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These ideas, combined with effective policy
practice
like that of the US Federal Reserve under Paul Volcker’s chairmanship, led many countries worldwide toward more explicit inflation targeting, in which central banks stabilize inflation expectations by making a credible commitment to a predetermined rate of price growth.
Hamas’s determination to assert its authority can be gauged by the desecrated corpses of Fatah fighters, many of them with bullets fired at their heads, a
practice
dubbed “confirmation of death.”
Will Macron end up with a governing majority in the National Assembly, or will the right present a united front and force him into the uniquely French
practice
of cohabitation?
In practice, it is only banks that have access to cheap borrowing, so they can reconstitute their balance sheets by borrowing cheaply and lending expensively.
Torture was once considered acceptable state
practice.
Today, 181 countries have ratified the convention and passed domestic laws that ban the
practice.
For countries like Switzerland, which
practice
true direct democracy, referenda do not tend to produce deep polarization.
Today's official recognition of this longstanding
practice
will only encourage a speedier pace to these reforms.
The ability to map out complex cases and
practice
rare procedures before performing them on a patient will undoubtedly lead to better surgical performance and improved medical outcomes.
After all,
practice
makes perfect.
The effort should bring together industry, academia, the press, NGOs, and government to alleviate suspicion, facilitate dialogue, build trust, arrive at consensus and agree on good
practice
guidelines.
It was standard pre-modern
practice
to overcome such differences with a formal disputation.
There are not that many modern varieties of this sort of practice, but the 1944 United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference at Bretton Woods comes close.
The IMF endorsed legal standards and codes of best
practice
developed by other institutions, but also promotes the development of new standards, including accounting and auditing standards, securities market regulations, bankruptcy law, codes for corporate governance, insurance and banking regulations.
As the push to transplant legal norms grows, international agencies should focus on helping countries make their laws effective in practice, not just on paper.
Elaborate cost-benefit analyses of major projects have been standard
practice
in the defense department and elsewhere in government for almost a half-century.
Over the past two years, the Green Economy has gone from theory to
practice.
A country that confidently counsels others on democratic
practice
has elected a president who suggested that, if he lost, he might not recognize the result.
Market participants also know that the Fed needs them to leverage its policy influence and deliver on its mandate, which, in recent years, has rightly been broadened in
practice
to incorporate the goal of financial stability.
By the 1970’s, however, the IMF and Western powers began to dismantle the theory and
practice
of regulating global capital flows.
The task for governments is to commit to putting this focus on wellbeing into
practice.
Moreover, Bush’s exaggerated rhetoric was often at odds with his practice, giving rise to charges of hypocrisy.
Equally important to the foreign-policy methods used to support democracy abroad are the ways in which we
practice
it at home.
Another aspect of America’s domestic
practice
of liberal democracy that is currently being debated is how the country deals with the threat of terrorism.
That makes it all the more difficult to justify the
practice.
However politically appealing the idea of rogue bankers behind bars might be, putting them there is likely to remain very challenging in
practice.
Innumerable details must be worked out before a global money scheme could be put into practice, and changes will not occur overnight.
Rational humans, Kant concludes, must recognize that they have a duty to abstain from a
practice
(lying) that, if adopted by everyone at once, would annul our most precious invention (language).
So it is our rational duty to tell the truth, regardless of the benefits lying might bring in
practice.
In practice, they are more likely to increase retail markups and lower cost pass-through.
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