Prohibition
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Prohibition
of monetary finance cannot secure democracy or the rule of law in the face of powerful anti-democratic forces.
The position of debtors was further strengthened by the
prohibition
of usury – charging unreasonably high interest on money.
Consider the
prohibition
of “burkinis” – body-covering swimwear favored by some Muslim women – in French coastal cities.Surely in a free and diverse society, clothing that enables a group of women to enjoy a beloved activity comfortably should be welcomed.
Third, in the run-up to the East Asia Summit, Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced that she would move to relax her country’s long-standing
prohibition
on uranium sales to India while it remained outside the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Provisions on the free flow of data, together with
prohibition
of data localization and forced technology transfer, were included in so-called “twenty-first-century trade agreements,” like the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.
First and foremost, the US generates the huge demand for illicit drugs that sustains the entire Latin American mafia, just as the US experiment with alcohol
prohibition
in the 1920’s fueled the rise of gangsters like Al Capone.
The PVV has argued for the closing of all Islamic schools, the required “assimilation” of all immigrants (whatever that means), and even the
prohibition
of halal (Islamic) slaughter.
Just moments after elaborating at length on the Koran’s
prohibition
of nuclear weapons, an interlocutor would declare that the underground Fordow nuclear facility’s impregnability to airstrikes must be central to any deal.
Fortunately, despite the fact that India and Pakistan lay outside the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) – and thus were not subject to its
prohibition
on disseminating arsenals – they, along with China, rebuffed Qadaffi’s requests.
Tehran also pledged to detail its chemical weapons programs to the Organization for the
Prohibition
of Chemical Weapons in the Hague -- though it has not yet complied American officials say.
During World War II, the
prohibition
on rape by soldiers was well established in international law, but the post-war Nuremberg and Tokyo war crimes tribunals prosecuted only a handful of cases.
The first component is the classic French Republican
prohibition
on gathering data in the official census – or by government agencies or public or private enterprises – on ethnicity, religion, and even social class.
Like the
prohibition
of fine-tuned data – without which positive discrimination is in any case impossible – affirmative action is seen as damaging to the Republican model because it is based on recognition of ethnic differences.
Indeed, Europe has overcome what could be described as the “original sin” of the single-currency project: the Maastricht Treaty’s
prohibition
of “monetary financing” of government deficits by the ECB and the related ban on mutual support by national governments of one another’s debt burdens.
High capital and provision requirements for certain transactions, or
prohibition
of such transactions, should also be introduced for prudential reasons.
In many countries, lobbyists have even successfully championed the
prohibition
of meat-based names for plant-based products.
But, in the medium term, the key will be labor rights: unionization and collective bargaining;
prohibition
of child labor, unpaid overtime, unjustified dismissal, and excessive outsourcing; and skills training to meet the economy’s changing needs.
To make us choose what is good for us, they avoid fines, compulsion, and
prohibition
in favor of “nudges” – institutional arrangements that we could, in principle, easily override, but that, given our tendency to rely on System I, we end up going along with.
Moreover, the central bank’s decision not to defend a sharply falling ruble, together with Putin’s
prohibition
of Western food imports, will lead to a sharp decline in living standards and a growing sense of global isolation.
A
prohibition
against “bump stocks,” the device used by the Las Vegas killer to enable his semi-automatic rifles to fire like fully automatic weapons, appears possible; but there will be little more federal action than that.
Several more countries have laws that set the minimum work age between 12 and 16, but the ILO cautions that few countries "have what could be considered a comprehensive
prohibition
of dangerous work for young children," and that even fewer have "measures to protect young persons from moral degradation."
But a solution need not require a stark choice between
prohibition
and legalization.
The worst
prohibition
is the
prohibition
to think.
Either the British government would have, overnight, declared its exit from the euro, without a referendum or even a parliamentary vote, or Germany and France would have had to agree to scrap immediately the ECB’s
prohibition
of monetary financing.
In October 2013, following Syria’s accession to the Chemical Weapons Convention, a joint mission of the Organisation for the
Prohibition
of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) and the United Nations was tasked with eliminating the country’s chemical arsenal and production facilities.
Likewise, in last year's ruling striking down a Texas
prohibition
on same-sex sodomy, the Court cited a 1967 Act of the English Parliament and a 1981 ruling of the European Court of Human Rights.
Article VI of the NPT obliges parties to pursue “in good faith” negotiations to disarm, but the nuclear-weapons states that have ratified the treaty do not interpret this as a
prohibition
on their possessing a nuclear arsenal.
Today, the Treaty on the
Prohibition
of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) has been signed by 58 countries and ratified by eight, and if it ever comes into force will ban the use, threat of use, or possession of nuclear arms.
The global public is outraged by the group’s violation of fundamental principles and sensibilities: the
prohibition
of slavery, the protection of personal integrity, the obligation to protect children, and the right of adolescent girls to obtain an education and choose when and whom to marry.
Thus, the Mutawa’ah, the religious police of the Committee for the Preservation of Virtue and the
Prohibition
of Vice, armed with sticks and backed by police firing into the air, tried to disperse the pilgrims.
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