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At least in the near term, it is shifting its practice of “minimal government and maximum governance" to one of “moderate government and maximum governance."
Devout after a fashion, they follow their conscience or their convenience – their lives a more or less amiable standoff between doctrinal prohibitions and vernacular practice.
Indeed, the last two decades have proved dismal for the practice of the "dismal science."
Its member states are uniquely committed to multilateralism; indeed, we practice it daily.
Consider what happens in international trade, where such shading of research is established practice.
In practice, this often leads to their arguments being captured by interest groups on the other side – global corporations that seek to manipulate trade rules to their own advantage.
And with the latest round of recapitalization, the cost of the Troika’s determination to stick to the practice of extend-and-pretend bailout loans just got higher.
For example, there has been much debate about the difference between the accepted practice of withholding life support or some other treatment, knowing that the patient is likely to die without it, and the contested practice of actively helping a patient to die.
This practice has always impeded competition, distorted bank lending, and reduced economic dynamism; but it has helped autocrats preserve their power.
In practice, order must be established before it can be limited by the rule of law and international human rights norms.
More constructively, the business world uses imitation through the practice of benchmarking, whereby companies share performance information so that they can all learn what is achievable and whom to try to imitate, thus facilitating the identification of “best practices.”
Some governments practice an even more direct method of suborning favorable coverage.
Yet, in practice, the Israeli government has been defying those legal norms for a long time.
In terms of ethnic origin and religious practice, they were a representative sample of Germany’s Muslim community.
This may not amount to much in practice, but the language in this section is much less tepid than elsewhere.
Environmentalists hired scientists, lawyers, and lobbyists who made sure that laws weren’t just passed in Congress, but also implemented in practice.
With globalization, it would be natural to extend such principles to the international arena, making it irrelevant whether a producer is domestic or foreign when judging whether he is engaged in an unfair trade practice.
Hungary will celebrate the 1000th anniversary of its statehood next year, so we hardly need practice in the dialect of European civilisation.
Yet in practice, democracies have moved in the opposite direction.
We must wait to see how the PBOC behaves in practice.
But when president and parliament are controlled by the same party – Nicolas Sarkozy’s current situation – the “reserved domain” knows, in practice, no limit.
The logic of Turkey’s new political system harks back to the Ottoman “circle of justice” that divided the population into taxpaying masses and a small tax-exempt elite headed by a sultan who was subordinate only to the Sharia (Islamic law), though in practice he himself defined what it meant.
In practice, green accounting might easily have led our forefathers not to cut down forests, because this would entail losing a valuable resource.
Banks have been holding our money for safekeeping since the fourteenth century, when the Florentines invented the practice.
As Yugoslavia’s experience demonstrated, radical decentralization works in theory but does not always work in practice.
While accepting the need for accountability, our best theory and empirical evidence must be used to guide practice.
Unless action is taken to address the issue, hundreds of communities that simply wish to practice their religion peacefully will face profound psychological and demographic consequences, fleeing into exile to preserve their faith.
Among the most common forms of corruption is the “sale” of government positions – a practice that has little to do with growth, especially when it is conducted by high-ranking officers in the army, such as the Peoples’ Liberation Army generals who have been arrested during the campaign for trading promotions for bribes.
In practice, this has meant large flows of money either to big agricultural producers, like France, or to poorer member states, like Greece and Portugal.
The Jews were allowed to practice their religion openly, live where they wanted, and enjoy – as well as contribute to – the economic and cultural flourishing of the Dutch Golden Age.
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