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The proper functioning of the gold standard required a high degree of flexibility in wages and prices.
We can do more to end child labor, child marriage, child trafficking, and discrimination against girls, by not only demanding the proper policing of domestic laws, but also by establishing a new International Children’s Court, buttressed by a credible reporting and sanctions system.
Without building public support and providing proper enforcement mechanisms, changing laws alone is bound to be ineffective.
A political party infused with a normal instinct for self-preservation would produce a fresh face to run in a proper presidential election, replacing an unpopular incumbent and his cronies.
Nor would it be proper, where the gravity and scale of crimes materially differ, to charge all sides in a conflict in order to preserve a false sense of parity.
Policymakers must determine the proper balance between state control and market forces in guiding urbanization throughout the country.
Beyond that, the FSB should be given legal capacity through proper incorporation – an institutionally intermediate point between its purely political status now and the extreme of a treaty organization.
But DiEM25’s view is not simply that the EU suffers a democratic deficit; it is that the European Parliament is not a proper parliament.
Creating a proper parliament, able to dismiss the executive, would destroy the European Parliament’s “current make-up” and usher in a democratic politics that would prevent official creditors from crushing countries like Greece.
Remarkable capacities are regularly claimed for plants, but so far none of the observations that would require us to accept that they have subjective experiences have been replicable in proper experimental conditions.
Senate Republicans have pushed forward confirmation hearings for Trump’s cabinet picks, even though proper vetting and financial disclosures have not yet taken place.
Not providing proper access to energy would mean not only denying a billion people their basic needs and rights, but also that more wood will be chopped down for firewood, resulting in deforestation and desertification.
Within a year of its establishment the ECB found its way to safe ground: it accepted the advice of Hans Tietmeyer, former head of the Bundesbank, concerning the proper “cruising speed” for Europe’s economy.
Magna Carta’s key principles can be seen as derived from reason because the very idea of a law excludes arbitrary arrest and seizure, as well as the rendering of a verdict on any grounds other than the proper application of the law.
Accountability entails a proper legal basis, clear objectives, well defined relationships between the executive, legislative and judicial branches of government, clear procedures for appointment and dismissal of chief executives, override mechanisms, budgetary accountability rules, and rules supporting transparency.
The challenge is to find the proper point of balance – the “fair compromise” – between the parties.
It also needs a higher inflation target (to reduce the need for nominal wage and price reductions); debt relief, where appropriate; a proper banking union with an adequate, centralized fiscal backstop; and a “safe” eurozone asset that national banks could hold, thereby breaking the sovereign-bank doom loop.
Unfortunately, economists have not argued strongly for a proper fiscal union.
Five years on, the eurozone still lacks a proper banking union, or even, as Greece demonstrated, a proper lender of last resort.
But the criteria for judgment are clear: the new law must curb the practices that jeopardized the entire global economy, and reorient the financial system towards its proper tasks – managing risk, allocating capital, providing credit (especially to small- and medium-sized enterprises), and operating an efficient payments system.
She somehow has a spacious house, but no proper beds for the kids.
A proper, functioning elected legislature has been created, which is very important because democratic oversight is the most reliable anti-corruption watchdog.
Establishing proper legal title for small rural landholders will help, as will a state regulated micro-credit Bank.
The US mission to the EU should be scaled up, and EU representation in Washington turned into a proper embassy.
So, for starters, the EU should establish an orderly migration policy with quotas and criteria, as Australia and Canada have successfully done, and impose proper control over its external borders.
Uber had failed to conduct a proper background check on the driver, and then proceeded to violate the woman again, by obtaining and distributing her medical records internally.
The process of restoring a proper understanding of democracy could start within the next few weeks.
Republicans aren’t eager to ensure the proper functioning of a major reform enacted by a Democratic administration.
This tendency has been detrimental both for the business world, which is deprived of the cultural wealth provided by higher education, and for universities, because it removes them from their proper setting in the real world.
The resolution of conflicts of this nature requires the recovery of historical memory and a proper hearing of the two parties’ historical narratives, perhaps through the creation of Truth and Reconciliation Committees.
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