolation and limits their opportunities to build social capital.
The Limits of China’s Consumer RevolutionSHANGHAI – China’s economy is at a crossroads.
In Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood has become a strong force in parliament despite the limits imposed on the participation of Islamist groups in last year’s elections.
Either way, the US would face growth-limiting tax increases and limits on the contributions that public investment can make to the country’s future.
This has two advantages: it limits discretion by the EU policymakers, and hence insures that transfer of power is not abused; it also facilitates post-transfer accountability and control.
The limits of inflation targeting are now clear, and the strategy should be discarded.
If it limits itself to setting clear rules and applies them equally, society will benefit.
In fact, even without lower interest rates, the deficit limits that the Pact imposes have proved to be non-binding, exemplified by France’s flouting of them since 2009.
Realism, in the sense of balancing power by appeasing dictators, has its limits.
Could the fact that humanity thinks only within the limits of what lies in its field of vision, and is incapable of remembering also what lies beyond, not but be the result of the loss of metaphysical certitude, of the loss of God?
The Limits to PanicCOPENHAGEN – We often hear how the world as we know it will end, usually through ecological collapse.
Indeed, more than 40 years after the Club of Rome released the mother of all apocalyptic forecasts, The Limits to Growth, its basic ideas are still with us.
The Limits to Growth warned humanity in 1972 that devastating collapse was just around the corner.
The genius of The Limits to Growth was to fuse these worries with fears of running out of stuff.
For example, the authors of The Limits to Growth predicted that before 2013, the world would have run out of aluminum, copper, gold, lead, mercury, molybdenum, natural gas, oil, silver, tin, tungsten, and zinc.
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