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Such areas not only permit the regeneration of species, but also provide ecological benefits that spill over to neighboring unprotected areas.
But any successor government must be able to maintain order and not permit the Islamic State to exploit a power vacuum, as it has done in Libya.
India’s many challenges require political arrangements that permit leaders to concentrate on governance and take decisive action, whereas its parliamentary system increasingly promotes drift, indecision, and a narrow focus on survival in power.
Institutional investors often consider the projects MFIs pitch to be too small, too risky, or not profitable enough, and they worry that, if something goes wrong, MFIs’ bureaucracies will not permit them to address it swiftly.
But reformists ask: if the Supreme Leader does not even permit the Khatami faction to have a newspaper, would he really have allowed Khatami to become president?
As he put it, the policy’s “purpose should be the revival of a working economy in the world, so as to permit the emergence of political and social conditions in which free institutions can exist.”
Probably the most practical solution is to permit the IMF to borrow on private financial markets and use the proceeds to issue additional SDRs.
It seems odd, however, to hold that the state may, in principle, prohibit the sale of a product, but may not permit it to be sold only in packs that carry graphic images of the damage it causes to human health.
Although the Stability and Growth Pact may be elastic enough to permit some deficit stimulus, a country may feel constrained from acting as aggressively as it wants.
Despite the NPT, a clear separation between civilian and military use of nuclear energy hasn’t always worked, or worked completely, because the NPT’s rules permit all signatory states to develop and use – under international supervision – all of the components of the nuclear fuel cycle for civilian purposes.
A shift to a mixed system that combines the stability of the PAYG benefits with the higher return of market-based investments would permit countries to avoid that choice altogether.
What is missing is a new, 13th convention that closes the loophole that seems to permit governments to decide what constitutes terrorism and what does not.
Moreover, the institutions of the federal system do not permit decisions to be made either expeditiously or clearly.
This was crucial, for it will permit the Greek state to hold undervalued assets until their price recovers from the current recession-induced lows.
Under the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, which put an end to decades of violent hostility between Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland, Britain agreed to permit the free movement of persons, goods, and some services across the border with the Republic of Ireland.
But Russia’s belligerency and appalling behavior should not permit Western hardliners to gain control of the policy debate.
Laws against child pornography in other countries may also have the effect of prohibiting games that permit virtual sex with virtual children.
At present, the evidence for that is stronger for games involving violence than it is for virtual realities that permit pedophilia.
According to the World Bank, a building permit in Egypt costs three times the average annual income, 11 different steps are needed to register a property transaction in Algeria, and Morocco is ranked 154th out of 183 countries for protection of shareholders against abuse of power by management.
Most extraordinary of all, it seems that the US was behind the apparent refusal of France, Spain, Italy, and Portugal to permit Bolivian President Evo Morales’s airplane to enter their airspace en route home from Moscow, on the grounds that Snowden might have been aboard.
Argentina is simply the latest victim in the vultures’ long legal battle to change the rules of the game to permit them to prey on poor countries seeking to restructure their debts.
Indian democracy accords specific rights to citizens to enable them exercise their political freedoms: freedom of speech and association permit members of civil society to rally, argue and discuss, debate and criticize, protest and strike, and even go on hunger strikes, in order to support or challenge their governments.
But, despite past US administrations’ opportunity to make their influence felt, they preferred to permit Israel, an allied, friendly state, to do what it wanted.
The reaction of China’s leaders to the America’s accidental attack on China’s embassy in Belgrade in 1998, and to the collision of an American spy plane with a Chinese plane over the Pacific, was to permit, if not foment, large anti-foreign demonstrations.
The People’s Bank of China can permit it to depreciate against the reference basket by, say, 1% a month, in order to enhance the competitiveness of Chinese exports and address concerns that the currency is overvalued.
There is also good reason to doubt that North Korea, arguably the world’s most closed and secretive country, would ever permit the sort of intrusive international inspections that would be required to verify that it had complied with undertakings spelled out in some future pact.
We permit deadly cars on the highway; we let people die because of inadequate medical care; we tolerate bridges that collapse.
Bombs, Books, and BucksThe $82 billion “emergency supplemental” bill to finance American military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan leaves the United States spending more money on military power than is needed on a yearly basis to permit every child in the world to receive, within one decade, both primary and secondary education.
Several major cities and many local governments around the world do not permit circuses with wild animals.
More fundamentally, reducing US involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan will permit a rebalancing of US foreign and defense policy.
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