Punish
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According to that view, investors
punish
profligate states by demanding higher interest rates to hedge against the likelihood of inflation; so the best way to ensure low borrowing costs is to give central banks as much independence from politicians as possible, and then make price stability their primary mandate.
One of his superiors at the nearby prefectural headquarters in Chamdo is suspected of having decided to
punish
them, as well as two of their cousins, Sonam Choephel and Rinchen Dorje, who are also in custody in Tibet for vague or unspecified offenses.
After he served his term, the same officials funneled government funds to hire 200 thugs to
punish
him further by keeping him confined to his house.
China’s Weaponization of TradeNEW DELHI – China denies mixing business with politics, yet it has long used trade to
punish
countries that refuse to toe its line.
But condemning thousands to death in order to be able to
punish
him is intolerable as well.
We must
punish
the traffickers and reward the farmers.
For her part, Pandora was deliberately devised to
punish
humankind for accepting the gift of fire from Prometheus.
Instead, the EU can now rely on the Greek government itself to
punish
its people by failing to pay wages and pensions and honor bank guarantees.
Suddenly, something happened – not an event in itself (though it started with Hollande’s first great public rally in mid-January), but rather something that may resemble an irresistible process that can be summarized as follows: a majority of the French want to
punish
a president who has fallen from their graces.
Failure to
punish
their use in the Syrian civil war risks undermining the regime that has brought us to the threshold of a chemical weapons-free world.
The global marketplace will
punish
those who act too late.
The US public sharply rejected Obama’s planned missile strikes to
punish
Assad for the repeated use of chemical weapons, and a recent Pew poll indicates that a majority of Americans believe that the US “should mind its own business internationally and let other countries get along the best they can on their own.”
Similarly, international law should not create space for some countries to criticize and
punish
other countries regarding issues that are settled in accordance with domestic democracy and law.
Its main purpose would be to monitor and
punish
fiscally lax states for the purpose of reducing further the European Commission’s budgetary oversight responsibilities.
Political leaders and law-enforcement authorities in the West and elsewhere know how Nigerian teenage prostitutes ended up in their cities, but choose to do nothing to help them – or, worse,
punish
them.
A strategy that assumes that the market will
punish
those who do not invest in a low-carbon future is not realistic.
While respecting individual countries’ sovereignty is vital, so is accountability – and that requires some international authority to monitor and
punish
crimes.
Thus, thinkers such as Mencius, Confucius’s leading intellectual heir, argued that humane authorities should
punish
immoral rulers in other states who tyrannize their people.
He promised to
punish
me, and that he would act the next time Haykakan Zhamanak criticized any well-known person.
The power of Gandhian non-violence rests in being able to say, “To show you that you are wrong, I
punish
myself.”
But that has little effect on those who are not interested in whether they are wrong and are already seeking to
punish
you.
Trump promised during his campaign to
punish
women who had abortions.
This principle is even more important in Iraq, where the Shia majority faces the constant temptation to
punish
Sunnis for years of repression under Saddam Hussein.
Its power to intimidate and
punish
may trump all its other moves to stay ahead of the discontent.
Let banks design their own risk management systems, audit them to the limited extent possible, and then severely
punish
them if they produce a loss outside agreed parameters.
The fashionable idea of allowing banks to issue “contingent capital” (debt that becomes equity in a systemic crisis) is no more credible than the idea of committing to
punish
banks severely in the event of a crisis.
Moreover, in the current grim economic conditions across Europe, voters who do turn out are all too likely to take the opportunity to
punish
the major parties and vote for fringe and even extremist politicians.
Indeed, it is raising the specter of a chain reaction by invoking the collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008, and threatening to
punish
any restructuring by cutting banks’ access to liquidity.
With his letter, President Bush managed to
punish
the Palestinians twice: by making significant concessions on their behalf and by excluding them from negotiations.
More than that, the US will need to
punish
Pakistan for its duplicity.
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