Provisions
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Treaty
provisions
enable willing EU states to reinforce their military cooperation and deploy quickly for shared missions abroad.
Democratic parties acquiesced in the use of the constitution’s emergency
provisions
to bypass parliament and enact legislation in the form of decrees.
National officials now need to use better data to develop policies with explicit targets, appropriate funding, and
provisions
for monitoring, accountability, and evaluation.
Indeed, a bipartisan majority in the US Congress is already demanding that the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) – a mega-regional free-trade deal involving 12 Pacific Rim countries – should include
provisions
barring currency manipulation.
But that is all the more reason why countries entering new trade agreements with the US (for example, the post-Brexit UK, or post-NAFTA Canada) must be wary of any
provisions
that tie their hands in the war against obesity.
Human rights groups suspect that even if the Afghan government and Taliban representatives profess to respect the constitution in any future peace agreement, they will not enforce some of its
provisions
in practice.
But even if the Fed was willing to risk it,
provisions
in the 2010 US Dodd-Frank financial reform legislation explicitly limit its discretion in such matters.
Whether those
provisions
apply to the Fed’s technical capacity to provide dollars to foreign central banks – as it did on a massive scale in late 2008 – remains to be seen.
In 2003, the United States and the European Union acquiesced to an accord that formally ended the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s civil war, which had claimed nearly four million lives, though the agreement lacked
provisions
to hold war criminals accountable.
The only way that a Chinese merger with the TPP could gain credibility would be to make all non-trade-related
provisions
optional.
Finally, I would emphasize the related point that the actual tax
provisions
people and businesses will be required to use have yet to be written, and will be determined partly by technical interpretations and regulations in the coming months.
It also has begun to tackle pervasive graft through the creation of an anti-corruption commission, accurate and validated reporting of all revenues received in the mining and timber sectors, and elimination of
provisions
for back-room tax deals.
What critics overlook, however, is that the changes included new
provisions
for defending NATO members in Europe.
Perhaps the chief mistake, as with recent “Buy American”
provisions
in US legislation, was to allow the Employ American Workers Act (EAWA) to be folded into the stimulus bill.
Congressional proposals to include currency
provisions
in the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the mega-regional free-trade agreement currently in the final stage of negotiations, presumably target Japan (as China is not included in the TPP).
Even more worryingly, this would open the door for
provisions
outlawing the benign, low-risk data mining that drives online advertising.
Unfortunately, many of the most benevolent
provisions
have since been discarded.
The second issue concerns the unbalanced intellectual property
provisions
(TRIPs) of the Uruguay Round of trade talks, dictated by America's pharmaceutical and entertainment industries.
These
provisions
restricted countries from making generic imitations of drugs, making many critically important medicines unaffordable in developing countries.
Beyond the numbers, RWB and Freedom House have noted a decline in freedom in Ecuador recently, pointing to Correa’s persistent campaign against media critics, his government’s use of state resources to influence the outcome of a referendum, and the reorganization of the judiciary in blatant violation of constitutional
provisions.
The second, containing detailed and workaday policy provisions, could be changed by the Union institutions, perhaps by majority vote.
One answer lies in the
provisions
of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT), which forbids nuclear weapons to most of its signatories but guarantees them the right to build technology for nuclear power, including uranium enrichment.
Avoiding such an outcome requires
provisions
enabling a wider set of countries, in particular China and Russia, to participate in the trade-facilitation process on equal terms.
As a result, rather than ensuring that their constitution reflects social, technological, economic, and even ideological developments, they zealously uphold its precise provisions, like religious fundamentalists defending the literal truth of scripture.
And even if
provisions
could be agreed, ratifying and implementing a treaty could take decades, as with the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty.
Brexit supporters claim that Britain could strike its own special deal, cherry picking the
provisions
it likes.
The main
provisions
of the Conventions are repeated in the rules of combat of the US armed services.
Assuming the deal is approved, the Santos government will face a slew of other challenges, beginning with the implementation of its political
provisions.
If implemented properly, the agreement’s political
provisions
should help to foster national reconciliation.
But the
provisions
governing labor mobility in the EU apply to Norway and all EEA countries as well.
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