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To be sure, liberals prefer to fight pornography with appeals to taste and reason, rather than outright prohibitions.
In fact, governments all over the world default with startling regularity, either outright or through inflation.
The authorities are taking steps to correct their mistakes, especially with the decision to form a banking union and the outright monetary transactions program, which would allow unlimited intervention by the European Central Bank in the sovereign-bond market.
Likewise, while Iran supports Hezbollah, it has also held Hezbollah back from outright rebellion, which might trigger a further Sunni backlash in the region.
Trump avoided admitting outright that he was authorizing an increase in the number of US troops in that troubled country, saying instead that military leaders would make such decisions.
Several European countries now seem content to force Greece into an outright default and provoke its exit from the euro.
Like outright default or the restructuring of debts to official creditors, such arrears are often swept under the rug, possibly because they tend to involve low-income debtors and relatively small dollar amounts.
Recent agreements to restructure some debt are just the beginning; in fact, they are not even adequate to rule out an outright default.
But the proposals ran into outright opposition from Joseph Stalin, who would accept no limit to the Soviet Union’s ability to develop its own nuclear weapons.
In many Arab countries, incumbent public and private firms – especially in critical sectors like financial services, telecommunications, and energy – enjoy significant advantages, including outright protection, onerous regulations that deter market entry by new players, and inadequate limits on natural monopolies.
Rather than control the economy outright, Arab governments should foster the emergence of independent yet accountable regulators that can help ensure improved economic outcomes.
Because it is so obviously in every player’s interest to avoid outright conflict, we have stony handshakes like that between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Beijing last month.
Last summer, he approved so-called outright monetary transactions (OMTs) in order to acquire an indefinite volume of distressed eurozone members’ bonds., which is contributing to the strength of the euro.
Already weak and inefficient, prone to corruption, politicisation, lack of co-ordination between departments, and outright intimidation of its officials, judicial systems across the isthmus have been an easy target for organised crime.
The challenge for central banks is to try to boost inflation, if not avoid outright deflation.
Because a gradual path establishes long-run fiscal discipline, it would not crash the bond market, as an outright cancellation of the tax increase might.
The charismatic and workaholic President Uribe was allowed – for the first time in Colombia's modern history – to stand for a second four-year term as an incumbent, winning outright in the first round with an absolute majority of 62% of the popular vote.
The plummeting cost of LED light bulbs – also down more than 90% in the last ten years –reflects the effect of outright bans on inefficient incandescent bulbs, public procurement policies, and, in India, the public sector’s role as a bulk buyer and low-cost distributor.
Obstacles to the professional advancement of educated women in Europe is rooted in corporate culture, gender biases, and stereotyping, rather than outright discrimination.
As governments try to avoid outright nationalization of banks, they will find themselves being forced to carry out second and third recapitalizations.
The inability of unconventional monetary policies to prevent outright deflation partly reflects the fact that such policies seek to weaken the currency, thereby improving net exports and increasing inflation.
As no regional power is strong enough to win a war of succession outright, all of these powers could only lose if a conflict ensues.
Of course, through migration Muslims experience a sense of distancing, if not an outright break, from their social origins.
This option could vastly shorten the list of products that will need to be banned outright.
The Danish Shipowners’ Association and the Arctic expedition cruise operator Hurtigruten are just two of the players calling for tighter regulations or an outright ban.
Most politicians try to avoid telling outright lies; they bob and weave like prizefighters when faced with questions that might ensnare them in outright mendacity.
By penetrating the political establishment with progressives who can talk the language of free markets and by questioning, not rejecting outright, economic and social issues such as free trade and capital movement across borders, Lula succeeded in not frightening the daylights out of Brazil's richest people, as President Chavez did in Venezuela.
So Clinton, despite her so far lackluster campaign, and despite a popular perception of inauthenticity, even outright shiftiness, will probably hang on to her party and scrape through in the end.
Yet this should not be considered an outright victory for Taiwanese nationalism.
A not-so-generous interpretation of modern aid history is that rich countries’ legislatures were too cheap to give outright grants to the poorest countries, and could be persuaded to help out only if they were told that the money would be repaid.
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